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WSU basketball: Cougars move to 4-0 with comfortable win over Texas Southern

WSU defeated Texas Southern 77-65 on Saturday behind 20 points from Josh Hawkinson and 19 points from Ike Iroegbu to move to 4-0 on the season.

Like the three previous games, this contest was never really in doubt. The game was tied at 15 roughly seven minutes in, but WSU went on an 11-0 run which led to the Cougars closing out the half outscoring Texas Southern 32-11 over the final 13 minutes to lead 47-26 at the half.

WSU was able to do build that lead thanks to some strong defense against a severely undersized squad -- the Tigers featured no player taller than 6-foot-5.