The Cougars (17-8, 8-4 West Coast Conference) will need to win the WCC tournament to make the Big Dance for the ninth time in Rose's 11 years at the helm. They haven't won a conference tournament since 2001, when Steve Cleveland was the coach, but there's reason for hope this year because the Cougars have already defeated the other four teams at the top of the standings — Gonzaga, Saint Mary's, Pepperdine and San Francisco.
They can play well at times, but they are wildly inconsistent.
Those are the two words most often used to describe the 2015-16 Cougars.