During our 30-day countdown series, I wrote the Best Defense We Will Face column. One of the entrants on that list was Washington State although they received just 6% of the vote which was the lowest of any of the nominees. As it turned out, the Cougars coming into Saturday did indeed have the best defense of any the Huskies had faced this year. They made it all the way up to 12th in defensive SP+ which is one of the better predictive advanced stats out there.
They are no longer 12th. What the Huskies did to that Cougars defense is absolutely criminal.