PALO ALTO, Calif. – In a down-to-the-wire win at Haas Pavilion Thursday night, the Cougars accomplished something that hadn’t been done in more than a calendar year: beat a foe on their home court.
Another potential milestone awaits them Saturday.
If Washington State is able to transfer its success from the East Bay to the South Bay and topple a much tougher Stanford team at 4 p.m. inside Maple Pavilion, the Cougars (11-16, 3-12) will achieve something that hasn’t happened since Tony Bennett was holding the clipboard: a rare road sweep.
Bennett’s final WSU team – one that featured a freshman Klay Thompson and a senior Aron Baynes – polished off the Oregon schools in January of 2009, ironically beating a Ducks team coached by Ernie Kent to capture the elusive road sweep.