WSU had Arizona on the ropes, until it didn’t

James Snook-USA TODAY Sports Good morning. If college basketball games were decided in part by uniform design, the Washington State Cougars would have dispatched of the Arizona Wildcats and their ghastly gradients on Saturday evening in Pullman. Unfortunately, the quality of the look is not nearly as important as the quality of the foul shooting, and thus WSU was unable to capture an all-too-rare win over one of the conference’s traditional heavyweights.

Despite playing with a very rough hand, missing multiple contributors and losing a couple more to foul trouble during the game, the Cougs hung tough and probably should have kept their perfect record intact. While that alone - along with the…