WSU women’s hoops takes down Gonzaga with epic comeback

Charlisse Leger-Walker, shown here in last year’s NCAA tournament, scored 9 points in the second half to help the Cougars come back to beat Gonzaga.Trailing by 12 with less than 15 minutes to go in the game, the Washington State women’s basketball team pulled off an unlikely comeback in Spokane on Wednesday night to defeat Gonzaga, 51-49.

The Cougs finished the game outscoring the Zags 29-15 over those final 15 minutes behind the one-two-three punch of their best outside and inside players: Charlisse Leger-Walker, Bella Murekatete, and Tara Wallack.

Offense had been hard to come by for the Cougars through the first 25 minutes of the game; in the first half, WSU shot just 5-of-27 from the…