You would be forgiven if you didn’t realize that the Washington State Cougars are going to tip off the 2019-2020 basketball season on Thursday, when they host the Seattle Redhawks at Beasley Coliseum. (The starts at 6 p.m. PT, broadcast on Pac-12 Network.) That’s actually a couple of days after most everyone else.
We haven’t written or talked much about the team (although we did do a podcast); some of that is that we’re still in the midst of football season with a critical stretch coming up for Mike Leach’s crew to get bowl eligible, but a lot of it is just that it’s been years and years since we’ve had a legitimate reason to get excited for the start of a basketball season.