Women's basketball
Washington State at Wisconsin
Tipoff: 5 PST tonight, Kohl Center, Madison, Wis.
Records: Washington State 1-1 overall, 0-0 Pac-12 Conference; Wisconsin 1-2 overall, 0-0 Big Ten Conference.
Players: Junior center Carly Noyes is averaging 11 points per game for the Cougars so far this season. Not far behind are the Washington State threesome of Rosie Tarnowski, Jazmine Perkins and Rosetta Adzasu. All three are averaging 8.5 points per game and Perkins, a 5-foot-10 guard, is snatching 9.5 boards per game. Wisconsin's Taylor Wurtz is averaging 15.3 points as well as 11.7 rebounds per game. Wurtz's 15 rebounds in the Badgers' 80-63 loss to Oral Roberts tied a Kohl Center individual record set by Jessie Stomski in January of 2000.
Game themes: The Cougars enter the game hoping to notch their second straight victory, while the Badgers are hoping to end a two-game slide since winning their opening game 68-51 over Milwaukee. The game with the Badgers is part of an exhausting early-season road trip that will take the Cougars to South Dakota before heading to the Virgin Islands for the Paradise Jam Tournament.
Men's basketball
>LCSC at College of Idaho
Tipoff: 7 PST tonight, J.A. Albertson Activities Center, Caldwell, Idaho
Records: Lewis-Clark State 2-1 overall, 0-0 Frontier Conference; COI 2-3 overall, 0-0 Conference
Players: The Coyotes are led by Matt Ballenger, who averages nearly 17 points per game. The Coyotes are largely one-dimensional, and lean heavily on Ballenger to score, so stopping him will be a key for the Warriors. The Warriors are anything but one-dimensional: Last game alone, Jeray Key led LCSC with 13 points, five rebounds, and two assists while three players - Nick Fromm, Joey Wayman, and Donte Archie - finished with 10 points apiece. Darin Stewart distributed four assists while Archie added four steals.
Game themes: LCSC lost a heartbreaker 73-72 to Southern Oregon on a last-second shot in its last game, and will look to bounce back tonight. The Warriors are holding opponents to 60 points per game while averaging 87 themselves. They've been committing a third less turnovers than their opponents, are handily outrebounding opponents, and have made nearly twice as many steals as their opponents. What can we take away from all this? The Warriors are for real - and will likely make a statement against a team they probably outmatch tonight.
