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1971–72 Washington State Cougars men's basketball team

The 1971–72 Washington State Cougars men's basketball team represented Washington State University for the 1971–72 NCAA college basketball season. Led by first-year head coach Bob Greenwood,[3][4][5][6] the Cougars were members of the Pacific-8 Conference and played their home games on campus at Bohler Gymnasium in Pullman, Washington.

1971–72 Washington State Cougars men's basketball
ConferencePacific-8
Record11–15 (3–11 Pac-8)
Head coach
  • Bob Greenwood (1st season)
Assistant coaches
Home arenaBohler Gymnasium
Seasons
1971–72 Pacific-8 Conference men's basketball standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
No. 1 UCLA 14 – 0   1.000 30 – 0   1.000
Washington 10 – 4   .714 20 – 6   .769
Oregon State 9 – 5   .643 18 – 10   .643
USC 9 – 5   .643 16 – 10   .615
California 6 – 8   .429 13 – 16   .448
Stanford 5 – 9   .357 10 – 15   .400
Washington State 3 – 11   .214 11 – 15   .423
Oregon 0 – 14   .000 6 – 20   .231
As of April 15, 1972[2]
Rankings from AP Poll

The Cougars were 11–15 overall in the regular season and 3–11 in conference play, seventh in the standings.[7]

Hired in July to succeed Marv Harshman,[8][9] Greenwood was an assistant at Iowa for a year and before that the head coach at Washington University in St. Louis;[3][6] he resigned from WSU in mid-March, after just one season.[1][10] Assistant coach Dale Brown became the head coach at LSU a week later,[11][12][13][14] and freshman coach Homer Drew went with him to Baton Rouge.[15]

George Raveling, an assistant at Maryland under Lefty Driesell, was hired by WSU athletic director Ray Nagel a few weeks later in April,[16][17] and led the Cougar program for eleven years.[18]

References edit

  1. ^ a b "Greenwood resigns Cougar post in flurry of official no comments". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). March 17, 1972. p. 34.
  2. ^ "2017-18 Men's Basketball Media Guide". Pac-12 Conference. p. 72. Retrieved February 16, 2018.
  3. ^ a b Vogt, Tom (July 17, 1971). "Greenwood happy to be at WSU". Lewiston Morning Tribune. (Idaho). p. 13.
  4. ^ "Most news is bad news for new Cougar cage coach". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). October 17, 1971. p. 5, sports.
  5. ^ "Cougar cage coach to introduce new system". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). November 14, 1971. p. 5, sports.
  6. ^ a b Withers, Bud (November 24, 1971). "Outlook not so bright for WSU". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). p. 3B.
  7. ^ Brown, Bruce (March 11, 1972). "Ban on NIT event lamented for UW". Spokane Daily Chronicle. (Washington). p. 9.
  8. ^ "Iowa yields hoop coach for Cougars". Spokane Daily Chronicle. (Washington). July 10, 1971. p. 9.
  9. ^ "Greenwood new WSU hoop coach". Lewiston Morning Tribune. (Idaho). July 10, 1971. p. 10.
  10. ^ Brown, Bruce (March 17, 1972). "New hoop coach sought at WSU". Spokane Daily Chronicle. (Washington). p. 15.
  11. ^ Missildine, Harry (March 23, 1972). "WSU will seek Brown's candidacy". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). p. 16.
  12. ^ "Brown delighted with LSU post". Spokane Daily Chronicle. (Washington). March 25, 1972. p. 10.
  13. ^ Missildine, Harry (March 27, 1972). "Hails and farewells". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). p. 10.
  14. ^ Vogt, Tom (April 4, 1972). "Hello Dolly, hello LSU". Lewiston Morning Tribune. (Idaho). p. 13.
  15. ^ "Drew joins LSU staff". Spokane Daily Chronicle. (Washington). April 1, 1972. p. 12.
  16. ^ "Raveling is WSU choice". Spokane Daily Chronicle. (Washington). April 11, 1972. p. 17.
  17. ^ Missildine, Harry (April 12, 1972). "Cougars' new coach busy with touring, telephoning". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). p. 16.
  18. ^ Devlin, Vince (March 16, 1983). "Raveling". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). p. C1.

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