Story byNate DahlMon, December 29, 2025 at 8:29 PM UTC·5 min readBoth the men’s and women’s basketball teams for Washington State picked up wins in the conference openers on Sunday. In Pullman, the women’s team took down the Pepperdine Waves 66-63 to claim their second win of the season, while the men’s squad escaped the Portland Pilots 67-62. The non-conference slate hasn’t been kind to either of the teams over the first month of the season. Kamie Ethridge’s team was challenged by one of the hardest non-conference schedules in the nation, squaring off with the likes of Stanford, Oregon, LSU, BYU, Texas Tech and Seton Hall, who all sit inside the top 50 on Barttorvik.
