It’s been way too long since I’ve talked Cougar hoops, so let’s get that going.

So, the last time I checked in on the team, they had just finished beating Washington in Seattle, and I said that if they won one more game on that road trip, it was going to be a good season. Well, they won that one game, beating USC in LA, and then lost to UCLA a few days later.

But here’s how I see it; they came out completely flat in the first half and probably let the magnitude of that game get to them. As much as you want to talk about the team’s veteran leadership, none of these guys have ever been in a game with that much hype. So the fact that they were down by double digits before anyone knew what happened was bound to happen. So, what I took from that game is that they did fight back and outplay UCLA in the second half of that game.

After UCLA, it’s been wins against Oregon State and Oregon. Oregon was big since we really have not beaten them in quite some time.

In the end I still think this is a wait-and-see game. I guess maybe I should be more excited about how good the team is, but when it comes to college hoops I really have had the attitude that nothing really counts until March… and we’re still a ways away from then.