1944–45 Washington State Cougars men's basketball team explained

Mode:	Basketball
Year:	1944–45
Team:	Washington State Cougars
Conference:	Pacific Coast Conference
Short Conf:	PCC
Record:	23–13
Conf Record:	11–5
Hc Year:	17th

The 1944–45 Washington State Cougars men's basketball team represented Washington State College for the college basketball season. Led by seventeenth-year head coach Jack Friel, the Cougars were members of the Pacific Coast Conference and played their home games on campus at the WSC Gymnasium in Pullman, Washington.

The Cougars were overall in the regular season and in conference play, tied for first in the Northern

In the best-of-three playoff series with Oregon, the road teams won the first two games,^{[1] [2]} which were played six nights In the deciding third game in Eugene the next night, the home team rallied from a six-point deficit at halftime to win by a basket;^{[3] [4] [5]} Oregon advanced to the eight-team NCAA tournament,^{[4] [6]} but lost their opener by

Postseason results

|-!colspan=6 style=| Pacific Coast Conference Northern Division Playoff Series

External links

• Sports Reference – Washington State Cougars: 1944–45 basketball season

Notes and References

1. News: Oregon sweeps over WSC in first playoff win, 51-41 . Eugene Register-Guard . (Oregon) . Strite . Dick . March 11, 1945 . 16.
2. News: Backboard shy Cougar five drops opener to Oregonians . Spokane Daily Chronicle . (Washington) . Johnson . Bob . March 12, 1945 . 12.
3. News: Webfoots rally to grab title playoff, 39-37 . Eugene Register-Guard . (Oregon) . Strite . Dick . March 18, 1945 . 1.
4. News: Oregon grabs Coast crown . Spokesman-Review . (Spokane, Washington) . Associated Press . March 19, 1945 . 3.
5. News: Cougars return to Pullman; Ducks travel to Kansas City . Spokane Daily Chronicle . (Washington) . Associated Press . March 19, 1945 . 10.
6. News: Oregon wins division title . Lewiston Morning Tribune . (Idaho) . Associated Press . March 18, 1945 . 11.