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
ConfOverall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
No. 1 UCLA140 1.000300 1.000
Washington104 .714206 .769
Oregon State95 .6431810 .643
USC95 .6431610 .615
California68 .4291316 .448
Stanford59 .3571015 .400
Washington State311 .2141115 .423
Oregon014 .000620 .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]

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