The 1928–29 Washington State Cougars men's basketball team represented

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for the college basketball season. Led by first-year head coach

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, the Cougars were members of the

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and played their home games on campus at WSC Gymnasium in

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. The Cougars were overall in the regular season and in conference play, third in the Northern Alumnus Friel was the head coach at North Central High School in

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, and won the state title in his third and final season at NCHS in 1928. A former team captain and all-conference player under

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, Friel led Washington State as head coach for

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