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WSU fan checking in! This is a list of Big Six teams who have come to Pullman to play non-conference games in the kenpom era:

Kansas State (2017)

TCU (2013)

Kansas State (2010)

Baylor (2008)

Kansas State (2005)

That's the entire list lol. I'm pretty sure that KSU's visit in 2017 was part of a Big 12/Pac-12 challenge. The rest were home-and-homes before the proliferation of neutral-site games. Teams just will not come to Pullman -- I mean, it's a total pain in the ass, expensive, and since the team hasn't generally been all that good, it's a long way to travel to maybe pick up a bad loss. There's just nothing in it for them.

And as you noted, playing a bunch of roadies against top competition every year not really appetizing for WSU. Scheduling is just so tricky for them that they've tried to get around it in creative ways -- for example, playing semi-road games against UNLV and Baylor last season. Next season, they're playing Mississippi state in a neutral-site game.

Also, not to be overlooked: Gonzaga and WSU played home-and-homes, but the Zags killed off the series in 2016 and refuse to restart it.

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