LAS VEGAS – As with most visitors to this gambling mecca, the Washington Huskies left town as losers. It remains to be seen if their next opportunity to be winners comes next week or next season.

The Huskies find themselves begging for a shot at the NIT – the ugly stepchild of college basketball – after wasting big-time second-half performances by freshmen Nigel Williams-Goss and Darin Johnson in a 67-61 loss to Utah on Wednesday afternoon at the Pac-12 Tournament.

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The Lorenzo Romar basketball coaching tree may be close to a little spring pruning. As conference tourney time goes full blast this week, two of his former assistants, Ken Bone at Washington State and Cameron Dollar at Seattle University, are in jeopardy of unemployment.

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LAS VEGAS – Welcome to Sin City, where sleep is deemed optional.

Of course, when seven college conference basketball tournaments (four men’s, three women’s) are being held in town during the same week, sufficient shut-eye is an elusive goal amid the collective din of tens of thousands of hoops-happy revelers.

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As a redshirt senior, C.J. Wilcox averaged 18.5 points per game and made 87 percent of his free throws. The guard became the University of Washington's second all-time leading scorer while shooting 46 percent from the field and nearly 40 percent from 3-point range. He was the focus of every defense.

It wasn't enough to earn him a selection to the 2013-14 All-Pac-12 team.

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Senior C.J. Wilcox and freshman Nigel Williams-Goss Monday received Pac-12 Conference honors as voted upon by the league's coaches. Wilcox, Washington's leading scorer, made the All-Pac-12 Second Team for the second consecutive year while Williams-Goss was one of five newcomers named to the conference's All-Freshman Team.

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Although they frittered away most of a second-half lead before defeating USC 82-75 Saturday at Alaska Airlines Arena, the Washington Huskies likely secured the No. 9 seed in the Pac-12 Tournament Wednesday at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. UW will face probable No. 8 Utah after the conference announces official pairings.

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It was basketball on Red Bull. A track meet in high tops. A jailbreak with ponytails.

Say what you will about women’s basketball – and a great many sports fans will never have much good to say about it, unfortunately – but the Washington State-Oregon score-a-thon Thursday night ranks among the most entertaining events to grace KeyArena since a carpetbagger stole the Sonics and moved them to a patch of dirt in the middle of nowhere.

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C.J. Wilcox maintains he never saw it coming.

Entering Washington's final week of the regular season, the Huskies' leading scorer ranks second in school history with 1,822 career points. He is the first player to make 250 3-pointers and score 1,700 points. During a stretch this season, the senior shooting guard scored at least 15 points in 17 consecutive games.

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Most Washington State basketball fans know Cougars guard Tia Presley only as an athlete. Fearless, hard-nosed, relentless. It would be safe to say that most fans would be surprised to learn about the “other” Tia Presley.

“I’m pretty girly,” Presley says, a huge grin pasted beneath mischievous brown eyes. “I like to do my hair.

“I like to sit at home and watch Netflix. I’ll get hooked on shows and find myself staying up until 4 in the morning with practice at 7. I’m a big online shopper, too.”

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Nearly three years ago – March 12, 2011 – Washington junior guard Isaiah Thomas delivered his most memorable performance as a Husky. In the Pac-10 Championship game against No. 1 seed Arizona, Thomas played all 45 minutes, scored 28 points and, as time was about to expire in the first overtime, ignored Lorenzo Romar’s plea for a timeout and dropped an 18-foot buzzer beater to knock out the Wildcats 77-75.

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Ken Bone has admitted to many missteps during his tenure at Washington State. Another glared Friday in what was likely his final Seattle game as Cougars head coach. In front of a ho-hum crowd of 7,647, WSU (9-19, 2-14 Pac-12) lost 72-49 to the Huskies (16-13, 8-8 Pac-12) in a game they never threatened to lead.

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GAME: Washington State (9-18 overall, 2-13 Pac-12) at Washington (15-13 overall, 7-8 Pac-12). WHEN: Friday, 7:30 p.m., Alaska Airlines Arena. TYPE: Conference. MEETING: 279th (UW leads 177-101). RANKINGS: Neither school ranked. COACHES: Ken Bone, Washington State; Lorenzo Romar, Washington. TV: Pac-12 Networks. RADIO: KJR 950 AM

As Howie Stalwick's story for Sportspress Northwest describes, Ken Bone will make his final appearance at Alaska Airlines Arena Friday as Washington State's head basketball coach. The Cougars are apparently set to relieve Bone of his duties.

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When the Washington basketball team hosts Washington State Friday night at Alaska Airlines Arena (7:30 p.m., Pac-12 Network), the Huskies won't be thinking about their rivalry with WSU or their scant chance of making the NCAA tournament.

It's just, well, another game in a long season. Nothing more. Nothing less.

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Name the only city in America to simultaneously feature the single-season MLB record holder in base hits and the single-season NFL record holder in touchdowns. Many in these parts will know the answer is Seattle, for the period 2004-05, when Ichiro, with 262 hits for the Mariners in 2004, and Shaun Alexander, with 28 TDs for the Seahawks in 2005, were both in their prime.

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C.J. Wilcox broke out of a two-week slump by leading a half-dozen Huskies in double figures as Washington raced away to an 11-point halftime lead, stretched that to 25 and finished with an 86-62 smackdown of Oregon State Saturday at Gill Coliseum in Corvallis.

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GAME:Washington (14-13 overall, 6-8 Pac-12) at Oregon State (14-11 overall, 6-7 Pac-12 ). WHEN: Saturday, 1 p.m., Gill Coliseum. TYPE: Conference. MEETING: 295th (UW leads 156-138). RANKINGS: Neither school ranked. COACHES: Lorenzo Romar, Washington; Craig Robinson, Oregon State. TV: Pac-12 Networks. RADIO: KJR 950 AM

Washington has two road wins: 73-62 at Tulane Dec. 17 and 76-65 at Arizona State to launch their Pac-12 schedule Jan. 2. Since 1970, only nine UW teams have won two or fewer road games in a season, including two -- 2003 and 2007 -- under coach Lorenzo Romar.

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Former University of Washington All-America selection Brandon Roy is among 12 individuals scheduled for induction into the Pac-12 Basketball Hall of Honor. The March 14 enshrinement is prior to the semifinal games of the Pac-12 Tournament at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

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Nigel Williams-Goss isn't used to this.

The Washington Huskies lost another winnable game Wednesday night, falling 78-71 to Oregon in Eugene. The defeat dropped the Huskies to 14-13 (6-8 Pac-12 and eighth in the conference) with four regular season games left.

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C.J. Wilcox became the No. 3 scorer in University of Washington basketball history Wednesday night, but failed to reach double figures for the third time in four games in a 78-71 loss to the Oregon Ducks at Matthew Knight Arena in Eugene. Washington fell to 14-13 overall and 6-8 in Pac-12 play, all but eliminating the Huskies from postseason consideration.

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GAME:Washington (14-12 overall, 6-7 Pac-12) at Oregon (16-8 overall, 4-8 Pac-12 ). WHEN: Wednesday, 6 p.m., Matthew Knight Arena. TYPE: Conference. MEETING: 297th (UW leads 188-108). RANKINGS: Neither school ranked. COACHES:Lorenzo Romar, Washington. Dana Altman, Oregon. TV: ESPN2. RADIO: KJR 950 AM

Losers of four of their past five, Lorenzo Romar's Washington Huskies conclude their Pac-12 road schedule this week with games at Oregon Wednesday and Oregon State Saturday before closing the regular season at home against Washington State, UCLA and USC. Although UW beat the Oregon schools this season, it has just one road win (1-6) in conference play.

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