Sophomore Nigel Williams-Goss scored 21 points, contributed a tournament-record 12 assists and seven rebounds, and Andrew Andrews hit a pair of 3-pointers in the stretch as Washington rallied for an 80-70 victory over Long Beach State Friday night in the semifinals of the Wooden Legacy Classic in Fullerton, CA. The Huskies improved to 5-0 and will meet UTEP for the tournament championship Sunday at 7 p.m.

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Donaven Dorsey scored 17 points and Robert Upshaw matched his own school record with seven blocked shots, lifting Washington to a 78-56 rout of San Jose State  Thursday night in the opening round of the Wooden Legacy tournament in Fullerton, CA. Lorenzo Romar's Huskies improved to 4-0 and notched their first road victory of the season.

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Senior Shawn Kemp Jr. tied a career high with 18 points and Washington, threatened often but never seriously, defeated the University of Pacific 76-69 Sunday night in the Marv Harshman Classic at KeyArena. Freshman Donaven Dorsey drained a 3-pointer with slightly more than a minute remaining to ensure a 3-0 start by Lorenzo Romar's Huskies, who led by as many as 14 points in the second half but never could entirely shake the Tigers.

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As the Washington Huskies and Seattle University Redhawks sent college basketball shrieking back to the the 1950s Friday, the vacuum seemed to free up a ghost at KeyArena: Shawn Kemp. Eighteen years after his pinnacle season electrified the old barn, his son, Shawn Jr., threw down like his dad.

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Washington's 2013-14 basketball season was over before it ever really started.

In the opening minutes of the season opener against Seattle U, 6-foot-10 forward Jernard Jarreau tore the ACL in his right knee on a breakaway lay-up, and that was that. The Huskies were down an expected frontcourt contributor the rest of the season, forced to a four-guard lineup that couldn't handle the rigors of the Pac-12 Conference.

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Huskies basketball received an infusion of talent the likes of which the program has not seen under the direction of head coach Lorenzo Romar. Wednesday was the first day of the early national letter of intent signing period, and according to recruiting sites, the Huskies' six-player 2015 class could go down as the best in school history.

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When the craziest mainstream newspaper in the country, the New York Post ("Headless Body in Topless Bar") identifies something else as crazy, we are compelled to take note. The subject: The California Bears football team, which hosts the Washington Huskies at 3 p.m. Saturday (Pac-12 Networks).

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Tristan Etienne, a 6-foot-9 freshman forward from Abbotsford, B.C., left the University of Washington basketball program effective immediately. According to a press release issued by the school, Etienne will remain enrolled for fall quarter and will not pursue a transfer at this time.

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Lorenzo Romar's University of Washington men's basketball team will play six home games, five on neutral courts and one true road contest as part of its 2014-15 preseason schedule. Two of Washington's opponents during the run up to Pac-12 play, San Diego State (round of 16) and Oklahoma (second round), played in the NCAA Tournament last March.

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The University of Washington and Gonzaga University will resume their men's basketball rivalry on a home-and-home basis starting with the 2016-17 season. The schools agreed to a four-year contract Monday that will have campus games alternating between Seattle and Spokane. The site of the the first game has yet to be determined.

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Former University of Washington guard Isaiah Thomas, who scored 1,721 points (No. 6 all-time) during his Huskies career (2009-11), is moving from the Sacramento Kings to the Phoenix Suns on a four-year, $27 million sign-and-trade deal. The Kings will receive a $7 million trade exception and the rights to Alex Oriahki. According to CBSSports.com, the Kings had no interest in matching the offer for Thomas and Thomas had no interest in staying with Sacramento.

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THE UNANIMOUS DECLARATION

OF SEATTLE SPORTS FANS

July 4, 2014

When in the Course of sporting events, it becomes necessary for one city's fans to dissolve the pejorative rhetoric that has connected them with others, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of reverse drafts entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

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C.J. Wilcox, who finished his University of Washington basketball career as the school's second-leading career scorer, went to the Los Angeles Clippers with the 28th pick in the first round of Thursday's NBA draft. The 6-foot-5 Wilcox, a Pleasant Grove, UT., native, is the first Husky taken in the first round since Terrence Ross went eighth to Toronto and Tony Wroten 25th to Memphis in 2012.

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The Huskies' men's hoops team will take part in the Wooden Legacy Tournament, an eight-team, 12-game, three-day bracketed event that will be held in Anaheim and Fullerton, CA., during the Thanksgiving holiday (Nov. 27-30).

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Seven more players from the University of Washington's baseball team were taken in Saturday's final 30 rounds of MLB's first-year player draft Saturday. Junior OF Robert Pehl was first when he was selected in 11th round by Kansas City with the 333rd overall pick.

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The Pac-12 Conference released its early season football start times dictated by the TV networks -- who else? -- and Huskies fans who like daylight will be pleased to learn that  Washington's home opener Sept. 6 against Eastern Washington will kick off at noon Husky Stadium on the Pac-12 Networks.

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University of Washington basketball legend Bob Houbregs, the 1953 NCAA Player of the Year who led the Huskies to that year's Final Four, died Wednesday at 82. A 1987 inductee into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, Houbregs had been in failing health in recent years after suffering a debilitating fall at his home in Olympia.

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Washington Huskies baseball coach Lindsay Meggs wears a chip on his shoulder as easily as most people wear a pair of pants. When Meggs learned the Huskies were bypassed as a host school for the NCAA regionals, he was quick to shout about disrespect.

First, however, Meggs told his players – loudly -- what he thinks about playing at the regionals in Oxford, MS.

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Huskies guard Andrew Andrews and Cougars top scorer DaVonte Lacy will be among 13 Pac-12 players on a four-game, all-star tour of China starting Aug. 10. The trip is part of the conference's Globalization Initiative to try to get the Pac-12 brand in front of the Chinese audience.

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Sellout crowds. National television. Nationally ranked teams. The Pac-12 Conference baseball championship up for grabs. Washington Huskies closer Troy Rallings says he’s totally jacked. Incredibly excited. Can’t wait to take the mound this weekend at Oregon State.

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