The University of Washington's Kelsey Plum, already in possession of seven major postseason awards, Tuesday was named the Honda Sport winner for women's college basketball, which has been presented annually by the Collegiate Women's Sports Awards (CWSA) for the past 41 years to the top female athletes in 12 NCAA-sanctioned sports.

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The University of Washington’s Kelsey Plum made it a sweep Friday, winning the John R. Wooden Award from the Los Angeles Athletic Club as its National Player of the Year in women’s college basketball.

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Having already won six major postseason awards, including four National Player of the Year trophies, Washington’s Kelsey Plum can run the table later this week if she also claims the John R. Wooden Award, presented since 2004 by the Los Angeles Athletic Club to the outstanding women’s college basketball player in the nation.

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The end of the college basketball season prompts a look at a different kind of final box score in the state: Four Division I programs lost their coaches, and the one program that was fantastically successful played its worst game of the year at the industry's pinnacle moment.

And how about those Porters, drawing the weirdest looks since the Gekko family.

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New University of Washington head basketball coach Mike Hopkins Tuesday named Dave Rice as the third and final assistant on his staff. Rice, a former head coach at UNLV and most recently an assistant at the University of Nevada, will join Will Conroy and Cameron Dollar as Hopkins' top aides.

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Mike Neighbors, who coached the University of Washington women's basketball team to three NCAA appearances in the past four years, including a Final Four in 2016, bought his way out of his contract to return to his native Arkansas to coach the Razorbacks. The 47-year-old Neighbors must pay the Huskies $1 million under the terms of a buyout clause he signed last year.

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Lost in the dissections of new University of Washington coach Mike Hopkins's career resume was that he was "court coach" for USA Basketball teams at the 2010 FIBA World Championships, 2012 London Olympics, 2014 World Cup and 2016 Rio Olympics. He might need a bandage on his passport.

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Washington's Kelsey Plum added three more prestigious prizes to her collection Saturday, winning the Naismith and Wade trophies as the nation's top player in women's college basketball and the Nancy Lieberman Award as the best point guard. Plum is the first UW and fifth Pac-12 player to win the Naismith, and the first UW player and fourth Pac-12 player to take the Wade.

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The University of Washington's Kelsey Plum continued her postseason trophy haul Friday when she won the 2016-17 Dawn Staley Award, presented annually to the best guard in women's college basketball. Plum, a unanimous All-America choice earlier this week and named the Associated Press Player of the Year Thursday, is the first player in UW history to win the Staley award.

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The University of Washington's Kelsey Plum Thursday was named the Associated Press women's college basketball Player of the Year. She is not only the first player in UW history to win that award, but the first in Pac-12 Conference history to claim it. She was selected first-team All-America earlier this week.

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Washington's Kelsey Plum Monday was a unanimous choice for the Associated Press women's basketball All-America team. Plum, who led the nation in scoring this past season and broke the NCAA career scoring record, is the first from UW to make the AP first team.

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Put down the purple kazoos, Huskies basketball fans, and bow to the weirdness.

Not only are two of the men's Final Four teams from the West Coast, neither of the teams is Arizona or UCLA. The ascent of Oregon and Gonzaga to hoops Valhalla in the same season not only stretches the Seattle sports mind beyond recognition, it was done when Washington hoops reached a new nadir.

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Former Seattle University head basketball coach Cameron Dollar has come back to the University of Washington. New men's basketball head coach Mike Hopkins announced Sunday that Dollar is the second former assistant to Lorenzo Romar to be hired, following Will Conroy.

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No Final Four this year for Kelsey Plum, Chantel Osahor and the University of Washington women's basketball team.

Mississippi State's 6-foot-7 Teaira McCowan scored 20 points and grabbed eight rebounds in the fourth quarter  -- UW tallied 14 points -- as the No. 2-seeded Bulldogs, who trailed by nine in the first quarter and by four late in the third quarter, rallied for a 75-64 victory over No. 3-seed Washington Friday in the Sweet Sixteen at Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City.

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A day after he was granted a release from his national letter of intent from the University of Washington, prep sensation Michael Porter Jr. announced that he would, as expected, play college basketball at the University of Missouri in his hometown. He will follow his father, Michael Porter Sr., hired as a Missouri assistant Thursday.

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University of Washington senior Kelsey Plum has been selected as one of four finalists for the 2017 Wade Trophy, regarded as "The Heisman of Women's Basketball," presented annually to the NCAA Division I player of the year. Plum is also one of four finalists for the Naismith Award.

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A day after the University of Washington introduced Mike Hopkins as its new basketball coach, Huskies reserve forward Matthew Atewe became the first player to transfer out of the program since Lorenzo Romar was fired last week. Also Thursday, the UW officially released highly prized recruit Michael Porter Jr. from the national letter of intent he signed last fall.

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For those puzzling over why Mike Hopkins would leave a primo gig as the coach-designate at the college basketball mecca of Syracuse University to come to the arid plainness of University of Washington hoops, the answer is simple:

If he stayed, he'd have to succeed Jim Boeheim. It's a dead man's job. Who wants a dead man's job?

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Mike Hopkins, who will be formally introduced as Lorenzo Romar’s successor at the University of Washington Wednesday, spent the past 22 college basketball seasons as an assistant coach at Syracuse University under Hall of Famer Jim Boeheim. Hopkins is a West Coast native (born San Mateo, CA. in 1969) and was a member of the 1987 California state championship team at Mater Dei High School (Santa Ana).

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In year nine of the NBA exile, in a season when the Washington men were sufficiently abysmal that the beloved coach of 15 years was fired, the Huskies women's team did basketball fans hereabouts an immense solid.

They are not just a team. They are a perambulating celebration.

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