Markelle Fultz, the Pac-12’s leading scorer, was named to the 15-player All-Conference first team Monday. He’s the first UW freshman so honored since Terrence Ross in 2012.
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Gonzaga (30-1) finished No. 4 (same as last week) in the final Associated Press Top 25 college basketball rankings released Monday. Three Pac-12 schools finished among the top seven. The Zags received 1,430 points, trailing No. 1 Kansas (28-3, 1,619), No. 2 Villanova (28-3, 1,517) and No. 3 UCLA (28-3, 1,487).
Behind Noah Dickerson’s 15 points, Washington maintained a lead from four to 10 points through much of the first half before going 5:40 with a basket, sparking a 13-1 USC run, and never recovered in a 74-58 loss to the Trojans Saturday afternoon at the Galen Center in Los Angeles. The Huskies (9-21, 2-16) extended
The University of Washington’s Markelle Fultz, averaging 23.2 points and having set a UW freshman scoring mark, is a finalist for the John Wooden Award that goes to the nation’s best player.
John Ross, who scored 17 touchdowns for the Washington Huskies last season, dazzled the NFL Combine in Indianapolis Saturday with a history-making 4.22 in the 40.
In Indianapolis Wednesday. the Seahawks coach said he believes Earl Thomas and Tyler Lockett, both of whom lost to leg injuries in 2016, will be ready for the start of the season.
Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association Thursday jointly announced a series of rules modifications that will become effective at the start of the 2017 regular season, which gets underway in April. The changes include the following:
Best thing about the game for Washington Wednesday night at Pauley Pavilion was that it brought the Huskies one game closer to the end of a dreadful season. Third-ranked UCLA won 98-66, UW’s 11th los in a row that continues a school record, and was nearly as bad the 107-66 drubbing UCLA handed the Huskies Feb. 4 at Hec Ed.
University of Washington head football coach Chris Petersen Wednesday hired Scott Huff as his new offensive line coach. Huff, who worked with Petersen for eight years at Boise State, replaces Chris Strausser, who departed earlier this week to become offensive line coach of the Denver Broncos.
The NFL continued its poaching of Chris Petersen’s University of Washington football coaching staff Tuesday when the Denver Broncos finalized a deal to make Chris Strausser their new assistant offensive line coach. Strausser had been UW’s offensive line coach since 2014 and, before that, a Petersen aide at Boise State.