Following Giuilana Mendiola in 2002-03, Kelsey Plum is the Huskies’ second player to be named Pac-12 women’s Player of the Year. She and teammate Chantel Osahor are on the 15-member all-conference team.
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The Huskies are seeded third in the Pac-12 Conference women’s tourney that begins Thursday at KeyArena. Washington opens Friday against the winner of the Oregon-Arizona match.
Following its 79-71 loss to BYU Saturday in Spokane, Gonzaga (29-1) tumbled from first to fourth in the Associated Press college basketball rankings released Monday. The Bulldogs, who had been No. 1 for four consecutive weeks, were replaced by Kansas (26-3), which received 58 first-place votes from a national media panel and is the sixth
Takeaway The Cougars beat rival Washington 79-71 at Beasley Coliseum in Pullman Sunday, completing a sweep over the Huskies for the first time since 2010-11 (box). The loss was Washington’s 10th in a row, the longest losing streak in program history.
With a lefty runner in the lane and four minutes remaining Saturday at Hec Ed against Utah, Washington’s Kelsey Plum became the NCAA career scoring leader, finishing with 57 points.
As a result of losing four primary free agents in March, while adding two, the Seahawks received two compensatory picks Friday in the 2017 draft. Seattle has eight draft picks.
Lenny Wilkens, former coach of the Sonics, is part of an advisory group that will counsel Mayor Ed Murray on proposals for the renovation or reconstruction of KeyArena.
Matt Lubick, who was fired after four seasons as Oregon wide receivers coach as part of the purge of head coach Mark Helfrich, was hired Wednesday by University of Washington football coach Chris Petersen to the same position, plus sharing the offensive coordinator title with Jonathan Smith.
A memorial service for Bob Walsh will be held Saturday, March 11 from 2-4 p.m. at Impact Hub Seattle, 220 Second Ave. S. A Seattle-based sports events producer and entrepreneur, Walsh passed away Jan. 23 from a respiratory illness in Istanbul, Turkey while on a business trip. He was 76.
Gonzaga (28-0), the only unbeaten team in Division I, remained No. 1 in the Associated Press college basketball rankings for a program record fourth consecutive week Monday. The Zags collected 59 first-place votes from the 65-member national media panel to stay ahead of Villanova (26-2) and Kansas (24-3).