CORVALLIS, Ore. -- There's winning ugly on the road. There's stealing a win on the road. And there's what the Huskies did on Sunday afternoon at Gill Coliseum, which falls somewhere in between.

EUGENE, Ore. -- A different kind of frustration was felt outside Washington State's locker room at Matthew Knight Arena on Saturday afternoon.

CORVALLIS, Ore. -- They slashed, they defended, they made open shots like they were playing at Beasley.

SPOKANE -- Kevin Pangos has been at his best against two of Gonzaga's biggest rivals.

PULLMAN -- All eyes, seemingly, are on Washington State forward Brock Motum.

SPOKANE -- Steven Gray looked like the most relieved human being on the planet.

PULLMAN -- Washington State has a new football coach, and the Cougars might be getting a new starting quarterback as well.

PULLMAN -- Linebacker C.J. Mizell was dismissed from the Washington State football team for a violation of team policy, the school announced Tuesday.

Columbia Basin College couldn't overcome a 13-point halftime deficit and lost 97-82 against Blue Mountain Community College in an NWAACC East men's basketball game in Pendleton.

Jennifer Noon and Ana Jimenez had 20 points apiece to pace the No. 1 ranked CBC women's basketball team to a 77-60 victory at Blue Mountain Community College on Saturday.

KENNEWICK -- Washington State University fans came out en masse Friday night at the Three Rivers Convention Center to get a glimpse of -- and hear from -- the Cougars' latest star: new head football coach Mike Leach.

PROVO, Utah -- Gonzaga set up for its final possession of an ugly first half, but the Bulldogs weren't lined up correctly. Head coach Mark Few frantically shouted directions, but his players couldn't hear him at the opposite end of the floor.

PULLMAN -- A quick start wasn't surprising, considering Washington State's opponent on Thursday night.

PULLMAN -- His footwork, accuracy and leadership qualities had already been lauded by coach Mike Leach on Wednesday afternoon.

After the dust had finally cleared on another letter-of-intent day, recruiting analysts said it wasn't so much about an individual school coming out on top in the Pac-12 as it was about the Pac-12 itself.

PULLMAN — The Washington State football program has drawn unprecedented amounts of offseason publicity since colorful Mike Leach took over as coach in December, but the initial impact of Leach’s arrival on recruiting appears marginal.

YAKIMA -- Davis High School standout Deion Wright, who rewrote all of Davis' single-game, season and career passing records, committed to Western Oregon University, Davis coach Rick Clark confirmed Sunday.

EUGENE, Ore. -- Oregon State coach Craig Robinson put extra pressure on Jared Cunningham last week, telling his star guard it is up to him to lead the Beavers.

TUCSON, Ariz. -- This was a loss the Washington State Cougars might feel for a while.

TEMPE, Ariz. -- The maturation of Tony Wroten may not have occurred at the pace that some Huskies fans had hoped for, but it's clear that the heralded freshman is growing as a player.

PASCO -- Chiawana seniors Jordan Downing and Miquiyah Zamora, both named to the Washington 4A all-state football team in the fall, plan to remain teammates at Eastern Washington University in Cheney.

PULLMAN -- Dave Emerick's explanation of his official title on Washington State's football staff is fairly simple. It also provides a humorous glimpse of his boss' personality.

BUTTE, Mont. -- Montana Tech's Mandy Machinal set the school record for points in a game last week and was named the Frontier Conference women's basketball player of the week Monday.

SEATTLE -- Figures released by the University of Washington on Saturday show the school could have among the highest-paid group of football coaches in the Pac-12, if not the country, next season.

PORTLAND -- Oregon head coach Chip Kelly announced today that he's remaining with the Ducks, though he says he was flattered by the interest shown in him by the NFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

SEATTLE -- The second-to-last recruiting weekend of the season for the Washington Huskies yielded one firm commitment and an awful lot of rumors, innuendo and speculation.

PULLMAN -- Of all the last-minute madness witnessed at Beasley Coliseum on Saturday, one image endures.

SEATTLE -- With just over a minute remaining in the Washington Huskies' 76-63 win over Stanford on Saturday, the raucous student section began chanting, "It's all over! It's all over!"

CORVALLIS, Ore. -- Oregon State entered the weekend on a three-game losing streak and at a crossroads in its season.

CHENEY -- Will Eastern Washington University football fans get a bigger kick out of this year’s schedule?

SPOKANE -- Guy Landry Edi came off the bench to score 15 points and spark Gonzaga to a 74-63 win over San Francisco on Thursday night.

PULLMAN -- Few spectators braved the elements to watch Washington State host Stanford at Beasley Coliseum on Thursday -- just 3,119 of them, to be exact.

SEATTLE -- Almost everyone inside Edmundson Pavilion assumed Terrence Ross would take the shot.

PULLMAN — Increased television money helped Washington State reel in new football coach Mike Leach with the biggest contract in school history, and increased football income helped the Cougars pay off former football coach Paul Wulff.

PULLMAN -- Every dribble, every corner, every square inch of the Beasley Coliseum hardwood feels like home to Washington State senior Charlie Enquist.

SEATTLE -- For this year at least, Lorenzo Romar is a big fan of an odd scheduling quirk in the Pac-12.

TACOMA -- Two of the under-appreciated ways of assessing the status of your college sports program that have nothing to do with rankings or won-loss records:

SEATTLE -- Steve Sarkisian's best recruiting job this offseason won't be on any prospective player.

SEATTLE -- Aaron Broussard scored a career-high 34 points to help Seattle snap a four-game losing streak with a 91-78 win over Eastern Washington on Monday night.

SEATTLE -- It's not inaccurate to say Terrence Ross stole the show Sunday afternoon, sparking a second-half burst that helped Washington run Washington State out of Hec Edmundson Pavilion in a 75-65 Huskies win.

SEATTLE -- Washington offensive coordinator Doug Nussmeier will leave to take the same position at Alabama and could be named soon, sources told The Seattle Times Sunday night.

Dylan Radliff had 25 points and seven rebounds to lift Walla Walla Community College to a 84-70 win over Treasure Valley in an NWAACC East men's contest Saturday in Walla Walla.

Here is a gameday look at Washington State (9-7, 1-3 Pac-12) at Washington (10-6, 3-1). Tipoff is 4 p.m., today at Alaska Airlines arena. The game is scheduled for live broadcast on ROOT Sports.

PULLMAN -- New Washington State football coach Mike Leach announced that special teams coach Eric Russell has been named assistant head coach, and defensive coordinator Mike Breske will coach cornerbacks and safeties.

EUGENE, Ore. -- Allen Crabbe scored a career-high 26 points with six 3-pointers and California surged past Oregon in the second half to win 77-60 on Sunday.

PULLMAN -- Mike Breske, defensive coordinator at Montana, is the choice of Washington State football coach Mike Leach to assume the same position at WSU, according to reports.

BOULDER, Colo. -- If the Colorado Buffaloes had simply continued to miss all of their wide-open 3-point attempts, the Cougars might have had a chance here on Saturday afternoon.

SPOKANE -- It wasn't quite a tale of two halves. It was a tale of the first 15 minutes -- where Santa Clara led by five -- and the last 25 minutes -- where Gonzaga outscored the Broncos by 27.

SALT LAKE CITY -- It actually happened. The Washington Huskies won a road game.

FRISCO, Texas -- Eastern Washington quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell won the Walter Payton Award on Friday night as top player in the Football Championship Subdivision.