Roundup: Utah playing for a trip to NYC Wednesday night at Saint Mary's
The last Pac-12 men’s basketball team standing is Utah, which plays Wednesday night at Saint Mary’s in the quarterfinals of the NIT. Lynn Worthy gives us a Utah-Saint Mary’s game preview (7 p.m. PT/8 p.m. MT, ESPN2). Winner heads to New York City for the semis.
ESPN’s Jeff Goodman thinks Sean Miller would take the Pitt job if it was offered to him (Arizona Desert Swarm). There have been reports from Pittsburgh Sports Now that “intermediaries have reached out to Pitt on Miller’s behalf to express his interest in the job.” I’m putting this in the rumor column for now, but just so you know...
Baylor will be Oregon State women’s basketball’s biggest challenge of the season when the squads square off in the Sweet 16 (Building the Dam). Baylor is 33-1 this season after blasting away Michigan 80-58 in the second round.
UCLA is the No. 1 seed for the 2018 Pac-12 Women’s Gymnastics Championships, which are going down Saturday and can be watched on Pac-12 Network.
James Looney made a good impression at Cal’s Pro Day, writes Rusty Simmons, who thinks that Looney is the Golden Bears’ best NFL Draft prospect.
Klay Thompson is on the cover of Slam Magazine, and here’s the interview he did with Slam’s Tzvi Twersky.
Tom FitzGerald writes that the future is bright for Stanford men’s basketball, and it could be even brighter in 2018-19 if Reid Travis returns for what would be his redshirt senior year.
Joey Kaufman gives us a USC men’s basketball season in review in this article for the Los Angeles Daily News.
Ryan Thorburn of The Register-Guard features Oregon women’s basketball’s Erin Boley, a Notre Dame transfer who has to sit out this season but has been a handful to guard in practice this year.
Arizona State’s Miachël Geerts and Lauryn John-Baptiste were named Pac-12 Tennis Players of the Week, the conference announced Tuesday.
Brian Howell features Colorado offensive lineman Aaron Haigler, a redshirt junior who has been practicing at left tackle a good chunk of the spring practices.
Here’s a Washington spring football preview of the Husky running backs courtesy of Adam Jude. Spring practice begins next week.