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Morning links: WSU hosts Idaho

The Vandals will try to sack Beasley Coliseum this evening when Idaho travels to Washington State for a 7 p.m. game. The schools have the longest continuous rivalry west of the Mississippi, which we detail in our advance.

We're going to have our first weekly basketball chat today at 11 a.m. and we've got more links after the jump.

-- The All-Pac-12 teams came out yesterday and WSU's Vince Mayle made the second team.

-- We look at some of the key numbers that defined WSU's football season.

-- One of the Cougars' most highly-regarded recruits is looking elsewhere.

-- KJR's Jason Puckett says the WSU offense won't work until the run game does.

-- Arizona isn't going to try anything too complicated against Oregon.

-- Arizona State's Taylor Kelly is the Pac-12's Scholar Athlete of the Year in football.

-- Some of California's players wanted Travis DeCuire to be their new head coach. Soon they will take on his new team.

-- Colorado can't have another disappointing season.

-- Oregon will face a younger version of its own quarterback on Friday.

-- Oregon State's basketball team is changing how it plays defense.

-- The Bay Area bowl would love to keep Stanford close to home.

-- UCLA's basketball team is trying to learn from its defeats.

-- USC had far more first teamers on the All-Conference team than the rivalry's best team.

-- The road just got a lot rockier for the Utah basketball team.



Jacob Thorpe
Jacob Thorpe is a freelance sports columnist covering Washington State football.

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