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FROM PULLMAN -- With WSU's football season officially in the rearview, our focus shifts -- however long it takes -- to basketball for the next 3-plus months. But there's some football news to pass along, too, and not the kind that we want to be writing about. Read on.

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First, we recap last night's basketball game with our game story, a blog post with video, and our postgame tale of the tape. On the football side, we had this follow from the Apple Cup, as well as a blog post with some details of a fan apparently striking Washington tight end Austin Seferian-Jenkins after the Apple Cup. ... By the way, I called Valhalla yesterday to find out whether Mike Leach really did put a bunch of money toward paying for bar tabs there. I was told he did not. So there you go. ... Howie Stalwick also writes about the basketball game, and briefly about the Seferian-Jenkins incident, and also about WSU's football season. ... Todd Dybas explains how WSU completed its 18-point comeback.

There were football games yesterday ...

Oregon 48, Oregon State 24 -- The Ducks made it clear there would be no upset this week, and broke a school record in the process. Oregon State couldn't run the ball or stop the run. Jon Wilner slots the Ducks for the Fiesta Bowl.

Stanford 35, UCLA 17 -- These teams will play again next weekend for the Pac-12 championship. UCLA has a bunch of stuff to fix before that happens.

Notre Dame 22, USC 13 -- The Irish clinched a spot in the BCS national championship game, and the Trojans fell to an almost unfathomable 7-5.

There were basketball games yesterday ...

Minnesota beat Stanford, 66-63. ... Colorado State pounded Washington in Seattle, 73-55. ... Utah beat Wright State, 66-54. ... Cincinnati beat Oregon, 77-66. ... Creighton beat Arizona State, 87-73.

Christian Caple can be reached at christianc@spokesman.com. Twitter: @ChristianCaple

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