WSU waits for UW as Pac-10 sorts out

• Washington State: As the Cougars prepared for Washington by getting back to the basics, the Huskies took the day off. Thus, not a lot of stories to pass along. Though Jeff Nusser at CougCenter took another look at the WSU offense. … As we said last night. The WSU Board of Regents is scheduled to vote today on the Martin Stadium expansion plan. When that happens, we’ll pass it along. … There is a good story on Cougfan from Nick Daschel on new football assistant Chris Tormey, but it is pay only, so I can’t link it. … And that it from Pullman.

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• Around the Pac-10: The Huskies’ Isaiah Thomas and Matthew Bryan-Amaning have a long-time relationship . … The last time Oregon won in Maples Pavilion? It was 1986. Now the Ducks have done it in 2011, 67-59 over the Cardinal. After beating Washington at home a couple weeks ago, Stanford has slipped to ninth in the conference. … Oregon State’s funk continued as well, with the Beavers looking lost at times against a California zone that was surprisingly effective. The Bears’ inside game dominated in their 85-57 rout of OSU in Berkeley. … USC rallied from an early deficit, saw Arizona State’s Ty Abbott line up a desperate 3-pointer with a chance to win, but survived, 63-61 in Tempe, a rare road win for the Trojans in conference play. … Arizona won the battle for second place behind UW as we near the halfway point, defeating UCLA 85-74 in Tucson. The Bruins’ second-half defense harkened back to last year when UA won just 16 games. The Wildcats have 17 now and six in conference play. … We’ll leave you with this nice feature on former Oregon coach Ernie Kent. He’ll be in Pullman with FSN on Sunday.

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• That’s all we have for this morning. We’ll be working on a couple of Sunday stories today, safely inside while the wind whips over the Palouse. OK, it is just a slight breeze, but it did wake me up this morning. Until later …