Recapping Portland on a Sunday

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FROM PULLMAN — If we covered the SEC, there’d be a really good football team to talk about this morning. But we don’t. There is basketball news, though, so read on.

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In today’s newspaper, we have our game story from WSU’s 72-60 win over Portland last night. We had our usual tale of the tape on the blog, as well as a post with WSU Athetlcs’ video of the postgame press conferences . … Howie Stalwick had this story in the Kitsap Sun. … Here’s the AP story .

Around the Pac-12 … UCLA lost again, this time 78-69 to No. 25 San Diego State at home. … Oregon became the most recent Pac-12 team to smash Arkansas-Pine Bluff, 80-59. … Evan Gordon’s career-high 29 points lifted Arizona State past Sacramento State, 90-70. … Arizona dominated Texas Tech in an 85-57 blowout in Lubbock. … Some blunt comments from Tad Boyle after Colorado was upset, 76-69 in Wyoming. … The comments on this story seem a bit resentful, but I thought Gordon Monson did a good job writing about the life of former Utah coach Rick Majerus, who died Saturday at 64. Another Majerus story in the Deseret News. … Percy Allen with a feature on C.J. Wilcox.

In football news … Oregon State closed out the Pac-12 season (minus bowls) with a 77-3 squeaker over Nicholls State. … Assistants are running Cal’s football program right now. … The speculation in the California coaching search is heating up. … More on Colorado’s coaching search . … Monte Kiffin said there was no pressure on him to leave USC.

That’s it for today.

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