Shifting focus on a Sunday

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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