Dots: Early Football Betting Lines Heavily Favor the Huskies Over Rutgers

Football Dots

• Some early betting lines are out and UW is favored by nearly 3 touchdowns over Rutgers. The Oregon and WSU games are expected to be much closer matchups.

• Sporting News ranked the top backfields in the Pac-12 and Washington comes in at #5. They also ranked the top 25 running backs returning in 2016 and Myles Gaskin is placed just outside the top 15.

• Off-season articles are in full effect and Fox Sports' Stewart Mandel threw his hat into the ring yesterday with a piece that attempts to predict what the college football landscape will look like in the year 2026. It's ... interesting, to say the least.

• The Oakland Raiders held their rookie minicamp over the weekend and one of the standout performers was former Husky Jaydon Mickens.

• Another day, another preseason top 25 ranking. This one from Athlon Sports has UW as the top ranked Pac-12 squad at #11.

• Adam Jude examines the Huskies' preseason hype and compares Chris Petersen's record in his first two seasons with some notable coaches in the program's history.

Basketball Dots

• The Sacramento Bee profiles Marquese Chriss and the fast track he's taken to the NBA. Chriss says he never planned on being a one-and-done, but decided to take a shot at professional basketball after a stretch of good games towards the end of UW's season.

• The women's team landed a big time transfer in former Nebraska guard Natalie Romeo, a 5-star prospect out of high school. Romeo set a Nebraska school record after making 104 three-pointers last season. Natalie is good friends with and a former teammate of Sabrina Ionescu, the #4 prospect in the 2016 class who has the Huskies in her top 2.

• MADE Hoops caught up with 5-star 2017 PG Trae Young. Trae says that Romar's hiring of Michael Porter Sr. will make him look a little closer at Washington, but he was already strongly considering the Huskies to begin with.

Diamond Dots

• The softball regular season has concluded and the Huskies (36-13) have received the #11 seed in the NCAA tournament. They'll host their opening round regional this weekend and face off against Weber State at the Husky Softball Stadium.

• UW pitcher Troy Rallings is pretty good.

@UW_Baseball's Troy Rallings leads D1 baseball with a ...
(0.62 ERA in 58.1 innings pitched) #RoadtoOmaha #CWS pic.twitter.com/6tgtP5z4Gn

— NCAA Baseball (@NCAABSB) May 16, 2016

Track Dots

• The Huskies did not take home the Pac-12 championship over the weekend, but the men's team did put on their best performance in the history of the program, coming in 2nd place with 122 points.