Dots: Michael Porter Jr. Releases Top 5 List

Football Dots

• Sports On Earth's Matt Brown says that it's time for college football fans to believe the Husky hype.

• 3-star OLB target Ariel Ngata announced that he will be making his college decision this Thursday with Washington and Oregon making up his final two schools. The Huskies have been his leader for awhile.

• The ESPN Pac-12 blog projected the conference's 1,000 yard rushers in 2016 and Kevin Gemmell says that while a sophomore slump is possible for Gaskin, Washington's schedule sets up nicely for another big season for the Husky RB.

• RealDawg's Kyle Waltos examines Washington's three toughest games in 2016 and concludes that the Huskies should be in the conference title conversation.

• Former Eastern Washington/Oregon QB Vernon Adams signed a 3-year deal with the Montreal Alouettes of the CFL this week.

• CFB Huddle's Kyle Kensing takes a look at the phenomenon of true freshman starting quarterbacks and he uses Jake Browning as part of his case study.

Basketball Dots

• 5-star prospect Michael Porter Jr. narrowed his list of schools down to five last night and the Huskies made the cut.

A photo posted by Michael Porter Jr. (@m1chael_porter) on May 23, 2016 at 6:48pm PDT

• MassLive.com reports that former Husky Marquese Chriss is one of seven or eight prospects being considered by the Celtics for their #3 pick.

• CBS Sports updated their top 150 NBA draft prospect list. Marquese Chriss comes in at #15 and Dejounte Murray is listed at #38.

Misc. Dots

• Former Washington hockey player Ryan Minkoff wrote in The Players' Tribune about his experience playing professional hockey in Finland. It was an up-and-down experience for him, but he says that in the end he came out a better person.