Wednesday Dots: All Fiesta Prep All the Time

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Football Dots

• Adam Jude of the Seattle Times writes that Jake Browning and Myles Gaskin are stars who aren’t very keen on a bright spotlight.
• Matt Lubick is going to be calling plays for the Huskies in place of Jonathan Smith who took the head coaching job at Oregon State.
• Freshman TE Hunter Bryant is practicing and has a chance to play for the first time in two months.
• Jon McGrath at the Tacoma News Tribune writes that the fact that many Husky fans are disappointed with the Fiesta Bowl is a sign of how far things have come.
• The UW Daily has a Q&A with the college football writer for the Penn State newspaper.
• Ryan Clark at the TNT previews the Penn State secondary.
• Penn State dismissed two members of the team yesterday including a linebacker who started 9 games.

Basketball Dots

• Percy Allen of the Seattle Times writes that the win over Kansas looks even better now that the Huskies collected $90,000 to be an apparently not so free win for the Jayhawks. The Huskies start non-conference play at USC on Friday.
• Matt Calkins of the Times wrote that it’s too soon to think that the 10-3 Huskies could actually make the NCAA tournament.
• Get to know Tony Castricone who is the current broadcaster for the basketball team and will take over for Bob Rondeau in football as well next season.
• 2018 UW Commit Jamal Bey was named tournament MVP at the Tarkanian Classic while averaging 23.3 points including a 38 points and 12 rebounds game.
• Josh Gershon at 247Sports ($$$) thinks that Bey’s ranking will go way up after seeing him in person this event. He’s currently 289th in the composite rankings.

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