College Basketball News

Washington goes for Pac-10 crown (AP) (sports.yahoo.com)

A couple years ago, former Arizona coach Lute Olson walked into Hec Edmundson Pavilion the day before a game. He looked up and scoffed that Washington was hanging a banner proclaiming the 2005 Pac-10 champions -- for merely winning the conference tournament. Olson found it petty that UW would claim a title in a largely anticlimactic, made-for-TV, weekend event as trumping the 18-game grind of the...