Tuesday Dots: Freshman of the Week

Jan 17, 2023 - 3:31 PM

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Football Dots

• Jon Wilner declares the Huskies “a winner (by a landslide)” in the early entry period for the NFL draft after literally every draft eligible player chose not to head to the NFL.
• Bill Connelly at ESPN ranked his top-100 games of the college football season and UW’s victory over Oregon made it into the top-20.
• John Canzano is reporting that the Pac-12 schedule has been finalized and will be released later that week. He includes several sneak peaks for UW including: both Oregon and UW will have a bye before their mutual game, UW has a November gauntlet of at USC, Utah, at Oregon State back-to-back-to-back, the Apple Cup won’t be on Black Friday, and the Pac-12 opener will be hosting Cal.
• OL Victor Curne posts his goodbye to Washington after entering the transfer portal last week

• An update on former Husky and current Seahawk Ben Burr-Kirven who has struggled with injuries in the NFL.

• The season is over for the Bucs and NFL Dawgs Vita Vea, Cade Otton, and Joe Tryon-Shoyinka who got blown out by the Cowboys last night. Vea had this sack while Otton had 4 catches for 58 yards.

• A new (presumably PWO) offer out to a local DB out of Bellevue High in the class of 2023

• 247 Sports has an interview with Washington PWO commit WR Kennan Kuntz about what led to him choosing to stay home and play for the Huskies. He chose to walk-on over scholarship offers from Eastern Washington and Pittsburgh.

Basketball Dots

• UW’s Koren Johnson won Pac-12 Freshman of the Week honors after averaging 15 points, 3 assists, and 3 steals per game on 70% 3-pt shooting in a home sweep of the Bay Area schools.

Softball Dots