Washington and Washington State are both among the bottom-tier teams in the baseball coaches’ preseason poll in the Pac-12.
Defending Pac-12 champion Oregon State, coming off a 27-3 conference record last year and a 56-6 overall mark, was selected as the team to beat. The Beavers got 10 of the 11 first-place votes. OSU returns Luke Heimlich, the Pac-12 pitcher of the year last year and Nick Madrigal, the Pac-12 player of the year.
The Huskies came in seventh in the poll and the Cougars 10th.
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• Johnathan Williams of Gonzaga, after his third and fourth consecutive double-double, was named the men’s basketball player of the week in the West Coast Conference.