Wednesday, June 12, 2013 @ 5:38am

UND football team to play Washington in 2018

UND is an NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision school, while Washington plays in the higher Football Bowl Subdivision. The game is scheduled Sept. 15, 2018, in Seattle.

UND is scheduled to play another Pac-12 team, Utah, during the 2017 season. The Grand Forks Herald reports that UND is guaranteed $450,000 for the Utah game and $500,000 for the Washington game.

Thursday, May 30, 2013 @ 1:45pm

Washington WR James Johnson retires

The school announced Johnson's decision Thursday. He was expected to compete for a starting receiver spot this fall.

Johnson's career started with a flourish. He caught a touchdown pass in coach Steve Sarkisian's first game with the Huskies against LSU in 2009. Johnson caught 39 passes for 422 yards and three touchdowns in 2009, but played in just six games as a sophomore and fell down the depth chart as a junior.

Johnson injured his wrist during training camp last August and missed the entire 2012 season.

Washington also announced that receiver Jamaal Jones, defensive back Darien Washington, running back Erich Wilson II and linebacker Evan Zeger have requested and been granted release from the program.

Wednesday, May 22, 2013 @ 8:47am

Coaches best-paid state employees in Washington

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - College coaches are the top-paid state employees in Washington, according to a list recently released by the state Office of Financial Management.

University of Washington football coach Steve Sarkisian earned $2.7 million last year, followed by Washington State University football coach Mike Leach at $2.3 million. Third on the list is UW basketball coach Lorenzo Romar at $1.35 million, and fourth is WSU coach Ken Bone at $855,000.

Coaches are paid from athletic department revenue, such as ticket sales and television rights or gifts, not taxpayer funds, The Olympian reported ( http://bit.ly/13Ij6JR).

The first non-coach is fifth on the list _ Washington State University President Elson Floyd at $625,000, and sixth is UW president Michael Young at $563,000.

A total of 68 state employees earned more than $300,000. Most of them are in higher education, and many are paid through research grants, not taxes or tuition. Many of the highest-paid UW employees are in high-demand, high-paying fields such as medicine or computer science, the Office of Financial Management said.

Christine Gregoire earned $162,000 as governor of Washington in 2012, after forfeiting a portion of her pay when other state workers' pay was cut. Most saw a 3 percent reduction since July 2011.

Salaries for the governor and other statewide elected officials and judges are set by the Washington Commission on Salaries for Elected Officials.

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Information from: The Olympian, http://www.theolympian.com

Monday, May 20, 2013 @ 1:02pm

Montana hoops lands Washington transfer

Breunig, who is originally from Germany, will redshirt at Montana next year due to NCAA transfer rules.

Tinkle said he's thrilled to land a player of Breunig's caliber. He said the redshirt year will give Breunig time to learn Montana's system.

Breunig played in 21 games as a freshman at Washington, but saw action in just nine games and scored one point as a sophomore. He competed on the German Under 18 national team at the FIBA European Championships in Lithuania in 2010.

Friday, May 17, 2013 @ 1:37pm

Washington's Wilcox undergoes foot surgery

SEATTLE (AP) - Washington guard C.J. Wilcox has undergone surgery on his left foot to stabilize a stress fracture that bothered him for much of his junior season.

The school says Wilcox had the surgery on Friday. Wilcox's surgery stabilized the fifth metatarsal in his left foot. He is expected to make a full recovery in time for the start of the 2013-14 season.

Wilcox, the Huskies' leading scorer last season, considered leaving school for the NBA after his junior season but decided in late April to come back for his senior campaign. Wilcox averaged 16.8 points per game, good for sixth in the Pac-12. He was a second-team all-Pac-12 selection.

Thursday, May 16, 2013 @ 1:48pm

Chillious returns to Washington as assistant coach

SEATTLE (AP) - After a year away, Raphael Chillious is returning to work as an assistant coach under Lorenzo Romar at Washington.

Washington announced the coaching move on Thursday. Chillious is the second hire made to Romar's staff in the past two weeks after the hiring of T.J. Otzelberger from Iowa State. Chillious and Otzelberger join a staff that already includes Jim Shaw, Paul Fortier and Brad Jackson. The school said any corresponding moves on the staff would be made in the near future.

Chillious worked at Washington from 2010-12 before leaving to join the staff at Villanova for one season. Chillious says it was hard leaving Washington originally, but that his year coaching and recruiting in the Big East will help as he makes the return to the Huskies program.

Thursday, May 9, 2013 @ 2:03pm

Las Vegas Bowl set for Dec. 21 Saturday 12:30 p.m.

LAS VEGAS (AP) - The 2013 Las Vegas Bowl will be played Dec. 21 on a Saturday afternoon for the second year in a row.

ESPN Regional Television and bowl officials announced Thursday the 22nd annual bowl will kick off at Sam Boyd Stadium at 12:30 p.m. PST.

The matchup to be televised nationally by ABC will feature the top choice from the Mountain West Conference against the fifth pick from the Pac-12.

Dan Hanneke, the bowl's executive director, says they had a tremendous response to playing last year's game on a weekend day and are pleased the calendar will accommodate a similar setup this year.

A crowd of 33,217 watched No. 15 Boise State beat Washington 28-26 last year.

Tuesday, May 7, 2013 @ 2:00pm

ISU's Otzelberger leaving for Washington

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - After eight years in Ames, Iowa State assistant coach T.J. Otzelberger felt it was time for a new challenge.

Otzelberger is hoping his next move will be the last one before becoming a head coach.

Washington coach Lorenzo Romar announced Tuesday that he had hired Otzelberger as an assistant, calling him a "tenacious recruiter." Otzelberger told The Associated Press that Romar convinced him a move to Seattle would help him earn a head coaching job someday.

Romar "really said `I look at you as somebody that's on the brink of taking that next step,'" Otzelberger said.

Otzelberger's departure is the biggest blow that Iowa State coach Fred Hoiberg's staff has suffered in his three seasons in Ames.

The 36-year-old Otzelberger had been with Iowa State since 2006, arriving with former head coach Greg McDermott. Otzelberger was promoted to associate head coach in 2010 under Hoiberg, who at the time cited Otzelberger's presence as critical in rebuilding the program.

Though Otzelberger's strength lied with recruiting, he was also responsible for Iowa State's game plans over the past two seasons and he helped Hoiberg lead the Cyclones to back-to-back NCAA tournament appearances for the first time in 12 years.

"The way Fred approaches basketball is really creative," Otzelberger said. "Fred also showed me a lot about believing in the guys and building their confidence."

But Otzelberger was concerned that having Division I experience at only one school, Iowa State, would ultimately hurt his chances of landing a head coaching job. Saint Mary's coach Randy Bennett and Seattle's Cameron Dollar were both former assistants under Romar, and Otzelberger hopes he'll soon join them as head coaches.

"I just felt like this was the next step in my progression," Otzelberger said.

The Huskies have fallen short of the NCAA tournament in each of the last two seasons, going to the NIT instead. Before that, Washington made the NCAAs three years in a row and reached the regional semifinals in 2010.

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