Roundup: Washington's Chriss, Murray invited to NBA Draft Combine

May 4, 2016

According to ESPN’s Jeff Goodman, Washington’s Dejounte Murray and Marquese Chriss have been invited to the NBA Draft Combine (May 11-15 in Chicago). Percy Allen has the story here.

Garrett Clegg has been named the new head coach of Utah men’s golf, AD Chris Hill announced Tuesday. Clegg, a former Ute golfer, spent the last five years as head coach at Washington State.

While we’re on the subject, Stanford’s Maverick McNealy was named Pac-12 Men’s Golfer of the Year. He also won the award for Pac-12 Men’s Golfer Name of the Year.

USC women’s water polo players Brigitta Games and Stephania Haralabidis have been named Cutino Award finalists (best player in the country). The top-ranked Trojans are undefeated heading into the NCAA Tournament.

Oregon State baseball eked out a 5-4 win in 11 innings over Seattle Tuesday night (TheOregonian/OregonLive), nearly blowing their first lead after eight innings (OSU is now 27-0 when leading after eight).

UCLA baseball held on for an 11-10 win at Long Beach State Tuesday night, nearly blowing leads of 8-0 and 11-2 in the process.

Nick Nordi of CougCenter points out that CBS Sports has Washington State quarterback Luke Falk listed as a top-5 quarterback for the 2017 NFL Draft.

Former Oregon sprinter Jenna Prandini is an Olympic hopeful, and Chris Hansen of the Eugene Register-Guard has her story. She seems to be in a pretty good spot to make it to Rio.

This latest NBA Mock Draft from CBS Sports’ Sam Vecenie has Cal’s Jaylen Brown going seventh overall to the Denver Nuggets. I believe last week he was slotted fourth overall – next Mock Draft, he’ll fall to the second round.

AD Greg Byrne gave Michael Lev of the Arizona Daily Star his thoughts on how competitive Arizona football can be on a national stage (hint: very). Wasn’t that long ago that the ‘Cats won the Pac-12 South, one of the toughest divisions in all of college football.