1. Southern California (1) 4-1, 2-1. TB McKnight averaged 13 yard per carry vs. Sun Devils.
2. California (2) 4-1, 2-0. Only team still unbeaten in conference play.
3. Oregon (4) 5-2, 3-1. QB Masoli rushed for 170 yards in win over Bruins.
4. Stanford (7) 4-3, 3-1. Rushed for season-high 286 yards vs. Wildcats.
5. Oregon State (6) 3-3, 2-1. Unbeaten at home, but no wins on the road.
6. Arizona (3) 4-2, 2-1. Probably bowl bound, but talk of roses was premature.
7. Arizona State (5) 2-4, 1-2. Unexpected step back in Erickson’s rebuilding.
8. UCLA (8) 2-4, 1-2. Thirteen punts of 50 or more yards … but they get so many opportunities.
9. Washington (9) 0-5, 0-3. In a race with North Texas -- North Texas!! --to find the winner’s circle.
10. Washington State (10) 1-6, 0-4. Complaining about a conference opponent running up the score is never a good sign.

The biggest news out of UW Tuesday once again involved injuries. (Here's the story from TNT sportswriter Eric Williams who handled the Huskes yesterday.)

Offensive coordinator Tim Lappano said that quarterback Jake Locker will have more tests on his surgically repaired thumb Wednesday, but that it seems likely that he'll be out for the remainder of the season.

"We’ll know more tomorrow," Lappano said. "They moved him into a hard cast, whatever that means. He can’t sit there like this and hold it up, and at night it still throbs a little bit. That was last week. ... He’s not going to miss spring ball, or anything like that. There’s no way. It’s not like that. But is he going to play before the season is over? Who knows. Highly unlikely I would guess. Tomorrow we’ll know more, but he’s going to miss spring ball. It’s not going to be that bad."

His other information was on starting guard Casey Bulyca, who coach Tyrone Willingham announced yesterday will undergo knee surgery which could end his college career. Lappano seemed to indicate the prognosis is less certain.

"He’s been hobbled for a couple weeks," Lappano said. "He’s been bothered, but he’s been working through it. He knows he hadn’t been really effective with it. It came to a point he’s not helping anybody. He’s not playing real good with it. He knew he wasn’t helping the team, and it got so painful he had to have it looked at. We don’t know the extent of it. There’s some speculation it could be two weeks, it could be seven weeks. They won’t know until they get in there. If there’s some floating bone in there, it could be awhile. If there’s not, it won’t be that long."

Lappano also said:

*Oregon State looks a lot better on recent film than they did early in the season.

*OSU's reworked front seven is coming on strong, and the defensive backs like to bump the receivers at the line.

* TB Willie Griffin wasn't a fumbler in high school, but he's developed a problem this season -- in practices and in the Arizona game -- what has to be solved.

The sports calendar is rolling around in a way that will start adding a lot of basketball into the mix as the Huskies hold their hoops media day on Wednesday and then report to preseason camp on Friday.

(There will be no Midnight Madness or other public event at UW this season. The Huskies will open with three days of camp at St. Martin's in Lacey.)

Here's an overview preview story from today's paper.