Here’s the report from the LA Times.

The list of Wooden Award (college basketball player of the year) condidates has been cut from a preseason list of 50 to a mid-season list of 30, and UW forward Jon Brockman remains among them.

Brockman is second in the nation with 11.5 rebounds per game. He leads the Pac-10 with 13 double-doubles. He leads UW and is fourth in the conference with a 19.1 scoring average.

Here’s the news from the Huskies’ Web site.

The Huskies had no runs in them in the second half and the Wildcats won as easily as the score makes it sound.

Huskies fall to 3-4 in the conference. However, they took consolation on the road split and hope to take care of business as they begin a four-game homestand Thursday against Stanford.

Star of the game: Arizona freshman Jerryd Bayless hit nine of 11 shots, including five of six 3-pointers. His 26 points were the most by a UW opponent this season.

Key stats: Arizona shot 62.2 percent from the field, negating Washington’s 52.6

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Jon Brockman picked up his second foul less than five minutes in, and the Huskies had to go about seven minutes without him. That sure didn’t help, but the Huskies hung around without their star, trailing 30-21 when he returned. However, Arizona made a nice run down the stretch — with Brockman on the court — and the Wildcats seem well in control right now.

Jordan Hill leads everyone with 13 points and seven rebounds. He certainly benefitted from Brockman’s absence, but he was a game-changer against Washington State on Thursday, and he’s doing the same on both ends

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Just two and three seasons ago, an Arizona-Washington men’s basketball game was crucial to the title race of the Pacific-10 Confernce. These days both teams are smack in the middle of the league race at 3-3. In an odd way, that makes today’s game in Tucson more important than the old days. The winner moves into the top half of the league race and in solid NCAA position, while the loser goes back into the bottom half and the road to the big dance gets that much tougher.

A win could loom particularly large for the Huskies, who after

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Here’s the piece that ran this morning on UW’s continuing plans for public funds for Husky Stadium.

Here’s our piece on likely new defensive coordinator Ed Donatell.

And here’s a release from the UW Web site on ticket prices for the coming season.

It appears that Ed Donatell, a longtime NFL coach most recently serving under Jim Mora with the Atlanta Falcons has been offered and will accept the Washington defensive coordinator job.

Donatell, 50, is a former UW graduate assistant under Don James in 1981 and ’82. He went on to assistant jobs at Pacific, Idaho and Cal State before moving to the NFL as an assistant with the Jets, Broncos, Packers and Falcons.

UW says no official announcement is scheduled, but amid all the rumors of the past weeks, it appears that this time the Huskies have gotten

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I’ll be back talking UW athletics with Dave “The Groz” Grosby at a new time, 1:35 p.m. Friday on KJR, 950-AM.

I would suspect we’ll discuss this increasingly interesting UW basketball trip to Arizona and the latest on the Husky Stadium renovation.

The conversation also will be streamed over the Internet.