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Washington Huskies men’s basketball fans will have to wait at least another year before UW hosts iconic Big Ten teams Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State and Penn State.

In its inaugural season in the league, Washington will play Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Nebraska, Northwestern, Purdue and Rutgers at Alaska Airlines Arena, the Huskies learned Wednesday as the Big Ten schedule was released.

The Huskies’ 2024-25 road conference schedule includes Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Michigan State, Ohio State, Penn State, and Wisconsin.

In addition, UW plays home and away games against former Pac-12 rivals Oregon, UCLA and USC who are also moving to the newly comprised 18-team Big Ten next season.

Big Ten teams will play 20 conference games. Dates, times, and television information will be announced at a later time.

Washington and Oregon have identical conference foes while USC and UCLA also play the same opponents.

Here’s a look at next season’s Big Ten opponent matchups.

ILLINOISHome: Iowa, Maryland, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue, UCLA, USCAway: Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Oregon, Rutgers, WashingtonHome/Away: Michigan State, Northwestern, Wisconsin

INDIANAHome: Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Rutgers, UCLA, USCAway: Iowa, Michigan State, Nebraska, Northwestern, Oregon, Washington, WisconsinHome/Away: Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue

IOWAHome: Indiana, Michigan State, Minnesota, Oregon, Penn State, Purdue, WashingtonAway: Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Ohio State, Rutgers, UCLA, USCHome/Away: Nebraska, Northwestern, Wisconsin

MARYLANDHome: Iowa, Michigan State, Minnesota, Rutgers, UCLA, USC, WisconsinAway: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Oregon, Penn State, Purdue, WashingtonHome/Away: Nebraska, Northwestern, Ohio State

MICHIGANHome: Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Northwestern, Oregon, Penn State, WashingtonAway: Indiana, Minnesota, Nebraska, Ohio State, UCLA, USC, WisconsinHome/Away: Michigan State, Purdue, Rutgers

MICHIGAN STATEHome: Indiana, Nebraska, Oregon, Penn State, Purdue, Washington, WisconsinAway: Iowa, Maryland, Northwestern, Ohio State, Rutgers, UCLA, USCHome/Away: Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota

MINNESOTAHome: Illinois, Michigan, Northwestern, Ohio State, Oregon, Purdue, WashingtonAway: Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Nebraska, Rutgers, UCLA, USCHome/Away: Michigan State, Penn State, Wisconsin

NEBRASKAHome: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Rutgers, UCLA, USCAway: Michigan State, Northwestern, Oregon, Penn State, Purdue, Washington, WisconsinHome/Away: Iowa, Maryland, Ohio State

NORTHWESTERNHome: Indiana, Michigan State, Nebraska, Rutgers, UCLA, USC, WisconsinAway: Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio State, Oregon, Penn State, Purdue, WashingtonHome/Away: Illinois, Iowa, Maryland

OHIO STATEHome: Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Northwestern, Oregon, Rutgers, WashingtonAway: Illinois, Minnesota, Penn State, Purdue, UCLA, USC, WisconsinHome/Away: Indiana, Maryland, Nebraska

OREGONHome: Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Nebraska, Northwestern, Purdue, RutgersAway: Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Ohio State, Penn State, WisconsinHome/Away: UCLA, USC, Washington

PENN STATEHome: Maryland, Nebraska, Northwestern, Ohio State, Oregon, Purdue, WashingtonAway: Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, UCLA, USC, WisconsinHome/Away: Indiana, Minnesota, Rutgers

PURDUEHome: Maryland, Nebraska, Northwestern, Ohio State, UCLA, USC, WisconsinAway: Illinois, Iowa, Michigan State, Minnesota, Oregon, Penn State, WashingtonHome/Away: Indiana, Michigan, Rutgers

RUTGERSHome: Illinois, Iowa, Michigan State, Minnesota, UCLA, USC, WisconsinAway: Indiana, Maryland, Nebraska, Northwestern, Ohio State, Oregon, WashingtonHome/Away: Michigan, Penn State, Purdue

UCLAHome: Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Ohio State, Penn State, WisconsinAway: Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Nebraska, Northwestern, Purdue, RutgersHome/Away: Oregon, USC, Washington

USCHome: Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Ohio State, Penn State, WisconsinAway: Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Nebraska, Northwestern, Purdue, RutgersHome/Away: Oregon, UCLA, Washington

WISCONSINHome: Indiana, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio State, Oregon, Penn State, WashingtonAway: Maryland, Michigan State, Northwestern, Purdue, Rutgers, UCLA, USCHome/Away: Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota

Percy Allen: [email protected]; Seattle Times staff reporter Percy Allen covers the Washington Huskies and Seattle Storm.

If it wasn’t clear already, Washington is looking for help in the trenches.

Attrition, coaching staff changes and transfers left a once-dominant offensive line as one of the major unknowns facing the Huskies this spring.

But the Huskies and coach Jedd Fisch took another step toward addressing their questions up front Wednesday, landing a commitment from junior offensive lineman Chris Adams, an Old Dominion transfer.

Adams is UW’s fifth transfer-portal commitment of the spring, and the third player to pledge themselves to the Huskies in the past two days.

Four of Washington’s new transfer-portal additions have been either offensive or defensive lineman. Adams and former Portland State interior offensive lineman D’Angalo Titialii will join offensive coordinator Brennan Carroll’s position group.

Edge rusher Jayden Wayne, a former Lincoln High School standout in Tacoma, will transfer in from Miami. His Hurricane teammate Logon Sagapolu may switch to the defensive line with the Huskies, too, after spending the majority of his college career as an interior offensive lineman.

Adams will immediately become one of Washington’s most experienced lineman as soon as he steps on campus. He started all 13 games for Old Dominion during the 2023 season as the Monarchs went 6-7, losing the Famous Toastery Bowl to Western Kentucky 38-35 in overtime. He also played two games as a redshirt freshman during 2022.

A fourth-year junior entering his first season with the Huskies, the 6-foot-6, 286-pound Adams helped the Monarchs rush for 1,996 yards and 15 touchdowns in 2023. Old Dominion averaged 4.2 yards per rush and 153.5 yards per game.

However, the Monarchs also surrendered the most sacks of any team in the Sun Belt during the 2023 season. Old Dominion quarterbacks were sacked 62 times, losing 366 yards in the process. Marshall allowed 36 sacks in 2023, second-most sacks among Sun Belt teams yet significantly fewer than Old Dominion.

Adams joins a group at Washington lacking any significant experience. All five starters who helped lead the Huskies to the 2023 Joe Moore Award as the best offensive line unit in the country departed. Interior offensive linemen Landen Hatchett, Gaard Memmelaar and Zachary Henning all have minimal experience.

Hatchett’s nine games played are the most among Washington’s offensive line returners.

Sophomore offensive tackle Drew Azzopardi, a former San Diego State transfer who initially committed to Kalen DeBoer’s staff but stuck around to play for Fisch, was the most experienced offensive lineman on the roster before Adams joined. He played in 15 games with the Aztecs between, though only six were starts.

Outside of Adams and Azzopardi, Washington has three redshirt freshmen offensive tackles: Soane Faasolo, Kahlee Tafai and Elishah Jackett. Tafai has also spent parts of the spring working on the interior offensive line. Two more true freshmen, Davit Boyajyan and Justin Hylkema, will join before the season begins.

Carroll said he’d ideally like to have around 15 scholarship offensive linemen entering the 2024 season. The addition of Adams and Titialii puts that number at 13 just one day after the transfer portal closed for the spring.

Andy Yamashita: [email protected]; Seattle Times staff reporter Andy Yamashita covers UW football.

Who’s next?

Well, that may be a little premature since the Mariners still have one more game remaining on this current homestand and have a chance to sweep the Atlanta Braves.

But with yet another drama-filled, 3-2 victory Tuesday night at T-Mobile Park, Seattle secured a series win over the Braves, taking the first two of the three-game set.

It was the Mariners’ fifth consecutive series victory, with the past three coming against the World Series champion Texas Rangers, the World Series runner-up Arizona Diamondbacks and the Braves, who haven’t lost back-to-back games since last season’s National League Division Series and are the popular pick to win the World Series in 2024.

They don’t get extra victories next to their record for beating good teams. But it still has some added meaning.

“I think it builds confidence within your clubhouse knowing that you can beat the best teams in the league,” Mariners manager Scott Servais said. “I saw a stat earlier today. I think of our first 29 games, we’ve played 23 of those against teams that are over .500. We’ve played a lot of good teams. That’s going to happen. You’re going to have stretches like this throughout and the fact that we’re winning series … it does breed a lot of confidence in that clubhouse.”

Their formula for success has remained the same in these series victories where they have amassed an 11-3 record.

It’s quality starting pitching, as always, combined with just enough offense, though the three runs scored against the Braves felt like a lot for them.

Luis Castillo delivered seven scoreless innings, allowing just three hits with a walk and seven strikeouts to improve to 3-4 on the season.

With his outing, the Mariners’ starters have allowed two earned runs or fewer in their last 18 consecutive outings, dating back to April 10. It extended their franchise record. The 18-game streak is the longest in Major League Baseball since the Dodgers’ 18-game streak from April 20-May 11, 2022.

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“I’m a broken record up here every night,” Servais said about his starting pitching. “It’s hard to describe every night when we’re watching them. I’ve said to a couple of people, it’s like historic starting pitching. We’re on that kind of run.”

Castillo’s starts early in the season weren’t part of the historic run. They were suboptimal and a bit concerning. In his first three outings, he went 0-3 with a 6.89 ERA. In 15 2/3 innings, he allowed 12 earned runs on 25 hits with 18 strikeouts and four walks. Opponents had a .352/.387/.563 slash line against him. His pitches were missing over the middle of the plate, leading to hard contact and so many hits.

Following an outing against Toronto where both Servais and catcher Cal Raleigh were frustrated with the number of two-strike hits Castillo allowed, a discussion was needed.

“He wasn’t putting people away when he got ahead in the count,” Servais said. “He’s a killer. You have to take that attitude when you’re out there. When you get them 0-2 or 1-2, I’m killing you. You’re done. We just reminded him of that. That’s who he is. And when he does that, and he has that mentality out there, he’s electric.”

With a focus on missing off the plate, particularly with two strikes and a slight adjustment to his pitch usage, Castillo has returned to the expected form of one of the top pitchers in baseball.

Over his last four starts — all of them quality starts — he’s posted a 3-1 record with a 1.38 ERA. In 26 innings pitched, he’s allowed four earned runs on 16 hits with four walks and 31 strikeouts. Opponents are batting just .173 over that stretch.

“Since we talked in Toronto, I’ve went out with that mentality,” Castillo said through his interpreter Freddy Llanos. “I think that’s helped me.”

Seattle provided him just enough run support.

Jorge Polanco hit a two-run homer in the third inning off Atlanta starter Reynaldo Lopez and Dylan Moore added an RBI double in the fourth inning.

The Mariners offense mustered seven hits, struck out 11 times and stranded seven base runners.

“It’s not always pretty offensively, I get it,” Servais said. “We need to continue to get better there. But timely hitting covers up a lot of that. And when you have that kind of pitching, I mean you’re always going to be in the game. Our guys realize that.”

When Castillo exited after the seventh, the Braves offense finally got some runs — with the help of the Mariners.

Ryne Stanek came on to pitch the eighth. He allowed a soft single to right from Travis d’Arnaud and then threw a wild pitch to advance him to second. Polanco couldn’t make a tough play on Jarred Kelenic’s ground ball up the middle, firing it wide of first base and forcing Ty France to vacate the bag.

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Stanek got Ronald Acuña to line out to right field, but Ozzie Albies drove in the Braves’ first run of the game with a crisp single to right to cut the lead to 3-1.

Servais decided turned to closer Andres Muñoz to try and stop the rally before a lead turned into a tie or deficit.

With runners on second and third, the Mariners intentionally walked Matt Olson to load the bases. With little margin for error, Muñoz made one in the field on Austin Riley’s swinging bunt in front of the mound. Raleigh didn’t want to vacate home with a runner on third to make a play on it. Muñoz picked it up and made an awkward throw over the head of France at first base. It allowed Kelenic to score and moved the runners up a base.

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“We didn’t decide who was going to pick up the ball,” Muñoz said. “I was confused if he was going to pick it up or I was going to pick it up. As I grabbed the ball, I saw the runner on the line where I was supposed to throw. I didn’t even know where was the best place to throw the ball.”

Raleigh admitted he should have screamed at his pitcher to not throw it.

With everything swirling out of control, Muñoz didn’t relax. He got mad and was going to make sure no more runs would score. He came back to strike out Marcell Ozuna and got Orlando Arcia to hit a soft ground ball to shortstop that Moore was able to field and fire to first off balance for the final out of the inning.

“I was really disappointed when I made that error because I don’t want to affect the game and I don’t want to affect the outings of the other pitchers,” he said. “I took the anger that I had in that moment to the mound and attacked the hitter.”

Muñoz dealt with no such drama in the ninth, working a 1-2-3 inning to close out the victory.

“Timely hits and awesome pitching,” Servais said. “That’s been the recipe.”

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Ryan Divish: [email protected]; Ryan Divish covers the Mariners in Seattle and on the road. Look for his 'Extra Innings' podcast and mailbags during the season.

The Huskies added extra reinforcements to the offensive line today after receiving a commitment from Old Dominion transfer Chris Adams. He started all 13 games for the Monarchs last season and has 2 years of eligibility remaining.

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Adams was a three-star recruit coming out of high school in Hagerstown, Maryland in the class of 2021 and had offers from Duke and James Madison but ultimately chose to go to Old Dominion. He redshirted his first season in college but got on the field early in his sophomore year making one start at right tackle but then suffered a season-ending knee injury which cut the year short. He came back this past season and started the first 4 games of the season at right tackle but then switched over to the left side for the final 9 contests of the season.

The lack of conventional stats makes it difficult to assess offensive line play at the individual level. Pro Football Focus gave Adams a 56.3 grade this past season which is slightly below average. They attributed him having given up 6 sacks and 22 total pressures across 491 pass blocking snaps. He is listed at 6’6 and 286 pounds so there is room for Adams to add some additional mass to his frame.

Washington of course lost their top six offensive linemen from last season in terms of snaps played. The only returning player to start a game is Landen Hatchett who may not be ready for the season opener while rehabbing from a knee injury. The Huskies brought in Drew Azzopardi from San Diego State during the winter portal window who is the expected starter at right tackle in the fall. UW also earned a commitment from Portland State transfer D’Angalo Titialii who should compete for a starting job at either center or one of the guard spots.

Adams certainly has more experience at left tackle than any other player on the roster and will likely compete to earn that starting spot in the fall with underclassmen such as Soane Faasolo who took the 1st team reps at LT in the most recent practice. Expect Washington to look to add another offensive lineman or two still in order to try to get the numbers up to an acceptable spot for a proper competition in the fall.

The Huskies added extra reinforcements to the offensive line today after receiving a commitment from Old Dominion transfer Chris Adams. He started all 13 games for the Monarchs last season and has 2 years of eligibility remaining.

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Adams was a three-star recruit coming out of high school in Hagerstown, Maryland in the class of 2021 and had offers from Duke and James Madison but ultimately chose to go to Old Dominion. He redshirted his first season in college but got on the field early in his sophomore year making one start at right tackle but then suffered a season-ending knee injury which cut the year short. He came back this past season and started the first 4 games of the season at right tackle but then switched over to the left side for the final 9 contests of the season.

The lack of conventional stats makes it difficult to assess offensive line play at the individual level. Pro Football Focus gave Adams a 56.3 grade this past season which is slightly below average. They attributed him having given up 6 sacks and 22 total pressures across 491 pass blocking snaps. He is listed at 6’6 and 286 pounds so there is room for Adams to add some additional mass to his frame.

Washington of course lost their top six offensive linemen from last season in terms of snaps played. The only returning player to start a game is Landen Hatchett who may not be ready for the season opener while rehabbing from a knee injury. The Huskies brought in Drew Azzopardi from San Diego State during the winter portal window who is the expected starter at right tackle in the fall. UW also earned a commitment from Portland State transfer D’Angalo Titialii who should compete for a starting job at either center or one of the guard spots.

Adams certainly has more experience at left tackle than any other player on the roster and will likely compete to earn that starting spot in the fall with underclassmen such as Soane Faasolo who took the 1st team reps at LT in the most recent practice. Expect Washington to look to add another offensive lineman or two still in order to try to get the numbers up to an acceptable spot for a proper competition in the fall.