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SAN FRANCISCO -- Kelsey Plum is putting it all behind her: the accolades and everything she accomplished in a record-setting junior season that included Washingtons Final Four run.Im just going to be blunt: Im over it. Moved on, Plum, the Huskies all-time leading scorer, said Thursday at Pac-12 media day. Im working on what I can get better at as a player, as a leader, as a person.Plum led the conference in scoring last season and ranked fourth in the nation averaging 25.9 points, and she soon will become the Pac-12s career scoring leader, too.Doing home visits while out recruiting, Huskies coach Mike Neighbors had been wearing his Final Four ring. Plum asked him to stop, to take it off -- and he wont wear it again, either.Its time to move on, he said. There hasnt been one second spent on focusing back.They all know this conference is too good to count on anything going the way it did the previous year.This conference is unbelievable, Oregon State coach Scott Rueck said.Washington is picked to finish third in a preseason poll by the Pac-12 coaches in a dominant conference that sent four teams to the Sweet Sixteen for the first time. UCLA was chosen to win the league for the first time since 2000, with Stanford second.The Bruins, who had the nations top recruiting class two years ago, received eight first-place votes and 116 points. Coach Cori Close said I believe in this group, and she has the team and talent to play for a national championship if all goes right.Its a great honor but were not really focused on that, UCLA guard Jordin Canada said. This year, our theme is grit, having that gritty sense about us, just being confident.Stanford had the other two first-place votes. Hall of Fame coach Tara VanDerveer will be eager to welcome back senior Karlie Samuelson, who fractured her left, non-shooting wrist three weeks ago and will be in a cast for another week.We could be really good, VanDerveer said. I feel were way ahead of last year at this time in terms of understanding our team.Arizona State and Oregon State, who shared the regular-season title last season, are predicted to go fourth and fifth, respectively.I expect every single game this year in the Pac-12 Conference to be competitive. Thats just how much depth we have, USC coach Cynthia Cooper-Dyke said.Cal is selected sixth, followed by Oregon, Utah, USC, Washington State, Colorado and Arizona.The balance across the board made for difficult choices on the poll.Weve always been good, but nobody knew it. Now were even better and people know it, 20th-year Arizona State coach Charli Turner Thorne said. 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OMAHA, Neb.--?Michael Phelps?said he wanted his last competitive race on U.S. soil to be a victory.He did just that, and in dramatic fashion, on Saturday by rallying over the final lap to win the 100-meter butterfly at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials and qualify in the event for next months Rio de Janeiro Games.The 31-year-old Phelps, swimming in Lane 7 and against opponents with an average age of 23, will now get a chance to win his fourth straight gold in the 100 fly at Rio.Sitting in fourth heading into the final turn, Phelps pulled ahead in the final meters, touching the wall in 51.00. Tom Shields also qualified in the event, finishing second in 51.20.When Phelps saw the 1 beside his name, he pounded the water and pointed toward his family -- including 7-week-old son, Boomer -- up in the stands.Overall, he made it three-for-three in Olympic qualifying at the trials.Missy Franklin will get the chance to defend her 200-meter backstroke gold medal in Rio after finishing second on Saturday in the event final at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials.Joining Franklin is Maya Dirado, who won the final (2:06.90) after gaining a comfortable lead midway through the race.Franklin, who finished in 2:07.89, won gold and set the world record in the event four years ago in London. As a high schooler during those games, she took part in seven events, winning four golds and a bronze. She finished fifth in the 100 free in 2012 but wont be part of that race at all this time around.At age 21, Franklin hasnt been able to recapture the magic that carried her to such heights in London. Outside of a gutsy runner-up finish in the 200 freestyle, she finished sevennth in the 100 backstroke -- a race she won in 2012 -- and that knocks her out of consideration for the 4x100 medley relay.ddddddddddddOne of the things Ive been trying to do this whole year is not compare myself to where I was in 2012, Franklin said. I think coming in a lot of people thought that ... I would have to do the same thing I did in 2012, and thats not what I came here intending to do. I came in here to be the best of who I am right now, not who I was four years ago. So to get two individual spots and a relay spot, Im so happy with that.Katie Ledecky also added to her Rio itinerary by qualifying for the 800-meter freestyle.For 32-year-old Cullen Jones, a quarter-of-a-second brought potentially the end of a career.Jones finished third behind Nathan Adrian and Anthony Ervin in the 50-meter freestyle on Saturday night, ensuring that he wont be part of the team the U.S. will take to Rio in August.After the race, Jones was the last one out of the pool. He lifted himself onto the pool deck and responded to the cheering fans by raising his arms high above his head. He admitted the outcome was extra frustrating, as he had put everything he had into making the Rio team.And to do that and not get the outcome you were looking for his tough, Jones said, though he added that he does plan on watching both the 50- and 100-meter freestyle races in Rio on TV.?Its going to hurt like hell, but Ill be watching, he said. Wouldnt miss it.Information from ESPNs Wayne Drehs and the Associated Press was used in this report. ' ' '