Digest: Nationals bring back all 7 members of coaching staff for 2017

All seven members of Washington Nationals manager Dusty Baker's major league coaching staff will return to the team for the 2017 season, the team announced on Twitter.

Among the coaches sticking around for next season: pitching coach Mike Maddux, hitting coach Rick Schu, bench coach Chris Speier, first base coach Davey Lopes and third base coach Bob Henley. It was Henley who waived Jayson Werth home in a bid to score from first on Ryan Zimmerman's double in the seventh inning of Game 5 of the National League Division Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers last week. Werth was easily thrown out, and the Nationals went on to lose, 4-3, and get eliminated.

The Nationals won 95 games and the NL East title in Baker's first season as their manager before losing to the Dodgers.

Et cetera

Terps men's basketball No. 21 in coaches poll

At last week's Big Ten Media Day in Washington, junior guard Melo Trimble and senior center Damonte Dodd made references to the "low expectations" for the Maryland men's basketball team outside College Park. That motivational angle won't work, at least among the nation's Division I coaches. In the preseason coaches' poll released Thursday by USA Today, the Terps find themselves at No. 21 despite losing four starters from last season's 27-9 Sweet 16 team. Maryland is the lowest among the five Big Ten Conference teams ranked. Michigan State is No. 9, Wisconsin is No. 10, Indiana is No. 12 and Purdue is No. 15. Duke is No. 1.

— Don Markus

More men's college basketball: UMBC junior guard Jairus Lyles was selected to the six-player America East Conference preseason team in a vote by the league's nine head coaches. The Retrievers, under first-year coach Ryan Odom, were picked to finish sixth.

Women's college basketball: Defending champion Harford Community College is ranked first in the Maryland Junior College Athletic Conference preseason poll with nine first-place votes and 164 total points, followed by Baltimore City CC (157, four) and Cecil College (133, one). They're followed by Garrett College (111), Montgomery College (110), Chesapeake College (107), College of Southern Maryland (105), Hagerstown CC (87), Howard CC (79) Prince George's CC (64), Allegany College (59), CCBC-Catonsville (55), Frederick CC (55), CCBC-Dundalk (42) and Anne Arundel CC (37).

College football: Navy's Ken Niumatalolo is on the watch list for the Paul "Bear" Bryant Award, which goes to the nation's top coach.

College wrestling: Maryland redshirt senior Billy Rappo, redshirt sophomore Alfred Bannister and sophomore Youssif Hemida were voted captains by their teammates with input from the coaching staff.