Huskies Face First True Road Test at TCU Wednesday

Wednesday, November 30

Fort Worth, Texas

4:00 PM

University of Washington

TCU

November 28, 2016 | Men's Basketball

Game Notes (PDF)

Washington (4-2) vs. TCU (6-0)
In the middle of four-straight contests away from Seattle, UW heads to TCU for its first true road game of the season. The two squads, who just played each other on Saturday in the Global Sports Classic Championship in Las Vegas, will face off at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 30 at 4 p.m. in Fort Worth. The game will be televised by Fox Sports Southwest with Brian Estridge and John Denton on the call. Additionally, fans can tune into KOMO 1000AM/97.7FM to hear Bob Rondeau and Jason Hamilton call the action. This will be the third meeting in program history between UW and TCU with each team taking away one win.

The Coach
Head Coach Lorenzo Romar, in his 15th year at Washington, has amassed a 293-176 (.626) during his time in Seattle and an overall mark of 386-264 (.595) in 21 seasons. Romar, the longest tenured coach in the Pac-12, has taken the Huskies to the NCAA tournament six times including three Sweet 16 appearances.

Quick Hitters
• As UW will now face TCU twice in five days, it will be just the fourth time since the 1979-80 season that the Huskies have played a non-conference opponent twice in the same season ... UW faced Seattle on Dec. 15 and Jan. 29 during that year, took on Idaho twice in 1983-84 (Dec. 17, Dec. 22) and most recently when the Huskies played Texas twice in 12 days a year ago (Nov. 13 in China, Nov. 26 in The Bahamas).
• The last time UW faced the same non-conference opponent in back-to-back games was during the 1975-76 season when the Dawgs went to Hawaii for two-straight games Jan. 24 and Jan. 25, 1976.
• Washington is currently tied for second in the NCAA in blocks averaging 8.0 per game ... Malik Dime is tied for ninth nationally with his 3.3 per outing ... the Huskies led the NCAA in blocks during the 2015-16 season.
• Sophomore Noah Dickerson recorded his first career double-double against TCU as he scored 14 points and added a career-high tying 10 rebounds
• In his first six outings, freshman Markelle Fultz has recorded four 20+scoring efforts, two of which were 30+ scoring games ... his 23.0 ppg average is the best by a freshman in the NCAA this season
• Fultz is the only player in the NCAA currently averaging over 20 points, six assists and five assists
• In UW's four wins, it is outscoring its opponents by an average of 23.8 points per game
• Fultz posted a career-high 10 assists against W. Kentucky for the most assists by a UW freshman since 2013-14 (Nigel Williams-Goss, Feb. 22, 2014) ... he's just the third Husky freshman since 1994 to post at least 10 assists joining Williams-Goss and Michael McClain (March 3, 1994).
• Sophomore Dominic Green became the fifth Husky to post a 20+point scoring game this season as he set a career-high with 20 against W. Kentucky on 7-of-11 shooting, including a 4-of-6 mark from 3-point range.
• Sophomore Matisse Thybulle has upped his scoring average by six points from a year ago as he is now putting up 12.2 per game compared to 6.2 last season .. he is also shooting 47.1 percent from the field and 41.7 percent from 3-point range up from 39.7 percent and 36.6 percent a year ago, respectively.
• UW's roster has no scholarship player that was on scholarship two years ago ... there are only two players that have been here longer than one season (Dan Kingma, Greg Bowman) ..SO Matisse Thybulle is the only returning player to start in all 34 games a year ago ... SO David Crisp and SR captain Malik Dime are the other two that saw action in every game last season