Huskies Open Pac-12 Play at Home vs. Washington State

Sunday, January 1

Seattle, Wash.

5:30 PM

University of Washington

Washington State

December 30, 2016 | Men's Basketball

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Washington (7-5) vs. Washington St. (7-5)
Washington opens Pac-12 Conference play this Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017 at 5:30 p.m. as cross-state rival Washington State will come to Alaska Airlines Arena. The game will be televised nationally on ESPNU with Roxy Bernstein and Corey Williams on the call. Additionally, fans can tune into KOMO 1000AM/97.7FM to hear Bob Rondeau and Jason Hamilton call the action. UW leads the all-time series 181-102 and have won the last three match-ups along with nine of the last 11. The Dawgs are also in the midst of seven-straight games in Seattle, six taking place at Alaska Airlines Arena.

The Coach
Head Coach Lorenzo Romar, in his 15th year at Washington, has amassed a 296-179 (.623) during his time in Seattle and an overall mark of 389-267 (.593) 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
• Washington is 9-5 in its Pac-12 home openers under head coach Lorenzo Romar and has won seven of the last eight ... additionally, UW 9-5 in its openers overall in the Romar era
• UW is currently second in the NCAA in three-point FG percentage at 43.4 and leads the Pac-12 along with being on pace to set the UW single-season record ... Markelle Fultz and Matisse Thybulle have each hit at least one 3 in every game this season
• Over its last three wins, Washington has four players averaging double-figures (Fultz, Crisp, Dickerson, Green), four shooting over 50 percent from the field (Fultz, Crisp, Dickerson, Thybulle) and is shooting 52.9 percent from the field and 49.0 percent from 3 as a team
• Washington dished out a season-high 22 assists at Seattle on its 31 baskets ... it was the most UW assists since 23 against Oakland last season (Dec. 19, 2015)
• The Huskies have shot over 50 percent from the field in six of their 12 games this season ... UW shot over 50 in seven times last season (34 games), eight times in 2014-15 (31 games) and eight times in 2013-14 (32 games)
• For the second-straight year, the Huskies boast the Pac-12 leading scorer on both the men's and women's side as Fultz leads at 22.0 ppg and senior All-American Kelsey Plum, who is the Pac-12's all-time leading scorer at 2,832 points is currently averaging 29.6 per outing this season
• Freshman Markelle Fultz is the second leading freshman scorer in the NCAA at 22.0 points per game which ranks tied for 14th overall, Kentucky's Malik Monk leads all freshmen at 22.4 points per game.
• Sophomore Noah Dickerson pulled down a career-high 17 rebounds at Seattle U which was the most by a Husky since Jon Brockman had 17 against Washington State on Jan. 5, 2008.
• Since moving into the starting lineup eight games ago, Dickerson is averaging a double-double with 11.4 points and 10.5 rebounds while shooting 46.7 percent from the field ... he's had four double-doubles in that span including two-straight over the last two outings
• In the last five outings, Dickerson has been 32-of-36 from the FT line, getting to the stripe an average of 7.2 times in that span
• Dickerson has also upped his season rebounding average to 8.9 from 5.2 a year ago
• Over the last seven halves, sophomore David Crisp has scored 73 points (21 in the second half against Nevada; 15 vs. W. Michigan; 21 vs. Cal Poly; 16 at Seattle) while knocking down 15 threes in that span, shooting at a 62.5 percent clip (15-of-24) ... Crisp has hit at least 3 threes in eight games so far this season and is shooting 47.1 percent from long distance overall, which ranks 17th in the nation and tops in the Pac-12
• With his 124 career blocks, senior Malik Dime is in sole possession of fourth-place on UW's all-time blocks list, passing Aziz N'Diaye (2011-13) ... the school record is 189, held by Christian Welp (1984-87) ... Dime is 18 away from third (142-Todd MacCulloch, 1996-99)
• Defensively, Washington is averaging 37.8 deflections per game while also posting 6.6 steals per game ... that number has been upped over the last four games to 41.5 ... additionally, UW has the top two players in the Pac-12 in steals per game as Matisse Thybulle leads with 2.0 and Markelle Fultz is second at 1.8.