UW Wraps Up Bay Area Trip at Stanford Saturday

Saturday, January 14

Stanford, Calif.

5:00 PM

University of Washington

Stanford

January 13, 2017 | Men's Basketball

Game Notes (PDF)

UW (8-8, 1-3) at Stanford (9-8, 1-4)
UW continues its Bay Area road swing as it will face Stanford at Maples Pavilion on Saturday, Jan. 14 at 5 p.m. The game will be televised by the Pac-12 Networks with Guy Haberman and Ben Braun on the call. Additionally, fans can tune into KOMO 1000AM/97.7FM to hear Bob Rondeau and Jason Hamilton call the action. Stanford leads the all-time series 74-71 while the Huskies have won the last two. Washington last won in Palo Alto on Jan. 12, 2013 (65-60).

The Coach
Head Coach Lorenzo Romar, in his 15th year at Washington, has amassed a 297-182 (.620) during his time in Seattle and an overall mark of 390-270 (.591) 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
• Both Markelle Fultz and David Crisp are on 10+scoring game streaks as Fultz has posted 11-straight while Crisp is working on eight-straight
• UW recorded a season-low seven turnovers at California and have recorded single-digit turnovers in back-to-back games for the first time this season (9 vs. Oregon State) ... Crisp has had just 11 turnovers in the last eight outings compared to 18 over his first eight
• Fultz reached 100 assists on the season to become the 28th player in UW history to reach the assists century mark in a season ...he also did it in just 16 games, which is the second-fastest at UW (all-time career assists leader Will Conroy got to 100 in 15 games in 2004-05 and Nigel Williams-Goss also got there in 15 during the 2014-15 season).
• UW is currently eighth in the NCAA in three-point FG percentage at 41.5 percent ... the Huskies lead the Pac-12 in the category and are on pace to set the UW single-season record
• Senior captain Dime suffered a broken pinky on his right hand against OSU (Jan.7) and will miss 4-5 weeks
• UW is 8-0 when leading with five minutes remaining in the game
• Having hit just one 3-pointer in the previous 14 games, freshman Carlos Johnson went 3-for-3 from long distance against Oregon State for a career-high 15 points off the bench in 17 minutes
• Freshman Markelle Fultz has had a hand in almost half of UW's scoring this season (44.7 percent) between his 21.5 ppg and 6.3 apg and that was the case against WSU as he helped or scored 52 of UW's 74 points (70.3 percent)
• Markelle Fultz currently has 100 assists on the season which are seventh on UW's freshmen list ... the UW freshman record is 151 set by Dejounte Murray in 2015-16 ... his 344 points are also ninth on the freshman list
• Fultz has recorded 11 20+ scoring efforts in 16 games becoming just the first player under Lorenzo Romar to record that many so quickly in a season ... Quincy Pondexter was close as he had nine in his first 12 games of the 2009-10 season
• The Huskies have shot over 50 percent from the field in seven of their 16 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)
• Fultz is the second-leading freshman scorer in the NCAA at 21.5 points per game which ranks 17th overall
• Since moving into the starting lineup 12 games ago, Dickerson is nearly averaging a double-double with 11.2 points and 9.3 rebounds while shooting 46.4 percent from the field
• In the last nine outings, Dickerson has been 41-51 from the FT line, getting to the stripe an average of 5.7 times in that span ...Dickerson has also upped his season rebounding average to 8.4 from 5.2 a year ago
• Over the last 15 halves, sophomore David Crisp has scored 128 points, while knocking down 26 three's in that span, shooting at a 50.1 percent clip (26-of-51) ... Crisp has hit at least 3 threes in 10 games and is shooting 45.4 percent from long distance overall, which ranks 26th in the nation
• Defensively, Washington is averaging 39.1 deflections per game while also posting 6.5 steals per game ... that number has been upped over the last eight games to 41.8 ... additionally, UW has two of the top five players in the Pac-12 in steals per game as Matisse Thybulle leads with 2.1 and Markelle Fultz is fourth at 1.6.