Dawgs Host Utah, Saturday at 5 p.m.

Saturday, January 21

Seattle, Wash.

5:00 PM

University of Washington

Utah

January 20, 2017 | Men's Basketball

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UW (9-9, 2-4) vs. Utah (13-5, 4-2)
UW continues its homestand against Utah on Saturday, Jan. 21 at 5 p.m. at Alaska Airlines Arena. The game will be televised by Pac-12 Networks with Ted Robinson and Don MacLean on the call. Additionally, fans can tune into KOMO 1000AM/97.7FM to hear Bob Rondeau and Jason Hamilton call the action. Utah leads the all-time series 11-9.

The Coach
Head Coach Lorenzo Romar, in his 15th year at Washington, has amassed a 298-183 (.619) during his time in Seattle and an overall mark of 391-271 (.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
• Freshman Markelle Fultz recorded his fourth career 30-point game vs. Colorado ... those four tie for the sixth most by a UW player in program history and he is the first freshman at UW to do so ... he has also recorded 20 or more points in 13 of UW's 18 games.
• Both Markelle Fultz and David Crisp are on 10+scoring game streaks as Fultz has posted 13-straight while Crisp is working on 10-straight
• UW, who led the NCAA in blocks last season, is the only team in the country with three games of 13 or more blocks, also marking the first time under Lorenzo Romar for a team to post at least 13 blocks in 3 or more games ... the Dawgs are currently third in the nation averaging 6.8 per game
• Against Colorado, UW won its first game when trailing with five minutes left, first decided by less than five points and first when being outrebounded
• Fultz has led the team in points and assists in 11 games this season and has led in points, rebounds and assists in five of UW's 18 games
• Washington currently leads the Pac-12 averaging 13.0 offensive rebounds per game
• 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).
• 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
• Fultz has proven he can step up in the second half this season and the numbers show that ... he is averaging 13.4 points compared to 9.2 over the first 20 minutes while also shooting at a 54.4 percent from the field and 42.1 percent from three compared to 42.5 and 38.5 percent during the first half ... his assist numbers also jump as he goes from 2.6 to 3.4.
• Additionally during the second half this season, Fultz has been accountable for 49.1 percent of UW's scoring between points and assists and that number jumps to 55.9 in Pac-12 Conference play action as he has been accountable for 136 of UW's 243 second-half (or overtime) points in league action.
• Fultz currently has 111 assists on the season which are sixth on UW's freshmen list ... the freshman record is 151 set by Dejounte Murray in 2015-16 ... his 415 points are also seventh on the freshman list
• Fultz has recorded 13 20+ scoring efforts in 18 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
• Fultz is the leading freshman scorer in the NCAA at 23.1 points per game which ranks seventh overall
• Defensively, Washington is averaging 40.7 deflections per game while also posting 6.4 steals per game ... that number has been upped over the last eight games to 48.8 ... 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.