Friday, December 29
Los Angeles, CA
7:30 PM
University of Washington
at
USC
Huskies Open Pac-12 Play at USC, Friday, Dec. 29 at 7:30 p.m.
December 28, 2017 | Men's Basketball
UW (10-3) vs. USC (9-4)
UW opens conference play with three-straight Pac-12 road games on Friday as it heads to USC on Friday, Dec. 29 at the Galen Center. The game will be televised on the Pac-12 Networks with Ted Robinson and Matt Muehlebach on the call. Additionally fans can tune into KOMO 1000AM and 97.7 FM to hear the official UW radio broadcast from Tony Castricone and Jason Hamilton. This is the first season for UW to open conference play on the road since 2014-15.
The Coach
Head Coach Mike Hopkins is in his first year at Washington, and first as a head coach becoming the 19th head coach in UW history. After spending 22 years as an assistant at Syracuse, Hopkins oversaw teams that reached the NCAA Tournament 16 times including the 2003 National Championship, four Final Fours, five Elite Eights and 10 Sweet 16s along with four NIT berths. Syracuse never dipped below a 55.0 percent record while Hopkins was on staff.
Quick Hitters
• Washington posted back-to-back games with 10+ steals and blocks for the first time since ... in 2015-16, UW had two games with 10 or more in both categories ... the last time UW had back-to-back games with 10 or more blocks was EWU/Grambling in 2014-15
• Washington is the only team in the NCAA to record 16 steals and 15 blocks in the same game this season after doing so against BCU .. since the 2011-12 season only one other school has recorded those numbers in a single game ... Syracuse (12/28/2011 - 17 steals, 15 blocks - v. Seton Hall)
• UW held Montana to just 63 points, marking the second-straight game holding its opponent to 65 or less points
• Washington's 10 wins in non-conference play tie the third most since 2005-06 ... UW had 11 wins in 2014-15, 10 in 2006-07 and 10 in 2005-06
• The Huskies tied their single-game blocks record with 15 against Bethune-Cookman ... it previously happened vs. Yale (11/13/16) and vs. Colorado (1/20/16)
• Washington is one of two schools nationally averaging at least 6.0 blocks and 9.1 steals per game joining Penn State (6.5b/9.4s)
• UW's 62.7 percent shooting from the field against BCU is its best in the last 15 years and is close to the single-game record (min. 60 attempts) of .676 (48-71) vs. Chico State, 12/1/92
• Freshman Jaylen Nowell has scored six of his 13 total career threes over the last three games
• Junior Matisse Thybulle currently has 76 career blocks, which is eight shy of cracking the top five on UW's all-time career list (10th - 84, Patrick Femerling, 1996-98)
• UW will retire Isaiah Thomas' No. 2 jersey in a ceremony at the Feb. 15 game against Utah
• UW is outscoring its opponents on average 44.5 to 37.7 in the second half
• Washington's win over No. 2 Kansas was its first win away from Seattle over a top 2 team in program history
• Junior Matisse Thybulle is creating scoring on the direct next possession of 67.4 percent (29 of 43) of his 43 steals this year ... over the last two years he is creating scoring on 57.4 percent (62 of 108) of the next possession and for his career he is at 57.1 percent (84 of 147 steals)
• Via Stats Inc., Thybulle is the only player this season to have season highs of 19 points, 7 steals, 5 blocks, 7 assists, 6 rebounds and 5 made FGs from 3 ... and no other Pac-12 player has done it in Stats Inc. data (since 1996-97).
• Sophomore Sam Timmins recorded 11 boards against LMU, one shy of his career high ... he has pulled down eight or more boards four times this season through 13 games ... last season, he only had four games with eight or more in 31 outings
• Junior Noah Dickerson recorded his third double double of the season at #2 Kansas with 14 rebounds and 13 points ... he now has nine for his career which have all come over his last 35 games
• UW is shooting 80.3 percent from the FT line in final five minutes of its 13 games and that goes up to 83.7 percent in the final two minutes ... UW has not been that efficient from the FT line during those two spans since at least 2002-03 (stats not kept as well before that)
• Junior Noah Dickerson has been more efficient from the field this season as he is second on the team in FG percentage at 61.3 (65-106) ... as a sophomore Dickerson shot 54.7 percent (93-199) and as a freshman he shot 46.7 (146-267)
UW opens conference play with three-straight Pac-12 road games on Friday as it heads to USC on Friday, Dec. 29 at the Galen Center. The game will be televised on the Pac-12 Networks with Ted Robinson and Matt Muehlebach on the call. Additionally fans can tune into KOMO 1000AM and 97.7 FM to hear the official UW radio broadcast from Tony Castricone and Jason Hamilton. This is the first season for UW to open conference play on the road since 2014-15.
The Coach
Head Coach Mike Hopkins is in his first year at Washington, and first as a head coach becoming the 19th head coach in UW history. After spending 22 years as an assistant at Syracuse, Hopkins oversaw teams that reached the NCAA Tournament 16 times including the 2003 National Championship, four Final Fours, five Elite Eights and 10 Sweet 16s along with four NIT berths. Syracuse never dipped below a 55.0 percent record while Hopkins was on staff.
Quick Hitters
• Washington posted back-to-back games with 10+ steals and blocks for the first time since ... in 2015-16, UW had two games with 10 or more in both categories ... the last time UW had back-to-back games with 10 or more blocks was EWU/Grambling in 2014-15
• Washington is the only team in the NCAA to record 16 steals and 15 blocks in the same game this season after doing so against BCU .. since the 2011-12 season only one other school has recorded those numbers in a single game ... Syracuse (12/28/2011 - 17 steals, 15 blocks - v. Seton Hall)
• UW held Montana to just 63 points, marking the second-straight game holding its opponent to 65 or less points
• Washington's 10 wins in non-conference play tie the third most since 2005-06 ... UW had 11 wins in 2014-15, 10 in 2006-07 and 10 in 2005-06
• The Huskies tied their single-game blocks record with 15 against Bethune-Cookman ... it previously happened vs. Yale (11/13/16) and vs. Colorado (1/20/16)
• Washington is one of two schools nationally averaging at least 6.0 blocks and 9.1 steals per game joining Penn State (6.5b/9.4s)
• UW's 62.7 percent shooting from the field against BCU is its best in the last 15 years and is close to the single-game record (min. 60 attempts) of .676 (48-71) vs. Chico State, 12/1/92
• Freshman Jaylen Nowell has scored six of his 13 total career threes over the last three games
• Junior Matisse Thybulle currently has 76 career blocks, which is eight shy of cracking the top five on UW's all-time career list (10th - 84, Patrick Femerling, 1996-98)
• UW will retire Isaiah Thomas' No. 2 jersey in a ceremony at the Feb. 15 game against Utah
• UW is outscoring its opponents on average 44.5 to 37.7 in the second half
• Washington's win over No. 2 Kansas was its first win away from Seattle over a top 2 team in program history
• Junior Matisse Thybulle is creating scoring on the direct next possession of 67.4 percent (29 of 43) of his 43 steals this year ... over the last two years he is creating scoring on 57.4 percent (62 of 108) of the next possession and for his career he is at 57.1 percent (84 of 147 steals)
• Via Stats Inc., Thybulle is the only player this season to have season highs of 19 points, 7 steals, 5 blocks, 7 assists, 6 rebounds and 5 made FGs from 3 ... and no other Pac-12 player has done it in Stats Inc. data (since 1996-97).
• Sophomore Sam Timmins recorded 11 boards against LMU, one shy of his career high ... he has pulled down eight or more boards four times this season through 13 games ... last season, he only had four games with eight or more in 31 outings
• Junior Noah Dickerson recorded his third double double of the season at #2 Kansas with 14 rebounds and 13 points ... he now has nine for his career which have all come over his last 35 games
• UW is shooting 80.3 percent from the FT line in final five minutes of its 13 games and that goes up to 83.7 percent in the final two minutes ... UW has not been that efficient from the FT line during those two spans since at least 2002-03 (stats not kept as well before that)
• Junior Noah Dickerson has been more efficient from the field this season as he is second on the team in FG percentage at 61.3 (65-106) ... as a sophomore Dickerson shot 54.7 percent (93-199) and as a freshman he shot 46.7 (146-267)
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