Sunday, November 18
Vancouver, Canada
5:00 PM
University of Washington
vs
Vancouver Showcase- vs. Santa Clara
Huskies Head to Canada for Vancouver Showcase
November 16, 2018 | Men's Basketball
Washington (2-1) vs. Santa Clara (0-2)
UW starts the first of three games at the Vancouver Showcase on Sunday, November 18, at 5 p.m. The game will be played at the Vancouver Convention Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia and will be televised on ESPN3. Washington will then face Texas A&M on Tuesday, November 20 at 8:30 p.m. on ESPN2 and Minnesota on Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. on the Big Ten Network. All three games will also be broadcast on the official Husky Radio Broadcast with Tony Castricone and Jason Hamilton on the call. Fans can listen on 1000AM KOMO/97.7 FM. The Huskies have faced Santa Clara six times in program history and own a 5-1 record in those meetings. The two programs last met in 2002 with UW coming out with a 72-55 win (Dec. 7) on the road.
The Coach
Head Coach Mike Hopkins is in his second year at Washington, and second as a head coach after 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. In his first year at UW, Hopkins earned the 2018 Pac-12 Coach of the Year Award while leading the Huskies to a 21-13 record ending in the second round of the NIT.
Quick Hitters
• Sophomore Jaylen Nowell once again leads the Huskies in scoring as he has not scored below 16 points in a game this season ... he's averaging 17.0 ppg over the first three outings after leading the team with 16.0 ppg a year ago ... both him and Noah Dickerson have yet to score below 10 points this season
• Senior Matisse Thybulle is ranked 15th nationally in blocks per game (3.0) and 13th in total blocks (nine) ... he also leads the Pac-12 in steals per game at 2.67 which ranks 48th nationally.
• Washington is holding opponents to 37.6 percent shooting from the field and 30.4 percent from 3-point range in the second half while shooting 49.3 percent from FG range and 42.3 percent from long distance in the same half ...the Huskies are also holding opponents to an average of just 30.0 points in the second 20 minutes of the first two games compared to 38.7 in the first half.
• UW signed RaeQuan Battle (Marysville, Wash.) and Marcus Tsohonis (Portland, Ore.) to letters of intent for the class of 2019 this week.
• Matisse Thybulle is the first player in Pac-12 history since 1992-93 with the career stat line of at least 100 blocks (112), 200 assists (206), 200 steals (213) and 300 rebounds (315), via SportsReference
• Matisse Thybulle, UW's career steals leader at 213, has now recorded at least one steal in 49-straight games
• Sophomore Jaylen Nowell has shot over 50 percent from the field in 16 of his 37 career games (43.2 percent) including his most recent outing vs San Diego where he went 6-of-11 from the field for 18 points ... Nowell is 20-of-35 (57.1%) this season and for his career is at 45.9% (223-of-485)
• UW has two 1,000 point scorers on the team with the potential to add a third as Matisse Thybulle is 63 points away. Only two rosters in UW history have had three 1,000 point scorers at the same time, 2008-09 (NCAA Round of 32) and 1998-99 (NCAA Round of 64). Dickerson currently has 1,211 career points which ranks 27th while Crisp has 1,096 career points which ranks 33rd.
• Three Huskies are in the 100 games club now as seniors Matisse Thybulle and David Crisp are at 102 career games while senior Noah Dickerson is at 101 ... additionally Thybulle has started in all 102 career games
• UW has representatives on three of the Naismith Starting Five National Award Watch Lists in sophomore Jaylen Nowell (Jerry West Shooting Guard Award), senior Matisse Thybulle (Julius Erving Small Forward Award) and senior Noah Dickerson (Karl Malone Power Forward Award). UW is one of 11 schools nationally to have representatives on three of the 11 awards joining Kentucky, Duke, Tennessee, Virginia, Kansas, Nevada, Auburn, Oregon and Gonzaga.
• Noah Dickerson is 272 rebounds away from becoming only the 15th member of the Pac-12's 1,000 career rebounds club. Dickerson, who has 728 boards in his career, grabbed 284 boards as a junior in 2017-18.
• With another 100-steal season, Thybulle could become only the second member of the Pac-12's 300 career steals club. Thybulle, who has 213 career thefts following 101 as a junior in 2017-18, would join OSU's Gary Payton (321) as the lone members.
• UW's senior class of Dominic Green, David Crisp, Noah Dickerson and Matisse Thybulle have combined to play in 400 career games including 260 career starts which is the most by any four seniors at a Power 5 school
UW starts the first of three games at the Vancouver Showcase on Sunday, November 18, at 5 p.m. The game will be played at the Vancouver Convention Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia and will be televised on ESPN3. Washington will then face Texas A&M on Tuesday, November 20 at 8:30 p.m. on ESPN2 and Minnesota on Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. on the Big Ten Network. All three games will also be broadcast on the official Husky Radio Broadcast with Tony Castricone and Jason Hamilton on the call. Fans can listen on 1000AM KOMO/97.7 FM. The Huskies have faced Santa Clara six times in program history and own a 5-1 record in those meetings. The two programs last met in 2002 with UW coming out with a 72-55 win (Dec. 7) on the road.
The Coach
Head Coach Mike Hopkins is in his second year at Washington, and second as a head coach after 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. In his first year at UW, Hopkins earned the 2018 Pac-12 Coach of the Year Award while leading the Huskies to a 21-13 record ending in the second round of the NIT.
Quick Hitters
• Sophomore Jaylen Nowell once again leads the Huskies in scoring as he has not scored below 16 points in a game this season ... he's averaging 17.0 ppg over the first three outings after leading the team with 16.0 ppg a year ago ... both him and Noah Dickerson have yet to score below 10 points this season
• Senior Matisse Thybulle is ranked 15th nationally in blocks per game (3.0) and 13th in total blocks (nine) ... he also leads the Pac-12 in steals per game at 2.67 which ranks 48th nationally.
• Washington is holding opponents to 37.6 percent shooting from the field and 30.4 percent from 3-point range in the second half while shooting 49.3 percent from FG range and 42.3 percent from long distance in the same half ...the Huskies are also holding opponents to an average of just 30.0 points in the second 20 minutes of the first two games compared to 38.7 in the first half.
• UW signed RaeQuan Battle (Marysville, Wash.) and Marcus Tsohonis (Portland, Ore.) to letters of intent for the class of 2019 this week.
• Matisse Thybulle is the first player in Pac-12 history since 1992-93 with the career stat line of at least 100 blocks (112), 200 assists (206), 200 steals (213) and 300 rebounds (315), via SportsReference
• Matisse Thybulle, UW's career steals leader at 213, has now recorded at least one steal in 49-straight games
• Sophomore Jaylen Nowell has shot over 50 percent from the field in 16 of his 37 career games (43.2 percent) including his most recent outing vs San Diego where he went 6-of-11 from the field for 18 points ... Nowell is 20-of-35 (57.1%) this season and for his career is at 45.9% (223-of-485)
• UW has two 1,000 point scorers on the team with the potential to add a third as Matisse Thybulle is 63 points away. Only two rosters in UW history have had three 1,000 point scorers at the same time, 2008-09 (NCAA Round of 32) and 1998-99 (NCAA Round of 64). Dickerson currently has 1,211 career points which ranks 27th while Crisp has 1,096 career points which ranks 33rd.
• Three Huskies are in the 100 games club now as seniors Matisse Thybulle and David Crisp are at 102 career games while senior Noah Dickerson is at 101 ... additionally Thybulle has started in all 102 career games
• UW has representatives on three of the Naismith Starting Five National Award Watch Lists in sophomore Jaylen Nowell (Jerry West Shooting Guard Award), senior Matisse Thybulle (Julius Erving Small Forward Award) and senior Noah Dickerson (Karl Malone Power Forward Award). UW is one of 11 schools nationally to have representatives on three of the 11 awards joining Kentucky, Duke, Tennessee, Virginia, Kansas, Nevada, Auburn, Oregon and Gonzaga.
• Noah Dickerson is 272 rebounds away from becoming only the 15th member of the Pac-12's 1,000 career rebounds club. Dickerson, who has 728 boards in his career, grabbed 284 boards as a junior in 2017-18.
• With another 100-steal season, Thybulle could become only the second member of the Pac-12's 300 career steals club. Thybulle, who has 213 career thefts following 101 as a junior in 2017-18, would join OSU's Gary Payton (321) as the lone members.
• UW's senior class of Dominic Green, David Crisp, Noah Dickerson and Matisse Thybulle have combined to play in 400 career games including 260 career starts which is the most by any four seniors at a Power 5 school
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