Dawgs Finish Bay Area Swing on Saturday at Cal, 1:30 p.m.

Saturday, February 24

Berkeley, CA

1:30 PM

University of Washington

California

Photo by: Red Box Pictures

Dawgs Finish Bay Area Swing on Saturday at Cal, 1:30 p.m.

February 23, 2018 | Men's Basketball

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UW (18-10, 8-7) at California (8-20, 2-13)
UW wraps up its final regular-season road trip of the season as it faces California on Saturday, Feb. 24 at 1:30 p.m. The game will be televised on Pac-12 Networks with Daron Sutton and Don MacLean 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. Washington won the first meeting of the season in Seattle, taking a 66-55 victory on Jan. 11, 2018.

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
• Junior Noah Dickerson recorded his second-straight double double and ninth of the season against Stanford with 14 points and 13 rebounds ... his nine are the most in a season by a Husky since Aziz N'Diaye had 11 during the 2012-13 campaign
• Freshman Nahziah Carter recorded a career-high 17 points in 16 minutes at Stanford ... and over the last four games is averaging 9 points in 17.5 minutes up from his season average of 5.2 points and 13.9 minutes
• Washington's 18 wins in the regular season are its most since the 2011-12 season when UW won 21 regular season games prior to postseason
• With its 13 assists and 12 steals against Colorado, UW recorded its eighth 10+ assist and 10+ steal game of the season
• Washington's 23-point victory over Colorado was it's largest conference win since a 26-point decision over Oregon State on Jan. 7, 2017
• UW's eight turnovers vs. CU were a season-low and its fewest since seven vs. Utah at home on Jan. 21, 2017
• Junior Noah Dickerson became the 39th player in UW history to reach the 1,000 career scoring mark after scoring a career-high tying 28 points at OSU .. he currently has 1,056 points which ranks 37th all-time.
• Additionally, junior David Crisp is just three points away from 1,000 career points as he is at 997
• The last time UW had two players reach 1,000 points in the same season was the 2008-09 season when both Quincy Pondexter and Justin Dentmon crossed the 1K mark that year
• Out of his 189 career steals, which rank second all-time at UW, Matisse Thybulle is creating scoring on 55.0 percent of the direct next possessions ... this year alone, that number jumps to 57.6 (49 of 85)
• Junior Matisse Thybulle owns the UW single-season steals record as he now has 85 with three games still remaining in Pac-12 play ... the previous record was held by Bryan Boston (67-1994-95, 27 games) ... his 85 steals are are tied for the national lead with Jevon Carter of West Virginia (85) ... he also ranks 12th amongst active Division I players with 189 career steals
• Thybulle is just six steals away from tying the UW career record of 195 held by Jamie Booker (1994-97, 109 games)
• Junior Dominic Green has seen his season numbers during Pac-12 play from 3-point range increase immensely over his career as he started at 29.5 pct (13-44) as a FR, 17.3 pct (9-52) as a SO and is now shooting 44.4 (24-54) from long distance as a JR
• Junior David Crisp has only played less than 30 minutes four times this season in 28 games and in all four of those games he has played 26 minutes
• Junior Noah Dickerson recorded his third 20-point/10-rebound double-double of the season against OSU with 28 points and 12 rebounds ... he now has five 20/10 double-doubles on his career
• Since Pac-12 play has started, UW has held all but three of its opponents to a lower 3-point FG percentage than they had entering the game and on average are holding opponents to 3.4 less 3's per game compared to their season average
• Thybulle became the first Husky in program history to rank in the career top 10 in both categories ... Thybulle has 189 career steals (2nd) and 95 career blocks (8th).
• Washington has overcome 10 point deficits three times this season in wins over Belmont, USC and Washington State .. additionally, UW has trailed by at least five in seven of its 18 wins