Saturday, March 3
Seattle, WA
1:30 PM
University of Washington
vs
Oregon
Dawgs Face Oregon in Regular Season Finale, Saturday at 1:30 p.m.
March 02, 2018 | Men's Basketball
UW (20-10, 10-7) vs. Oregon (19-11, 9-8)
UW concludes the regular season this weekend as it hosts Oregon on Saturday, March 3 at 1:30 p.m. The game will be televised on Pac-12 Networks with Ted Robinson and P.J. Carlesimo 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. Oregon won the first meeting this season in Eugene taking a 65-40 victory while Washington owns the series record 189-114 with a 114-35 advantage in Seattle.
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 has its first 20-win season since 2011-12 after defeating Oregon State Thursday night ... UW went 9-22 last season and it's the biggest win jump overall since 1936-37 to 1937-38 when the Dawgs went from 15-11 to 29-7 the following year ... it is also the biggest jump (eight wins more) in conference play in UW history as UW went from 2-16 to 10-7 this season
• Washington will honor seniors Dan Kingma and Greg Bowman along with senior managers Tanner Froeber and Alex Hay
• UW's 20 wins in the regular season are its most since 2011-12 when UW won 21 games prior to postseason ... its the 28th 20-win season in UW history ... UW has made the NCAA tournament 12 times with 20 wins ... eight of those have been since the 1983-84 season, six coming since 2003-04
• UW has a 3-1 record over top 25 teams this season, defeating No. 2 Kansas on the road, No. 25 Arizona State and No. 9 Arizona with it's lone loss coming against No. 12 Gonzaga ... the last time UW had three wins over top 25 teams was the 2014-15 season
• Junior Noah Dickerson recorded his seventh 20-point game with 25 against OSU ... seven of his 11 career 20 point games have come this season and four have been in conference play this year
• Freshman Jaylen Nowell recorded his ninth 20+ scoring night with 23 at California ... he is the second leading freshman scorer in the Pac-12 at 15.6 per game which also ranks ninth overall
• Junior Matisse Thybulle is now tied for ninth on the Pac-12 single season top 10 list for steals as he has 89 on the year .. he's the only UW player in the league's top 10 and is 21 off the top spot held by Jason Kidd of Cal (110 - 1993)
• Thybulle has had at least one steal in 42-straight games ... he has also hit at least 2 from 3-point range in six straight-games, the longest streak in his career
• 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 1,097 points which ranks 32nd all-time.
• Junior David Crisp became the 40th player in UW history to reach 1,000 career points after scoring six at California and he now has 1,015 career points.. he joins Dickerson in reaching the 1K mark this season
• 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
• Junior Dickerson in Pac-12 play has upped his FT percentage from last year by over 20 percent ... he is currently shooting 81.6 (71-87) in league action compared to 59.8 percent (49-82) a year ago in 18 Pac-12 games
• Out of his 193 career steals, which rank second all-time at UW, Matisse Thybulle is creating scoring on 54.4 percent of the direct next possessions ... this year alone, that number jumps to 56.2 (50 of 89)
• Junior Matisse Thybulle owns the UW single-season steals record as he now has 89 with one game still remaining in Pac-12 play ... the previous record was held by Bryan Boston (67-1994-95, 27 games) ... his 89 steals are second nationally and two off the national lead held by Jevon Carter of West Virginia (91) ... he also ranks 12th amongst active Division I players with 193 career steals ... Thybulle is just four 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 46.4 (26-56) from long distance as a JR
• 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
• Thybulle became the first Husky in program history to rank in the career top 10 in both categories ... Thybulle has 193 career steals (2nd) and 98 career blocks (8th).
UW concludes the regular season this weekend as it hosts Oregon on Saturday, March 3 at 1:30 p.m. The game will be televised on Pac-12 Networks with Ted Robinson and P.J. Carlesimo 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. Oregon won the first meeting this season in Eugene taking a 65-40 victory while Washington owns the series record 189-114 with a 114-35 advantage in Seattle.
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 has its first 20-win season since 2011-12 after defeating Oregon State Thursday night ... UW went 9-22 last season and it's the biggest win jump overall since 1936-37 to 1937-38 when the Dawgs went from 15-11 to 29-7 the following year ... it is also the biggest jump (eight wins more) in conference play in UW history as UW went from 2-16 to 10-7 this season
• Washington will honor seniors Dan Kingma and Greg Bowman along with senior managers Tanner Froeber and Alex Hay
• UW's 20 wins in the regular season are its most since 2011-12 when UW won 21 games prior to postseason ... its the 28th 20-win season in UW history ... UW has made the NCAA tournament 12 times with 20 wins ... eight of those have been since the 1983-84 season, six coming since 2003-04
• UW has a 3-1 record over top 25 teams this season, defeating No. 2 Kansas on the road, No. 25 Arizona State and No. 9 Arizona with it's lone loss coming against No. 12 Gonzaga ... the last time UW had three wins over top 25 teams was the 2014-15 season
• Junior Noah Dickerson recorded his seventh 20-point game with 25 against OSU ... seven of his 11 career 20 point games have come this season and four have been in conference play this year
• Freshman Jaylen Nowell recorded his ninth 20+ scoring night with 23 at California ... he is the second leading freshman scorer in the Pac-12 at 15.6 per game which also ranks ninth overall
• Junior Matisse Thybulle is now tied for ninth on the Pac-12 single season top 10 list for steals as he has 89 on the year .. he's the only UW player in the league's top 10 and is 21 off the top spot held by Jason Kidd of Cal (110 - 1993)
• Thybulle has had at least one steal in 42-straight games ... he has also hit at least 2 from 3-point range in six straight-games, the longest streak in his career
• 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 1,097 points which ranks 32nd all-time.
• Junior David Crisp became the 40th player in UW history to reach 1,000 career points after scoring six at California and he now has 1,015 career points.. he joins Dickerson in reaching the 1K mark this season
• 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
• Junior Dickerson in Pac-12 play has upped his FT percentage from last year by over 20 percent ... he is currently shooting 81.6 (71-87) in league action compared to 59.8 percent (49-82) a year ago in 18 Pac-12 games
• Out of his 193 career steals, which rank second all-time at UW, Matisse Thybulle is creating scoring on 54.4 percent of the direct next possessions ... this year alone, that number jumps to 56.2 (50 of 89)
• Junior Matisse Thybulle owns the UW single-season steals record as he now has 89 with one game still remaining in Pac-12 play ... the previous record was held by Bryan Boston (67-1994-95, 27 games) ... his 89 steals are second nationally and two off the national lead held by Jevon Carter of West Virginia (91) ... he also ranks 12th amongst active Division I players with 193 career steals ... Thybulle is just four 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 46.4 (26-56) from long distance as a JR
• 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
• Thybulle became the first Husky in program history to rank in the career top 10 in both categories ... Thybulle has 193 career steals (2nd) and 98 career blocks (8th).
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