Wednesday, March 7
Las Vegas, NV
6:00 PM
University of Washington
vs
Oregon State
Photo by: John Hefti-USA TODAY Sports
Dawgs Face Oregon State in Pac-12 Tournament First Round
March 06, 2018 | Men's Basketball
UW (20-11, 10-8) vs. Oregon St. (15-15, 7-11)
UW heads to Las Vegas for the 2018 Pac-12 Tournament and will face Oregon State in the first round at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, March 7 at the T-Mobile Arena. The game will be televised on the Pac-12 Networks with Ted Robinson, Bill Walton and Ashley Adamson 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. The two teams have met twice this season, both coming in the last 25 days splitting the wins with OSU taking a 97-94 2OT win in Corvallis (Feb. 10) and UW defeating OSU 79-77 on March 1 in Seattle. OSU owns a 2-1 record against UW in the Pac-12 Tournament while Washington has the overall series record at 160-141.
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
• First year head coach Mike Hopkins was named the Pac-12 Coach of the Year becoming just the sixth first year Pac-12 coach to earn the coach of the year honors and the first since 2006-07
• Junior Matisse Thybulle was named the 2018 Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year becoming the first UW player to earn the award ... he was also named to the Pac-12 All-Defensive team, the fourth time a Husky has been honored for that
• Alongside Hop and Thybulle, Washington's Noah Dickerson and Jaylen Nowell also earned Pac-12 recognition ... Dickerson was named to the All-Pac-12 First Team while Nowell was an honorable mention All-Pac-12 selection and earned a spot on the Pac-12 All-Freshman Team.
• Washington has its first 20-win season since 2011-12 after defeating Oregon State last week ... 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 10-8 this season
• 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
• Dickerson has been 21-22 from the FT line against Oregon State and has a 16.3 points per game average in four outings against the Beavers.
• Junior Matisse Thybulle is now sixth on the Pac-12 single season top 10 list for steals as he has 92 on the year .. he's the only UW player in the league's top 10 and is 18 off the top spot held by Jason Kidd of Cal (110 - 1993)
• Thybulle has had at least one steal in 43-straight games
• 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 1,115 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 1,034 career points.. he joins Dickerson in reaching the 1K mark this season
• Out of his 196 career steals, which rank first all-time at UW, Matisse Thybulle is creating scoring on 54.6 percent of the direct next possessions ... this year alone, that number jumps to 56.5 (52 of 92)
• Junior Matisse Thybulle owns the UW single-season steals record as he now has 92 ... the previous record was held by Bryan Boston (67-1994-95, 27 games) ... his 92 steals are second nationally and one off the national lead held by Joseph Chartouny of Fordham (93)... he also ranks 11th amongst active Division I players with 196 career steals
• 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 196 career steals (1st) and 98 career blocks (T-6th).
UW heads to Las Vegas for the 2018 Pac-12 Tournament and will face Oregon State in the first round at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, March 7 at the T-Mobile Arena. The game will be televised on the Pac-12 Networks with Ted Robinson, Bill Walton and Ashley Adamson 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. The two teams have met twice this season, both coming in the last 25 days splitting the wins with OSU taking a 97-94 2OT win in Corvallis (Feb. 10) and UW defeating OSU 79-77 on March 1 in Seattle. OSU owns a 2-1 record against UW in the Pac-12 Tournament while Washington has the overall series record at 160-141.
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
• First year head coach Mike Hopkins was named the Pac-12 Coach of the Year becoming just the sixth first year Pac-12 coach to earn the coach of the year honors and the first since 2006-07
• Junior Matisse Thybulle was named the 2018 Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year becoming the first UW player to earn the award ... he was also named to the Pac-12 All-Defensive team, the fourth time a Husky has been honored for that
• Alongside Hop and Thybulle, Washington's Noah Dickerson and Jaylen Nowell also earned Pac-12 recognition ... Dickerson was named to the All-Pac-12 First Team while Nowell was an honorable mention All-Pac-12 selection and earned a spot on the Pac-12 All-Freshman Team.
• Washington has its first 20-win season since 2011-12 after defeating Oregon State last week ... 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 10-8 this season
• 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
• Dickerson has been 21-22 from the FT line against Oregon State and has a 16.3 points per game average in four outings against the Beavers.
• Junior Matisse Thybulle is now sixth on the Pac-12 single season top 10 list for steals as he has 92 on the year .. he's the only UW player in the league's top 10 and is 18 off the top spot held by Jason Kidd of Cal (110 - 1993)
• Thybulle has had at least one steal in 43-straight games
• 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 1,115 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 1,034 career points.. he joins Dickerson in reaching the 1K mark this season
• Out of his 196 career steals, which rank first all-time at UW, Matisse Thybulle is creating scoring on 54.6 percent of the direct next possessions ... this year alone, that number jumps to 56.5 (52 of 92)
• Junior Matisse Thybulle owns the UW single-season steals record as he now has 92 ... the previous record was held by Bryan Boston (67-1994-95, 27 games) ... his 92 steals are second nationally and one off the national lead held by Joseph Chartouny of Fordham (93)... he also ranks 11th amongst active Division I players with 196 career steals
• 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 196 career steals (1st) and 98 career blocks (T-6th).
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