Huskies Return to Alaska Airlines Arena Thursday at 6 p.m.

Thursday, January 17

Seattle, WA

6:00 PM

University of Washington

Stanford

Huskies Return to Alaska Airlines Arena Thursday at 6 p.m.

January 15, 2019 | Men's Basketball

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Washington (12-4, 3-0) vs. Stanford (8-8, 1-3)
The Huskies return to the friendly confines of Alaska Airlines Arena and will look to extend their 3-0 start in conference play hosting Stanford on Thursday, Jan. 17 at 6 p.m. The game will be nationally televised by ESPN2 with Roxy Bernstein and LaPhonso Ellis on the call. Additionally, fans can listen to Tony Castricone and Jason Hamilton on the official Husky Radio Broadcast on KOMO 1000 AM/97.7 FM. This will be the 149th meeting between the two programs with Stanford having a 77-71 record. The Cardinal have won the last three with UW's last win at home coming on Feb. 20, 2016 (64-53).

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
• UW is the only Pac-12 school that is still undefeated at home as it enters Thursday's game with an 8-0 mark • The Huskies are nearing 1,000 career wins in its current arena at AAA as they currently sit at 998, which already gives them the most wins in its current arena of any Division I school.
• UW picked up its first Pac-12 road sweep since the 2012-13 season when it defeated Cal (Jan. 9) and Stanford (Jan. 12) and just the fifth in the last 10 seasons
• UW's first half against Colorado was its best of the season as it shot 63.3 percent from the field (19-of-30) and 61.5 from 3-point range (8-of-13) ... the Dawgs also had a season low nine turnovers against the Buffs
• Sophomore Jaylen Nowell is one of three players on the initial Jerry West Shooting Guard of the Year Award watch list to be shooting over 50 percent (52.0), averaging over five rebounds (5.2) and 3 assists (3.5) and scoring at least 16 points a night (16.7), joining Hofstra's Justin Wright-Foreman and Texas Tech's Jarrett Culver
• Nowell has shot at least 50 percent from the field in 25 of his 50 career games (50.0 percent) ... in those 25 games, UW has a 20-5 record.
• Washington has had six different players lead the team in scoring through 16 games in David Crisp (1), Noah Dickerson (5), Jaylen Nowell (7), Dominic Green (1), Naz Carter (2) and Matisse Thybulle (2)
• Crisp has had a standout start in Pac-12 play, averaging 18.7 points, on 50 percent shooting from the field (16-of-32), 66.7 percent from 3 (12-of-18) and dishing out 3.0 assists with 1.7 steals.
• Sophomore Nowell has really seen an uptick in not just his scoring production (16.7 ppg) but in his assists as well as he currently leads the team with 56 (3.5 per game) which is up from an average of 2.7 a year ago
• Nowell has had four-straight games with at least five assists ... he's just the first player since No. 1 NBA draft pick Markelle Fultz to post at least five assists in four straight games as he did so in 2016-17 twice that season... Dejounte Murray did so as well his freshman campaign
• Washington is holding its first 16 opponents to just 65.9 points per game, 13 teams have been held to 70 points or less and UW has won 11 of those games
• With his 12 rebounds against Cal State Fullerton, senior Noah Dickerson became the ninth member of UW's 1,000 career points/800 career rebounds club and first since Jon Brockman, UW's all-time leading rebounder, did so during his career ... Dickerson now has 1,388 points and 816 rebounds
• Thybulle is 30-of-33 from the FT line this season, shooting at a 90.0 percent clip, up from 71.4 percent as a junior, 84.1 percent as a sophomore and 71.4 percent as a freshman.
• Thybulle, UW's career steals leader at 247, is 74 away from first place all time in Pac-12 history (321, Gary Payton, 120 games, 1986-90) and is currently fourth all-time
• Six of sophomore Naz Carter's career 14 10+scoring efforts have come in the last 15 games
• Thybulle is averaging 2.3 blocks over the first 16 games ... that's up from 1.4 as a junior, 0.7 as a sophomore and 0.9 as a freshman ... his career total of 139 blocks is fourth all-time at UW
• Thybulle is the only player in Division I averaging at least 2.3 blocks and 2.6 steals per game