UW Takes 5-0 Record On the Road to Oregon Thursday

Thursday, January 24

Eugene, OR

6:00 PM

University of Washington

Oregon

January 22, 2019 | Men's Basketball

Game Notes (PDF)

Huskies (14-4, 5-0) at Oregon (11-7, 2-3)
The Huskies head south to face the Oregon schools this week and will look to extend their 5-0 start in conference play at Oregon at 6 p.m. in Eugene. The game will be nationally televised by ESPN2 with Dave Pasch and Bill Walton 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 305th meeting between the two programs with UW owning a 189-115 record. Washington will be looking for its first 6-0 start in conference play since 1983-84 when it started 6-0. The Huskies last won at Oregon, March 4, 2010.

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
• Four of UW's five Pac-12 wins have been by 16 points or more ... the last time UW had that many wins with at least a 16-point margin was the 2011-12 season
• UW has shot 50 percent or better from the field in 3 of its 5 Pac-12 games including two of the last three
• UW is holding its first 18 opponents to just 65.0 points per game, which leads the Pac-12 and is 35th nationally ... 14 teams have been held to 70 points or less and UW has won 13 of those games
• Over the last two seasons under Mike Hopkins, when senior Dominic Green hits at least 2 from 3-point range, the Dawgs are 16-2 ... they are 8-1 this year when Green knocks in at least 2 from distance ... when he hits 3 from behind the arc UW is 10-0 over the last two seasons
• The Huskies earned their 1,000th career wins in Alaska Airlines Arena with the victory over Cal ... UW has the most wins in its current arena of any Division I school.
• Thybulle is one of 15 players nationally named to the watchlist for the Naismith Defensive Player of the Year ... he is the only player nationally to average 2.7 steals and 2.3 blocks
• In two games against Oregon last season, Dickerson averaged 16 points and 9.5 rebounds
• Dickerson is getting to the FT line on average seven times a game this season, which is up from 6.3 as a junior, 4.6 as a sophomore and 3.1 as a freshman
• Sophomore Naz Carter has already passed his rebound total from a year ago as he is at 62 through 18 games ... additionally he is averaging 10.6 points in Pac-12 play and is shooting 66.7 percent from the field in those outings (22-33) ... he averaged just 4.7ppg in league action last year
• Seven of sophomore Naz Carter's career 15 10+scoring efforts have come in the last 17 games
• Nowell has recorded six 20-point scoring efforts this season, and three in the last five games ... he now has 16 on his career ... Nowell is 5th in the league in scoring averaging 16.7 ppg
• Nowell is averaging 7.6 rebounds in Pac-12 action, up from 5.4 overall this season ... he averaged 4.5 in league play a year ago
• 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 (51.1), averaging over five rebounds (5.4) and 3 assists (3.4) 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 52 career games (48.1 percent) ... in those 25 games, UW has a 20-5 record.
• UW has had six different players lead the team in scoring through 18 games in David Crisp (1), Noah Dickerson (5), Jaylen Nowell (8), Dominic Green (2), Naz Carter (2) and Matisse Thybulle (2)
• Crisp has had a standout start in Pac-12 play, averaging 15.6 points, on 46.2 percent shooting from the field (24-of-52), 57.7 percent from 3 (15-of-26) and dishing out 1.6 assists.
• Nowell has 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 62 (3.4 per game) which is up from an average of 2.7 a year ago