Wednesday, January 30
Seattle, WA
8:00 PM
University of Washington
vs
USC
Photo by: Red Box Pictures
UW Back in Seattle Hosting USC on Wednesday at 8 p.m.
January 29, 2019 | Men's Basketball
Huskies (16-4, 7-0) vs. USC (12-8, 5-2)
Washington returns to the friendly confines of Alaska Airlines Arena this week as it welcomes the LA schools, first hosting USC on Wednesday, Jan. 30 at 8 p.m. The game will be nationally televised by FS1 with Aaron Goldsmith and Steve Lavin 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 147th meeting between the two programs with USC having a 74-72 edge. USC last came to Seattle on Feb. 1, 2017. Washington will be looking to extend its first 7-0 start in conference play since 1952-53 when it started 14-0.
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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.
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Quick Hitters
β’ Washington's 7-0 start in Pac-12 play is its best since the 1952-53 season when UW started 14-0
β’ In UW's nine-game winning streak, the Huskies have not allowed a team to score more than 70 points ... additionally opponents are shooting 28.4 from 3 and being held to 60.9 points
β’ Four of UW's seven 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
β’ UW has shot 50 percent or better from the field in 5 of its 7 Pac-12 games including four of the last five and is shooting 51.4 percent from the field overall in those 7 outings, which leads the Pac-12
β’ UW is holding its first 20 opponents to just 64.8 points per game, which leads the Pac-12 and is 32nd nationally ... 16 teams have been held to 70 points or less and UW has won 15 of those games
β’ The Huskies scoring margin in league action of +13.0 leads the conference by almost eight points as ASU is second at a +5.7 margin
β’ UW dished out a season-high 18 assists on 22 made FGs at Oregon, its highest assist-to-made basket ratio of the season
β’ 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
β’ 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 2.9 steals and 2.2 blocks
β’ Eight of sophomore Naz Carter's career 16 10+scoring efforts have come in the last 19 games
β’ Carter has surpassed his season totals from 17-18 in points, rebounds and upped his FG and FT percentage
β’ Carter is averaging 10.6 points in Pac-12 play and is shooting 66.0 percent from the field in those outings (31-47) ... he averaged just 4.7ppg in league action last year.
β’ Nowell has seven 20-point scoring efforts this season, and four in the last seven games ... he now has 17 on his career ... Nowell is sixth in the league in scoring averaging 17.0 ppg
β’ 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 (51.8), averaging over five rebounds (5.2) and 3 assists (3.3) and scoring at least 16 points a night (17.0), joining Hofstra's Justin Wright-Foreman and Texas Tech's Jarrett Culver
β’ Nowell has shot at least 50 percent from the field in 27 of his 54 career games (50.0 percent) ... in those 27 games, UW has a 22-5 record.
β’ UW has had six different players lead the team in scoring through 20 games in David Crisp (1), Noah Dickerson (5), Jaylen Nowell (9), Dominic Green (2), Naz Carter (3) and Matisse Thybulle (2)
β’ Crisp has had a standout start in Pac-12 play, averaging 15.7 points, on 48.0 percent shooting from the field (36-of-75), a Pac-12 leading 52.5 percent from 3 (21-of-40) and dishing out 2.4 assists.
β’ Nowell has seen an uptick in not just his scoring production (17.0 ppg) but in his assists as well as he currently leads the team with 66 (3.3 per game) which is up from an average of 2.7 a year ago
β’ Thybulle is the only player in Division I averaging at least 2.2 blocks and 2.7 steals per game
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Washington returns to the friendly confines of Alaska Airlines Arena this week as it welcomes the LA schools, first hosting USC on Wednesday, Jan. 30 at 8 p.m. The game will be nationally televised by FS1 with Aaron Goldsmith and Steve Lavin 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 147th meeting between the two programs with USC having a 74-72 edge. USC last came to Seattle on Feb. 1, 2017. Washington will be looking to extend its first 7-0 start in conference play since 1952-53 when it started 14-0.
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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.
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Quick Hitters
β’ Washington's 7-0 start in Pac-12 play is its best since the 1952-53 season when UW started 14-0
β’ In UW's nine-game winning streak, the Huskies have not allowed a team to score more than 70 points ... additionally opponents are shooting 28.4 from 3 and being held to 60.9 points
β’ Four of UW's seven 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
β’ UW has shot 50 percent or better from the field in 5 of its 7 Pac-12 games including four of the last five and is shooting 51.4 percent from the field overall in those 7 outings, which leads the Pac-12
β’ UW is holding its first 20 opponents to just 64.8 points per game, which leads the Pac-12 and is 32nd nationally ... 16 teams have been held to 70 points or less and UW has won 15 of those games
β’ The Huskies scoring margin in league action of +13.0 leads the conference by almost eight points as ASU is second at a +5.7 margin
β’ UW dished out a season-high 18 assists on 22 made FGs at Oregon, its highest assist-to-made basket ratio of the season
β’ 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
β’ 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 2.9 steals and 2.2 blocks
β’ Eight of sophomore Naz Carter's career 16 10+scoring efforts have come in the last 19 games
β’ Carter has surpassed his season totals from 17-18 in points, rebounds and upped his FG and FT percentage
β’ Carter is averaging 10.6 points in Pac-12 play and is shooting 66.0 percent from the field in those outings (31-47) ... he averaged just 4.7ppg in league action last year.
β’ Nowell has seven 20-point scoring efforts this season, and four in the last seven games ... he now has 17 on his career ... Nowell is sixth in the league in scoring averaging 17.0 ppg
β’ 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 (51.8), averaging over five rebounds (5.2) and 3 assists (3.3) and scoring at least 16 points a night (17.0), joining Hofstra's Justin Wright-Foreman and Texas Tech's Jarrett Culver
β’ Nowell has shot at least 50 percent from the field in 27 of his 54 career games (50.0 percent) ... in those 27 games, UW has a 22-5 record.
β’ UW has had six different players lead the team in scoring through 20 games in David Crisp (1), Noah Dickerson (5), Jaylen Nowell (9), Dominic Green (2), Naz Carter (3) and Matisse Thybulle (2)
β’ Crisp has had a standout start in Pac-12 play, averaging 15.7 points, on 48.0 percent shooting from the field (36-of-75), a Pac-12 leading 52.5 percent from 3 (21-of-40) and dishing out 2.4 assists.
β’ Nowell has seen an uptick in not just his scoring production (17.0 ppg) but in his assists as well as he currently leads the team with 66 (3.3 per game) which is up from an average of 2.7 a year ago
β’ Thybulle is the only player in Division I averaging at least 2.2 blocks and 2.7 steals per game
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