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Dawgs Welcome UCLA to Alaska Airlines Arena Saturday at 1 p.m.
February 01, 2019 | Men's Basketball
Huskies (17-4, 8-0) vs. UCLA (12-9, 5-3)
UW looks to extend its 10-game winning streak and 8-0 start in Pac-12 play hosting UCLA on Saturday at 1 p.m. The game will be nationally televised on 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 and tune into Westwood One Radio to hear from Mark Hauser and Mike Montgomery. This is the 142nd meeting between the two programs. UCLA last came to Seattle on Feb. 4, 2017.
The Coach - Mike Hopkins
Mike Hopkins is in his second year at UW, and second as a head coach after becoming the 19th head coach in UW history. After spending 22 years as an assistant at Syracuse, he 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's 8-0 start in Pac-12 play is its best since the 1952-53 season when it started 14-0 ... additionally, UW was perfect in January for just the eighth time in the last 100 years (2018-19, 1952-53, 1935-36, 1933-34, 1928-29, 1923-24, 1922-23, 1921-22)
• UW has a perfect 11-0 record at Alaska Airlines Arena, it's best home record through 11 games since 2010-11 when the Dawgs opened the season with 13-straight ... also, UW is the only Division I team to have 1,000 wins in its current arena, now at 1,001
• In UW's 10-game winning streak, the Huskies have not allowed a team to score more than 70 points ... additionally opponents in that span are shooting 28.6 from 3 and being held to 61.0 points
• Washington's 10-game winning streak is tied for the third longest active streak in Division I trailing Hofstra (16), Tennessee (15) and is tied with Gonzaga (10) and LSU (10)
• Six of UW's eight Pac-12 wins have been by 10 points or more
• Nowell is shooting 52.2 percent from the field in 21 games, its up from his 45.1 percentage a year ago ... he is also shooting 49.9 percent from 3, up from 35.1 a year ago
• Nowell is the first player since Isaiah Thomas (2010-11) to earn three Pac-12 Player of the Week Awards in the same season
• UW has shot 50 percent or better from the field in 5 of its 8 Pac-12 games including 4 of the last 6 and is shooting 50.5 percent from the field overall in those 8 outings, which leads the Pac-12
• UW is holding its opponents to just 64.6 points per game, which leads the Pac-12 and is 31st nationally ... 17 teams have been held to 70 points or less and UW has won 16 of those games
• Washington had 22 second chance points, 17 points off turnovers, 16 fast break points and 36 points in the paint against USC ... additionally UW forced 18 turnovers marking the fourth-straight game UW has forced at least 10 turnovers
• Dickerson recorded his seventh career 20 point/10 rebound game against USC with 21 and 14 ... the last player to have that many 20/10 games in their career was Matthew Bryan-Amaning who had eight (2007-11)
• The Huskies scoring margin in league action of +13.0 leads the conference by almost eight points as UCLA is second at a +5.5 margin
• In the last 20 seasons, Thybulle is one of just four players to average 2.0 blocks and 2.0 steals in a season, joining Shane Battier - Duke (1999-2000, 2000-01), Nerlens Noel - Kentucky (2012-13) and Zion Williamson - Duke (2018-19)
• With Thybulle's start against UCLA, he will tie Chris Welp for the longest consecutive starting streak at UW at 121 games
• Nowell has seven 20-point scoring efforts this season, and four in the last eight games ... he now has 17 on his career ... Nowell is sixth in the league in scoring averaging 16.7 ppg
• Nowell has shot at least 50 percent from the field in 28 of his 55 career games (50.9 percent) ... in those 28 games, UW has a 23-5 record.
• UW has had six different players lead the team in scoring through 21 games in David Crisp (1), Noah Dickerson (6), Jaylen Nowell (9), Dominic Green (2), Naz Carter (3) and Matisse Thybulle (2).
• Crisp has had a standout start in Pac-12 play, averaging 15.6 points, on 46.1 percent shooting from the field (41-of-89), a Pac-12 leading 50.0 percent from 3 (23-of-46) and dishing out 2.4 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 71 (3.4 per game) which is up from an average of 2.7 a year ago
• Thybulle is the only player in Division I averaging at least 2.1 blocks and 3.0 steals per game
UW looks to extend its 10-game winning streak and 8-0 start in Pac-12 play hosting UCLA on Saturday at 1 p.m. The game will be nationally televised on 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 and tune into Westwood One Radio to hear from Mark Hauser and Mike Montgomery. This is the 142nd meeting between the two programs. UCLA last came to Seattle on Feb. 4, 2017.
The Coach - Mike Hopkins
Mike Hopkins is in his second year at UW, and second as a head coach after becoming the 19th head coach in UW history. After spending 22 years as an assistant at Syracuse, he 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's 8-0 start in Pac-12 play is its best since the 1952-53 season when it started 14-0 ... additionally, UW was perfect in January for just the eighth time in the last 100 years (2018-19, 1952-53, 1935-36, 1933-34, 1928-29, 1923-24, 1922-23, 1921-22)
• UW has a perfect 11-0 record at Alaska Airlines Arena, it's best home record through 11 games since 2010-11 when the Dawgs opened the season with 13-straight ... also, UW is the only Division I team to have 1,000 wins in its current arena, now at 1,001
• In UW's 10-game winning streak, the Huskies have not allowed a team to score more than 70 points ... additionally opponents in that span are shooting 28.6 from 3 and being held to 61.0 points
• Washington's 10-game winning streak is tied for the third longest active streak in Division I trailing Hofstra (16), Tennessee (15) and is tied with Gonzaga (10) and LSU (10)
• Six of UW's eight Pac-12 wins have been by 10 points or more
• Nowell is shooting 52.2 percent from the field in 21 games, its up from his 45.1 percentage a year ago ... he is also shooting 49.9 percent from 3, up from 35.1 a year ago
• Nowell is the first player since Isaiah Thomas (2010-11) to earn three Pac-12 Player of the Week Awards in the same season
• UW has shot 50 percent or better from the field in 5 of its 8 Pac-12 games including 4 of the last 6 and is shooting 50.5 percent from the field overall in those 8 outings, which leads the Pac-12
• UW is holding its opponents to just 64.6 points per game, which leads the Pac-12 and is 31st nationally ... 17 teams have been held to 70 points or less and UW has won 16 of those games
• Washington had 22 second chance points, 17 points off turnovers, 16 fast break points and 36 points in the paint against USC ... additionally UW forced 18 turnovers marking the fourth-straight game UW has forced at least 10 turnovers
• Dickerson recorded his seventh career 20 point/10 rebound game against USC with 21 and 14 ... the last player to have that many 20/10 games in their career was Matthew Bryan-Amaning who had eight (2007-11)
• The Huskies scoring margin in league action of +13.0 leads the conference by almost eight points as UCLA is second at a +5.5 margin
• In the last 20 seasons, Thybulle is one of just four players to average 2.0 blocks and 2.0 steals in a season, joining Shane Battier - Duke (1999-2000, 2000-01), Nerlens Noel - Kentucky (2012-13) and Zion Williamson - Duke (2018-19)
• With Thybulle's start against UCLA, he will tie Chris Welp for the longest consecutive starting streak at UW at 121 games
• Nowell has seven 20-point scoring efforts this season, and four in the last eight games ... he now has 17 on his career ... Nowell is sixth in the league in scoring averaging 16.7 ppg
• Nowell has shot at least 50 percent from the field in 28 of his 55 career games (50.9 percent) ... in those 28 games, UW has a 23-5 record.
• UW has had six different players lead the team in scoring through 21 games in David Crisp (1), Noah Dickerson (6), Jaylen Nowell (9), Dominic Green (2), Naz Carter (3) and Matisse Thybulle (2).
• Crisp has had a standout start in Pac-12 play, averaging 15.6 points, on 46.1 percent shooting from the field (41-of-89), a Pac-12 leading 50.0 percent from 3 (23-of-46) and dishing out 2.4 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 71 (3.4 per game) which is up from an average of 2.7 a year ago
• Thybulle is the only player in Division I averaging at least 2.1 blocks and 3.0 steals per game
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