The Washington Huskies
lost Saturday night to Colorado on the road by one point. It gave the Huskies a
four game losing streak.
I have found over last
several years the Huskies have trouble the second half of the season losing
more often than winning. At least this year they are playing primarily with all
freshmen. They start four freshmen along with senior Andrew Andrews and the
first three players off the bench are also freshmen. This does give a lot of
hope for the future having seven freshmen who are playing a lot of ball.
Andrews is one of the leading scores in the Pac-12 so he is leading the young
Huskies by example.
We hope that the team
can turn things around quickly so they can still make it into the NCAA
tournament in March. The Huskies have not been in the tournament for several
years. If they don’t make the tournament this would put pressure on Coach Romar
in keeping his job. The have the talent to play well in the tournament if they
can win at least half of their remaining games.
What I don’t like is
the Huskies preseason schedule. They don’t play a lot of high level programs
and most of their games are at home. They should learn from the Gonzaga
Bulldogs out of Spokane who always a tough preseason schedule and gets them
ready for their league as well as the tournament. The Huskies and Gonzaga have
not played against each other for the past several years either however that
will change soon. What would be really nice if the top four programs in the
state of Washington could play in a tournament against each other every
year. They could alternate the
tournament between Seattle, Spokane, and Pullman. The four teams would be the
Huskies, Bulldogs, Washington State Cougars and Seattle University. This would
be exciting for the fans and help in recruiting for all the teams. The winner
would have bragging rights too.
Anyway Huskies time to
stop the losing streak so we can see you in the tournament along with Gonzaga.
Go Huskies!
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