Huskies Win at Buzzer

The University Washington Huskies men’s basketball team had one of their best games of the season beating the Arizona Wildcats at home 78-75.

The Huskies had a good lead most of the first half ending at 35-28. They took the lead up to fourteen early in the second half however the Wildcats made their run and came back to be close around eleven minutes remaining in the game. Throughout the rest of the second half the game was very close and less than one minute to go the game was tied. The Huskies had the final shot at twenty-one seconds remaining. So with less than five seconds Jaylon Nowell tried to make an outside shot however Wildcat Deandre Ayton blocked the shot but it went right to Dominic Green who took the shot that swished right before the buzzer went off.

Whoever was going to lose this game it would be a tough loss. Fortunately the Huskies won the game. Noah Dickerson had the game of his life for the Huskies being dominating inside all game long.  He scored a high of twenty-five points with seven rebounds against Arizona. He looks like the key player for the Huskies the rest of the season. The Huskies do have a good tandem of guards but it is Richardson that will give success for the Huskies.

This coming week the Huskies will be going to Oregon to face the Ducks in Eugene and then Oregon State Beavers in Corvallis. Both of them lost on Saturday with the Ducks losing to Stanford 96-61 while the Beavers lost to the California Bears 74-70.

Arizona Wildcats are still at the top of the Pac 12 with a league record of 9-2 and overall 19-5. USC Trojans who lost to UCLA Saturday is still in second place followed by the Huskies. UCLA and Stanford are tied in fourth behind the Huskies. Going way down the Washington State Cougars are last in the Pac 12 with a league record of 1-8 and 9-12 overall. They take on Arizona State this afternoon in Pullman. This will be a tough game for the Cougars. The Sun Devils were 25^th ranked in the country before losing to the Huskies on Thursday. They are ninth in the Pac-12 going into this game behind Utah and Colorado. They will need to win all their remaining games it looks like for them to make the tournament. They have an overall record of 16-6 and 4-6 in the Pac 12. Go Cougars!