Friday, February 9, 2024

Men's Basketball Huskies Lose Cougars Win

The Huskies need to win for Mike Hopkins 
to keep  his job as Huskies.  The step was 
the wrong direction  once again.  Another
game against  the  Oregon Ducks  they 
had a  chance to win however the Ducks 
won in Eugene 85-80.

Keion Brooks Jr  who had his career high
35 points last Saturday  had only 15 points
against Oregon.  Have to say that  is a
major reason  Oregon  won. The Ducks
leader  Jermaine  Couisnard had 27 points.   

The Huskies had five scorers  in double
figures led by Sahvir Wheeler  with 16 points.
Braxton  Meah  had 15 points along with a
team lead 12 rebounds. 

The Huskies didn't  do well at the three point
line making only four 4 out of 21 while the
Ducks made 8 of 23. Also the Ducks made
more free throws.  

The Ducks went on 9-0 run in the first ten 
minutes of the game after a few buckets
by each team. The Ducks led by six in the
first half. The first ten minutes of the second
half the Ducks made the lead go out to a
twenty  point lead. The Huskies didn't give
up narrowing the Ducks lead to four with 
four minutes 10 seconds  remaining in the
game. Other words  the Huskies  outscored
the Ducks by 16 points. The Huskies  did a 9-0
run themselves in a period of 74 seconds to
to narrow to four. Moses Wood made a three
pointer to make it a one point Oregon  lead.
Oregon win came down to making free throws. 

The Huskies play the Beavers  on Saturday for
the last time in Pac-12 play in Corvallis. It will 
be interesting  when the two teams play again.

The Cougars beat the Beavers 64-58 Thursday
night  64-58. The Cougars led by one point at 
halftime. Jaylen Wells had a hot night making
six straight  three points leading the Cougars 
and his career  high  24 points. In all the Cougars 
made 11 three point shots while Beavers made
only three. The Cougars  shot twice as many as
the Beavers to. 

The  Cougars  play Oregon  Ducks on Saturday 
with the winner taking sole possession of 2nd
place in the Pac-12  conference unless Arizona 
loses to Colorado on their home court then
they will be tied with the Sun Devils  for first 
place.  Colorado wins and UCLA  wins the loser
would be tied with  both of them at third place. 
It is tight at the top of the conference.

Next week  the Cougars will be home against  
California  followed by Stanford while the
Huskies will play Stanford  followed by California.
The Cougars  look in good place in the Pac-12 
if they continue  to  win while the Huskies  need
to start  winning or the likely end of Coach Hopkins.

The Huskies  really  need to make March Madness 
this year with having a new Director of Athletics 
this year. Hopkins  has only one year after  this 
one remaining  on  his contract.  It was a bit of
a surprise  he was coming back anyway.  



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