One last time. The Pac-12 men’s basketball teams will gather inside T-Mobile Arena this week to play the final games in a tradition-rich conference that began in 1915 under a different name: Pacific Coast Conference.
SEATTLE – The last time Troy Dannen went looking for a head coach, the Washington Huskies athletic director moved with incredible pace to fill the void in the football program.
SEATTLE – Shortly after Thursday’s 74-68 win over No. 18 Washington State, one of the biggest wins in his career and only the second time he’d beaten a ranked team on the road, Washington men’s basketball coach Mike Hopkins talked with optimism about the victory possibly being a watershed moment.
With the regular season winding down, there are six teams in contention for the top four seeds in the Pac-12 men’s basketball tournament and a handful hoping for at-large berths into the NCAAs.
TUCSON, Ariz. – The impending finality of the Washington men’s basketball team’s last days in the Pac-12 never felt more intense and visceral than it did at the start of Saturday’s game against No. 4 Arizona.
TEMPE, Ariz. — The first half was all bubbly elation for the Washington men’s basketball team, which did everything right while building a seemingly insurmountable lead.
SEATTLE – After weeks hoping it would not be true, Washington men’s basketball coach Mike Hopkins confirmed what many Husky fans suspected for a long time: Franck Kepnang is done for the season.
SEATTLE – Late-game execution has been a problem all season for the Washington men’s basketball team and one the biggest reasons why UW had fallen short of preseason expectations.
SEATTLE – Koren Johnson scored a career-high 30 points off the bench and Keion Brooks Jr. had 20 points and several highlight dunks for the Washington men’s basketball team which steamrolled Stanford in the second half en route to an 85-65 win on Thursday night.
CORVALLIS, Ore. – For anyone old enough to remember legendary Oregon State men’s basketball coach Ralph Miller, it was impossible not to note the historical implications of Saturday’s game between Washington and the Beavers, which could be their final matchup.
SEATTLE – If you want, you can point to a missed free throw in the final 10 seconds of regulation, which allowed Washington State to tie the score before OT.
SEATTLE – Riding a two-game losing streak in which its defense was virtually nonexistent, the Huskies unleashed a week’s worth of frustration on Saturday night.
SEATTLE – There’s been one truism during Mike Hopkins’ seven-year tenure with the Washington men’s basketball team: When the Huskies give up 80 points they almost always lose.
STANFORD, Calif. — The Huskies’ eight-day California road trip began with a six-hour flight delay preceding an upset loss at UCLA, included a buzzer-beating win at California and ended with comeback attempt that came up short against Stanford.