UW basketball

Keyon Menifield and Koren Johnson crouched low with their arms spread wide at the top of the three-point arc waiting to pounce on the Beaver ball handlers.

LOS ANGELES – Keion Brooks Jr. scored 22 points, and Keyon Menifield had 21 for the Washington men’s basketball team, but it wasn’t enough to prevent a third straight loss in an 80-74 defeat against USC at Galen Center on Saturday night.

LOS ANGELES – Before Thursday’s 70-61 loss to No. 9 UCLA at Pauley Pavilion, coach Mike Hopkins offered an assessment of the Washington men’s basketball team that’s two games above .500 with seven remaining in the regular season.

SEATTLE – The Washington men’s basketball team targeted Saturday’s rematch against No. 6 Arizona as a chance to rekindle their flickering NCAA Tournament hopes.

Utah is the biggest surprise of the Pac-12 men’s basketball season. Slotted 10th in the preseason media poll, the Utes are in second place, two games behind UCLA in the loss column and churning toward an opening-round bye in the conference tournament.

SALT LAKE CITY – The 7-footers figured to decide this mile-high matchup.

BOULDER, Colo. – Keion Brooks stepped out of bounds – twice.

SEATTLE – Keion Brooks Jr. scored 26 points and Noah Williams added a season-high 22 to lead the Washington men’s basketball team to an 81-78 overtime victory against injury-riddled California on Saturday.

TEMPE, Ariz. — Keion Brooks Jr., the Kentucky Wildcats transfer and Fort Wayne, Indiana, native, is new to Seattle so he can be forgiven for using an analogy that runs counter to Pacific Northwest winters to sum up the current state of the Washington men’s basketball team.

Three straight home games and three straight lopsided losses for the Washington men’s basketball team.

SEATTLE – To snap their three-year winless streak against ranked teams, Mike Hopkins believed the Washington men’s basketball team needed to balance its emotions, execute the game plan and match No. 23 Auburn’s toughness.

For Sunday, and perhaps the rest of the season, the Washington men’s basketball team adopted an axiom and a defensive-minded identity embodied by Franck Kepnang, which epitomized their 73-63 win over Colorado that included two momentum-swinging runs in the final minutes.

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Keion Brooks Jr. backed down a defender before turning and draining a midrange jumper in the final minute for one of the biggest shots in one of the Huskies’ biggest wins in recent years — a 68-64 overtime victory over Saint Mary’s in the Wooden Legacy championship game.

All night, the Huskies looked for something – anything – to give them a spark and provide the Alaska Airlines Arena crowd a reason to cheer.

Weber State was closing in and cut Washington’s double-digit lead to three points midway in the second quarter when PJ Fuller II responded with an emphatic answer.

The Washington men’s and women’s basketball teams begin the 2022-23 season with Monday’s doubleheader at Alaska Airlines Arena.

A break in a photo shoot allows Mike Hopkins a moment to do what he does best: teach and motivate.

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For Karen Troianello, there’s no tearjerker quite like the state girls cross country meet in Pasco each year.