DANCE CARD CLEARING FOR PAC-10

Critical Husky WIN at Home tonight over UCLA
  
   UCLA STARTERS: 30.6% Shooting (11-36)
   WASH STARTERS: 33% Shooting (16-48)

The Key Players on EACH TEAM struggled tonight
Particularly noticeable was corresponding, inept play of each teams’ primary contributors

WASHINGTON HUSKY STARTER STRUGGLES

HUSKIES' #1 SCORER,
WASH 5-8 | 185 Jr Isaiah Thomas 9 Pt (3-12 FG | 0-3 Deep | 3-3 A|T-Ov)
(7½ Pts Under Season Avg)

HUSKIES' #2 SEASON SCORER,
WASH 6-9 | 250 Sr Matthew Bryan-Amaning
3-11 FG | FOULED OUT w/7 Pts (Yet Had 13 REB. Incl 7 O-Reb)
(-9.2 Pts under Season Avg)

HUSKIES' #3 SEASON SCORER,
WASH 6-6 | 182 Sr Justin Holiday1-8 FG (5 Pts)
(-6.7 Pts Under Season Avg)

UCLA BRUIN STARTER STRUGGLES

BRUINS #1 SEASON SCORER,
UCLA 6-8 | 239 Soph Reeves Nelson
4-13 FG | 10 PTS, 8 Reb (Plus 4 PF | 3 T-Ov)
(-3.9 Pts Under Season Avg)

BRUINS #2 SEASON SCORER,
UCLA 6-4 | 202 Jr Malcom Lee
Not as effective as recent play, even w/13 Pts on 5-12 FG
(-0.31 Pts Under Season Avg)

BRUINS #3 SEASON SCORER,
UCLA 6-8 | 188 Tyler Honeycutt
POOR SHOOTING GAME, 0-6 FG (Yet 6-6 FT) 6 Pts
(-6½  Pts Under Season Avg)

BRUINS #5 SEASON SCORER,
UCLA 6-0 | 194 Lazeric Jones
1 AST (2 T-Ov) 1-4 FG | 2 Pts (Saddled w/Fouls | Just 20 Min)
(-7.7 Pts Under Season Avg)

BENCHES (ESP KEY FRESHMEN PRODUCTION),
CARRIED BOTH TMS

UCLA BENCH - SHOT IN THE ARM

BRUINS #4 SEASON SCORER,
UCLA 6-10 | 311 Fr Joshua Smith
Didn't disappoint in homecoming back to Seattle-Area
12 PTS & 16 REB (INCLUDING 8 O-REB)
(+1.1 Pts Over Season Avg)

BRUINS #6 SEASON SCORER,
UCLA 6-2 | 188 Jr Jereme Anderson
Top Scorer for Bruins Tonight off Bench
6-9 FG | 4-6 Deep (16 Pts)
(+10.6 Pts Above Season Avg)
Anderson hit all but ONE of UCLA's 5 Made Three's

WASHINGTON BENCH - SHOT IN THE ARM

HUSKIES’ #9 SEASON SCORER,
WASH 6-5 | 177 Fr CJ Wilcox
24 HUGE PTS | 7-10 FG | 4-7 DEEP | 6-6 FT
(+16.6 Pts Above Season Avg)

Key to Washington Win?
Limiting UCLA's Drive & Assist Game

UCLA CAME INTO GM #1 in PAC-10:
ASSIST% (Per FG Made) 62.2%
UCLA had just 9 TTL Ast tonight Astonishing 3 Ast from Backcourt
(Jones-2/Lee-1)

UCLA Led Conference in FT Att per FG Att (45%)Tonight, Bruins Attempted 13 FT's to 58 FG's (22.4%)

KEY HUSKY-STRONG STATS:  
   WASH: +15 FT ATTEMPTS
   WASH >5 T-OVERS
   WASH +4 ASST%

As said, most PAC-10 Postseason 'issues' were cleaned up quite nicely tonight

1. ARIZONA (24-6 | 13-4 Conf)
Cats’ Captured PAC-10 Regular Season Title, w/follow-up win over nose-diving Ducks Saturday, Cats will secure #1-SEED PAC-10 Tournament win 7th PAC-10 outright Regular Season Title in last 20 Years

2.  SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (17-13 | 9-8 Conf)
Trojans at-large NCAA Tourney hopes are officially done after losing in Pullman, and falling back to the pack of three 1-Loss Teams.  SC now projected by Stat-Sheet as an NIT selection #5 Seeded NIT Selection.  The Trojans would still significantly benefit from a Win in Seattle Saturday (difference between 4 & 5 Seed in the NIT is bigger than many may think; w/1-4 Seeds  HOSTING First Round Games SC’s ability to regroup after such a dismal performance, w/3 DQ’s, ect is critical for Trojan’s opportunity to slide up & Host a Postseason Game.

3.  WASHINGTON (20-9 | 11-6 Conf)
Huskies are far more ‘Tourney Secure’ after hard-fought Win Over Second-Place UCLA.  UW finally reaching 20-Win threshold, is safely back on the “IN” List; though an 0-2 finish might land them right back in bubbleland.

4.  WASHINGTON STATE (19-10 | 9-8 Conf)
Cougs still beating the NCAA drum.
Having moved up from ESPN’s Joe Lianardi’s
'Next Four Out' to FIRST 4 Out’
Wazzu can move one significant step in NCAA Tournament Direction w/Statement WIN Over UCLA on Saturday
We’ll have to wait & see

Saturday should clean up remaining PAC-10’s Teams w/flickering NIT|CBI|CIT hopes

CALIFORNIA (16-13 | 9-8 Conf)
STANFORD (15-14 | 7-10 Conf)
OREGON (14-15 | 7-10 Conf)

All for now!