Another stellar defensive effort helped knock off another ranked team as Washington toppled No. 25 Arizona State 68-64 Thursday night at Hec Ed. On his 21st birthday, Noah Dickerson had 21 points and 16 rebounds as the Huskies improved to 6-3 with their third consecutive conference victory, 16-6 overall.

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In the majority of preseason polls, including the official Pac-12 media prognostication, the Washington men’s basketball team  finished 10th, 11th or 12th. It was no ^.surprise at all, since the Huskies were coming off a 9-22 embarrassment despite employing the No. 1 overall pick in the NBA draft, freshman Markelle Fultz. Never had any college team lost 20-plus games with the pending No. 1.

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Since the Huskies in November already astounded Earth and the nearby planets by beating Kansas (fifth-ranked this week at 16-3), they can say they've already had their seasonal breakthrough moment, even if it was more freakish than a lullaby from Bobby Knight.

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The Huskies Saturday night saw a good Pac-12 Conference team worthy of an NCAA basketball tournament berth. But they weren't looking in a mirror. They were looking at Stanford. Or more precisely, they were looking up at Stanford.

Bigger, stronger, faster.

But not all that much in any category.

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The Huskies men's basketball team, 2-16 a year ago in Pac-12 Conference play, equaled that win total Saturday afternoon with a late rally to beat Washington State 70-65 in Pullman's Beasley Coliseum -- and both wins have come on the road.

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The University of Washington will retire the No. 2 jersey of basketball standout Isaiah Thomas during the Feb. 15 game against Utah, athletics director Jen Cohen said Thursday. Thomas is the third UW player to have his number retired, following Bob Houbregs (1951-53) and Brandon Roy (2003-06).

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One day ahead of Friday's season opener, University of Washington head basketball coach Mike Hopkins Thursday signed his first official recruiting class, adding 6-foot-2 guard Elijah Hardy, 6-6 small forward Jamal Bey and 6-11 forward Nate Roberts.

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In a vote of media members Thursday who regularly cover the league, Arizona has been selected as the favorite to win the 2017-18 Pac-12 Conference men's basketball title. Pac-12 media awarded the Wildcats 22 of 23 first-place votes in the annual preseason poll, and also picked Washington to finish 10th and Washington State 12th.

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The Pac-12 Conference Tuesday announced game times and television selections for the 2017-18 men's college basketball season. The Washington Huskies, in their first campaign under new head coach Mike Hopkins, are on national television at least seven times.

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After perhaps the hardest hit he absorbed in his Huskies career, QB Jake Browning came up for air and into the face of coach Chris Petersen.

"First thing he said to me was, 'I was up in two seconds,'" Petersen reported Monday. "He's a tough guy.

"He's fine."

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The University of Washington will face three teams that made the most recent NCAA men's hoops tournament in the Huskies' non-conference portion of the 2017-18 schedule released Tuesday. It includes 11 home contests (including an exhibition), and three road games.

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Hameir Wright, a 6-foot-8 small forward from Albany, NY., has signed with the University of Washington, men’s basketball coach Mike Hopkins announced Friday. Wright has enrolled in summer classes and will be eligible to play for the Huskies in the fall.

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Nahziah Carter, a 6-foot-6, 185-pound shooting guard/small forward from Rochester, NY., will join the University of Washington basketball program this summer after enrolling in classes,  coach Mike Hopkins announced Monday. Carter was the 29th-ranked shooting guard in the country last year by Scout.com.

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After swapping picks with the Boston Celtics and giving up a future first-rounder to get him, the Philadelphia 76ers selected Markelle Fultz No. 1 in Thursday’s NBA draft, held at Barclay's Center in Brooklyn (two-round list here). Fultz is the first University of Washington player taken with the first pick. Washington is the first school to produce the No. 1 picks in the NBA and WNBA drafts in the same academic year.

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For the 10th time in 11 years, the University of Washington won the Intercollegiate Rowing Association men's team title with first-pace finishes in the first three races, but Yale narrowly edged Washington by about half a second in the featured varsity eight grand final Sunday on Lake Natoma, near Sacramento. 

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The University of Florida (58-8) justified its No. 1 seeding by easily topping No. 6 Washington (50-14) Sunday 5-2 Sunday in Oklahoma City, eliminating the Huskies from the NCAA Women's College World Series with a second loss in the double-elimination tournament.

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The intense resolve of the University of Washington's women's rowing team was expressed by sophomore Elise Beuke, when she and her varsity eight teammates crossed the finish line first the past weekend to complete a Huskies sweep on New Jersey's Mercer Lake of all three races in the national rowing championships, a first in NCAA history.

"OK," she recalled thinking Wednesday, "What's next?"

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University of Washington rowing claimed another place in the sport's history books Sunday in West Windsor, NJ,  when the Huskies women became the first program in the 21 years as an NCAA-sanctioned varsity sport to sweep the three grand finals for the team title. The win was the fourth UW women's rowing championship.

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Former Huskies and Trail Blazers star Brandon Roy, who in one freaky season at Nathan Hale High School was named national coach of the year, will take his coaching talents to the south end of Seattle and his alma mater, Garfield High. On its sports Twitter account, the school confirmed Thursday earlier media reports.

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George Irvine, a Ballard High graduate who played basketball at the University of Washington from 1968-70 before embarking upon a long playing and coaching career in the ABA and NBA,  died Tuesday at 69, according to the Indiana Pacers. Irvine had been battling cancer.

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