It is hardly an exaggeration to say that the entirety of big-time intercollegiate athletics is in the most serious mess since President Teddy Roosevelt ordered that college football players stop killing each other.

Following an FBI investigation that resulted in the September indictments of 10 men's college basketball figures in a bribery and fraud scheme among college programs, top recruits, financial planners and shoe/apparel powerhouse adidas, there came news this week of potentially more widespread casualties.

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Two nights after one of Washington's worst offensive showings in decades in Eugene, the Huskies responded Saturday night in Corvallis with one of their worst defensive efforts of the season, allowing lowly Oregon State to get away with a 97-94 win in double overtime that dealt a serious blow to UW's NCAA tournament hopes.

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Except for sporadic bursts of success under head coaches Tippy Dye (1951-59), Marv Harshman (1971-85) and Lorenzo Romar (2002-17), the University of Washington basketball program never has been considered illustrious. At least, not since a long-gone age when Clarence S. “Hec” Edmundson won 71.4 percent of his games (488 wins, 195 losses) while claiming 13 Pacific Coast Conference Northern Division titles between 1919-47.

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The low-post game has fallen out of basketball fashion. Ever since analytics established that nationally improving three-point shooting made the reward worth the risk, big-man offense became brown shoes in a tuxedoed world.

Until Saturday at Hec Ed. Noah Dickerson went all throwback on looming Arizona, swooping, double-pumping, left-hooking and right-tipping his way to 25 points as the lead act in a thrilling upset of the ninth-ranked Wildcats.

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The National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Tuesday named Washington its Division I Team of the Week, while the U.S. Basketball Writers Association (USBWA) selected forward Noah Dickerson as national player of the week. The accolades follow the Huskies' victories over No. 25 Arizona State and No. 9 Arizona last week, their first consecutive wins over ranked opponents since 2007.

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University of Washington junior Noah Dickerson has been named NCAA National Player of the Week and Pac-12 Player of the Week following his performances in victories against No. 25 Arizona State Thursday and No. 9 Arizona Saturday. Dickerson averaged 23 points and 11.5 rebounds in Washington's first back-to-back wins over ranked foes since 2007.

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A little before tip-off, when Lorenzo Romar walked onto the Hec Ed court as an assistant coach for Arizona, the Washington crowd gave him a roaring ovation. What could have been awkward was sublime.

When he left the court after the Huskies' 78-75 win in as spectacular a single, buzzer-beating moment as the program has had, again it could have been awkward.

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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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