Here at Hec Ed, the UW women’s team trails Arizona State 26-20 after a rather ugly half of basketball. Arizona State leads despite 14 turnovers in the half. Washington countered with 11 turnovers and 26.7 percent shooting. Both teams are playing good defense, so that has a lot to do with the turnovers/bad shooting, but whichever team wakes up on offense is going to win this game.
The Huskies are playing for the third straight game without Jess McCormack, who suffered a concussion against USC. The Huskies had hoped earlier in the week that she would be able to play, but decided yesterday to give her another game off.
Monroe grad Kirsten Thompson didn’t play a ton in the first half, getting two rebounds and two turnovers in seven minutes of play. Thompson has had something of an up-and-down season, , which Kirby Arnold wrote about today while he was in Arizona. ASU coach Charli Turner Thorne got her start at Washington, so she recruits the northwest more than most coaches in Arizona would. The Sun Devils have two players from Spokane, Briann January and Reagan Pariseau, a player from Auburn, Stephanie Wilbur, and one player from Oregon, Jill Noe.
And while we’re on the topic of UW vs. ASU, the men’s team just pulled off a 72-61 road upset over the 24th-ranked Sun Devils, who were tied for the Pac-10 lead heading into the night.
That’s a big win for the Huskies, not only because it pulls them to .500 in Pac-10 play, but also because it’s their biggest road win in quite some time after struggling for all of last season and the early part of this season away from Hec Ed.
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