Pac-10 Champs!!!56 years in the making the Washington Huskies are conference champions. Icing on the cake is that they clinched by beating their rival the Washington State Cougars to do it. The last time the Dawgs won an outright conference title was when the conference was known as the Pacific Coast Conference. In the game the Huskies won it how they have won all season by employing solid defense and getting scoring from multiple sources.
In this game the Huskies got 16 points from Quincy Pondexter, 7 points and 18 rebounds from Jon Brockman, 12 points from Justin Dentmon and most surprising of all 14 points and lock-down defense from Venoy Overton off of the bench. The 14 from Overton was especially surprising since he averaged only 5.9 points per game through the regular season.
Now the Huskies head into the Pac-10 tournament, which starts on Wednesday, March 11th, as the #1 seed. The Dawgs won't play their first game until Thursday the 12th against the winner of the Oregon State/Stanford game. To be successful in the Pac-10 tourney as well as the NCAA Tournament, Washington will need to continue with what got them to this point, namely the balanced scoring and solid defense.Call me a homer but with this team I could definetely see them making an Elite 8 run or beyond.
Also of note the Huskies picked up a few honors today: Pac-10 Freshman of the Year for Isaiah Thomas, Pac-10 Most Improved Player for Justin Dentmon and Lorenzo Romar picked up his second Pac-10 Coach of the Year honor.
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