Washington Huskies Weekly Update

The Dawgs are dancing! While it was disappointing the Huskies lost to the Sun Devils in the Pac-10 tournament semifinals, they still managed to get a 4 seed in the dance. After all as they say the 3rd time is the charm and Arizona State was finally able to beat UW.

What I thought was great is that the Huskies played with the heart of a champion when they fought back from a 21 point deficit and at one point took a 2 point lead. What really ignited the Huskies was the dust up that started after James Harden and Washington's Venoy Overton collided. The large comeback eventually went for not as the Dawgs finally were put away by the Sun Devils 75-65.

Washington will now focus on their opening round opponent in the NCAA Tournament Mississippi State. The Bulldogs are in the tournament because they went on a tear in the SEC tournament winning all four games they played and eventually knocking off Tennessee in the title game.

In other Dawg news former UW golfer Alex Prugh had two eagles in the final round of the New Zealand Open which is a Nationwide Tour event (think the minor league of golf). By winning the event Prugh made a cool $108,000 as well as getting to hang in New Zealand. Not bad I'd say.

Washington Weekly Update: Pac-10 Leaders

Five in a row. That's how many straight the Huskies have won over the UCLA Bruins in Seattle. That is also the number of current wins in a row the Huskies will have if they beat Arizona when they travel down to Tucson for a meeting with the Wildcats on Thursday night.

The Huskies just wrapped up a great week in hoops with an 86-75 victory over the boys from Westwood on Saturday (Women's swimming also took down UCLA on Saturday). Earlier in the week they slid by the Men of Troy 78-73 as well as retiring the jersey of the great Brandon Roy. Not too shabby I'd say.

Don't look now but these Dawgs are barking, especially after getting taken behind the woodshed by the Kansas Jayhawks in late November. Since that embarrassing defeat the Washington Huskies have gone 13-2, and the 2 defeats were by a combined 5 points (86-84 loss to the Florida Tebows and a 3 OT heart breaker to the Cal Bears).

This is a new week for the Huskies which I hope brings the same results of this past week....victory. Arizona and Arizona State are on the docket for this last week of January followed by a Northern California swing versus Cal and then Stanford.