To our loyal readers:
We want to notify you of changes to our schedule for the coming week, as well as a new feature we will be debuting here on the site.
Tomorrow (Wednesday), we will be featuring the first five members of this week’s Top 11. The Top 11 will continue to be printed on a Thursday/Sunday/Monday schedule going forward, but because this Thursday is Thanksgiving, we will publish the first installment a day early this week.
Also you may have noticed that our left-hand sidebar now includes a “Featured Segments” section with direct links to each of our regular segments on the site. Three of the six featured segments will be on a weekly schedule as far as when they’ll be printed on the site. They are:
- Dawg Pack Dirt: Printed on the morning of every Husky Men’s Basketball home game.
- Individual Power Rankings: Printed on Saturday afternoons/evenings.
- The Top 11: #11-7 printed on Thursdays (Wednesday, this week only), #6-2 printed on Sundays, #1 printed on Mondays.
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The Washington Men’s Basketball team fell to 2-2 on the young season last night with a 73-54 road loss to the Kansas Jayhawks. Playing on a “neutral” court in Kansas City as part of the CBE Classic Tournament, the Dawgs were unable to overcome a horrific shooting night that saw them go 19-65 from the floor (29.2%) and 9-16 from the line (56.3%).
Isaiah Thomas led the Huskies with 17 points on a disappointing 6-16 shooting night (37.5%). Thomas did, however, knock down 3-8 shots from beyond the arc.
No other Husky player finished in double figures scoring, and senior captain Jon Brockman posted his second-straight off night with only seven points on 2-9 shooting. Brockman still contributed on the glass, though, collecting 18 rebounds (6 offensive) in the losing effort.
The Dawgs were unable to work their way around a stifling Kansas zone defense, and were victims of poor distribution. The team as a whole amounted only nine assists, with seven of those coming from Justin Dentmon (the other two were courtesy of Venoy Overton).
The zone D has been a Husky killer in recent years. Poor free-throw shooting has discouraged the Dawgs from directly attacking the zone, and poor outside shooting has handicapped their ability to force opponents back into man defense. In man-to-man alignment, the Huskies have been able to outquick opposing players and move the ball around. In zone, the Huskies typically rotate the ball around the perimeter and attempt to work it inside. On the rare occasion that they find an entry into one of their low-post players, that player is immediately double-teamed and is forced to either take a tough shot or kick the ball back out. It is an illness that has yet to be cured for the Huskies.
Washington will take on Florida tonight in Kansas City in their final game of the CBE Tournament.
Some parts of this story have been edited for accuracy.
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