It appeared the Huskies were upon one of the largest late-season collapses in program history. After finishing the regular season on a four-game losing skid, the Huskies overcame a 22-point, first-half deficit — biggest in program history — against the 12th-seeded Oregon (4-27) to prevail 69-62 Thursday night to advance to the quarterfinals in the
Author: Nathan Shoup
Nathan Shoup
Nathan Shoup is a senior communications major at Pacific Lutheran University who graduates in May. He became sports editor at PLU's newspaper the past summer after covering sports for the newspaper and writing for the university's athletic website his junior year. Shoup is a recipient of PLU’s President’s Scholarship, maintaining a 3.4 cumulative GPA. He is also a pitcher on the Lutes baseball team that has a 73-46 record in his three years with the program. He is the lone resident of Woodland, in southwest Washington, in the past decade to play baseball at a four-year university.
Before No. 5 Washington met No. 12 Oregon in the first-day finale, the first three games of the women’s Pac-12 Tournament at KeyArena Thursday night contained no surprises. Seventh-seeded USC handled 10th-seeded Oregon State, 64-57. Sixth-seeded Utah breezed past 11th-seeded Arizona, 66-48. Even the No. 8 Cougars beat the ninth-seeded Sun Devils, 48-41. Attendance for
After a dismal four-year stay in Los Angeles, Pac-12 women’s hoops tourney begins a three-year run at KeyArena, where Washington likely must win four games to make NCAA field.
The fourth-ranked Stanford women cruised to a 71-36 win over the University of Washington Thursday night at Hec Ed. But the Huskies lost the Pac-12 Conference hoops matchup Tuesday, when coach Kevin McGuff announced the one-game suspensions of two of his top players, Jazmine Davis (19.2 ppg), Talia Walton (13.9) and reserve Deborah Meeks.