Washington-USC Game Notes
January 07, 2005 | Women's Basketball
Jan. 7, 2005
USC hit seven-of-16 three-point attempts (.438) including three in a 14-0 second-half run that turned a 38-31 deficit into a 45-38 lead. The Women of Troy entered the game atop the Pac-10 rankings with 6.5 made threes per game.
USC held the Huskies off the scoreboard for nearly four minutes midway through the second half to turn a 38-31 deficit into a 45-38 lead, then were held scoreless for the next three minutes as Washington leveled the score at 45-45.
The win was the first for USC in Seattle since March of 2000, when Washington played its games downtown at Mercer Arena. Prior to tonight, the Women of Troy had not won at Bank of America Arena (formerly Hec Edmundson Pavilion) since Jan. 2, 1997. Washington is 15-5 all-time against USC in Seattle.
USC's win snapped a two-game UW winning streak in the series, including a Husky run of eight wins in nine series games. UW has won the last two straight in the series, and eight of the last nine ...
Breanne Watson led all Husky scorers with 12 points, equaling her season-high and marking just the second time this season that Watson has held or shared the UW scoring lead. The sophomore last held at least a piece of the scoring lead in the team's season-opening win over South Carolina, when she and two other Huskies each scored 12 points.
Interestingly, Watson is the seventh different Husky to lead the team in scoring in the last seven games. Cameo Hicks (15 vs. Baylor, 12/15), Dominique Banks (19 vs. Colorado, 12/21), Cheri Craddock (14 vs. Arizona, 12/27), Kayla Burt (12 vs. ASU, 12/29), Jill Bell (14 at Cal, 1/2) and Kristen O'Neill (16 at Stanford, 1/4) led the Huskies, respectively, in the six games leading up to tonight's contest.
After matching USC with 25 points in the first half, Washington continued a season-long trend by being outscored in the second half, 37-27. For the season, Washington has outscored opponents by 18 points in first halves of games, but has been outscored by 63 points in second halves. The Huskies have only outscored their opponents in the second half on four occasions - notably, they are 4-0 in those games, 2-9 otherwise.
The Huskies also continued a trend of shooting poorly in the second half, their percentage dropping to 27 percent (9x33) after a 35-percent first half (10x29).
Washington opened the game 1-for-6 from the field, and 1 for 4 at the free-throw line.
USC's 9-4 start is its best since the 1997 season.
