Pac-10 Tournament, First Round

It was an interesting evening of basketball at the Galen Center. In attendance were:

• 500 kids from the US Bank Girls' Clinic, each with her basketball.
• 40 Oregon Duck fans.
• 40 Washington Huskies fans
• 20 Arizona Wildcat fans
• 20 WSU Cougar fans
• 50 Cardinal fans
• A couple hundred other spectators

Most of us enjoyed watching Washington dominate Oregon in the first game and defeat them 69-43. Where were these Huskie players during the regular season? They left peaking a bit late — perhaps they'll upset Cal tomorrow!

Oregon was hampered by the absence of their second-best scorer, Taylor Lilley, who sat out the last 33 minutes of the game after taking a charge and suffering a concussion.

The Huskies made a bit of Pac-10 history tonight. They became the first #10 seed in the eight-year history of the tournament to defeat the #7 seed. Read the game report ...

The matchup for Friday's game at 5:00 will be Stanford vs Arizona. The Arizona/WSU game tonight was a very good hard-fought one. It was a close game until the last five minutes, when Arizona crept ahead. The Wildcats ensured their 79-72 victory over the Cougars by making all of their free throws in the last minute after making just 40% of them up to that point.

Ify Ibekwe and Amina Nnonjou were excellent, as they were against Stanford and Cal last week. They'll give us a tough game, but they looked pretty tired after tonight's effort. (No game report available yet).