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Basketball: Huskies get one for the Pac-10
By Jeff Faraudo
Thursday, March 18th, 2010 at 9:53 pm in Basketball, NCAA Tournament.
AROUND THE PAC-10
– Washington 80, Marquette 78: Quincy Pondexter made the winning shot with 1.7 seconds left and the 11th-seeded Huskies (25-9) rallied from 15 points down and won their eighth straight game. Isaiah Thomas led UW with 19 points and eight assists and Pondexter, after shooting 1-for-7 in the first half, contributed 18 points and and 11 rebounds at the game in San Jose. UW will face third-seeded New Mexico in Saturday’s second-round game.
LOCAL HEROES
Omar Samhan (Danville-San Ramon Valley HS) scored 29 points, leading 10th-seeded Saint Mary’s College (27-5) to an 80-71 upset win over Richmond at Providence, R.I., the Gaels’ first NCAA Tournament win since 1959. Samhan also had 12 rebounds to record his 20th double-double of the season. He pushed his career total to 1,801 points and his school-record season total to 677. Samham is within reach of becoming just the sixth play in Bay Area history to reach 700 for a season . . . Freshman Will Cherry (Oakland-McClymonds HS) had eight points, three assists, three steals and two rebounds but Montana lost 62-57 to New Mexico in San Jose.
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March 18th, 2010 at 10:59 pm
Way to go Huskies, get the Pac some much needed respect. (Big east my ass!)
March 18th, 2010 at 11:10 pm
I was just watching Gameday and everybody picked Louisville over Cal, we will see about that. On the other hand ever 8 v 9 match up i saw in the highlights show the 9th seed victories (Wake over Texas, Northern Iowa over UNLV to name a few) and as u know we are seeded 9 and are playing 8 seed louisville… hmm…
March 18th, 2010 at 11:12 pm
We’re an 8 seed. Louisville is the 9 seed.
March 18th, 2010 at 11:29 pm
Washington played an inspired and inspiring game. Although I didn’t like seeing them win at the Pac-10 Tourney, now I’m glad they did, so that they got into the NCAA draw to take out a Big East team; they’ve earned my respect and admiration (at least for this year). If Washington had not earn the auto-bid, Arizona State may have been selected instead; they couldn’t even beat Jacksonville on their home court. Or Cal may have been the only Pac-10 team at the NCAA Tourney.
Louisville is the next Big East team to go down…! Go Bears!
(Also, great job by St. Mary’s. Another great performance.)
March 18th, 2010 at 11:55 pm
Alex, I just noticed, oops… hence why I came back to this comment section to nullify myself. Well I can only hope that whatever gods were behind today’s 9 over 8 upsets take a brake tomorrow and and let things take their natural course.
March 19th, 2010 at 9:44 am
but the big east is the best-est most wonderful-est conference in the history of the world. how is this possible? could Seth Davis be wrong?!?
could the talking heads have been a little over the top with how much they crapped on west coast basketball this season?
i’m sure they’ll be retracting their pre-tournament statements like ‘Illinois or Marquette would win the Pac 10 easily’ because that’s what people with integrity do.
i’ll be waiting, Seth.