Judging by their data, one would not assume the sport between Rutgers and Washington on Wednesday evening in Seattle has match implications.
Nevertheless it does.
The visiting Scarlet Knights (12-14, 5-10 Massive Ten) and the Huskies (13-12, 4-10) are battling for the fifteenth and closing berth into the convention match subsequent month in Indianapolis.
The Huskies are coming off a 75-73 victory Saturday at Penn State as Mekhi Mason scored 20 factors, making a season-high six 3-pointers. DJ Davis and Franck Kepnang scored 14 apiece. Main scorer Nice Osobor (14.9 ppg), regardless of lacking observe with flu-like signs, almost had the primary triple-double at school historical past with six factors, 13 rebounds and 10 assists.
“All this does is make the following sport larger,” stated first-year Huskies coach Danny Sprinkle, whose workforce has received three of its final 5 following a six-game skid during which 5 of these defeats have been to ranked groups.
“However this was our greatest win of the yr,” the coach stated.
Rutgers has a pair of doable NBA lottery picks in freshmen Ace Bailey and Dylan Harper and opened the season within the Prime 25, however little has gone proper in Massive Ten play.
Bailey (18.6 factors per sport) and Harper (18.5) mixed for simply 21 on Sunday at Oregon in a 75-57 loss — the Scarlet Knights’ third in a row.
“Clearly, we have to play higher on each ends of the ground,” Rutgers coach Steve Pikiell stated. “Our offense did not assist our protection, and our protection did not assist our offense. We have got to share the ball higher, too. … I’ve acquired to get us enjoying higher, that is for certain.”
As for Bailey and Harper?
“They’re just a bit bit out of sync,” Pikiell stated. “Groups get actual bodily with Ace. With Dylan, they’re within the gaps. I am attempting to clarify to the blokes they’re simply coming within the gaps (defensively), they are not even double-teaming. You have to make the additional cross and so they’ve acquired to make a few of these alternatives. We acquired some respectable appears to be like (in opposition to Oregon) and did not capitalize on them.”
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