By Daniel Dullum
Sports Radio Service
Saturday, February 20, 2016

AP photos: The Washington Huskies Dejounte Murray (5) drives against the Stanford Cardinals Rosco Allen (25) center and Marcus Allen (3) right  Saturday night in Seattle, Murray led the Huskies in scoring with 25 points

Washington snapped a four-game losing streak at the expense of Stanford Saturday, as the Huskies defeated the visiting Cardinal 64-53 in Pac-12 men’s basketball at Alaska Airlines Arena in Seattle.

With the victory, the Huskies (16-11 overall, 8-7 Pac-12) kept their slim NCAA tournament hopes alive.

Dejounte Murray paced Washington with 25 points, followed by Marquese Chriss with 11 and Malik Dime with 10. Andrew Adams, the Pac-12’s leading scorer at 20.4 points per game, finished with eight points – all of them at the free throw line.

Defensively, Stanford did what it wanted to do, holding the Huskies’ top perimeter shooters – Andrews, David Crisp and Dominic Green to 0-for-18 field goal shooting.

Rosco Allen led the Cardinal (13-12, 6-8) with 20 points, but no other Stanford player reached double-figures. Michael Humphrey led Stanford with 10 boards.

Though the Huskies failed to score during a five-minute stretch early in the second half, Stanford was unable to capitalize. Matisse Thybulle’s three-point play with 13:41 remaining snapped the Washington drought and ignited an eight-point run that gave the Huskies a 40-35 lead at the 11:58 mark.

After the Cardinal pulled to within 40-39, Allen missed a layup that could have provided Stanford with the lead. Washington responded with another three-point play by Thybulle, a lob dunk by Dime and a driving layup by Murry, giving the Huskies a 49-41 lead – their largest of the contest.

The Cardinal pulled within four points twice, but could get no closer, as Washington built a 15-point lead in the closing minutes.

Stanford returns home to Maples Pavilion on Thursday to host Southern California. Tip-off is scheduled for 8 p.m.