Ladies and gentlemen, your Washington Huskies. This is yet another game that does nothing but define the season this team has had. Struggle in the first half, better in the second half. This game did little to allay the fear that Husky Nation feels any time the Dawgs take a road trip.

The team sleepwalked through the first half, leading to a grand total of 22 first half points. 22. Any Romar-coached team that scores 22 points in a half has work to do. Tempo was in the favor of the Sun Devils all night long. There were very few opportunities for the Huskies to use their superior athleticism to their advantage, as the ball was walked up the court, only for Abdul Gaddy to find four teammates asking him what a "play" is that the Sun Devils kept talking about. What is this "offensive set" that we hear so much about? These are questions that I am pretty sure Romar is asking his assistant coaches while his players take turns attempting to beat their man off of the bounce.

Today has been a long day, so instead of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly you get some bullet holes in memory of the not yet dead Jeff Sullivan of Lookout Landing.

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Washington squares off against Arizona State. The game started at 5:30 and it is on ROOT sports. Let's cheer on our beloved Dawgs and watch future NBA stars Wroten and Ross tear it up tonight. I suspect there will be an ASJ sighting and CJ Wilcox has been cleared to play, although his minutes will probably be limited.

So come join the usual suspects and have a good time as we hopefully knock off ASU.

Go Huskies!

The weather is great wish you were here...with that out of the way here is a quick update. All you guys are probably aware of this but Bellevue's Jake Eldenkramp has committed to go to Washington. He becomes the 20th known commit in the class.

Bellarmine's Michael Rector may be headed to Stanford. It is too early to call but where there is smoke there is fire and that one has been smoldering for quite some time.

Cedric Dozier will visit UW this weekend. The Huskies are now recruiting him as a WR and Sark has personally taken over his recruitment.

Arik Armstead still remains in play for Washington according to various sources out there. Tosh Lupoi is probably the biggest factor in that change of heart. Armstead is out of visits so if he does visit UW it would be on his own dime.

The Huskies continue to lead for Jordan Payton and I would be pretty surprised if he ends up anywhere else.

Shaq Thomson still has UW at the top of his list but now says that he may not decide until after signing day. Oregon is dropping out of the race for Shaq which is no big surprise after he was stood up by Kelly last weekend.

Zach Banner will announce on Monday and sad to say we keep hearing USC....but that could just be the afterglow remaining from his most recent trip...we shall see.

We keep hearing that Chip Kelly is still being pursued by the NFL and will probably move on after LOI day which would be about par for the course by Kelly and Oregon.

As some of you might know, the baseball field just North of Husky Stadium is undergoing a pretty healthy renovation of it's own. From what I understand there will eventually be new bleachers, dugouts, and a new clubhouse and support building. The first phase of this facelift is the new clubhouse.

I'm lucky enough to be working on this project, and thought I'd share with you a couple of pictures I manged to snag. It's nice to see sports besides Football and Basketball being taken care of by the AD. It's also comforting to know that we're not lagging so severely behind in terms of facilities for sports like Baseball.

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This weekend the Huskies will travel down to Arizona to take on Arizona State and Arizona, respectively. This could very well be the perfect timing for this trip, as the Sun Devils are struggling this year, and Arizona isn't up to the level they were last year when they were led by super-stud Derrick Williams. This trip comes after strong second half showings at home versus the NoCal schools Cal and Stanford. You can find post-game reports here and here. If the Huskies want to take down the post-Williams Wildcats however, they will have to put forth an effort that they did similar to the second half of these games. Sean Miller built a strong program over at Xavier, and will have these Wildcats turned into regular attendees to the Big Dance in no time.

First the Huskies will have to get through the Sun Devils however.

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