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Huskies' Bajema Suspended For Questionable Play at UCLA

The UW swingman will sit out Saturday's game against USC.
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Huskies' Bajema Suspended For Questionable Play at UCLA
Huskies' Bajema Suspended For Questionable Play at UCLA

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A University of Washington basketball season already headed down a troublesome path took yet another negative turn when swingman Cole Bajema was suspended for Saturday's game at USC.

The Pac-12 handed out the punishment to the Huskies' starting forward for a play at UCLA in which Bajema appeared to purposely make contact with an opponent in the groin area.

After reviewing the first-half play in the UW's 70-61 loss, the conference determined that Bajema should have been penalized for a flagrant foul and ejected from the game.

Instead, the 6-foot-7 senior from Lynden, Washington, drew a personal foul and played the rest of the way. 

"It is our duty to ensure competition does not cross beyond the line of aggressive play to excessive behavior," Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff said in a statement.

Bajema, who averages 9.9 points per game, is the second-leading scorer for the UW (13-11 overall, 5-8 Pac-12), which plays USC (16-6, 8-3) on Saturday night at 6:30 p.m. in Los Angeles.

This is just the latest setback for a Husky team that has dropped eight of its past 12 games, including its last two, and appears headed for a coaching change with Mike Hopkins. 

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Dan Raley has worked for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, as well as for MSN.com and Boeing, the latter as a global aerospace writer. His sportswriting career spans four decades and he's covered University of Washington football and basketball during much of that time. In a working capacity, he's been to the Super Bowl, the NBA Finals, the MLB playoffs, the Masters, the U.S. Open, the PGA Championship and countless Final Fours and bowl games.

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