Washington Splits Road Trip With Blowout Win Over Oregon State
From start to finish Washington's basketball team was in cruise control against Oregon State, holding down the Beavers for a 67-55 victory on the road Saturday afternoon.
Another strong performance from graduate forward Keion Brooks Jr., who finished with a game-high 23 points and 9 rebounds — one shy of a double-double — in 36 minutes made it happen.
Brooks, the Pac-12's leading scorer averaging 21 points per game coming into the contest, got the Huskies (13-11, 5-8) going early with 7 points to jump out to an 24-9 lead.
A few minutes later after the Beavers knocked down a pair of 3-pointers, Brooks closed the first half with 11 more points to send his team into halftime leading 42-22.
Not to be outdone, OSU came out of the break on a 9-0 scoring run in the first four minutes to cut the deficit to 42-31.
That was as close as the Beavers would come.
Graduate forward Moses Wood knocked down a 3-pointer, his third of the game, to end the OSU run with 15:11 remaining in the second half.
Wood, who finished with 13 points, and point guard Sahvir Wheeler, who added 15 points, helped Brooks and the Huskies close out the second half to secure the 12-point victory in Corvallis.
The Huskies defense showed up on Saturday, holding the Beavers to 19-of-56 shooting (33.9 percent). Out-rebounding OSU 38-32 and staying out of foul trouble, UW did everything it needed to do to come away with a win.
Washington returns home next week to host Stanford at Alaska Airlines Arena on Thursday.
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