Washington 78, Oregon 70

Key play of the game: 80 seconds left. Oregon has just cut the Husky lead to three. The Dawgs are struggling to score, they've had only two field goals in eight minutes.

Venoy Overton sneaks through a crease in the defense, drives to the hole, leaps, twists in mid-air, and delivers a bullet pass to a wide-open Ryan Appleby, who drains a three.

(After the game, ex-Dawg Hans Gasser, who was visiting the locker room, says the only player who he ever saw do that was Brandon Roy...so he told Romar, who told Bob Rondeau on the post game show.)

Oregon and Washington both have one-dimensional offensive players--all they do is shoot. For Oregon: Tajuan Porter. For Washington: Ryan Appleby.

The difference tonight was that the Dawgs also have Overton, who was able to penetrate and dish to get Appleby open looks. Oregon doesn't have a player like that.

Porter shot 3 for 12. Appleby shot 7 for 12. And that, friends, was the
difference in the game.

Dawgs play again on Saturday, at Hec Ed, against Oregon State, at 3pm.