On December 6th, the Washington Huskies Women’s basketball team lost to the #2-ranked Stanford Cardinal, 83-50.
In their worst defensive performance this season, Washington Huskies’ defenders allowed Stanford to shoot 60.5% from 2-point range.
Although Stanford only managed 22.9% from three-point range, it did not matter.
The Cardinal had (an extremely high) 95 offensive possessions in the game, as compared to the Huskies’ 83 possessions, as a result of Stanford’s almost constant fastbreak offense.
Stanford scored 57 points against Washington’s player-to-player defense (i.e., man-to-man) on 45.3% shooting overall.
Stanford scored 28 points against Washington’s transition defense on 46.2% shooting overall.
However, the UW Huskies only managed to defend 34 possessions individually, which suggests multiple instances when Stanford offensive players evaded the UW defense and/or were unguarded.
The only Husky defender to hold Stanford offensive players scoreless, in an individual possession, was Nia Lowery — in 11 minutes of play, Lowery defended 3 possessions individually.
Quay Miller (6) and Khayla Rooks (5) had the highest defensive possessions defended for the Huskies.
In 29 minutes of play, Khayla Rooks had the most impressive defensive performance by defending the second most possessions — five — while only allowing a 20% field goal percentage.
In only 11 minutes of playing time, Darcy Rees had an equally impressive performance by defending four possessions, while only allowing a 25% field goal percentage.
Sophomore big Quay Miller played 19 minutes and had the highest field goal percentage against — 75%.
Hopefully, the Huskies will learn from this early loss to Stanford — now #1-ranked nationally; and raise their defensive performance to a much higher level, as a result.
