Notebook | Pondexter reunited with Lopez twins

A Stanford-Washington game these days also serves as something of a reunion for UW's Quincy Pondexter and twins Robin and Brook Lopez of the Cardinal. The three grew up together in Fresno, Calif., playing at San Joaquin Memorial High.

So while the 31 points of the 7-foot Brook Lopez on Thursday night led Stanford to a 65-51 win over UW, Pondexter still managed a slight bit of pride in the accomplishment.

Even seeing Lopez dunk the ball on UW time and again, something Pondexter said he has long advised.

"Him and Robin used to never dunk the ball,'' Pondexter said. "They would go up and shoot jump hooks. I tried to tell him, 'You guys are huge. Just use your size and go to the basket.' It's making them a lot of money now.''

The game came two days after Stanford coach Trent Johnson had told reporters that he didn't have a 30-point scorer on his team.

"He proved me wrong with that,'' Johnson said.

Lopez said all he really cared about was the win, Stanford's first at Washington since 2002.

"We always come here and they hit us first,'' Lopez said. "So we wanted to come back and hit them first.''

IT in the house

Isaiah Thomas, the former Curtis High guard who has signed to play at Washington next season, attended the game and sat behind the Huskies bench, arriving late in the first half.

Thomas is attending South Kent (Conn.) Prep School, which is on a brief winter break -- he said he's here until Monday.

Thomas, who the Huskies originally planned to come in this season before he was forced to spend an extra year at South Kent due to academic difficulties, still needs a qualifying test score to become eligible next season.

But he said he's optimistic after taking the test again Saturday.

"I think it went well,'' he said. "I've been studying hard. My grades are good.''

Thomas said he hopes to know the results in two to three weeks.

South Kent is 13-10 for the season with Thomas averaging 28 points and seven assists.

Free throw woes continue

The Huskies, who rank last in the Pac-10 in free-throw percentage at 59.6, hit 18 of 32 free throws in the game (56.2 percent). They made just three of their first 13 as the game slipped away early.

Coach Lorenzo Romar could only scratch his head after seeing Joe Wolfinger, who had made 4 of 5 this season and whom coaches regard as one of the team's better free-throw shooters, miss two in a row and barely scrape in the third after getting fouled on a three-pointer.

"I've never seen him do that in practice, horse, anything,'' Romar said. "Sometimes it can get contagious.''

NOTES

• Jon Brockman said he is playing with a slight groin pull.

"It's pretty sore,'' he said of the injury, apparently the result of season-long wear and tear. "It definitely limits everything that I'm doing. But that's the season. You've got to play through stuff.''

Brockman played 34 minutes against Stanford.

• Washington was out-rebounded for the sixth time this season, 41-36. The Huskies are 2-4 in those games.

• Brenda Bryan, the mother of UW freshman center Matthew Bryan-Amaning, was in attendance, the first time she had visited Seattle. Bryan-Amaning grew up in London but the family lives in Ghana.

• Sitting behind the Cardinal bench was Mariners president Chuck Armstrong, a graduate of the Stanford law school.

• The Stanford game had no live or delayed TV, the second straight Thursday that UW's game was not available. But all but one of UW's remaining games is scheduled to be televised in some manner. The school announced Thursday that next Thursday's game against USC will be on FSN Prime Ticket and Fox College Sports. FSN-NW will also televise it delayed later that night. The only game left without TV is the return date with Stanford in Palo Alto on Feb. 28.

STANFORD (17-3, 6-2 PAC-10)
min		fgm-a	ftm-a	or-t	a	pf	pts
Lopez	36	11-17	9-12	5-13	3	3	31
Washington	35	1-5	0-1	1-5	3	2	2
Lopez	20	2-4	2-2	0-2	0	4	6
Johnson	30	2-7	3-4	0-7	6	2	8
Goods	12	1-4	2-2	0-1	1	3	4
Fields	22	2-5	3-4	1-5	1	2	8
Shiller	6	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0
Hill	22	1-4	0-2	2-3	3	1	2
Brown	1	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0
Owens	1	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	2	0
Finger	15	2-3	0-0	1-2	1	2	4
	200	22-52	19-27	11-41	18	21	65

Percentages: FG .423, FT .704. Three-point goals: 2-12 (Lopez 0-1, Johnson 1-4, Goods 0-2, Fields 1-3, Shiller 0-1, Hill 0-1). Team rebounds: 3. Blocked shots: 7 (Lopez 3, Washington, Lopez 3). Turnovers: 12 (Lopez 5, Lopez 2, Johnson 2, Goods, Shiller). Steals: 5 (Lopez, Washington, Lopez, Johnson, Fields).

WASHINGTON (12-9, 3-5)
min		fgm-a	ftm-a	or-t	a	pf	pts
Wallace	6	0-1	0-0	0-2	0	1	0
Brockman	34	4-12	5-11	4-13	0	3	13
Overton	16	0-1	3-4	1-1	2	3	3
Morris	16	2-7	0-0	1-1	0	2	4
Appleby	33	4-9	0-0	0-1	0	3	10
Smith	5	0-0	0-0	0-1	0	2	0
Dentmon	25	2-8	1-2	0-4	1	0	5
B.-Amaning	13	0-4	0-0	0-1	0	3	0
Holiday	8	0-1	0-0	0-1	0	1	0
Pondexter	28	3-5	8-12	4-8	1	1	15
Wolfinger	16	0-4	1-3	0-0	0	3	1
	200	15-52	18-32	12-36	4	22	51

Percentages: FG .288, FT .563. Three-point goals: 3-12 (Morris 0-1, Appleby 2-7, Dentmon 0-1, Holiday 0-1, Pondexter 1-1, Wolfinger 0-1). Team rebounds: 3. Blocked shots: 3 (Brockman, Morris, Holiday). Turnovers: 11 (Wallace, Brockman 4, Overton 3, Morris 2, Wolfinger). Steals: 7 (Brockman, Overton 2, Morris, Dentmon, Bryan-Amaning 2).

Stanford	33	32	—	65
Washington	22	29	—	51