UW Men's Basketball | Huskies pull out a close 84-83 victory over Stanford

On the night he became the first player in Washington history to record 1,500 points and 1,000 rebounds, Jon Brockman might have gotten his most vital of both.

Brockman's rebound and putback with 4.6 seconds left gave the Huskies an 84-83 win over the Stanford Cardinal on Thursday night in a highly charged Pac-10 men's basketball game.

Brockman, who snuck free on the opposite side, snared the rebound of a Matthew Bryan-Amaning shot on a play that began with 10.6 seconds left, though it all seemed a lot longer to Brockman.

"That play seemed to take about 30 minutes," said the 6-foot-7 senior forward. "The ball was in the air forever. I just saw Matt taking the shot from the right, kind of midpost, and I just had a feeling it was going to come back off the side. And I went in and wedged myself in, and luckily it came right to me."

It was the only basket of the second half for Brockman, who had missed his previous six attempts. He finished with 19 points and a career-high-tying 18 rebounds.

"They took the lid off the basket and it went in," said Brockman, who said his last game-winning shot came at Snohomish High School, when he hit a heave from backcourt to beat Mount Vernon.

Stanford (11-2, 1-2 Pac-10) then tried a deep pass to Landry Fields, but the ball bounced off his foot with 2.2 seconds left as he attempted to get in position for a shot. The Cardinal vehemently protested the call, but UW then ran the clock out.

And when it was over, UW had its ninth win in a row — Washington's longest streak since starting the 2005-06 season 11-0, when Brandon Roy was a senior. The Huskies is now 11-3 overall and 2-0 in Pac-10.

"It felt like it was a big win," said freshman guard Isaiah Thomas, who finished with 18 points.

It certainly had that kind of atmosphere as a season-high crowd of 9,291 at Edmundson Pavilion greeted the Huskies, who opened Pac-10 play Saturday with a 68-48 win at Washington State.

Neither team led by more than eight, and there were 11 lead changes and seven ties in a game that was intense throughout.

"It was real aggressive, real physical," said Bryan-Amaning, who scored 17 points off the bench.

It was also real frantic in the first half, as the two teams combined for 96 points — Stanford led 49-47 at halftime — the kind of pace not seen since the NBA left town.

Brockman had 16 points and nine rebounds at halftime, passing the 1,500-point mark along the way. He surpassed the 1,000-rebound barrier two games ago.

Stanford took an eight-point lead early in the second half before UW rallied, thanks in large part to a mammoth rebound edge. Washington outboarded Stanford 44-28 for the game and 25-11 in the second half.

The Huskies, in fact, had 23 offensive rebounds to just 21 defensive boards to make up for some spotty shooting in the second half.

"I guess it's our identity now," said Bryan-Amaning of UW's rebounding.

After O'Dea High grad Mitch Johnson put Stanford ahead 75-73 with 6:11 left, UW regained the lead and held it until there was 14.4 seconds left when Anthony Goods hit a jumper.

Washington called timeout with 10.6 seconds left to set up the final shot.

Huskies coach Lorenzo Romar wanted to isolate forward Quincy Pondexter for a move in the lane. But Pondexter found his way blocked and passed off to Bryan-Amaning.

"I knew with the way we've been rebounding I just had to go up," he said.

Said Romar: "Matt had a great shot, missed it, then Jon had a greater shot."

Still, Stanford had a last chance when Drew Shiller threw the deep pass to Fields, who appeared in line for a good shot in the lane before he lost the ball while being guarded by Justin Holiday.

"The design wasn't always to go to Landry," said Stanford coach Johnny Dawkins. "We saw no one was on the inbounder, so we decided to call another play based on what we had seen. That's why we called timeout. We have to be strong and finish in that situation."

Note

• Forward Charles Garcia Jr., who signed a letter of intent with the Huskies in November, is no longer on the roster at Riverside (Calif.) Community College, apparently due to grades issues, and his playing future this season is uncertain. Also unclear is whether he will be eligible to attend UW next fall.

Bob Condotta: 206-515-5699 or bcondotta@seattletimes.com

Box score

Percentages: FG .492, FT .750. Three-point goals: 8-18, .444 (Goods 3-6, Green 2-3, Fields 1-1, Paul 1-2, Johnson 1-3, Hill 0-1, Shiller 0-2). Team rebounds: 3. Blocked shots: 4 (Hill 2, Owens, Fields). Turnovers: 12 (Johnson 5, Fields 3, Shiller 2, Mann). Steals: 4 (Goods, Mann, Green, Johnson). Technical fouls: None.

Percentages: FG .448, FT .667. Three-point goals: 2-9, .222 (Thomas 1-3, Dentmon 1-6). Team rebounds: 3. Blocked shots: 2 (Bryan-Amaning 2). Turnovers: 11 (Pondexter 3, Overton 2, Thomas 2, Gant, Dentmon, Brockman, Bryan-Amaning). Steals: 6 (Brockman 2, Thomas 2, Gant, Dentmon). Technical fouls: None.

Attendance: 9,291. Officials: Verne Harris, Randy McCall, Larry Spaulding.