This wasn't the weekend that most Dawg fans were looking for from the Huskies. The Huskies got trampled by Oregon getting down 8-0 early, and it might as well have been over from there. The Huskies defense was poor, as we have seen before when they are on the road, and they couldn't get any kind of rhythm going. It isn't necessarily the fact that they lost to Oregon, but the fact that they got embarrassed in Eugene, losing by 25. This is yet another poor performance from the Huskies on the road, and one can wonder, how many more losses like this does this Husky team need to be motivated to not let it happen again. This goes back to the fact that the Huskies don't have a vocal leader on the floor like they have had in the past such as Isaiah Thomas. I believe Tony Wroten can be that leader, but he is still a freshman and needs to gain trust from his teammates. Moving forward the Huskies need to find someone that can step up and push the team to that next level, I don't care who that player is, but they need to it starting this weekend.
With the win that the Huskies held onto against Oregon State on Sunday, the Dawgs still share a tie for 1st place in the Pac 12. In order to hold on to that 1st place spot the Huskies need to go at least 4-1 in their last 5 games. I would go as far as to say that the Huskies need to go 5-0 because Cal still has the tiebreaker from when they beat Washington head to head earlier this season. These last 5 games are going to make or break the Huskies season, these games more than likely will decide the Huskies postseason fate in respect to the NCAA tournament.
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