There was little Markelle Fultz could do to stem the onslaught forced by the UCLA Bruins upon the Washington Huskies when these teams met in early February.
Fultz, the Pac-12’s leading scorer and the projected No. 1 pick in this year’s NBA draft, scored 25 points that night. UCLA, perhaps the nation’s most dynamic offensive team, won the game by 41.
“UCLA was really efficient,” UW coach Lorenzo Romar remarked, “and we weren’t very good.”
Imagine, then, how lopsided it might have been if Fultz hadn’t played.
Or if the game had been played on the road, and not at sold-out Hec Edmundson Pavilion.