Rock bottom arrived with Markelle Fultz wearing a sweatshirt and sweatpants, seated on the bench for the duration of Washington’s never-had-a-chance loss at Colorado on Thursday night.
Fultz, the Pac-12’s leading scorer and the projected No. 1 pick in this year’s NBA draft, sat out with a sore knee. He is considered day-to-day. So he helped his teammates stretch before the game. He helped contest warm-up jumpers. He helped rebound during shooting drills.
Once the game began, he could only watch, a spectator for UW’s most inevitable display of ineptitude.
This has been a trying season for the Huskies, and that’s in spite of Fultz being mostly spectacular.