SEATTLE — San Diego men's basketball will look to continue its momentum into a second straight Quad-1 road opportunity, taking on the Washington Huskies in Hec Edmundson Pavilion Monday night.

The game will be broadcast on Big Ten Network with A.J. Kanell and Eldridge Recasner calling the action. Voice of the Toreros Jack Cronin (X: @JackCroninPXP) will have the call over the radio airwaves on USDToreros.com/watch. Inside coverage can also be found on the @USDMBB social channels.

THE HUSKY RUNDOWN

• Washington is 7-4 on the season, No. 52 in KenPom, sharing three common opponents as USD in 2025-26, topping No. 24 USC and Washington State, however falling to the WCC's Seattle U, 70-66 on Friday

• San Diego trails in the all-time series one game to three, the lone win coming in Hec Ed (of three total clashes there between the two) in the first ever meeting, 72-54 on Dec. 30, 2000 ... The last bout between the two sides was in Seattle, on Nov. 24, 2019

• USD head coach Steve Lavin is 10-4 as a head coach against UW, 3-4 on the road

LAST TIME OUT

- Friday night's crosstown rivalry matchup came down to the last second as USD junior guard Ty-Laur Johnson banked in a game-winning three to topple UC San Diego on the road, 82-80

- After UCSD took its first lead since the opening minutes with just 15 seconds to go, Johnson's 3-pointer through traffic with half a second remaining inside LionTree Arena secured the Toreros their first Quad-1 win in almost seven years and first road win in 678 days

- The Toreros led for a 36-minute stretch fronted by a strong rebounding effort, passing distribution and high-volume 3-point shooting from the Toreros ... A comeback by the NET No. 48 hosts saw them take the lead, only for 14 seconds at the end of the full 40 before Johnson's clutch winner

- Grad guard Adrian McIntyre made his second start of the season as the Toreros rolled out their ninth different starting lineup in 11 games

- USD found success early on the offensive glass and from behind the arc to get out to its first lead a couple of minutes in

- The hosts kept up by finding success of their own in the paint, going on an 8-0 run

- At the half, the Toreros led 40-31, plus-eight on total rebounds with 10 offensive boards, a 3-point disparity of 6-for-20 to 2-for-14 over one of the west coast's best 3-point shooting teams

- Aviles and Johnson made big plays out of the gates to start the second half

- USD went on to make seven straight field goals, four straight from 3-point territory, to lead by as much as 15 points

- UCSD slowly chipped away the next 10-plus minutes, cutting to within three on a 10-0 run

- The Toreros ran out of timeouts with 5:19 remaining following a failed challenge

- Finally, the favored Tritons took the lead back for the first time since the opening minutes of the game after Emanuel Prospere II went 2-for-2 at the free throw line with 15.7 seconds remaining

- Even after a jump ball, USD maintained possession in attempt to get a potential winning shot off

- And so they did, as Johnson's inbound with 4.6 left was returned to him by the freshman Aviles, the junior guard from Brooklyn, N.Y. then hitting the pull-up three off the backboard with just half a second remaining

- UCSD was unable to get another shot off, seeing through the USD 82-80 victory

NOTABLE VS. UCSD 

- Johnson finished with a Torero season-best 23 points in a second straight game, his fourth 20-plus point game of the season, to go with seven assists and tied career-highs three made 3-point field goals and six rebounds

- In his fourth career game, freshman Alejandro Aviles grabbed a USD season-high eight rebounds in addition to seven points, four assists, a steal and a block

- Grad guard Toneari Lane added a season-best 17 points ... Vuk Boskovic also finished in double-digit scoring, while Adrian McIntyre and Juanse Gorosito were both one point short

- The Toreros, entering the night 11th in the nation in free throw percentage, went 10-11 from the charity stripe, proving the difference in the victory

- USD logged season second bests in points (82), offensive rebounds (15), assists (19) and free throw percentage (90.9%)

- San Diego now leads the all-time series over UC San Diego, 21-3, its first win since the 2022-23 season

40-SPOT HURDLE

• After the road victory over NET No. 48 UC San Diego, USD catapulted 40 spots up to NET No. 217

KILLING TWO DROUGHTS WITH ONE WIN

• Following the Dec. 19 82-80 last-second win at UC San Diego, the Toreros secured their first Quadrant-1 victory since a Feb. 28, 2019, 40 Q1 attempts ago, a 91-90 win at San Francisco in overtime, a season in which the Toreros earned a bid in the NIT ... USD became one of just two WCC teams to claim a Quad-1 win this season, joining NET No. 3 Gonzaga

• San Diego also clinched its first road wins since Feb. 10, 2024, 17 away contests – 678 says – ago, an 89-84 win at Pacific

AT THE CHARITY STRIPE

• As of Dec. 20, USD ranks 6th nationally in free throw percentage at 79.1% ... The Toreros are one of three WCC teams in the top 15 of free throw shooting sides nationally

TAKEAWAY SURGE

• In a strong defensive start to December, USD forced 17-plus turnovers out of its opponents in three straight games: 17 vs. NAU (Dec. 13), 21 vs. USC (Dec. 9) and 22 at San Jose State (Dec. 5)

MURDERERS' ROW

• In a stretch of eight games from Dec. 9 to Jan. 4 the Toreros will face six top-100 NET teams, including a stretch of four Quad-1 opportunities in a six-game stand, three in four games

ALUMNUS MIKE BROWN GUIDES KNICKS TO NBA CUP TITLE

• USD men's basketball alumnus Mike Brown ('93) – one of five former Torero players to become NBA head coaches – added NBA Cup Champion to his long list of accolades as he led the New York Knicks to the 2025 mid-season title on Tuesday, Dec. 16

• Brown, a multiple-time NBA Coach of the Year, guided the Knicks to the third edition of the Emirates NBA Cup with a 124-113 win over the San Antonio Spurs in Las Vegas' T-Mobile Arena as his team went 6-1 overall in the tournament

• Brown played for the Toreros Men's Basketball program under Hank Egan from 1990-92 after transferring from Mesa Community College ... In 1993, Brown earned a degree from USD in Business Finance ... As a senior at USD in 1991-92, Brown started in 19 of 28 games, averaging 7.6 points and 3.1 rebounds ... He deserved the team's Bugelli Leadership Award and was also a recipient of the Zable Athletic Excellence Award

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