Minnesota hosts the Washington Huskies after Dawson Garcia scored 21 points in Minnesota's 73-51 loss to the Michigan State Spartans.

BOTTOM LINE: Northern Illinois plays Western Michigan after Quaran McPherson scored 22 points in Northern Illinois’ 71-66 loss to the Central Michigan Chippewas. The Broncos have gone 2-6 at home. Western Michigan is the MAC leader with 11.3 offensive rebounds per game led by Owen Lobsinger averaging 2.2.

But for the Washington men's basketball team, an 81-77 loss to No. 19 Illinois on Jan. 5 showed a ton of promise. The Huskies (10-8, 1-6 Big Ten) stormed back from a 17-point deficit to tie the game at 75 — pushing the conference favorites to the brink in front of an electric home crowd.

BOTTOM LINE: Western Michigan hosts Northern Illinois after Chansey Willis Jr. scored 21 points in Western Michigan’s 85-76 loss to the Buffalo Bulls.

The Spartans (18-2, 9-0 Big Ten) are riding a 13-game winning streak, their longest in six years, and just became Izzo’s first squad to go unbeaten in both December and January. Even Izzo, whose team entered the season unranked, didn’t see this coming but still wants more from a deep group.

Danny Sprinkle has his University of Washington basketball team playing hard, at a high-energy level for a couple of weeks now. The Husky coach just welcomed b

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The Huskies found the back of the net early as Tristan Fraser fired a shot on net, and through a scrum of bodies, the puck found freshman Filip Sitar who snuck it home for the first goal of the game.

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