SEATTLE — To snap their three-year winless streak against ranked teams, Mike Hopkins believed the Washington men’s basketball team needed to balance its emotions, execute the game plan and match No. 23 Auburn’s toughness.
“These are the games where there’s no motivational talk,” the UW coach said. “They know who you’re playing. They know the opportunity and now you got to go out and execute.
“The biggest thing is you can’t be too high and you can’t be too low. You just got to be able to be stoic and poised against a team like this. And you got to play for 40 minutes. You got to be tough. We’ve done that.”
