Suggs, Jarreau lead Washington past USC 65-57
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SEATTLE (AP) — Dewayne Dedmon could only watch from the USC bench as his Trojans watched a two-point lead turn into a seven-point deficit midway through the second half.
The rest of the USC team was just as helpless as host Washington sunk 17 free throws without a miss over the final 17:40 to put the Trojans away, 65-57, on Wednesday night.
"I don't know what it was," USC senior Jio Fontan said after the Trojans lost for only the third time in a span of nine games. "Once they got to the free-throw line, they started to knock them down every time."
Scott Suggs scored 18 points and redshirt freshman Jernard Jarreau added a career-high 12 for the Huskies (17-13, 9-8 Pac-12). Six of Washington's made free throws came during a 13-2 spurt midway through the second half, which helped blow open a close game before Suggs and freshman point guard Andrew Andrews put the Trojans away down the stretch.
Andrews scored five of his seven points in the final 2:07. Suggs scored 11 of his 18 points after halftime, making 8 of 13 shots for the game. The fifth-year senior has averaged 19 points per game while making 21 of 33 shots over the Huskies' past three games.
Washington won its third straight game after losing eight of its previous 10.
Dedmon had 18 points for USC, which was leading 41-39 when he collected his fourth foul and came out of the game with 11:51 remaining. Washington went on to score nine unanswered points and never trailed again.
"He played a great game, and he definitely makes a difference on the floor," Washington's C.J. Wilcox said.
Dedmon returned with 6:10 remaining, just in time to watch Suggs hit a 3-pointer that gave the Huskies a 48-41 lead.
Washington made just 4 of 13 shots from 3-point range but made up for it with marksmanship at the free-throw line.
"It was all about confidence," said Jarreau, who made all of eight of his free-throw attempts in the second half.
Jarreau and Andrews combined for 19 points and 11 rebounds off the thin Washington bench, which played just three reserves.
"Coach (Lorenzo Romar) always tells us guys on the bench we have to step up, that we have to be ready when called," Jarreau said, "and that's what I've been doing."
USC's Fontan scored five points on 2-of-10 shooting while fighting through a sprained right wrist that had to be re-taped twice during the course of Wednesday's game. Fontan injured the wrist in a win over Arizona State on Saturday.
"It was real tough," Fontan said of playing with the injury to his shooting wrist. "I couldn't really shoot the ball, and I couldn't drive to my right. They did a good job of catching on to it in the second half, and they made adjustments."
Fontan had an effect on the defensive end of the floor, holding Wilcox to 11 points on 2-of-9 shooting. Wilcox has averaged 10 points per game — more than seven below his season average — while making just 5 of 16 shots in two games against USC.
Asked why he refused to sit out with the injury, Fontan said: "We've been on a roll. I didn't want to not be a part of whatever outcome — whether we won or lost the game."
The Trojans (14-16, 9-8) shot just 37.5 percent from the field for the game.
One of the biggest ovations of the night came when Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll was introduced during a timeout. Carroll, who coached at USC for nine years, was sitting behind the Trojans' bench Wednesday.
Washington's Andrews had eight rebounds, including five on the offensive end to continually keep possessions alive in the second half. The Huskies outrebounded USC 48-29.
"We played with energy," Romar said. "There are a lot of good things that happen as a byproduct of playing with energy."
The rest of the USC team was just as helpless as host Washington sunk 17 free throws without a miss over the final 17:40 to put the Trojans away, 65-57, on Wednesday night.
"I don't know what it was," USC senior Jio Fontan said after the Trojans lost for only the third time in a span of nine games. "Once they got to the free-throw line, they started to knock them down every time."
Scott Suggs scored 18 points and redshirt freshman Jernard Jarreau added a career-high 12 for the Huskies (17-13, 9-8 Pac-12). Six of Washington's made free throws came during a 13-2 spurt midway through the second half, which helped blow open a close game before Suggs and freshman point guard Andrew Andrews put the Trojans away down the stretch.
Andrews scored five of his seven points in the final 2:07. Suggs scored 11 of his 18 points after halftime, making 8 of 13 shots for the game. The fifth-year senior has averaged 19 points per game while making 21 of 33 shots over the Huskies' past three games.
Washington won its third straight game after losing eight of its previous 10.
Dedmon had 18 points for USC, which was leading 41-39 when he collected his fourth foul and came out of the game with 11:51 remaining. Washington went on to score nine unanswered points and never trailed again.
"He played a great game, and he definitely makes a difference on the floor," Washington's C.J. Wilcox said.
Dedmon returned with 6:10 remaining, just in time to watch Suggs hit a 3-pointer that gave the Huskies a 48-41 lead.
Washington made just 4 of 13 shots from 3-point range but made up for it with marksmanship at the free-throw line.
"It was all about confidence," said Jarreau, who made all of eight of his free-throw attempts in the second half.
Jarreau and Andrews combined for 19 points and 11 rebounds off the thin Washington bench, which played just three reserves.
"Coach (Lorenzo Romar) always tells us guys on the bench we have to step up, that we have to be ready when called," Jarreau said, "and that's what I've been doing."
USC's Fontan scored five points on 2-of-10 shooting while fighting through a sprained right wrist that had to be re-taped twice during the course of Wednesday's game. Fontan injured the wrist in a win over Arizona State on Saturday.
"It was real tough," Fontan said of playing with the injury to his shooting wrist. "I couldn't really shoot the ball, and I couldn't drive to my right. They did a good job of catching on to it in the second half, and they made adjustments."
Fontan had an effect on the defensive end of the floor, holding Wilcox to 11 points on 2-of-9 shooting. Wilcox has averaged 10 points per game — more than seven below his season average — while making just 5 of 16 shots in two games against USC.
Asked why he refused to sit out with the injury, Fontan said: "We've been on a roll. I didn't want to not be a part of whatever outcome — whether we won or lost the game."
The Trojans (14-16, 9-8) shot just 37.5 percent from the field for the game.
One of the biggest ovations of the night came when Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll was introduced during a timeout. Carroll, who coached at USC for nine years, was sitting behind the Trojans' bench Wednesday.
Washington's Andrews had eight rebounds, including five on the offensive end to continually keep possessions alive in the second half. The Huskies outrebounded USC 48-29.
"We played with energy," Romar said. "There are a lot of good things that happen as a byproduct of playing with energy."
Mental Health Counselor Douglas Bartholomew Stripped of Domestic Violence CasesÂ
By Nina Shapiro Wed., Mar. 6 2013 at 6:00 AM
Last January, we wrote about the anti-male bias many people perceive in family court. Part of the story dealt with a veteran mental health counselor named Douglas Bartholomew, who provided a damning court-ordered assessment of a man accused of abusing his wife--an assessment one judge said was the worst he had seen in his 22 years on the bench.
Thanks to a Department of Health action just made public, Bartholomew will no longer conduct such assessments in domestic violence cases, once a mainstay of his practice. The assessments are key to family court cases because they often determine whether someone (usually a man) accused of domestic violence can see his children and under what conditions. And as we we reported last year, allegations of abuse are common, and sometimes used strategically, in contentious divorce cases.
The case that led to a DOH investigation concerned a man dubbed in our story as "Richard." In his report, Bartholomew said that he couldn't determine whether Richard had assaulted his wife. Yet the counselor described the man, a successful engineer, as suffering from a variety of obscure-sounding psychological problems, including an inability to describe himself and his son in an "I-Thou manner." Bartholomew judged that the man posed "some risk of further psychological abuse" and recommended he go through a domestic violence treatment program.
Last fall, the DOH released a statement of allegations against Bartholomew that called the counselors assessment "unprofessional and biased." For one thing, the counselor had opined that the abuse allegations made against Richard were merely the "tip of the iceberg" without any "supporting evidence," according to the DOH statement.
The DOH statement also noted that the counselor spent much more time interviewing Richard than his wife, something that you might suppose would lead to a favorable outcome for Richard. But the husband's point of view did not exactly come across in Bartholomew's report, in part because the counselor misquoted Richard, according to the statement. Richard described his wife as exhibiting various controlling behaviors, but in Bartholomew's assessment, the behaviors were mysteriously attributed to Richard.
Bartholomew has not admitted any of the allegations. But he has agreed to something called a "stipulation of informal disposition," which was made public by the DOH last week. That stipulation is responsible for stripping Bartholomew of domestic violence cases, meaning he can neither write assessments for the court nor testify as an expert witness. Bartholomew can continue to practice as a counselor, but he must be monitored for at least two years, according to the stipulation. He is also obligated to refund Bartholomew the money he charged Richard when assessing him.
Bartholomew has not yet responded to a request for comment. But in an interview last year, he painted himself as a victim of a "homegrown hate group of men ...whose stated intention is to destroy the [domestic-violence] intervention system."
As for Richard, he declares himself pleased by the result. "I wasn't expecting this level of severity," he says, adding that he hopes counselors will get the message that there can be consequences for falsely portraying men as abusers.
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â@komonews: Suggs, Jarreau lead Washington past USC 65-57 #coachromar is horrible. Play the hustlers kemp, Andrews, Jarreau, check, suggs