Filed under: Stanford, Washington, Pac-10
STANFORD, Calif. — Adversity is taking many forms for the University of Washington basketball team these days.
Pick your problem, really. Starting point guard Abdul Gaddy is out for the year after sustaining a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in practice last week.
The program is awaiting the results of a criminal investigation of one of its players, who has not been charged and remains unnamed. Reports indicate it is an allegation of sexual assault — the player has not been identified — and coach Lorenzo Romar acknowledged the investigation earlier this week.
And perhaps lastly, but not really least, the 17th-ranked Huskies were playing on the road in the Pac-10 Thursday night, which can be an experience fraught with peril.
Washington, the only remaining unbeaten team in the Pac-10 heading into the weekend, isn’t unbeaten anymore. Stanford rallied from an 11-point second-half deficit to pull off a 58-56 upset at Maples Pavilion.
It was the Huskies’ first loss to an unranked team this season. They fell to 12-4, and 4-1.
Stanford outscored Washington 17-5 down the stretch, held the Huskies well below their scoring average (88.9 ppg) and gave coach Johnny Dawkins perhaps his biggest win in his third season with the Cardinal.
TUCSON, Ariz. — A banner hung from the facade of a small church on the edge of the University of Arizona campus. “Violence Solves Nothing,” it read. 
PALO ALTO, Cal. — It’s been kind of a busy week around the Stanford campus, not exactly a typical holiday break.
The Pac-10 is a proud basketball conference. But powerful? That’s a different matter.
