SEATTLE — UCLA couldn’t stop Washington forward Keion Brooks Jr. – or any of the Huskies for that matter.
Brooks made a career-high six 3-pointers and scored a game-high 32 points as Washington posted a 94-77 win over the Bruins on Thursday night.
UCLA has now lost three in a row with three games left in the Pac-12 Conference regular season.
Brooks was 8 of 14 from the floor, including 6 of 7 from beyond the arc, and converted 10 of 13 at the line to lead Washington (16-13, 8-10), which collectively shot 30 of 54 (55.6%) from the field, including 15 of 24 (62.5%) from deep.
Lazar Stefanovic led UCLA (14-14, 8-10) with 22 points. Dylan Andrews scored 21 points and dished 11 assists and Bona added 16 points and snared 11 rebounds.
On a gimpy ankle, Washington’s Braxton Meah made all eight of his shot attempts and finished with 19 points, eight rebounds and five blocked shots. Moses Wood hit 4 of 5 from distance to post 18 points and Sahvir Wheeler added a double-double with 11 points and 11 assists.
Meah threw down a pair of dunks in the final minutes of the first half and his decisive block on a Sebastian Mack jumper at the buzzer sent Washington into intermission with a 44-35 lead.
Brooks hit from 3 early in the second half and Wood hit two more in a 9-0 run to put Washington up 57-40 five minutes in. Brooks hit again from deep at the 13:50 mark and Meah followed an Adem Bona dunk by throwing down answering dunk to make it 62-44.
UCLA plays at No. 19 Washington State on Saturday. Washington will face USC on Saturday in its final Pac-12 home game.
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