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SEATTLE -- After struggling defensively in its first two games of the season -- even surrendering 98 points to Yale in a home loss to open the 2016 slate -- Washington appeared to find its mojo on both sides of the ball Sunday in a 92-58 win over Northern Arizona at Alaska Airlines Arena.The Huskies (2-1) set the tone defensively on the Lumberjacks (1-4) opening two possessions, one ending in a Malik Dime block and the other a turnover forced by Matisse Thybulle, the first of five from the Lumberjacks before the under-12 timeout and 16 total.Weve improved (since Yale), Washington coach Lorenzo Romar said. There is more of a sense of urgency out there. That means our teams gonna be better defensively. Theres more of an awareness, more of a want-to. Still got a long ways to go, but definitely made an improvement.Markelle Fultz made 6 of 9 from the field, including two 3-pointers and finished with 16 points, eight assists and seven rebounds. It was his first game not scoring at least 30 points, but taking only nine shots and focusing on getting the Huskies big men involved was part of the game plan going in, Romar said. Washington finished with 50 points in the paint, compared to 24 for NAU.The Lumberjacks remained within striking distance into the second half, but Washington put them away in the games final 13 minutes. The Huskies opened up a 38-point lead, going on 33-10 run before inserting the last men on their bench for the final three minutes.We started denying their big men when they came up to run the high-low and reverse the ball, Noah Dickerson said of what keyed their 23-point run. Once we started to do that, they didnt run any offense. It was basically one-on-one or a ball screen. . We were off to the races.Dickerson scored 12 and grabbed eight rebounds, Thybulle had 15 points for the Huskies.Felix Rivera-Vega scored 11 and Ako Kaluna finished with 10 points and five rebounds for NAU.BIG PICTURENorthern Arizona: Although the Lumberjacks were overmatched physically and athletically -- to be expected from a Big Sky team facing one from the Pac-12 -- they have to be satisfied with keeping it largely competitive for three-fourths of the game against UW. NAU entered the game with just one win in its first four, and it came against a Division III opponent, Benedictine Mesa. NAU cleaned up some sloppy play early in the game and can look to take a sliver of momentum into its game at UNLV on Tuesday.Washington: The Huskies turned in their best performance of the young season, proving they can put away a team, albeit an outclassed one. After giving up 98 points to Yale and 88 to Cal State Fullerton, holding NAU to 58 is a welcome sight for Lorenzo Romar. 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SAPPORO, Japan -- Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu topped the 300-point mark to win the NHK Trophy on Saturday and qualify for the figure skating Grand Prix Final.Hanyu landed three quadruple jumps to finish with 301.47 points, the highest score on the GP circuit this season.Hanyu, who was second behind Patrick Chan at Skate Canada last month, secured a berth at the Dec. 8-11 Grand Prix Final next month in Marseille, France.Im actually very relieved that I can advance to the Grand Prix Final, Hanyu said. I was able to land the (quad) loop cleanly for the first time in a competition.Nathan Chen of the United States finished second with 268.91 points and also advanced. Keiji Tanaka was third with 248.44.Russias Anna Pogorilaya won the womens singles, with Satoko Miyahara taking second place. Pogorilayas compatriot Maria Sotskova came in third.Pogorilaya retained her lead from the short program and clinched a spot in the final with a solid free skate. Her winning total was 210.86.The victory was the second on the GP tour this season for Pogorilaya. She also won the Cup of Russia in early November.I believe that overall I skated very well today, Pogorilaya said. I made some small mistakes. Im generally very happy.Pogorilaya did receive an edge call on her second jump, a triple flip, but stiill won in decisive fashion.ddddddddddddThe calls on edges have become much stricter since last year, Pogorilaya said. I have talked to my coach about this and we are focusing on it.Two-time world champions Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford of Canada won the pairs event.Duhamel and Radford, who were in second place after Fridays short program, finished with a combined total of 205.56 points to add to their win at Skate Canada.As with the short program, there were some strong elements and some unfortunate mistakes, Radford said. My body got tight and tired at the end of the program and I just had a slight problem with that last lift.Peng Cheng and Yang Jin of China were second with 196.87 points, and Wang Xuehan and Wang Lei, also of China, were third with 185.32.Peng and Yang also qualified for the GP Final with their second-placed finish.The other pairs to qualify for the final are: Aliona Savchenko and Bruno Massot of Germany; Xiaoyu Yu and Hao Zhang of China;Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov of Russia; and Julianne Seguin and Charlie Bilodeau of Canada.The NHK Trophy is the sixth and final event in the International Skating Unions Grand Prix series. ' ' '