Sellers' Triple-Double Sparks Washington WBB to 79-63 Win Over UC Davis

It took a while for the No. 16 Washington Huskies to find their footing offensively Monday in a 79-63 season-opening win over UC San Diego, but when the shots started falling, they almost didn't stop.Senior guard Sayvia Sellers recorded her first career triple-double with 25 points (9-of-21 shooting), 11 rebounds and 10 assists to start the 2026-27 season on the right note. Sellers became the third player in Husky history to record a triple-double, joining Margaret Nielsen in 1978 and Chantel Osahor in 2016.Second-year forward Brynn McGaughy, who finished with 13 points and a career-high 15 rebounds to lead the team on the glass, also tallied her first double-double as the Huskies out-rebounded the Tritons 54-26.Sellers did most of her damage in the second half with 14 points, which included a seven-point outburst to start the fourth quarter with a pair of layups and a three-pointer to help the Huskies pull away late. Third-year guard Avery Howell finished with 22 points (8-of-15 shooting), her fifth 20-plus point game for sixth-year coach Tina Langley, going 5-for-11 from behind the three-point line.Third-year North Carolina State transfer Tilda Trygger posted 13 rebounds—10 in the first half alone—to finish one shy of tying her previous single-game career high while adding 8 points in 22 minutes of action in her UW debut.After entering the halftime break tied at 31, the Huskies started to pull away midway through the third quarter when Howell knocked down her third three of the game to put UW ahead 41-36, but it still took a little longer as both teams had a two-plus minute scoring drought from the floor late in the third.Tilda Trygger with a game-high 10 rebounds at halftime for Washington. Sayvia Sellers nearly has a double-double with 11 points and eight rebounds to lead the Huskies in scoring. UC San Diego and UW tied at 31-31 at halftime.— Lars Hanson (@LarsHanson) November 2, 2026That scoring drought didn't carry over at all; however, in the fourth quarter, the Huskies opened the floodgates with a 30-point outburst to secure the 16-point non-conference victory at Alaska Airlines Arena.Six different Huskies got on the score sheet over the final 10 minutes, including 5 points from Colorado State transfer guard Brooke Carlson and 2 points from third-year guard Devin Coppinger, while Sellers, Howell, Trygger and McGaughy combined to add 23 points to pile on late. UW legacy and former Oklahoma State guard Macey Huard checked into the game at the 2:43 mark in the fourth to make her debut. The fourth-year guard hauled in a pair of rebounds in her brief three-minute appearance.Former Kentucky five-star forward Kaelyn Carroll logged 25 minutes off the bench in her Washington debut as a key building block in the paint for Langley. Petra Toman, an international signing this offseason from Hungary, also made her first appearance for the Huskies late in the fourth quarter but did not record a shot attempt in her one minute of action.First-year guard Amayah Garcia scored her first career points off a perfect pass from Sellers as the 5-foot-11 freshman cut to the paint and laid the ball off glass to make it 16-15 at the 1:39 mark in the first quarter. The Dallas, Texas native logged 14 minutes in the first half in her debut off the bench for Langley.The Huskies return to Alaska Airlines Arena on Thursday to host Pacific at 5:00 p.m. PT.This article originally appeared on Huskies Wire: Sellers' Triple-Double Sparks Washington WBB to 79-63 Win Over UC Davis