Thalo Green Class: Senior Hometown: Salem, Ore. High School: South Salem HS Height / Weight: 6-7 / 220 Position: Forward Birthdate: 05/06/1978 Experience: 3V

University of Washington
Three-year letterman forward who has started 33 career games, including four NCAA Tournament games.

1999-2000 (Junior) --Played in all 30 games last season with a total of 16 starts including six of the final seven games ... Grabbed 10 rebounds vs. Arizona State and USC and nine against Alaska Anchorage ... Averaged 4.9 boards per game to rank second on the team ... Scored career-high 16 points, pulled down eight rebounds and tied career marks in steals (4) and assists (4) in a road victory against Oregon (Feb. 19) ... Second on team in field goal percentage (46.1%) and third in free throw percentage (70.8%).

1998-99 (Sophomore) -- Played in all 28 games with a total of 10 starts including the final three games ... Distributed four assists on three occasions ... Tallied 35 assists to rank fifth on the team ... Registered four steals in the regular-season finale against Washington State (March 6).

1997-98 (Freshman) -- Sparked the Huskies' season-ending surge as his insertion into the starting lineup ignited a five-game winning streak ... Started the final six games of the season, replacing 7-foot Patrick Femerling in the forward position ... The UW reeled off wins over USC, UCLA and Washington State to end the regular season and defeated NCAA Tournament foes Xavier and Richmond with Green starting ... Nearly doubled his statistical averages while starting, averaging 8.7 points (4.5 in other games), 3.5 rebounds (2.3) and 2.7 assists (1.2) ... Shot 53.6 percent, the second best figure on the team behind only national leader Todd MacCulloch (65%) ... Twice tallied career-high 12 points, against UCLA and Washington State ... Grabbed career-best eight rebounds at USC ... Had seven double-figure scoring games. 1996-97 (Red-Shirt) -- Played in one game, seeing one minute of action during the season's second contest ... Grabbed one rebound in that game against Portland State ... Hampered by an achilles injury during pre-season and had his eye severely poked in practice, prompting him to declare his red-shirt status.

South Salem High School
Named the Oregon state player of the year by The Oregonian newspaper ... Helped his team to a surprising state Class 4A championship in 1996 after the injury-plagued Saxons opened the season with a 2-6 record ... Named MVP of the state tournament in which he shot 65 percent while averaging 23.5 points and 8.8 rebounds in four games ... Had 18 points and 10 rebounds and was named MVP in Oregon's 95-83 victory over Washington in the Northwest Shootout all-star prep basketball game, June 23, 1996 in Portland ... A 1996 preseason honorable mention All-America selection by Street & Smith's magazine ... Averaged 21.3 points and 9.7 rebounds his senior campaign ... Broke school records for points in a season (619) and career (1322) and eclipsed field goal shooting standards for a season (64.9%) and career (63.4%) ... Team had a three-year record of 62-8 while he posted career averages of 16.5 points and 8.1 rebounds ... As a junior in 1995, averaged 17 points and eight rebounds ... A third-team all-state pick in 1995, helping the Saxons to a 20-5 record and their fourth consecutive Valley League title.

Coach Bender on Green
"Our opponents are probably wondering how long Thalo really has been here. I would like to keep Thalo for another four years, but unfortunately this is it. Thalo has seen the highs individually with his success when we made the run in the NCAA Tournament. He has had to deal with the adversity of injuries and the losing season last year. That is something that hurts Thalo and he is the type of player that is willing to express himself to his teammates in a forum that's important. He's a guy who will step up and say that he's not going to accept losing this year. We'd like for him to become a threat from the perimeter. When we go with the lineup where he is playing the small forward that he has in the past, if he can pull people away from the basket it will make him a more difficult matchup. He is very deceiving in that he will score inside over people that are bigger than him. He also does a great job of getting people the ball when they are open."

Green's Washington Statistics

YEAR   GP/GS    FG-A  PCT 3PT-A  PCT  FT-A  PCT REB-AVG PTS-AVG AST TO BLK ST MIN
1997     1/0     0-0 .000   0-0 .000   0-0 .000   1-1.0   0-0.0   0  0   0  0   1
1998    30/6  67-125 .536   1-6 .167 24-39 .615  75-2.5 159-5.3  44 46   5 21 476
1999   29/11  43-103 .417   0-3 .000 20-36 .556  63-2.2 106-3.7  37 34   5 15 449
2000   30/16  77-167 .461   2-9 .222 34-48 .708 146-4.9 190-6.3  30 53   5 35 706
Totals 90/33 187-395 .473   3-18.167 78-123.634 285-3.2 465-5.1 111133  15 711635