Great basketball played the right way as Western battles SPU

Coming out of a timeout late in the first half, Western Washington's jab-stepping, direction-changing, irresistible force of a guard John Allen saw a mismatch under the basket, made eye contact with 6-foot-9 center Austin Bragg, who cut hard toward the rim, caught Allen's perfect lob pass and hammered an exclamation point of a dunk.

"I figured I'd throw it up," Allen said, "and create a highlight."