SEATTLE — The No. 20 Washington Huskies women's basketball team improved to 9-1 on the season after a 79-74 win against the Green Bay Phoenix on Saturday at Alaska Airlines Arena in Seattle.

The Huskies came back to win by five after coming back from 10 points down.

In Washington's victory, junior guard Sayvia Sellers took front and center, as she's done the entire season to this point.

Sellers scored 30 points on 11-for-19 shooting from the floor, including a 7-for-12 mark from 3-point range and a 1-for-2 mark from the free-throw line. She also pulled in three rebounds, dished two assists and had a steal. It was the third time this season Sellers has scored at least 29 points and her second time putting up 30 (which tied a single-game career-high).

This season, Sellers is averaging 20.3 points per game on 49.3% shooting from the floor and 41.5% from beyond the arc. She's also averaging 3.5 assists, three rebounds and 1.6 steals per game.

Those numbers are uniquely excellent in Huskies history. It's still relatively early in the season but if the Sellers keeps at her current pace, her points per game mark would be seventh-best in a single season in program history, which would put her in the same company as such Washington legends as Kelsey Plum and Jamie Redd.

If Sellers remains at her current pace, an all-conference nomination is definitely in her future. Beyond that, Sellers' trajectory and the team's current national standing (No. 20 in the latest Associated Press Top 25 poll) could have the Anchorage, Alaska, native in All-American conversations.

"Sayvia, I'll always say this, is one of the best if not the best point guards in the country," senior guard Elle Ladine said after the game Saturday. "You can see it on the court, you can see it in the way she leads our team. The confidence she brings to all of us, having a point guard that confident makes our whole team confident. We need her to keep being confident because we're going to be a great team."

There are a lot of notable guards in the nation, which would make a first-team selection hard for Sellers to obtain. However, if the Huskies find themselves with a conference championship and one of the top seeds in the NCAA Tournament, Sellers could find herself unable to ignore in national conversations.

Washington and Sellers will look to continue its stellar 2025 against one of the best women's basketball programs in the country, the Stanford Cardinal, at 7 p.m. PT on Dec. 19 at Maples Pavilion in Stanford, Calif.

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