SEATTLE — The No. 25 Washington Huskies maintained their undefeated record with a 71-39 win against the visiting Vermont Catamounts on Sunday at Alaska Airlines Arena in Seattle.

It was the second game of a five-game homestead for the Huskies, who improved to a perfect 5-0. Vermont is now 4-2 after the loss.

More than half of Washington's offensive output came from two players: junior guard, and defending Big Ten Player of the Week Sayvia Sellers (22 points), and freshman forward Brynn McGaughy (20 points).

Those two were joined in double-figures by senior guard Hannah Stines, who posted an 11-point, 10-rebound double-double.

Sunday's win proved as something of a coming out party for McGaughy.

The Colfax, Wash., native entered this year as the highest-rated recruit in program history. She was a five-star high school player and McDonald's All-American with over 40 Division-I offers, including several from women's basketball powerhouses such as Iowa and Stanford.

Sunday was the 6-foot-3 forward's first 20-point game of her career. It came after she failed to score a point in the team's 61-43 win against Fresno State on Nov. 19.

McGaughy has been capped to less-than-double-digit points in three of her five collegiate games. But she's started to get used to the physicality and speed that comes with the game at this level.

"I think it was just a learning process," McGaughy said in a postgame interview Sunday. "It exposes a lot. Practice helps and also the weight room, too. That definitely helps a lot. ... I don't really think it matters about the points. It just matters how you come out and love your teammates and how you do it with them. At the end of the day, this is a really fun game and I get to do it with people I love."

In the fourth quarter Sunday, McGaughy had a brief back-and-forth with Catamounts 6-foot-2 center Nikola Priede. The back-and-forth lasted only a couple buckets but was a good sign that the former five-star recruit has already started to make drastic improvements. And it's still early in the season.

"(Priede's) good, she's physical," McGaughy said. "She like to pivot a lot. So one thing, I think, is just to not jump. But my teammates talk to me a lot. The communication end of it is really important. It's fun to just go one-on-one defensively."

McGaughy and the Huskies will next be in action against Southern University at 6:00 p.m. PT on Nov. 25 at Alaska Airlines Arena.

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