UCLA's Jordan Adams does his part in victory over Washington
Washington guard Andrew Andrews, tries to strip the ball from UCLA guard Kyle Anderson in the first half Thursday night in Seattle. (Stephen Brashear / Associated Press / )
SEATTLE -- UCLA'S Jordan Adams made it clear this week was important.
The chance for a Pac-12 Conference championship was behind the Bruins, with Arizona clinching the title last week. The Pac-12 tournament is still ahead.
In between was a trip to the Northwest to play Washington and Washington State.
'We need to focus and win these two,' Adams before heading north.
He backed up the words by getting the Bruins halfway there, scoring a career-high 31 points in a 91-82 victory over Washington on Thursday night.
Adams carried the Bruins in both halves. He made 11 of 15 shots as UCLA shot 54% from the field.
The Bruins (23-7 overall, 12-5 in Pac-12 play) took control in the second half with an 11-2 run for a 75-64 lead. Adams left the game for three minutes after getting kneed in the left leg. When he returned, he found a little more support from his teammates.
Zach LaVine, who was a high school star at Seattle Bothell, answered chants of 'traitor, traitor, traitor,' from the crowd by scoring 11 of his 14 points in the last four minutes, when the Huskies had cut the lead to six points, 77-71.
C.J. Wilcox had 20 points to lead Washington.
This game meant little to the Bruins beyond honing their game for next week. Colorado beating Stanford on Wednesday slotted UCLA as the second-seeded team in the Pac-12 tournament, which begins Wednesday in Las Vegas.
The Bruins will play the winner of a first-round game Wednesday between the seventh- and 10th-seeded teams on Thursday.
Washington (16-14, 8-9) is just below the muddle in the middle. There are six teams with either seven or eight losses heading into the last weekend of the regular season.
chris.foster@latimes.com Twitter: @cfosterlatimes
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