Something is not right with the UW women’s basketball team.

Something is not right when a team supposedly on the upswing loses by a historic 77 points.

Something is just not right when a team only scores nine first-half points.

What is right ­— in my mind, anyway — is that Tia Jackson may be the worst second-year coach in women’s college basketball.

Jackson was hired as head coach of the UW women’s basketball team last season after former athletic director Todd Turner fired highly successful coach June Daugherty, citing her apparent lack of “buzz” and a frequently empty Hec Edmundson Pavilion during women’s basketball games.

Jackson, the former Duke assistant, was given the opportunity to reshape the Huskies and bring back “buzz” while keeping a winning tradition in Hec Ed. But now, it’s arguable that Jackson hasn’t brought back excitement and, in fact, hasn’t done what she was hired to do at all.

Let me offer a few cases:

The Huskies (5-8, 1-2 Pac-10) lost to No. 1 Connecticut in Cancun, Mexico earlier this season by a pretty epic 58 points, 109-51.

They also lost to what most people would consider “lower” teams like Weber State, Northern Colorado and Kansas State.

Then, the shockers: a Pac-10 record 77-point loss, 112-35, to Stanford last Thursday and a game Sunday against Cal in which the Dawgs scored a school-record low nine points in the first half.

A score of 112-35 is pretty embarrassing, like the score I beat opponents with in my NBA 2K9 video game on the “easy” difficulty setting. Sure, Stanford is the best team in the Pac-10 and one of the best in the country, but even Washington State, Daugherty’s current team, only lost to Stanford by 49 points.

So the Huskies come home from the Bay Area having been outscored 174-69, outrebounded 100-52, and outshot 51 percent to 22 percent from the field, and that’s after rounding up.

Those are some shocking numbers, and Jackson would be advised to do something to correct them fast.

For a team that has maintained that they are on their way up in the Pac-10, they sure haven’t shown it. They have done nothing but lose this season and appear likely to do worse than they did last year, Jackson’s first as coach.

While it might have been easy to justify a down season last year, what with players departing and others trying to get used to Jackson’s hard-work system, this year there are no excuses.

If Jackson can’t turn things around after such a horrid start, perhaps another change may be in store for the long and storied women’s basketball program at the UW.

Reach sports editor Allen Wagner at sports@dailyuw.com.