One year ago, the ninth-ranked California Golden Bears walked into Hec Edmundson Pavilion to face the Washington women's basketball team, only to be upset by the Huskies, 74-66, dashing the Bears' hope for a share of the regular season Pac-10 championship.

This year, things played out a little differently.

No. 3 Cal rolled to a lopsided 70-40 victory Friday over the Huskies at Hec Ed, pushing UW's school-record losing streak to nine while extending its own winning streak to 11.

"They're not third in the country for no reason, they're fairly good," UW coach Tia Jackson said after the loss.

Cal's coach, Joanne Boyle, said they were not thinking about retribution after UW's upset win last year, even though Bears' forward Shantrell Sneed elected to take a shot with five seconds remaining in the game, putting the final margin at exactly 30 points.

"It's not this whole revenge thing or anything like that; it's who we are now today," Boyle said. "This team right here taking care of business."

Aside from the first five minutes of the game -- when neither team could effectively get to the basket -- it was all California (19-2, 10-0 Pac-10). The Bears got ahead 7-4 with 15:39 remaining in the first half and never looked back.

Cal forward Ashley Walker lit up the Dawgs with 24 points, nine rebounds, three steals and a block.

"Her aggression, rebounding and her versatility on offense makes her the player she is," UW guard Sami Whitcomb said of the Cal forward.

On the other end of the court, Whitcomb and another of the Dawgs' scoring threats, Kristi Kingma, were shut down by a Bears defense that keyed in on the shooting specialists.

"Every team we go against is going to focus on primarily Kristi and Sami," Jackson said. "Sami's been averaging pretty close to 20 points the last five games, so they're going come at her. And then Kristi, she's going to get a lot of attention because of her scoring arsenal too."

Whitcomb finished the night with six points on 2-9 shooting while Kingma was held scoreless on seven shots.

The Huskies (5-16, 1-9 Pac-10) did try to counter Cal's defensive strategy by passing the ball to their posts and at certain times it appeared to work. It just wasn't enough to overcome the Bears' defense.

"We wanted to get it inside; I think that was the key just to relieve [Whitcomb and Kingma] a little bit…we needed to score a little bit more in the paint," Jackson said. "We had some success with it, Liz [Lay] gets 10 points…Mollie [Williams] had four points inside."

Also in the paint, Washington struggled on the boards as they have against top teams all season, getting out-rebounded 49-29.

"We played a very good defensive game until the rebounding," Jackson said. "You give a very good team 17 offensive boards, they're probably going to score."

Washington will have to make its adjustments quick as No. 7 Stanford (18-4, 9-1 Pac-10) – which beat the Huskies 112-35 earlier this season – comes to Hec Ed to seek a season sweep of the Dawgs.

"We'll let this game sink in for the night and we'll take the lessons we can learn from it, rebounding obviously being one of those," Whitcomb said. "We're going to face another really good rebounding team [in Stanford] and they have solid posts that are their primary scorers, so we're going to have to sort of have the same game plan."

Reach reporter Honsen Lin at sports@dailyuw.com.