SEATTLE — Scott Suggs played through leg cramps to score a career-high 24 points, Aziz N’Diaye added 14 points, and Washington led by as many as 27 in the first half en route to a 87-74 win over crosstown rival Seattle on Thursday night.

The renewal of the city’s basketball showdown continued to be completely one-sided in favor of the Huskies. Washington exposed Seattle’s porous pressure defense in the first half, then countered every surge the Redhawks made in the second half.

Washington (5-4) has now won eight straight in the series that took a nearly 30-year hiatus when the Redhawks (3-4) dropped from Division I, only to start the transition back to the top level of college hoops in 2008.

Chad Rasmussen led the Redhawks with 19 points and one-time Washington recruit Clarence Trent added 12 for Seattle.

Suggs popped for a career-high despite leaving twice in the second half with apparent cramps in his legs. He had missed three games recently with a sprained right foot, but he returned last Saturday when the Huskies couldn’t complete their rally from a huge second-half deficit and lost 76-73 at home to Nevada.

This time it was the Redhawks who couldn’t complete a rally.

Trailing by 22 at the half, the Redhawks started the second half on an 11-2 spurt with their pressure defense finally causing the Huskies problems. Rasmussen and D’Vonne Pickett Jr., scored all 11 points of Seattle’s run and cut the lead to 51-38 and excited a crowd that sat silent for most of the first half.

But Washington rolled off 11 of the next 14 points and led comfortably the rest of the second half with the Redhawks never getting the deficit down to single digits.

Washington’s quick start was needed coming off the disappointing loss to Nevada. The Huskies made easy work of Seattle’s full court pressure, leading to layup after layup during the first half. Instead of forcing turnovers and chaos, the Redhawks decision to press gave Washington an offensive spark that was missing and matched the 49 points they scored in the first half of its win over Seton Hall last month.

Leading 19-14, a dunk from Shawn Kemp, Jr. — in the same arena where his father became an NBA star with the SuperSonics — started a 21-2 Washington run to take a 40-16 lead. The Redhawks had only one basket during the stretch, while the Huskies saw six different players score during the run.

Also on Thursday:

Washington State 52

Jackson State 41

PULLMAN, Wash. — Brock Motum scored 27 points, DaVonte Lacy added 11 points including three 3-pointers and Washington State beat Jackson State.

No. 20 UNLV 91

La Verne 44

LAS VEGAS — Freshman Anthony Bennett scored 27 points and UNLV won its sixth straight game.

Tennessee 69

No. 23 Wichita State 60

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Trae Golden scored 25 points and Tennessee beat Wichita State to snap a two-game losing streak and hand the Shockers their first loss of the season.