Huskies men's basketball team will
have changes going into the Big Ten.
You have followed the Huskies for a while
you know they have a new head coach.
Mike Hopkins is no longer pstroling the
side lines. What is similar the Huskies
will have a new group of players. Since
the transfer portal Mike Hopkins took
advantage of it every year though the
team wasn't able to make the NCAA
tournament since his second season.
The Huskies new head coach is Danny
Sprinkle who comes over from Utah
State. There he had some success
in the NCAA tournament. Danny has
some connection to Washington before
coming here and we will get into that
at another time.
The Huskies have only two players
who return with much playing as a
Husky and both of them are ones
who transfered over to Washington.
Franck Kepnang who transfered
over from Oregon who was expected
to get solid playing time however he
spent two years primarily out with
injuries and Wilhelm Breidenbach
who came from Nebraska. Injuries
to Kepnang forced Breidenbach to
play more center than expected. He
was supposed to backup more at
power forward. We could see him
do that this coming season however
at this point we don't know. Christian
King the son of former Seattle Super
Sonic Rich King will be a redshirt
freshman. He is the only touted
freshman who came to Washington
to return.
Two of the top names who transfered
over are both seniors with experience
Great Odobor who played for Sprinkle
at Utah State and DJ Davis from
Butler. Odobor expected to play forward
and Davis at guard. He started every
game last year for Butler and averaged
in double figured. Butler hss been
one of the best midmajor schools to
have success.
The Huskies will start their non league
schedule on October 29 against Western
Oregon. They will have seven more
in November. They will start their Big
Ten schedule against UCLA and USC
on December 3 and 7th. They have
four more non-league games in
December against state rivals Eastern
Washington on December 10, then
the Cougars on the 18 and Seattle
University on the 23. All are at home.
The Big Ten picks up again on January
2 against Maryland at home. They
play 20 games in all in the Big Ten.
UCLA, USC and Oregon are the only
ones they play twice. Go Dawgs.
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