The College of Washington males’s basketball staff has a brand new look this season.
The Huskies will formally debut the Massive Ten Convention emblem on their house court docket Tuesday evening once they meet UC Davis within the regular-season debut for coach Danny Sprinkle.
Sprinkle, who got here to Washington from Utah State to switch Mike Hopkins, stated he is nonetheless studying in regards to the staff he is assembled.
“With this group, we have made fairly good strides within the final three, 4 weeks,” Sprinkle stated. “The older guys are sensing the primary recreation is coming. So, there’s slightly extra urgency and slightly extra depth and focus to what they’re doing. However till you actually go up in opposition to any individual with the lights on, I do not know what we’ve got.”
The Huskies defeated NCAA Division II foe Western Oregon 105-68 in an exhibition Tuesday.
Guard DJ Davis, a switch from Butler, led UW with 16 factors, making 4 3-pointers. Freshman guard Zoom Diallo had 14 factors, seven rebounds, three assists and two steals off the bench and Portland switch Tyler Harris additionally scored 14.
Preseason all-Massive Ten ahead Nice Osobor had 12 factors and eight rebounds and middle Franck Kepnang, whose previous two seasons have been shortened by accidents, had 12 factors and three blocked pictures.
“Hopefully, they’re all like that, however they are not going to be,” Sprinkle stated when requested in regards to the upcoming schedule.
UC Davis completed third within the Massive West Convention final season and got here inside a recreation of creating the NCAA Event, shedding to Lengthy Seashore State within the convention match’s championship recreation.
Massive West participant of the 12 months Eli Pepper graduated, however guard TY Johnson returned after placing his title within the switch portal within the offseason.
Johnson, a preseason all-Massive West choice, averaged 17.8 factors, 3.7 rebounds and three.3 assists per recreation as a junior.
Aggies coach Jim Les referred to as Johnson “among the best on-ball defenders in school basketball.”
As for staying at UC Davis?
“It was a tricky determination, nevertheless it actually wasn’t,” Johnson stated. “After speaking to those coaches and stating what I used to be on the lookout for, I used to be in a position to make a professionals and cons checklist which made it straightforward for me to come back again and make my final 12 months my finest 12 months at Davis.”
–Area Stage Media
