UW basketball

SEATTLE – Wearing her father’s Washington Huskies letterman’s jacket, Ally Grill stood on the Alaska Airlines Arena court where Christian Welp starred decades ago.

Almost everyone makes New Year’s resolutions and Danny Sprinkle is no different.

SEATTLE – Tina Langley has spent four seasons stacking bricks.

Well, that’s it — sort of.

Barring a dramatic reversal of fortune, the Washington men’s basketball season will end in two weeks without a trip to the postseason.

The bubble might have burst for the Washington men’s basketball team.

In a game it absolutely needed to win to preserve hopes of reaching the Big Ten tournament, the Washington men’s basketball team overcame a 13-point deficit and held off Penn State in the final seconds for a gritty 75-73 victory in the first-ever matchup between the two teams.

SEATTLE – The Washington men’s basketball team squandered a 14-point lead in the second half and trailed by four in the final four minutes before rallying to claim a hard-fought 76-71 victory over Northwestern.

Former Washington Husky star and NBA point guard Nate Robinson, who has dealt with renal failure for the past seven years, has a new kidney.

The drought is over.

SEATTLE — So just where exactly is this thing going?

The losses are starting to pile up for the Washington men’s basketball team, which fell 91-75 against No. 24 Michigan — its third straight defeat.

SEATTLE – DJ Davis kept firing three-pointers and after each shot, the cheers from the Alaska Airlines Arena crowd to an earsplitting crescendo.

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Arizona State soars, Arizona slides in latest assessment.

SEATTLE – Michael Harris vividly remembers the day he ceded the title of “best basketball player in the family” to his youngest son Tyler – a seminal moment in the Harris household.

It’s easy for the SEC and Big Ten to deny interest when schools aren’t available.

SEATTLE – It’s a big mystery. Scratch that – it’s a Great mystery.

While being introduced as Washington’s men’s basketball coach on March 27, Danny Sprinkle donned a purple tie and sat at a table inside Alaska Airlines Arena. Facing rows of family members, media, athletic department employees and increasingly important donors, he laughed and told the truth. “It’s the wild, wild west now in college athletics from a recruiting standpoint.” Wild, wild northwest as well.