basketball
December 9, 2024
Sprinkle of success
Formerly of Utah State, Husky basketball coach Danny Sprinkle brings a winning record (and memories of Montlake) to the UW.
June 7, 2024
Brooks scores a big one
Keoin Brooks Jr. wins the scoring title in the last Pac-12 basketball season ever.
Husky Basketball's new home
Crews have broken ground on the 36,000 square-foot, $60 million facility.
September 16, 2020
From war to hoops
After taking a bullet in World War II, Charles Sheaffer returned to captain the Husky basketball team in his senior season.
March 29, 2018
Still rising
Isaiah Thomas became the third Husky basketball player to have his jersey retired by the University of Washington.
September 13, 2017
Hawkeye
Remembering sharpshooter and front-office ace George Irvine, who died at age 69 earlier this year.
June 1, 2017
Finals week
Rick Welts, president of the Golden State Warriors, returns to the NBA's biggest stage.
May 30, 2017
Bouncing back
After losing his younger sister in a car accident, Isaiah Thomas found the strength to take the court. Then he scored 53 points in a comeback victory on his sister’s birthday.
Plum gets picked first
Kelsey Plum, '17, is the first UW player to be picked first in a professional basketball draft.
February 28, 2017
Net gain, net loss
Markelle Fultz and Kelsey Plum are as good as it gets in college basketball. And they'll both be gone by summer.
September 1, 2016
Give Me 5: Kelsey Plum
The senior All-American from San Diego leads the Huskies in the Nov. 11 season opener at home against Eastern Washington — with her sights set on a return trip to the Final Four.
June 1, 2015
Give Me 5: Dan Kingma
Despite scholarship offers from other schools, Dan Kingma was certain that he was a Husky, even if that meant joining the program as a walk-on.
December 1, 2011
Hoops and life lessons
Lorenzo Romar doesn’t like to advertise it, but the 52-year-old coach and father of three grown daughters fills his players’ preseasons with a real-world education that transcends basketball.
September 1, 2011
Courting success
Today, hundreds of young ballhandlers know Ryan Appleby as the determined coach inspiring them to be winners on and off the court.
Out in the open
Rick Welts broke new ground as the first executive in major professional sports to declare that he is gay.
December 1, 2008
A new era
New Athletic Director Scott Woodward wasted little time in shaking things up. He fired Husky football coach Tyrone Willingham seven games into the season.
March 1, 2008
No ceiling
Too many players, fans and coaches have underestimated Brandon Roy in the past, but this NBA All-Star continues to show them that’s a costly mistake.
December 1, 2006
Changing the game
Ward Serrill found his passion in the form of a documentary called "The Heart of the Game," a film that chronicles seven years with the Roosevelt High School girls’ basketball team and its unconventional coach. Film Critic Roger Ebert called it “a triumph.”
June 1, 2002
Coach comes home
Former Husky basketball star Lorenzo Romar was hired April 4 as the new men’s basketball coach at the University of Washington.