men’s basketball
November 25, 2023
Special signing
Seven-year-old Ford Parks, who has a rare genetic condition, signed with the UW as an honorary Husky.
December 4, 2021
Hall of Famers
Twelve former student-athletes from five sports receive the highest honor in UW Athletics.
September 4, 2021
Gold in Tokyo
Kelsey Plum, ’17, captured a gold medal at the Tokyo Summer Olympics in 3x3 women’s basketball. She was one of 31 current and former UW athletes competing.
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.
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.
March 1, 2015
Give Me 5: Tiffani Walker
The first woman on the staff of the men’s team, Walker is the only woman on the staff of any Pac-12 men’s basketball team.
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.
June 1, 2010
Big shot
In addition to meeting the rigorous demands of his sport and his studies, Matthew Bryan-Amaning is a big man on campus and in the community.
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.
March 1, 2006
Historic Hec Ed
Basketball players, U.S. presidents, billionaire computer moguls and Boy Scouts: what do these people have in common? All are part of the rich history surrounding one of the UW's most iconic buildings: Hec Edmundson Pavilion.
March 1, 2003
Rarified air
Fifty years ago this month—March 17-18, 1953, to be exact—the Huskies qualified for the Final Four, the only time in UW history.
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.
December 1, 1999
A season at the Key
Both the UW men's and women's basketball teams will play at the Seattle Center this season as Hec Edmundson Pavilion undergoes a $38 million renovation.
September 1, 1998
Still ‘Hec’
Seafirst Bank has made a $5.1 million contribution to help finance the $38 million renovation of Hec Edmundson Pavilion.
Shooting star
After six straight losing seasons, men's basketball coach Bob Bender turned a foundering UW program into an NCAA contender.
June 1, 1993
Bender in, Nance out
Athletics Director Barbara Hedges hired Illinois State Head Coach Bob Bender to replace Lynn Nance as the chief of the UW men's basketball program.