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Australian Guard Reportedly Commits to UW

Tristan Devers spent the past three seasons with the Brisbane Bullets.
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Australian guard Tristan Devers has committed to the UW.
Australian guard Tristan Devers has committed to the UW. | NBL

Restocking the roster in a creative if not urgent manner, the University of Washington basketball program continues to look under rocks in faraway places for help, this time adding Australian guard Tristan Devers, according to DraftExpress.

The 6-foot-4 player from Down Under reportedly will join coach Danny Sprinkle's redrawn Husky team after agreeing to this two weeks after the Huskies received a commitment from 6-foot-9 Brazilian forward Wini Silva-Braga.

Devers, 20, spent the past three seasons with the Brisbane Bullets, a professional team. He is the seventh prospective newcomer for the Huskies since the most recent roster shake-up caused by transfers, draft entry and graduation once the season ended.

Counting five returnees, Sprinkle likely is seeking three more scholarship additions to reach the 15-player cap on his Husky roster.

Online reports indicate that Devers is many things: a shooter, hitting 41 percent this past season with the Bullets; an elite defensive player; and at times a high scorer, dropping in 43 points in a 2025 game.

"Just playing as hard as I can," Devers said in a postgame interview. "If you can defend, you're going to get more opportunity. Offense will come with time."

Yet this past season, Devers took on more of a defensive role, averaging just 4.9 points and 1.9 rebounds per game for the Bullets while pulling 16 minutes of game time.

Devers has been a bit worldly with his basketball experience at times, previously appearing for Australian national teams in the U17 FIBA World Cup and in the U16 Asia Cup.

The Huskies in recent decades have brought in international players from places such as Germany, Iceland, Canada, France, Africa, Serbia and New Zealand, but not Australia.

New Zealand's 6-foot-11 forward Sam Timmons came from Down Under and played in Montlake in 2016-2020 and returned home to play professionally.

Devers will join fellow UW newcomers in 6-foot-8 forward LeJuan Watts, a Texas Tech transfer; 6-foot-7 forward Steele Venters, formerly of Gonzaga; 6-foot-4 shooting guard Parker Friedrichsen, a Davidson transfer; 5-foot-11 point guard Ryan Beasley, formerly of San Francisco; 6-foot-7 forward Lattimore Ford from Mount Si High School; and the 6-foot-9 Silva-Braga from Brazil.

UW returning players currently include 6-foot-4 guard Wesley Yates III, 6-foot-11 center Mady Traore, 6-foot-10 forward Lathan Sommerville, 6-foot-10 forward Nikola Dzepina and 6-foot-5 forward Jasir Reacher.

St. Mary's, under the guidance of former coach Randy Bennett, built its program around Australian players in recents years and worked for the Gaels.

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Dan Raley
DAN RALEY

Dan Raley has worked for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, as well as for MSN.com and Boeing, the latter as a global aerospace writer. His sportswriting career spans four decades and he's covered University of Washington football and basketball during much of that time. In a working capacity, he's been to the Super Bowl, the NBA Finals, the MLB playoffs, the Masters, the U.S. Open, the PGA Championship and countless Final Fours and bowl games.

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