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Huskies Suffer Biggest Portal Loss as Tyler Harris Leaves

The smooth forward was the Huskies' second-leading scorer and now seeks a new team.
Dan Raley|
Tyler Harris heads up the floor at Alaska Airlines Arena.
Tyler Harris heads up the floor at Alaska Airlines Arena. | Skylar Lin Visuals

Would the last player leaving Alaska Airlines Arena, please turn out the lights?

Sophomore forward Tyler Harris became the seventh member of the University of Washington basketball team to enter the transfer portal -- and the third to go that route on Monday alone -- as those with eligibility remaining continued to exit Danny Sprinkle's program at an alarming rate.

The 6-foot-8 Harris, the Huskies' second-leading scorer, might be the biggest loss.

While many of the others had obvious holes in their games, such as defensive or 3-point shooting lapses, Harris proved to be a fairly solid player all the way around.

Of Sprinkle's 13 scholarship players from his initial UW team, only freshman guard Zoom Diallo and senior center Franck Kepnang remain on the roster.

Five of the Huskies used up their eligibility or medically retired. Six turned to the portal, making that seven when you count Dominique Diomande, a non-scholarship forward for the Huskies who recently signed with BYU.

Sprinkle has to be wondering was it something he said?

After transferring in from Portland, Harris started 27 of 30 games and averaged 11.9 points and 5 rebounds per game for the Huskies. Even better, he connected on an exemplary 49.2 percent of his shots from the field and 49.5 percent from 3-point range.

So fluid and smooth, Harris had a season-high 27 points against Alcorn, 24 against Colorado State and 23 at Minnesota.

He pulled down a season-best 11 rebounds against both UCLA and Nebraska.

If there was a drawback to his game, Harris was almost an emotionless player on the floor for a last-place Big Ten team that needed a fiery approach from someone to try and pull it out of the bottom rung.

Still, he stands to draw more attention in the transfer portal than any of his former UW teammates who've preceded him there.

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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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