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Huskies Win Final Tune-Up Before Diving All In On Big Ten Play

The UW will play Maryland and Illinois in conference games this week.
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Great Osobor mixes it up with a pair of NJIT players on Sunday.
Great Osobor mixes it up with a pair of NJIT players on Sunday. | UW

The University of Washington basketball team on Sunday hosted somebody called the New Jersey Institute of Technology, or NJIT, and the way it turned out the Huskies might have well been playing playing pick-up ball against a bunch of guys from Microsoft on their lunch break.

In its last outing before diving headlong into Big Ten play, the UW took out these overmatched East Coast visitors 90-53 at Alaska Airlines Arena.

Danny Sprinkle showed NJIT plenty of mercy by emptying his bench and using a dozen players and letting 11 of them play 12 and a half minutes or more. Everyone except walk-on Dylan Mansour got into the scoring column.

The Huskies (9-4 overall, 0-2 Big Ten) scored the first five points of the game and never let up against NJIT (2-12), leading by as many as 40, in an outing that began at noon.

Starting senior forward Great Osobor and reserve freshman guard topped the UW with 12 points each, while senior forward Wilhelm Breidenbach, after sitting out the game against Seattle U in concussion protocol, returned to the starting lineup and chipped in 10 points. No Husky took more than 9 shots.

After facing the Los Angeles schools earlier in the month in conference games, Sprinkle's team dives headlong into Big Ten play and it will be a significant challenge, with the Huskies facing Maryland (11-2, 1-1) on Thursday and 24th-ranked Illinois (9-3, 1-1) on Sunday in Montlake.

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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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