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UW Basketball Schedule, Roster, Staff Should Be All Set

The Huskies have nine new players, five new staffers and a tough lineup of games.
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The Huskies have unveiled their Big Ten basketball schedule.
The Huskies have unveiled their Big Ten basketball schedule. | Skylar Lin Visuals

The players, the coaches and now the games all appear to be firmly in place for Danny Sprinkle's third University of Washington basketball team.

On Wednesday, the Big Ten released its 20-game conference schedule for each member and the Huskies have one challenging stretch in particular in which they host three games in eight days at Alaska Airlines Arena -- from Feb. 20 to 27, Saturday to Saturday -- against Maryland, Illinois and Purdue.

The UW will attack this obstacle course with a team largely unfamiliar to its fan base with nine new players on the 15-man roster, including a number of international newcomers.

On Wednesday, the school announced a final addition to this local talent pool with the signing of Nevada point guard transfer Tayshawn Comer.

As far as assistant coaches go, Sprinkle had four leave his staff during the offseason and he's added DeAndre Hanes, Charles Klask and is expected to hire Mike Mennenga, formerly of Oregon, though the school has made no public pronouncement on the latter.

Add to the staff a new general manager in Alex Kline and a new position called director for mindset and culture in Jayson Wells.

Three of the first four UW conference outings will be held on the road at USC on Dec. 2, at Michigan on Jan. 2 and at Michigan State on Jan. 5, providing a rather testy introduction to this season's Big Ten landscape.

Earlier, the Huskies unveiled their 11-game non-conference schedule in which they will face BYU in Hawaii, Baylor in downtown Seattle, Utah in Salt Lake City and a host of lower-level opponents at Alaska Airlines Arena.

Following a non-counting exhibition game against Washington State on Oct. 25, the UW will open the season against Colgate on Monday, Nov. 2, in one of even non-conference home games.

The Huskies have just six returning players, including one full-time starter in fourth-year guard Wesley Yates Jr., who was the team's fourth-highest scorer last season at 12.7 points per game.

The only other player back who started any UW games last season is 6-foot-10 forward Lathan Sommerville, who opened seven times while averaging 4.3 points and 2.6 rebounds per outing over 22 appearances.

Sprinkle also returns 6-foot-11 big man Mady Traore, who missed all of last season with a foot injury; 6-foot-5 swingman Jasir Rencher, who apparently is recovered from a heart condition that limited him to eight games; 6-foot-10 forward Niko Dzepina, who made 14 appearances; and Brandon Roy's son and walk-on guard Brandon Jr. or BJ.

UW'S BIG TEN SCHEDULE

Dec. 2, Wednesday -- at USC

Dec. 13, Sunday -- UCLA

Jan. 2, Saturday -- at Michigan

Jan. 5, Tuesday -- at Michigan State

Jan. 9, Saturday -- Indiana

Jan. 13, Wednesday -- Nebraska

Jan. 16, Saturday -- at UCLA

Jan. 20, Wednesday -- Northwestern

Jan. 23, Saturday -- at Wisconsin

Jan. 26, Wednesday -- at Minnesota

Jan. 30, Saturday -- Rutgers

Feb. 7, Sunday -- at Oregon

Feb. 10, Wednesday -- USC

Feb. 14, Sunday -- at Ohio State

Feb. 17, Wednesday -- at Penn State

Feb. 20, Saturday -- Maryland

Feb. 23, Tuesday -- Illinois

Feb. 27, Saturday -- Purdue

March 2, Tuesday -- at Iowa

March 6, Saturday -- Oregon

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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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