Sprinkle says UW Basketball will have flexible starting lineup

Mike Hopkins usually dictated the starting lineup for the University of Washington basketball team and had no intention of changing anything at all. He preferred to live and die with his chosen five. Refused to mess with my Husky workforce.

Or don’t you remember how challenged forward Hameir Wright started 80 games for Hopkins’ UW teams when some of Wright’s teammates could be much more accurate from long range?

That kind of tough decision-making won’t be the case for his coaching successor Danny Sprinkle, who seems much more open to trading players in and out of the starting lineup and has a lot more guys worth preparing for the game. – introduction to the game.

“I don’t have a starter right now,” Sprinkle said after a 105-68 exhibition win over Western Oregon. “It was like the guys were playing their best in the last two or two-and-a-half weeks.”

In a shutout game, Sprinkle opened a lineup with 6-foot-8 Great Osobor at power forward, 6-foot-11 Frank Kepnang at center, and Mekhi Mason, DJ Davis and Tyree Ihenacho at guard, all seniors.

Davis, a 6-foot-4 Butler transfer, led the Huskies with 16 points; while Osobor and Kepnang, a Utah State transfer and retainer respectively, scored 12 points each; Rice’s 6-foot-4 Mason scored eight points, while North Dakota’s 6-foot-4 Ihenacho was held scoreless.