Third-year coach Danny Sprinkle and the Washington Huskies will not be touring removed from house, outdoors of a flight over the Pacific Ocean, through the 2026-27 non-conference slate.
UW unveiled its total males’s basketball non-conference schedule Tuesday, that includes Huge 12 Convention powers Baylor, BYU, and Utah. The Cougars will face the Huskies within the opening spherical of the Southwest Maui Invitational on November 23. The opposite two video games Sprinkle’s program will play within the annual basketball showcase in Hawaii are but to be decided, however one will come in opposition to both Clemson or Ole Miss.
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The Huskies are 29-35 total and 11-29 in Huge Ten Convention play over the previous two seasons beneath Sprinkle, and can host cross-state rival Washington State for an exhibition at Alaska Airways Area on October 25, the primary time the packages will not meet through the common season since 1917, earlier than tipping off the common season in opposition to Colgate on November 2.
UW returns to the court docket per week later to host Mississippi Valley State of the Southwestern Athletic Convention, solely the second time the 2 basketball packages have confronted off and the primary because the 2013-14 season when, beneath then-coach Lorenzo Romar, the Huskies got here away with a 95-80 win.
Six of UW’s seven non-conference video games in Seattle will likely be at house with the opposite, a December 19 assembly with Baylor, being at Local weather Pledge Area. The one true street recreation is a November 14 journey to face Utah, the primary assembly between the 2 former Pac-12 faculties in Salt Lake Metropolis in 2023-24, a 95-90 loss to the Utes.
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Sprinkle practically checked all of the Beehive State faculties off his checklist apart from his former employer, Utah State. UW comes again to Hec Edmundson Pavillion to host Utah Tech on Nov. 19 earlier than heading out to Maui 4 days later to face BYU.
The Huskies shut out their non-conference slate in opposition to Norfolk State (Nov. 29), Southern Utah (Dec. 8), Baylor (Dec. 19) and Cornell (Dec. 28) earlier than opening their Huge Ten schedule in January.
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