Although Washington has made some noise in previous seasons on the gridiron, their performance on the hardwood has left a lot to be desired, and their first season in the Big Ten was not a successful one to say the least.<\/p>\n
The Huskies actually started out 6-1, but this was all against meager competition before even hitting December.<\/p>\n
Once December hit so did the reality of conference basketball, and they lost to both UCLA and USC, also new members of the Big Ten.<\/p>\n
They were able to pull out a 2-1 stretch while facing three in-state rivals and earned their most impressive victory of the season at the beginning of January, defeating Maryland at home. They then pushed #22 Illinois to the brink but succumbed at the end.<\/p>\n
Turns out, that was when the puppy poop hit the fan.<\/p>\n
That loss led right into five more, and they were sitting at dead last in the conference at 1-8. They finally pieced together a few more wins to start February, but each one was subsequently followed by a loss, keeping them in the Big Ten basement.<\/p>\n
As March rolled around they were looking just as horrible as ever, then randomly decided to put up a big fight at home against the red-hot Ducks on Senior Day.<\/p>\n
It still wasn\u2019t enough though, and they fell in overtime, their sixth straight defeat to close out the season.<\/p>\n
They were not invited to any sort of postseason play, even the conference tournament.<\/p>\n
They\u2019ll say goodbye to Great Osobor and Tyler Harris, who contributed 15 and 12 points per game respectively. They\u2019ll also lose both bigs in Wilhelm Breidenbach, and former Duck-turned-traitor Franck Kepnang.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s hard to see Washington being any better in 2026, and with their last NCAA Tournament appearence occuring in 2019, there is little hope the drought will end anytime soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although Washington has made some noise in previous seasons on the gridiron, their performance on the hardwood has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[402,398,400,401,60142,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-91518","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-basketball","11":"tag-ncaabasketball","12":"tag-oregon-ducks-basketball","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}