NEWS: Baylor and Washington are finalizing an agreement to start a home-and-home series this season in Waco, according to multiple sources.
Return game in Seattle in 2026-27.https://t.co/35ZP3FaIi7
— Jon Rothstein (@JonRothstein) July 1, 2025
After the NCAA approved the addition of a 32nd game to the college basketball schedule, coach Danny Sprinkle and the Washington Huskies moved quickly to schedule a top-tier opponent to their slate.
On Tuesday morning, CBS Sports’ Jon Rothstein reported that the Huskies set up a home-and-home with the Big 12’s Baylor Bears. The initial installment of the game in the 2025-26 season will be played in Waco, Texas, while Scott Drew’s squad will travel to Seattle during the 2026-27 campaign.
Drew has turned the Bears into one of the nation’s more consistent programs since taking over ahead of the 2003-04 season. Since his arrival, Baylor has made 13 trips to the NCAA Tournament, twice as a No. 1 seed and six other times as a No. 3. The program also took home back-to-back conference championships in the 2021 and 2022 seasons.
If the Huskies are able to go into Waco and pull off a victory, it could be viewed as a statement win for Sprinkle, whose team didn’t have many notable wins during his first season at the helm. The Bears are ranked as the No. 22 team in On3’s way-too-early Top 25 thanks to key transfer portal additions like former Wyoming standout Obi Agbim, Tennessee’s Cameron Carr, and Oregon State’s Michael Rataj.
Washington is 1-1 against Baylor in recent memory, after the Jaden McDaniels and Isaiah Stewart-led team pulled off a 67-64 season-opening win against the No. 16 Bears at the Armed Forces Classic. Mike Hopkins’ squad followed that up with an 86-52 loss to the No. 2-ranked Bears to kick off the 2020-21 season at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
Dates for both games are TBD.