Washington Huskies head coach Danny Sprinkle assembled a very strong recruiting class ahead of his second season at the helm on Montlake.

Among the members of that class is four-star guard Courtland Muldrew, a product of Har Ber High School in Springfield, Arkansas. The 6-foot-3 freshman, who chose the Huskies over 12 other offers, including Creighton, Ole Miss, Oklahoma, and LSU, and was rumored to have received interest from several of the nation’s top programs late in the recruiting cycle, looks like he could be a promising contributor to Sprinkle’s rotation in his first season of college basketball.

“This kid’s the next All-American right here!” sophomore guard Zoom Diallo told members of the media as the pair walked by arm in arm.

Sprinkle agrees with that assessment.

“Courtland is that wild horse,” Sprinkle said. “He’s so fast, every time we run a line…he’s going to win it. He is so fast and athletic for his size, and I don’t want him to lose that. I need him to be that aggressive, especially defensively; it’s a God’s gift to him. He’s so athletic and fast twitch, but now he’s got to do it without fouling. He’s got to drive in there and still use that speed and athleticism, but he has to be under control.”

“There’s times when it’s electric, literally like Ja Morant, and then there’s times where it’s like bowling pins and he’s just running 10 guys over. Once we kind of corral that wild horse, it’s going to be tremendous because he can really score the basketball. He could be our best defender just because of his physical attributes, and because he’s got some stuff to him,” Sprinkle continued as he tapped his chest.

“He takes pride in getting after guys and getting in guys’ skin. He loves guarding Wesley [Yates] and Zoom and Desmond [Claude] and those guys, and he’s fouling them, but we’re not calling it. He loves being that instigator, which I love, because he’s an energy giver. He’s been tremendous.”

Muldrew is expected to start the season on the bench alongside his classmate, point guard JJ Mandaquit, but whenever he hits the floor, he could turn into an important spark off the bench for the Huskies.