{"id":178111,"date":"2025-07-18T01:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T01:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/178111\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T01:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T01:08:09","slug":"uw-basketball-rebuild-centered-around-fixing-three-point-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/178111\/","title":{"rendered":"UW Basketball Rebuild Centered Around Fixing Three-Point Woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThis group right here, we\u2019re going to change the whole trajectory of this program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Winning culture starts now on Montlake. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Bo9PEAGntT\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/Bo9PEAGntT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Washington Men&#8217;s Basketball (@UW_MBB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UW_MBB\/status\/1944928737931436039?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 15, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Danny Sprinkle doesn&#8217;t like to lose.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This offseason, ahead of his second year at the helm of his father&#8217;s alma mater, the Washington Huskies&#8217; leader overhauled his roster heading into year two after a disappointing 13-18 overall record that yielded just four Big Ten Conference victories in 2024-25.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Part of UW&#8217;s struggles on the hardwood stemmed from being unable to find a consistent three-point shooting threat. As a team, the Huskies shot 34.4 percent from deep, good for No. 159 in the country and tied with Oregon for eighth in the conference.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To prevent another down year from behind the arc, Sprinkle landed East Tennessee State senior guard <a href=\"https:\/\/uwhuskieswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/huskies\/mens-basketball\/2025\/07\/12\/quimari-peterson-uw-basketball-danny-sprinkle-socon-big-ten\/84543503007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Quimari Peterson<\/a> from the transfer portal, one of the best 3-point shooters in the country last season at 42.2 percent \u2014 good for No. 18 in college basketball.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No Husky finished in the top 100 from long range, though sophomore guard Tyler Harris (49.5) and junior Mekhi Mason (40.2) shot above 40 percent while each played a more limited role than Peterson did at ETSU.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Freshman guard Zoom Diallo, one of just two returning players from last season, shot 18.2 percent from deep despite shooting 47.3 percent from the field, a sign that adding Peterson and a pair of ex-USC guards, Desmond Claude and Wesley Yates III will allow the Tacoma native to flourish without being forced to do more than necessary for the Huskies to be successful.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Claude, the Trojans&#8217; leading scorer in 2024-25 at 15.3 points per game, shot 30.7 percent from behind the 3-point line while Yates III shot 43.9 percent, while Lipscomb transfer and ASun Conference Player of the Year Jacob Ognacevic shot 40 percent from long range, giving Sprinkle a plethora of shooters who can be the go-to option on any given night, a significant change from last season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThis group right here, we\u2019re going to change the whole trajectory of this program.\u201d Winning culture starts now&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[12038,7,657,12040,319,217,325,777,12039,2341,318,231,2504,67,169,61,134,132,66,83,2499,2196,13148,682,3459],"class_list":{"0":"post-178111","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-12038","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-big","11":"tag-big-10-hub","12":"tag-college","13":"tag-college-basketball","14":"tag-college-sports","15":"tag-conference","16":"tag-hub","17":"tag-huskies","18":"tag-mens","19":"tag-ncaa","20":"tag-ncaa-big-ten-conference","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-of","23":"tag-overall","24":"tag-overall-positive","25":"tag-positive","26":"tag-sports","27":"tag-sports-news","28":"tag-ten","29":"tag-university","30":"tag-university-of-washington","31":"tag-washington","32":"tag-washington-huskies-mens-basketball"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114871566710005133","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}