The Huskies will have to take on a gauntlet of Big Ten opponents the first month of 2026
The Washington Huskies men's basketball team has wrapped up the nonconference part of its schedule.
The Huskies went through the first two months of the season with a 9-4 overall record and a 1-1 record in the Big Ten.
Washington's Big Ten results to this point was an 82-80 loss against UCLA on Dec. 3 and an 84-76 win against No. 24 Southern California (USC) on Dec. 6.
The Huskies will now go full tilt into their Big Ten schedule with a short bench due to injuries to sophomore guard Wesley Yates III and sophomore center Lathan Sommerville.
The Dawgs will have a daunting schedule in January which includes several top 25 teams.
Here's a breakdown Washington's Big Ten schedule in January:
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Home Games (Alaska Airlines Arena)
vs. Ohio State, 3 p.m. PT, Jan. 11
vs. No. 2 Michigan, 7:30 p.m. PT, Jan. 14
vs. No. 9 Michigan State, TBD time, Jan. 17
vs. Oregon, noon PT, Jan. 25
Road Games
at Indiana, 5 p.m. PT, Jan. 4 (Bloomington Assembly Hall; Bloomington, Ind.)
at No. 5 Purdue, 5:30 p.m. PT, Jan. 7 (Mackey Arena; West Lafayette, Ind.)
at No. 13 Nebraska, 6 p.m. PT, Jan. 21 (Pinnacle Bank Arena; Lincoln, Neb.)
at No. 20 Illinois, 6 p.m. PT, Jan. 29 (State Farm Center; Champaign, Ill.)
at Northwestern, 5 p.m. PT, Jan. 31 (Welsh-Ryan Arena; Evanston, Ill.)
Overview
- The Huskies will play nine total games in January. Four will be at home at Alaska Airlines Arena in Seattle and five will be on the road. Four of the road games will be equally split in Indiana and Illinois.
- Five of Washington's nine games in January will be against teams ranked 20th or better in the AP Top 25. Two of the three highest-ranked teams on the docket for the Huskies, No. 2 Michigan and No. 9 Michigan State, will be home games.
- This past January, in the 2024-25 season, Washington played four teams that ranked 14th or better in the end-of-season top 25 list: Maryland, Michigan, Michigan State and Purdue. The Dawgs went 0-4 in those games. Two were at home and two were on the road.
What they're saying
Huskies men's basketball coach Danny Sprinkle discussed where he feels his team is at going into Big Ten play.
"I'm really happy we're 9-4," Sprinkle said. "Yeah, I'd like to be 11-2 or 13-0, whatever it is, but if you look at the games that we lost, we had a chance to win every single one of those games in the last two minutes of the game. It comes down to, now, our guys — we always talk about winning the margins. In those four games, we didn't win the margins. We turned the ball over a lot in all four of those losses. We got selfish in three of them early and took bad shots, which led to us getting down 18 points at halftime. ... It's mixed-up lineups. Against Baylor, we didn't have (Desmond Claude) and we didn't shoot the ball well. Against Colorado, we didn't have (Hannes Steinbach). I'm proud of this team. There were times we couldn't practice five-on-five. ... I give our guys a lot of credit. It seems with this team, every game, somebody different steps up. And it's two or three guys."
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