To be sure, Danny Sprinkle and his University of Washington basketball coaching staff still have a lot of work to do in finding 15 scholarship players to build a team around for next season.

Currently, Sprinkle has five returnees from a 16-17 team that finished 12th in the Big Ten standings, four picked up through the transfer portal, one signed as a high school recruit and another added as an international player.

To be sure, the Huskies are scrambling to put together a team competitive enough to get out of the lower half of the conference, which might be asking a lot.

The Huskies went from last place in 2024 to six slots higher last winter with a team decimated by injuries.

If they had to play a game today, here's what a starting lineup might look like, with everyone seemingly dragging around some sort of baggage:

Wesley Yates III drives to the basket against Oregon.…