Washington basketball adds grad transfer forward from Oakland

The Washington Huskies added a consistent scorer from one of the biggest stories of the NCAA Tournament.

As the Washington Huskies were sidelined from the NCAA Tournament for the fifth consecutive season, college basketball fans watched in awe as the No. 14 seed Oakland Golden Grizzlies upset John Calipari and the No. 3 Kentucky Wildcats.

On Sunday, coach Danny Sprinkle reeled in one of Oakland’s more consistent players, graduate transfer forward Chris Conway. Conway started all 35 games for the Golden Grizzlies last season and should be a reliable depth piece for the Huskies in 2024.

Over his senior season, Conway averaged 10 points and 4.1 rebounds per game and has made 57 percent of his field goal attempts in his career. Depending on how the rest of the roster shapes up, he could bring Washington its best assortment of frontcourt depth in a long time.

Sprinkle is pushing hard to add San Diego State forward Elijah Saunders and Mountain West Player of the Year Great Osobor to round out the group, which will also return veteran center Franck Kepnang, forward Wilhelm Breidenbach, and adds Oregon State center KC Ibekwe.