> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.emeraldcityspectrum.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Danny Sprinkle, Huskies Back to Drawing Board for Another Rebuild - URL: https://www.emeraldcityspectrum.com/danny-sprinkle-washington-huskies-basketball-zoom-diallo-transfer-portal/ - Published: 2026-04-05T04:40:31.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-08T05:47:55.000Z - Author: Aaron Coe - Tags: News, Analysis, Huskies Men's Basketball, Danny Sprinkle, Zoom Diallo, Courtland Muldrew, JJ Mandaquit, Hannes Steinbach \[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="726"\] ![ Washington Huskies men’s basketball coach Danny Sprinkle appears to be losing Zoom Diallo, JJ Mandaquit and Courtland Muldrew to the transfer portal. ](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1d/f2/1df2f77b-83dd-4bc0-a6d2-6d1bb5df89a3/content/images/2026/10/screenshot-2025-06-23-212252-format-original.png) Washington Huskies men’s basketball coach Danny Sprinkle appears to be losing Zoom Diallo, JJ Mandaquit and Courtland Muldrew to the transfer portal. \[/caption\] It looks like Danny Sprinkle and his Washington Huskies men’s basketball will be starting over. Again. As Sprinkle heads into his third season at UW, it would appear that another massive roster shakeup is coming after Zoom Diallo, JJ Mandaquit and Courtland Muldrew all announced intentions to enter the transfer portal when it opens on Tuesday. It remains unclear how much the exodus surprised Sprinkle, who indicated to Percy Allen of the Seattle Times for an April 1 story that there would not be another extreme makeover. “Now with most of these guys, I haven’t had season-ending meetings with all of them, but the couple that I have talked to, they tell me they’re coming back,” Sprinkle told the Times. “I’m not going to comment on any of them individually, but the ones that I have met with, they say they’re coming back.” Diallo, a sophomore, indicated in his social media posts that he would consider a return to the Huskies, who he watched while growing up in Tacoma, Washington. Diallo played point guard for the Huskies last season, averaging 15.7 points and 4.5 assists per game during UW’s 16-17 season. He was one of just two Huskies to play in every game as injuries piled up for UW over the course of the season. As of Saturday, only five scholarship players seemed likely to return. - Mady Traore, a 6-11 junior transfer forward from New Mexico State who missed the past season with injury. - Jasir Rencher, a freshman, who last played Dec. 22 due to a heart issue. - Wesley Yates, a starting guard who will require a second hand surgery during the offseason after missing nearly a month after the initial surgery. Yates averaged 12.7 points per game. - Lathan Sommerville, a sophomore center who averaged 3.3 points and 1.9 rebounds while missing 13 games with a knee injury. - Nikola Dzepina, a Serbian who joined the team in December and averaged 2.6 points per game. The status of freshman star forward Hannes Steinbach remains unclear. Expected to be a first-round pick if he chooses to enter the NBA Draft, Sprinkle said no decision has been made for the native of Germany who averaged 18.5 points and 11.8 rebounds. “A lot of it will have to come from the feedback he gets from the NBA,” Sprinkle told the Seattle Times. “Once we get that information, then we’ll see where him and his agents want to go with it.” Center Franck Kepnang is eligible to return for a seventh season, though he walked on senior day. He missed the final six games due to injury. Indiana transfer Bryson Tucker missed the final five games due to what Sprinkle labeled a personal issue, and was not seen with the team during the last few games. Mandaquit, a point guard touted by Sprinkle as the future of Washington basketball before his freshman season began, won a third gold medal with Team USA at the 2025 U19 FIBA World Cup last July in Lausanne, Switzerland. He began the season as a starter, but struggled in his first six college starts. He came off the bench for 16 games and began playing more effectively in January before being sidelined the remainder of the season with a foot injury. Mandaquit had surgery in New York in February, and will reportedly need an additional procedure this offseason. Muldrew played sparingly earlier in the season, but played a larger role late in the season as UW injuries mounted. The 6-3 guard, who was part of Sprinkle’s 15th-ranked 2025 recruiting class, averaged 8.8 points, five assists and four rebounds during Washington’s final four games. “Honestly, I should have played him more a lot earlier,” Sprinkle said on March 4 after a 91-72 win against USC. “He’s been terrific. Just fearless when he’s in there, and we need that. We need his athleticism and the way he just plays hard. “I’m excited about him and how his game is going to develop.” Before signing with Washington, Muldrew had scholarship offers from LSU, Oklahoma and Ole Miss, among others. If Rencher is unable to return and Steinbach does pro as expected, it’s conceivable that none of Sprinkle’s 2025 class will be with the team in 2026\. Injuries hit Sprinkle hard all year, even before the season began. Washington finished the season with just seven scholarship players after 10 players missed a combined 119 games due to injuries. Forward Christian Nito left the program before the season began after transferring from Florida State. Desmond Claude left the team, he said in a social media post, due to “ongoing complications” of an ankle injury he suffered prior to the season. Claude averaged 13.3 points in 12 games this season. So, who will play for the Huskies in 2026-27? Not high school players, it would seem. Washington does not have any Class of 2026 high school commits, and appears to be looking to fill the roster through the portal. Last offseason, Sprinkle was busy in the portal with only two players (Diallo and Kepnang) returning from his first season. It seems he’ll be active in the portal again this year, with the number of transfers potentially reaching double digits.