Nahziah Carter, a 6-foot-6, 185-pound shooting guard/small forward from Rochester, NY., will join the University of Washington basketball program this summer after enrolling in classes,  coach Mike Hopkins announced Monday. Carter was the 29th-ranked shooting guard in the country last year by Scout.com.

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After swapping picks with the Boston Celtics and giving up a future first-rounder to get him, the Philadelphia 76ers selected Markelle Fultz No. 1 in Thursday’s NBA draft, held at Barclay's Center in Brooklyn (two-round list here). Fultz is the first University of Washington player taken with the first pick. Washington is the first school to produce the No. 1 picks in the NBA and WNBA drafts in the same academic year.

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For the 10th time in 11 years, the University of Washington won the Intercollegiate Rowing Association men's team title with first-pace finishes in the first three races, but Yale narrowly edged Washington by about half a second in the featured varsity eight grand final Sunday on Lake Natoma, near Sacramento. 

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The University of Florida (58-8) justified its No. 1 seeding by easily topping No. 6 Washington (50-14) Sunday 5-2 Sunday in Oklahoma City, eliminating the Huskies from the NCAA Women's College World Series with a second loss in the double-elimination tournament.

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The intense resolve of the University of Washington's women's rowing team was expressed by sophomore Elise Beuke, when she and her varsity eight teammates crossed the finish line first the past weekend to complete a Huskies sweep on New Jersey's Mercer Lake of all three races in the national rowing championships, a first in NCAA history.

"OK," she recalled thinking Wednesday, "What's next?"

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University of Washington rowing claimed another place in the sport's history books Sunday in West Windsor, NJ,  when the Huskies women became the first program in the 21 years as an NCAA-sanctioned varsity sport to sweep the three grand finals for the team title. The win was the fourth UW women's rowing championship.

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Former Huskies and Trail Blazers star Brandon Roy, who in one freaky season at Nathan Hale High School was named national coach of the year, will take his coaching talents to the south end of Seattle and his alma mater, Garfield High. On its sports Twitter account, the school confirmed Thursday earlier media reports.

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George Irvine, a Ballard High graduate who played basketball at the University of Washington from 1968-70 before embarking upon a long playing and coaching career in the ABA and NBA,  died Tuesday at 69, according to the Indiana Pacers. Irvine had been battling cancer.

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According to a report in USA Today, former University of Washington basketball star Brandon Roy was shot in the leg outside his grandmother's house over the weekend in Los Angeles. "Someone opened fire randomly and (Roy) was shielding some of the kids who were there," the report quoted a witness as saying.

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Longtime University of Washington football and men's basketball play-by-play radio broadcaster Bob Rondeau announced Thursday that he will retire after  the 2017 football season, his 37^th with the program. Rondeau informed athletic department officials of his decision earlier this month.

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Should it be open for business, KeyArena will stage first- and second-round games of the NCAA men's basketball tourney March 22-24, 2019, host University of Washington said in a release Tuesday. It's one of five NCAA championship events UW will host through the 2021 season.

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The 22-year-old sister of Boston Celtics and former University Washington star Isaiah Thomas was killed in a one-car crash at 5 a.m. Saturday on I-5 in Federal Way. Chyna Thomas, of Tacoma, was traveling southbound near 288th Street when her car went off the road, landed atop a highway barrier and hit a sign post head-on, according to the Washington State Patrol. She was not wearing a seat belt.

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Over the past 15 years, Lorenzo Romar stated repeatedly that he hoped to end his coaching career at the University of Washington. That didn't work out -- Romar was fired late last month following a 9-22 clunker season (his worst) -- but now he has been hired as the associate head coach at the University of Arizona under Sean Miller. The Wildcats made the announcement here.

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The University of Washington Friday named Jody Wynn, who spent the past eight seasons at Long Beach State, as its head women's basketball coach, replacing Mike Neighbors, who bought his way out of his contract last month to take the top job with  the University of Arkansas women's team.

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As expected, the University of Washington’s Kelsey Plum went to the San Antonio Stars with the first overall pick in the WNBA draft Thursday in New York, while former Husky teammate Chantel Osahor went 21st overall (second round) to the Chicago Sky. Due to a trade, the Seattle Storm did not have a first-round pick and had to wait until the second round (15^th overall) before taking Alexis Peterson, a 5-7 guard from Syracuse.

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New University of Washington head basketball coach Mike Hopkins Wednesday announced the signings of Nate Pryor and Michael Carter III to scholarships for the 2017 season. Pryor and Carter are first recruits signed by Hopkins, who replaced Lorenzo Romar earlier this month.

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The University of Washington's Kelsey Plum, already in possession of seven major postseason awards, Tuesday was named the Honda Sport winner for women's college basketball, which has been presented annually by the Collegiate Women's Sports Awards (CWSA) for the past 41 years to the top female athletes in 12 NCAA-sanctioned sports.

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The University of Washington’s Kelsey Plum made it a sweep Friday, winning the John R. Wooden Award from the Los Angeles Athletic Club as its National Player of the Year in women’s college basketball.

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Having already won six major postseason awards, including four National Player of the Year trophies, Washington’s Kelsey Plum can run the table later this week if she also claims the John R. Wooden Award, presented since 2004 by the Los Angeles Athletic Club to the outstanding women’s college basketball player in the nation.

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The end of the college basketball season prompts a look at a different kind of final box score in the state: Four Division I programs lost their coaches, and the one program that was fantastically successful played its worst game of the year at the industry's pinnacle moment.

And how about those Porters, drawing the weirdest looks since the Gekko family.

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