Hopkins out as coach at Washington after season

Pete Thamel, ESPNMar 8, 2024, 04:32 PM ET Mike Hopkins will not return as head coach of the Washington Huskies males’s basketball program after the season concludes, the school revealed on Friday.Hopkins has one complete year remaining on his deal, and will be owed almost $3.1 million for the remainder of his offer, per his agreement.”Mike has led the program with terrific integrity throughout his 7 years at Washington, and remains a highly respected coach and among the terrific gentlemen in the game,” director of sports Troy Dannen said in a declaration Friday. “Everyone at the university is grateful for his service, his dedication to the experience of our student-athletes and his management within the department.”Hopkins is 118-105 over 7 seasons at Washington, which included one NCAA competition appearance in 2019 when Washington won the conference title. Hopkins won the Pac-12 Coach of the Year award during each of his very first two seasons at Washington.Editor’s Picks 1 Related Since that 2019 NCAA quote, Washington has actually not reached the NCAA competition. They won a game in the 2019 NCAAs and finished that year 27-9. Since then, Washington has been inconsistent, consisting of a 5-21 season in 2020-21. Hopkins’ period consists of training a flurry of high-profile Huskies players, consisting of NBA draft selects like Matisse Thybulle, Isaiah Stewart and Jaden McDaniels. This year, Keion Brooks Jr. is the Pac-12’s leading scorer at 21.3 points per game.As Washington sports transitions to the Big 10 for the 2024-25 academic year, they will start a national search for an experienced head coach, per sources.Expect the Washington brass to put a premium on head-coaching experience, per sources, comparable to the priority that new athletic director Troy Dannen did during Washington’s football search previously this year. This will mark Dannen’s 2nd prominent hire since taking the job in October.He employed former Arizona coach Jedd Fisch to replace Kalen DeBoer, who left for Alabama after Washington reached the College Football Playoff title game following the 2023 football season.The opening at Washington will end up being an interesting base test of how the task is seen nationally as a Big Ten job,

particularly with the continued monetary space through television contracts that the league and the SEC are forging compared to other conferences.”As we shift to the Big 10 Conference this August, we do so with remarkable momentum, enthusiastic fans and advocates, in addition to a happy basketball custom,” Dannen added.”I am confident we will identify a sensational leader for our men’s basketball program who will embrace our organization’s high expectations for scholastic, social and competitive success.”Hopkins pertained to Washington as the head coach in 2017 after operating at Syracuse for Hall of Fame coach Jim Boeheim for 22 seasons. He became part of a staff that reached 16 NCAA tournaments, four Last Fours and the 2003 nationwide title.Hopkins is from Southern California and played collegiately at Syracuse. He likewise has actually been a major factor to USA Basketball, as he has actually been a court coach on nine different USA Basketball staffs.Washington(17-14 general, 9-11 conference)will enter the Pac-12 competition with some momentum, as the Huskies have actually won 2 of the past 3 games. That includes a 74-68 win on Thursday night at No. 18 Washington State and a home triumph versus UCLA on Feb. 29.