Washington football coach Chris Petersen is assembling the strongest recruiting class in school history.
Washington basketball coach Mike Hopkins is walking on sunshine (figuratively speaking, of course) after his team beat two ranked opponents in a span of 48 hours.
For a handful of college athletic programs – Ohio State comes to mind – the notion of enjoying simultaneous success at both football and basketball is not all that unusual. But for the Huskies, it’s a phenomenon experienced, oh, every generation or so.
Spring football practice won’t begin until next month, and the Pac-12 basketball schedule won’t resume until Thursday, and yet Tuesday still was a UW banner day with the announcement former Lake Stevens quarterback Jacob Eason will spend the rest of his college career with the Huskies.