The question was asked by an out-of-town sportswriter visiting Seattle to cover a Washington men’s basketball game.
Who’s the Huskies’ best player?
On every basketball team that’s ever stepped on the court, there exists a hierarchy among players that’s defined intentionally or forms organically over time.
Players sometime engage in alpha-dog struggles for supremacy (i.e. Shaquille O’Neal vs. Kobe Bryant) and in other cases a leader never truly emerges.
This season the Huskies fall somewhere in the middle of those two extremes.
After four months, Washington (19-10, 9-7 Pac-12) heads into its final two games at Alaska Airlines Arena – including Thursday’s 8 p.