Louie Soriano, a University of Washington basketball guard from Bremerton who was an all-league pick as a junior in 1950 and a stalwart on the NCAA-tournament team of 1951, has died at age 88.
The Huskies won the Pacific Coast Conference title in 1951, which was coach Tippy Dye’s first season. They posted a 24-6 record and beat Texas A&M in the first round of the NCAA tournament before losing to Oklahoma State.
In the book “The Glory of Washington,” authors Jim Daves and W. Thomas Porter wrote that the season “was a great one because of the scoring of junior Frank Guisness and sophomore center Bob Houbregs and the hustle and floor leadership of senior Louie Soriano.