Pop quiz. Who is the most important player on the Washington men’s basketball team?
You’d probably say freshman forward Isaiah Stewart, the highest-touted recruit in Husky history and projected lottery pick in next summer’s NBA draft.
And you’d be wrong.
Given a second chance, a popular pick would be do-everything wunderkind Jaden McDaniels, who is another anticipated one-and-done phenom that’s capable of impacting the game in so many areas.
Wrong again.
If given one more try, then Nahziah Carter, UW’s leading scorer and dazzling dunking dynamo, has to be the correct answer right?
Nope.