Danny Sprinkle on Exhibition Loss

Here with head coach Danny Sprinkle following Washington's 91-109 loss in the exhibition against Boise State. Coach got off to a bit of a rough start, dug a little bit of a hole. Team was able to bounce back and cut it down. That lead down significantly. How good was that to see in this first time game action? Well, it was good. You know, they came out on fire. You know, they had some guys that, you know, we had to, you know, we were going under some ball screens and, you know, their number one, you know, needle. I mean, he didn't miss a shot. He was 7 of 7 and 4 of 4 from 3. And he's so fast, you know, you have to make him shoot some. They made everything in that first half. You know, they did a great job shooting the ball. But their pace and their physicality, like, you know, they got us in that first five minutes, and that's when they jumped us. And we were just kind of a step behind, you know, for that really first eight, ten minutes. And then we got in foul trouble. You know what I mean? Our starting five fouled out. We had 36 total fouls. But as you mentioned, like, we fought back. You know, we cut it to five, and then we had a bad foul, you know, Latham had a bad foul, and then he got a technical, and then they went on a 6-0 run and got it back up to 11 when we had all the momentum. And so, you know, that's why you play these exhibition games in front of a good crowd and we wanted to come on the road against a good team, and hopefully those lessons will help us.