If a questionable ankle isn't the only thing causing problems, Tyler Harris could be a bonus pickup for Danny Sprinkle's ever-changing University of Washington basketball team.
On Friday night, the 6-foot-8, 190-pound Harris, a polished forward from Portland who was named to the All-WCC Freshman Team, announced he was joining UW through the transfer portal — the Huskies' eighth. will be added to the roster. Second of the day.
He also ranks second to Seigaku transfer in recent years, second only to 6-foot-8 Moses Wood, who started 32 games and scored 11.9 points this winter, his only season at Montlake. He becomes the forward for the second pilot.
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Harris averaged 12.1 points and 7.3 rebounds in his first year with the 12-21 Pilots, but missed a third of the season, or 11 games, due to an ankle problem.
While attending the CIF NorCal Championship at Granada High School in the Bay Area, he saw a lingering ankle issue slow his development and slow his recruiting efforts throughout the 2022-23 season. During his junior year, he missed almost the entire season to prepare for Salesian University.
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Before his limp, Harris was a very good player, especially at the beginning of his college basketball career. He became the first Portland player to record a double-double with 17 points and 12 rebounds in a 78-73 win over Long Beach State, and two games later he had 22 points and 12 rebounds in 76 games. . -65 win over UC Riverside.
Harris made 46 percent of his attempts from the field and went for the 3-point shot for the first time in his career, knocking down 19 of his 53 attempts.
“The reality is, I came here not shooting any 3s,” Harris told the Portland Tribune. “I was mainly just doing rim running, midrange and floaters. I realized I needed to expand my game. … I went from being on a shooting machine almost every day in the summer to I remember” [and] It's about 500 shots up. ”
Harris committed hours after UW received a commitment from Lewis Cortright of the Rhode Island National Guard.
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