Mike Hopkins opens his seventh season as UW men’s coach, still in the hot seat.
Last March, Mike Hopkins received a reprieve when former Washington athletic director Jen Cohen brought in coaches for the Husky men’s basketball team.
In describing last season’s 16-16 campaign and eighth-place finish in the Pac-12, Cohen used the word “disappointed” three times in the first paragraph of his statement to the Seattle Times.
“After conducting a postseason evaluation of the program and after many in-depth discussions with Coach Hopkins, I am hopeful that next season will once again see the Huskies compete for the Pac-12 championship and return to the NCAA state tournament,” she said.
speak.
“Coach Hopkins understands our expectations and is committed to making any changes necessary to achieve them.
” Many Husky fans believe that Cohen’s commitment to Hopkins was financially motivated by the Husky athletic department’s unwillingness or inability to fire Hopkins and pay him his remaining two years plus $6.
3 million on his contract.
Fast forward eight months and Hopkins is once again in the proverbial hot seat as he enters his seventh season at the helm of UW basketball, which begins at 8:30 p.m.
ET .
Monday with a non-conference game against Bellarmine at Alaska Airlines Arena.
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