Led by second-year head coach Lorenzo Romar, the Huskies were members of the Pacific-10 Conference and played their home games on campus at Hec Edmundson Pavilion in Seattle, Washington.

[3] Washington lost their first five Pac-10 games,[4][5] then won twelve of thirteen to finish as runner-up.

[7] In the final, they met top seed Stanford; a week earlier, the undefeated Cardinal traveled to Seattle and lost by thirteen points.

[8] Washington returned to the NCAA tournament for the first time in five years, and were seeded eighth in the St. Louis regional.

In the first round at Columbus, Ohio, the Huskies scored a hundred points, but lost to ninth seed UAB by two.