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Ex-Husky Linhardt Turns to Big Sky to Ignite His Career

The forward from Seattle joins an Idaho team coming off a 10-22 season.

Dan Raley

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Tyler Linhardt, never given much of a chance to show what he could in one season for the University of Washington basketball team and subsequently entering the transfer portal, has resurfaced at Idaho.

The 6-foot-7 forward from Seattle's King's School appeared in just three games this past season for the Huskies — which means either he was a recruiting mistake or misused by Mike Hopkins, neither of which sheds a positive light on the UW coach.

Only Linhardt knows for sure and he'll have every opportunity in the Big Sky to state his case as a college player. He'll join a Vandals team coached by Alex Pribble that needs help, coming off a 10-22 season.

Linhardt was one of seven players who fled the UW program once the season ended, and becomes the third to land on his feet somewhere, joining guard Keyon Menifield (Arkansas) and forward Cole Bajema (Utah).

Still looking for a new school are guards PJ Fuller and Noah Williams, and forwards Langston Wilson and Jackson Grant, with Grant headed to Montana State until the Bobcats underwent a coaching change.

Emerging from the same high school that offered up Corey Kispert, another shooter who played for Gonzaga, became an All-America pick and headed to the NBA, Linhardt watched and watched as the Huskies stumbled to a lackluster 16-16 season filled with one-side defeats.

One would have thought he could have been inserted into more of those games that got out of hand, but Linhardt played only briefly against Utah Tech, Idaho State and Stanford. He took 4 shots and made 2, including a trey, and scored 6 points, all against Idaho State.

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DAN RALEY

Dan Raley has worked for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, as well as for MSN.com and Boeing, the latter as a global aerospace writer. His sportswriting career spans four decades and he's covered University of Washington football and basketball during much of that time. In a working capacity, he's been to the Super Bowl, the NBA Finals, the MLB playoffs, the Masters, the U.S. Open, the PGA Championship and countless Final Fours and bowl games.

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