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Husky Basketball Has One Wheeler, Pursuing Another

Montana Wheeler, younger brother of Sahvir, has a UW offer.

Dan Raley

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If the University of Washington basketball team can learn how to ride a two-Wheeler, the Huskies could be going places in the years ahead.

Over the offseason, they've welcomed Kentucky transfer point guard Sahvir Wheeler to Montlake and are getting ready to turn the bulk of the playmaking duties over to him this coming season.

This past week, the UW extended a basketball scholarship offer to his little brother, Montana Wheeler, a point guard coming off a sensational sophomore season at Houston Christian High School. 

Listed anywhere from 5-foot-7 to 5-foot-11 on the different recruiting sites, the younger Wheeler averaged 21 points and 8.5 assists for a 31-4 state-champion team. 

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He passed 1,000 points in his career in January with two seasons to go and received the Guy V. Lewis Award as the greater Houston area player of the year.

As a freshman in January 2022, Wheeler came up with the rare quadruple-double in a 98-30 victory over Awty: 16 points, 12 assists, 10 rebounds and 10 steals.

"I wasn't really playing for it," he said afterward, "but I knew if I did it, I knew it would be history."

Wheeler is considered a 4-star recruit and has offers from LSU, Texas A&M, Kansas State, Lamar, Old Dominion, Rice, Sam Houston State, Florida International and St. John's.

The brothers are two of six siblings in the family: Sahvir, Sage, Montana, Lincoln, Lola and Liv. Their father, Teddy, is a basketball coach. 

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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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