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UW Huskies coach Mike Hopkins tells a story that you got hear about the fire on the team bus

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Mike Hopkins says a fire on a team bus turned into a "weird" team bonding for the Huskies who sang songs and listened to music while stranded on the side of an Alabama highway in the the middle of the night for two hours 40 degree weather.

At the end of Monday’s postgame press conference following a 66-63 win over San Diego, Washington men’s basketball coach Mike Hopkins gave a detailed account of the bus fire on Friday night that interrupted the Huskies’ trip home from Auburn.

Turns out the worst part of Washington’s trip wasn’t an embarrassing 88-66 lost to No.