First-year Washington basketball coach Mike Hopkins worked the past 22 years as an assistant to Jim Boeheim at Syracuse.
What that means, of course, is Hopkins’ Huskies (6-2) will be using the same 2-3 zone defense against Kansas at 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Sprint Center that Boeheim has used the last four decades with the Orange — and used exclusively Saturday against KU at the Hoophall Miami Classic in Florida.
“Watch Syracuse … they play a lot like Syracuse. Their zone is similar,” KU coach Bill Self of the Huskies of the Pac-12, who will meet KU in a game televised by ESPN2.