Washington Men’s Basketball Preview Part 3: Bigs

If you missed the first two parts of our player-by-player previews you can find part one on the guards here and part two covering the wings here. Now we finish off with the bigs. And in tribute to them it’s only right that we finish with a thunderous dunk of 3000+ words.

C 6’11 Franck Kepnang (3rd year)- Transfer from Oregon

2021-22 Stats (per game): 4.7 pts, 3.1 reb, 0.1 ast, 1.2 blk, 57.5% FG, 65.1% FT

Background

Washington was one of the first offers for Kepnang coming out of the Northeast just after his freshman year of high school. Over the next 2 years they flooded in from all over including Syracuse, UCLA, Kansas, Auburn, and Oregon commensurate with his top-40 national ranking. Despite…