Former Utah State basketball coach Danny Sprinkle will be the next University of Washington Men’s head coach per a school release.
Sprinkle was named the Mountain West Conference Coach of the Year and a finalist for the 2023-24 Jim Phelan National Coach of the Year . Utah State won the MWC regular season championship and earned a berth in the NCAA Tournament. The MWC Championship was the first in program history.
The 20th-ranked Aggie’s season ended Saturday with a 106 to 67 loss to the Purdue Boilermakers in the second round of the Tournament The 2023-24 season was Sprinkle’s lone season with the Aggies.
Prior to his tenure at Utah State, Sprinkle served as the head coach at Montana State for four seasons, accumulating an 81-43 record and leading the Bobcats to back-to-back NCAA Tournaments in 2022 and 2023. Montana State won the Big Sky regular season championship in 2022 and won the postseason conference tournament in both 2022 and 2023. The consecutive 25-win seasons had not been achieved at Montana State since 1927-1929.
“Simply put, Coach Sprinkle is a winner,” said Interim Director of Athletics Erin O’Connell “He won as a high school player, as a collegiate student-athlete, as an assistant coach, and then at both stops as a head coach, including the recent regular season conference championship at Utah State. But beyond his coaching acumen is his ability to connect with student-athletes, develop them into outstanding young men and basketball players and embrace the community around him. Coach is exactly what our program needs at this moment in time and we are thrilled to have him take the reigns of our men’s basketball program.”
Before taking the helm at Montana State, Sprinkle served as an assistant coach at Cal State Fullerton, Cal State Northridge (twice) and at Montana State. He was part of NCAA Tournament teams at Fullerton (2018) and at Cal State Northridge (2001 and 2009), with CSUN winning conference championships in both of those seasons.
Born in Pullman, Washington, Sprinkle earned all-state honors twice in basketball as a student at Helena (Montana) High School, while also competing in football and track & field.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in health and human development from Montana State in 2000. Sprinkle is the son of former UW football defensive back, Bill Sprinkle, who played for the Huskies from 1965-68.
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