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Washington Basketball HC Danny Sprinkle on the loss to Rutgers: “Brutal loss. A win that we needed and I give our credit and their guys credit. I thought it was a heck of a college basketball game. We fought. We kept clawing, we kept clawing and we got a stop when we needed at the end, and then we had to execute a side out of bounds and we still had a timeout and it's just unfortunate the way it kind of ended there. And then with a missed free throw we didn't get the rebound on it. Tough night. It's hard. You have to give Rutgers a lot of credit too. The Harper kid, he was the best player on the floor, he was really, really hard to guard. I haven't even looked at the stats but I know it was a lot. And he got a lot at the free throw line too. But even in the second half, their guards got in there and scrapped and got a couple offensive rebounds when we finally did get stops, and we were a play short. We kept splitting free throws, we couldn't quite get over that hump."

Sprinkle's thoughts on Ace Bailey and Dylan Harper: ""You can see why they are NBA top-5 draft picks. Their size and their athleticism and length, they played at a different speed than everybody else on the floor. The game is really easy for them, especially Harper. He makes the right play, it's hard to trap him, he goes around the trap, he makes the right pass out of the trap. He's shooting it from deep, he's getting to the rim, he can really finish with either hand. Ace Bailey, he had a couple rebounds where it was just he's taller and more athletic than you. And even a couple shots. A couple times we lost him, and he's just too good a player to lose. That's our fault on some of those scouting report details. He had a big one right in the corner right in front of their bench in the second half where we just lost him for no reason. You can't let great players like that get going."