The 2009–10

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team represented the

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in the 2009–10

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season. This was head coach

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's 8th season at Washington. The Huskies played their home games at Bank of America Arena and are members of the Pacific-10 Conference. They finished the season 26–10, 11–7 in Pac-10 play and defeated

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in the finals of the Pac-10 Tournament to claim the conference tournament championship and an automatic bid to the

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. They earned an 11 seed in the East Region where they upset 6 seed Marquette in the first round and 3 seed and AP #8

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in the second round to advance to the Sweet Sixteen where they were defeated by 2 seed and AP #6

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to end their season.

Pre-season

In the Pac-10 preseason poll, released October 29 in

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during the Pac-10 media days Washington was selected to finish 2nd in the conference.

2009–10 Team

Roster

A number of players on this team would one day play in the NBA. The list includes: *Isaiah Thomas *Quincy Pondexter *Justin Holiday *CJ Wilcox

Coaching staff

2009-10 Schedule and results

Source *All times are

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References

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