2016 – 17 Washington Huskies men 's basketball team represented the University of Washington in the 2016 – 17 NCAA Division I men 's basketball season . Members of the Pac-12 Conference , the Huskies were led by fifteenth-year head coach Lorenzo Romar and played their home games on campus at Alaska Airlines Arena at Hec Edmundson Pavilion in Seattle , Washington . The Huskies finished the season 9 – 22 , 2 – 16 in Pac-12 play , in eleventh place . In the Pac-12 Tournament , they lost in the first round to sixth-seeded USC . Romar was fired on March 15 ; four days later , he was succeeded by Mike Hopkins , a longtime assistant at Syracuse under The Huskies finished the 2015 – 16 season 19 – 15 , 9 – 9 in Pac-12 play to finish in a three-way for sixth place . The Huskies defeated Stanford in the first round of the Pac-12 Tournament before losing to Oregon in the quarterfinals . They received an invitation to the National Invitation Tournament as No. 3 seed . There they defeated Long Beach State in the first round before losing to San Diego State in the second round
Pac-12 Tournament
2017 Pac-12 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
2016–17 Washington Huskies men's basketball team