The young Texan sat out the entire UW season last year with a foot injury.
Wesley Yates III, according to last year's stat sheet, was the University of Washington basketball player who never was.
Yates never appeared in a UW game, left to sit on the bench in street clothes throughout the season and remain a reluctant spectator for Mike Hopkins' team. New UW coach Danny Sprinkle shared how he did his best to try and keep Yates in Montlake, yet in the end the backcourt player followed former Husky assistant coaches Will Conroy and Quincy Pondexter, both one-time NBA and highly decorated UW players, to USC.
Coming out of Beaumont United High School, Yates was a 19.7-point scorer for a 36-2 team who had 26 scholarship offers, including Alabama, Gonzaga, Houston, LSU and Texas. He was drawn to the Huskies by the prospect of playing for Pondexter, his cousin.
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