Husky Men's Basketball Blog

I wrote today (Wednesday) that Spencer Hawes was due to soon discuss his plans for the future.

Hawes, I'm told, will do that on Thursday.

As I wrote today, almost everyone expects Hawes to announce that he will declare but won't hire an agent, which will give him the option of returning. The deadline to pull out of the draft is June 18. By declaring, Hawes can conduct some workouts to get a more clear evaluation of his draft status. Players can do that and still return to school once during their college careers.

RIVALS REVEALS RANKINGS: I've passed along a few projections of next year's pre-season rankings. Here's one from Rivals.com that takes the interesting route of deciding not to assume any players are gone to the NBA except for those who have already declared.

Rivals lists UW at No. 22 assuming that Hawes will be back.

Still, don't know how they don't include Washington State in the top 25. The Cougs lose Ivory Clark but return everyone else, and I'm almost certain will be a top 15 team heading into next season.