Abdul Gaddy scored 15 points and dished out four assists in his return to action for the Huskies, who beat Seattle Pacific 77-60 in their first test of the 2011-12 season.

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Darnell Gant has been selected as a candidate for the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award. Gant, a senior from Los Angeles, is the only Pac-12 player on the list of 30 men's basketball candidates.

With seven freshmen who have yet to play any type of college game and the rest of the veterans not having played since losing to North Carolina in the third round of March's NCAA tournament, Washington has been anticipating Friday's 7 p.m. exhibition game at Alaska Airlines Arena against Seattle Pacific seemingly forever.

A mature Darnell Gant shined on Friday when he returned home to represent the Huskies' Basketball Team at Pac-12 Media Day.

Washington is picked to finish fourth in the 2011-12 Pac-12 Conference men's basketball race, according to a poll of media members who cover Pac-12 men's basketball.

Coach Lorenzo Romar said Tuesday Tony Wroten will start his Huskies career on time next month despite arthroscopic surgery five days earlier on his previously repaired knee.