Mike Hopkins, Washington's Upbeat Player's Coach, Has a Method to His Madness

Posted Mar 24, 2019
For all the reasons that Washington is one of college basketball’s last 32 teams standing—in its first NCAA tournament appearance since 2011—the ones to which all roads lead is frenzied 49-year-old coach Mike Hopkins pushing up his sleeves and living and dying by every bucket as he paces the sideline. “In the kindest way possible, the man is crazy." (Sports Illustrated)

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