The Husky men's basketball team will be holding walk-on tryouts this Thursday, Oct. 22 at 6:00 pm at Bank of America Arena. The tryouts are open to full-time students at the University of Washington and potential walk ons must have  an updated physical from within the last six months. Candidates must turn in their physical prior to tryouts to the Men's Basketball office. If you have questions, contact Trevor Wade at 206-446-8629.

Here is some news from outside sources:

--GoHuskies.com has a Q&A with Venoy Overton.

--CBSSportsline's Gary Parrish ranks his top point guards and Isaiah Thomas comes in at No. 9 on the list. His teammate Abdul Gaddy is not far behind him, appearing No. 13.

--The Sacramento Bee has an entertaining piece on Jon Brockman and the competition among Kings' players to have the most Twitter followers.

--Todd Dybas of the Seattle P-I.com had a chance to catch up with ESPN's Steve Lavin while he was in town. He had a conversatition that ran on their website in two parts. Here they are: Part I | Part 2

--The UW Daily had some great video of Friday's dunk contest.