A meeting with Duke at Madison Square Garden in New York highlights the Washington Huskies’ 2011-12 men’s basketball schedule released today.

That is one of two games the Huskies will play at the famed Manhattan arena. UW will meet Marquette there Dec. 6 as part of the Jimmy V Classic. Then the Huskies will remain in New York for the meeting with Duke on Dec. 10.

That will be fourth men’s basketball meeting between the two schools, with Duke leading the series, 3-1.

“Those two in New York, those are big-time games,” coach Lorenzo Romar said through a press …

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A winning season, a high-profile coach and a rich tradition that seems to be coming back into focus are all attractive to television producers. And Washington raked some of that benefit in Tuesday when ABC-TV/ESPN marked the Huskies for two of their marquee games in 2011.

The UW’s game Oct. 22 at Stanford (ABC, ESPN or EPSN2) has been set for 5 p.m. PT, and the Huskies’ meeting at Southern California (ABC, ESPN have first dibs) will kick off at 12:30 p.m. PT.

Washington coach Steve Sarkisian said after the five weeks of spring ball, he needed time away to evaluate his team’s body of work.

It did not take him long to finally admit the obvious – sophomore Keith Price has taken a hold of the starting quarterback position.

“Based on his entire body of work this spring, Keith Price has earned the right to be our starting quarterback,” Sarkisian said. “Keith worked extremely hard this spring and has developed into a team leader.”

Here is the two-deep at every position, released Wednesday morning:

OFFENSE
WR: Jermaine Kearse, James Johnson
LT: Senio Kelemete, Micah Hatchie
LG: Erik Kohler AND Colin Tanigawa
C: Drew Schaefer, Daniel Kanczugowski
RG: Colin Porter, James Atoe
RT: Erik Kohler AND Ben Riva
TE: Austin Seferian-Jenkins AND Michael Hartvigson.
QB: Keith Price, Nick Montana
RB: Chris Polk, Jesse Callier
FB: Jon Amosa, Zach Fogerson Read more »

Lorenzo Romar’s attempt to add a big man for next season continues, and here’s a possibility as reported by Doug Haller of the Arizona Republic:

Washington lost out last week on junior-college post player God’s Gift Achiuwa, but the Huskies still have a chance to reel in Richard Peters, a 6-foot-9 forward from Westwind Prep International in Phoenix. I visited with Peters last week, and he said Washington remains his favorite, but he needs a qualifying ACT score to re-classify into the 2011 class. Peters takes a preparatory SAT/ACT course every Friday, and will take the test again

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