Columbia, Mo. ? Missouri gave Washington permission to talk with coach Quin Snyder about the Huskies’ vacant head coaching job, a Tigers spokesman said Monday.

Missouri sports information director Chad Moller said Washington officials contacted Tigers athletic director Mike Alden during the weekend. Snyder is in his third year at Missouri and led the Tigers to the NCAA West Regional final. Missouri lost to Oklahoma, 81-75, on Saturday.

Four years remain on Snyder’s five-year contract, which was re-negotiated last summer to give him more money.

Snyder is a native of Mercer Island, Wash., and has family and friends in the area.

Snyder told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Sunday that he had no plans to leave Missouri but was not promising he would stay in Columbia.

Jim Daves, sports information director at Washington, said in a telephone interview that the school was not discussing its search for a successor to Bob Bender, who was fired last week after nine seasons.

Gonzaga athletic director Mike Roth said Sunday that Hedges also contacted him over the weekend to ask permission to talk with Bulldogs coach Mark Few, and he agreed.