Greece Trip Practices 1-4

Right now we are preparing for our upcoming trip to Greece. We are leaving May 24th and we get to play four games there and most importantly are given ten practices by the NCAA beforehand to get the guys in shape and formulate what we want to do. These practices are huge for our guys development for next year. We have ten guys returning and all of them have made significant changes to their body since the season ended.

We started practicing last Friday and needless to say it was sloppy. The NCAA handcuffs division 3 coaches by not letting us work out the guys like they do in d1 and d2. D3 guys are considered "true" student-athletes but those two hours we want to work them out is them playing video games and doing other things college students do. We were on the floor for a little over two hours and got a lot of things done. We changed our defense a little bit due to our personnel. We aren't going to get out the passing lanes like we have in the past. We want to take away penetration and then get back to shooters as much as can.

The talent level comparably speaking to my first year is night and day. We led the conference in scoring with just under 74 points a game. That is still not where we want to be but it's a start. We were second in the conference in field goal percentage defense at around 42%. Hopefully, as this group gets older and stronger our scoring will go up and our defense will get better.

Next year should be interesting because we will be extremely young going against a lot of senior laden teams in our conference. We will have one senior, Carl Hipp. Three juniors, Levi Wenrich, Brandon Rieg, and Matt Farb. We will have all of our freshmen class returning including All Freshmen Team members Noah Aguirre and Jordan Schmidt back. Other members of the rising sophomore class are Andy Voigt, Christian Taber, Victor Easter, and Charlie Choiniere.

As of right now we have six incoming freshmen coming in. Four local guys and two out of state players. We are still waiting to hear from a couple of others. We will wait and see.