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The Long and Winding Road, a 2015-16 NSU Men’s Basketball Season Preview
(L-R) Mike Chalas, Chris Page, Nick Pendergast and Albert Nassar
CBS-TV calls it “The ROAD to the Final Four” and for good reason.
Any college basketball coach on any level will tell you the season is a journey, a long, uneven road of twists and turns, filled with moments of both joy and heartbreak. Workouts begin in August, practice officially begins in October, games commence in November, conference seasons rev up in January and championships are won – and lost – in March.
“It’s a grind,” says veteran Sharks’ coach Gary Tuell, whose 12th NSU team officially begins practice today for the 2015-16 season. “Good teams embrace the challenges of the harder path, but not many players or teams have the grit to absorb the potholes and finish the journey in a better place than where they started.”
Unlike most teams, Tuell believes his NSU squad begins the 2015-16 journey at the fork in the road.