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Thursday, October 12, 2006

Open MU Men's hoop practices

This is in response to a recent blog inquiry and I thought more people might see it here if I put it out front. Yes, MU Men's hoop practices are open to the public beginning with Saturday's 9am first of the season.

Just talked with Calloway to confirm this. He said mostly a few high school and some collge coaches show up, especially to the early practices.

This week's practice schedule is Saturday 9am, Sunday at 1230 pm..and weekdays from 3 til about 5 pm or so, all at Boylan Gym. Remember..this is always subject to change.

I would imagine if suddenly about 50-100 or so folks start showing up for practice MU would have to make some adjustments because there is sometimes limited space to observe when the men and women are practicing at the same time.

As I said on a prior comment - Practices can be boring for fans..best times to observe are probably the individual work outs so you get an idea of a player's abilities and of course the scrimmages are good to watch and should be this year because of the high level of talent.


The best time of the season, probably, to observe practice is when the men (and women) are playing at home home because then the stands are rolled out and practice is only on the main court.

Calloway said Sean Barlow (ankle), Mike Shipman (foot), and Yaniv Simpson (foot) will have ""limited practice" Saturday and that a bone scan is scheduled for Simpson for Monday to check out what are hopefully only shin splints.

John Bunch is scheduled to go full practice Saturday, Calloway said.

ENJOY!! (I I don't make it tell me who they looked!)