In the team’s best preseason rank in the AP poll, men’s basketball readies for its return to the court to take on South Dakota State on Nov. 25 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
The No. 11 Bluejays return a number of last year’s stars as they prepare for a season packed with uncertainties.
“Experience is always important in college basketball, I think it matters every single year but especially this year with the uncertainties of the pandemic and how the routines have changed from previous years,” McDermott said. “It’s really valuable to me to have a group of leaders that have been through it and can help me navigate these new processes with the younger people on our team.