Before the basketball pre-season and the real season, you have scrimmage and exhibition games to start the ramp up for the new year.
In this case for first-year Spartan basketball head coach Tim Miles, it’s also the time to iron out any kinks from being out of coaching for two years.
“I just had to remember a couple of the rules like when I can call timeout, because a couple of the rules have changed,” said Miles. “Tony Padilla, a veteran ref who’s been to a lot of NCAA tournaments was joking with me, because I was trying to call a timeout he said ‘Hey, you got to brush up on the rules, coach!