PRESS & DAKOTAN ■ THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 2012 PAGE 9 Preseason Workouts, Games A Needed Boost For Young Coyotes Press&Dakotan BY JEREMY HOECK with the team.
[email protected] The Coyotes will play three exhibition games this weekend, two at the University of Winnipeg (Friday and DAILY DOSE Saturday) and Sunday at the University of Manitoba. Both teams had sub-par records last year, but USD — By the time you read this, the University of South Dakota men’s basketball team would have already been coming off a 10-18 campaign — needed something; any kind of test. in Canada for a full day. On Wednesday, I got an email from Mike Raimbault, the head coach at Winnipeg. He said the same thing Daily opinions from the P&D On the one hand, sure, it’s a quasi-vacation for the Coyotes, but on the other, it’s all business. With so many for his program, that they relish such games against USD. The Wesmen also faced South Dakota State in Sports Staff on local and na- new faces in the mix for 2012-13, USD needed all the extra time possible. 2010 and hosted North Dakota State for one game last year. “Playing top quality competition early allows us to set the bar high and to gain an understanding of what it tional high school, college In putting together a story on the trip for Tuesday’s paper, I chatted with top assistant Joey James and jun- ior center Trevor Gruis. Both said the allotted 10 pre-season practices for such a trip worked in the program’s takes to compete at the high level,” Raimbault said.