CSUN BASKETBALL: BRAND-NEW START FOR BRASWELL.Byline: Jill Painter Staff Writer New players. New coaches. New conference. Just about everything will be different as the Cal State Northridge men's basketball team has its first practice at 10 a.m. today at the Northridge gym. CSUN CSUN California State University Northridge coach Bobby Braswell Bobby Braswell, an American basketball coach, is currently the head coach for Cal State Northridge. Braswell was named the fourth head coach in Northridge history on April 30, 1996, succeeding the retired Pete Cassidy. begins his sixth season with three new assistants. The Matadors will have a vastly new look as senior point guard Markus Carr is the lone full-time starter returning from the Matadors team that made the NCAA Tournament NCAA Tournament can mean: Men's Sports
``I'm very excited,'' Braswell said. ``I've been looking forward to (today) for a long time. Last year was fun and exciting, but I had those (guys) for so long. It's nice to get a new group. Not to say I wouldn't want Brian (Heinle), Carl (Holmes), Marco (McCain) and Jeff (Parris) back.'' And why not? That senior-dominated group led the Matadors to an unprecedented season as Big Sky Conference champions. This year, CSUN will play its first season in the Big West. Travel will be much easier against California schools like Long Beach State and UC Irvine instead of trips to Montana and Washington. John Dahlager is Braswell's top assistant. He was an assistant coach at Sacramento State the past two years and also has worked at San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden State. Kenya Wilkins was coaching high school basketball in Eugene, Ore., and Danny Sprinkle (CSUN's administrative assistant last year) is the third assistant. Pete Van Mullen was an administrative assistant at Humboldt State last year and has the same position at CSUN. ``(Dahlager) really knows the Bay Area and gives us another in Northern California Northern California, sometimes referred to as NorCal, is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The region contains the San Francisco Bay Area, the state capital, Sacramento; as well as the substantial natural beauty of the redwood forests, the northern , which is becoming a hotbed hotbed, low, glass-covered frame structure for starting tender plants. It differs from a cold frame only in that the soil is heated—either artificially as by underground electric wiring or steampipes, or naturally with partially fermented stable manure, which for talent,'' Braswell said. ``It's been real exciting and fun having new guys. It's rejuvenating me. It's forced me to get back to the nuts and bolts nuts and bolts pl.n. Slang The basic working components or practical aspects: "[proposing] .'' Carr, the nation's assist leader last year, is back, along with junior forward Lionel Benjamin, who won a starting role toward the end of the season, junior center Dan Read and senior forward Joey Busch. |
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