Wichita State heads to Manhattan on Saturday morning for a basketball scrimmage with Kansas State. It’s a low-key affair from a publicity standpoint by mandate of the NCAA.
- No fans or media are allowed to watch.
- Statistics can be kept. They may not be publicized. The practice can be filmed, but the film cannot be publicized.
- Coaches and athletes can participate in interviews, “provided the comments are limited to the practice scrimmage in general and the interview was not established by either school to promote the scrimmage. The coach or student-athlete may not comment specifically on the score or team and/or individual student-athlete statistics.”
The teams will practice in the morning, break for lunch, practice some more in the afternoon. The day will include a scrimmage or two and work in specific situations. In these cases, coaches can talk before the scrimmage and prepare to work against, for example, a 1-2-2 press or a man-to-man defense or whatever the teams agree upon. The point is to prepare, not to surprise the opponent. So WSU isn’t going to throw something new at the Wildcats on Saturday.
Coaches love this format, and it is easy to see why. Both teams will get a good read on where they are. WSU’s challenge will be to deal with a team that is athletically superior. It should be beneficial to players and coaches as a landmark on the way to the regular season. Shockers coaches are quite interested to see how things unfold.
FoxSports.com’s Jeff Goodman compiled a list of scrimmages this weekend.
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hopefully you will get some tidbits and some straight talk about the happenings. The only information is coming from the K-State side.