SMU basketball announced some big-time events that will be coming up soon on campus including tryouts for the men’s basketball team.
The tryouts will be held tomorrow at 6 p.m. for anyone wanting to come out to the Crum Basketball Center and Head Coach Larry Brown hopes to find some players that can help the team.
“Walk-ons are an important part of the team,” Brown said before last year’s tryouts. “They have a special place in every good college basketball program. We hope to find one or two students that can help our team.”
In order to participate in the tryouts, students must have a completed physical and results of a sickle cell solubility test on file, the walk-on tryout form steps one to four completed and the signed tryout waiver.
Any student can reach out to Katie Cowan for details at [email protected] if he would like to be a last-minute addition.
In other news, the 2013 SMU Basketball Tip-Off Luncheon is set for Oct. 30 at noon and Mustang fans are invited to purchase tables of nine in order to sit with a coach or student-athlete for $750 or buy an individual ticket for $75.
The luncheon, to be held in the Martha Proctor Mack Grand Ballroom of the Umphrey Lee Center, will have men’s coach Brown and women’s basketball Head Coach Rhonda Rompola as the featured guests.
Both teams are anticipated to have successful seasons with the men’s team returning all five starters while adding three transfers and the No. 14 ranked recruiting class, while the women’s return four starters including C-USA Player of the Year Keena Mays.
Now less than a month away, SMU men’s basketball team will begin its second season under Brown against TCU in the Tip-Off Showcase at the American Airlines Center on Nov. 8 at 6:30 p.m.
SMU students can buy tickets to not only the SMU game, but also to see games that pit Alabama against Oklahoma and Baylor against Colorado for $18.75.
The student tickets are located together in a lower level section. To purchase tickets, visit dallas.bdglobalsports.com.
SMU also finalized three other games: the Nov. 18 game at Arkansas is at 7 p.m., the Dec. 7 game vs. Hofstra at Dr. Pepper Arena in Frisco at noon, and the Dec. 20 game at Wyoming at 8 p.m. CT.
