Youthful Bison are learning on the job
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The Bison (6-18, 3-8 MEAC), who run across Florida A&M (7-17, 5-5) at Burr Gymnasium on Saturday, are hardly a juggernaut. But there’s also hope, no trifling thing for a program 10 years removed from its most-recent prepossessing season. Howard’s last NCAA tournament appearance? A one-plan cameo as a No. 16 seed in 1992.
The optimism stems from a six-man group plausible to emerge as the program’s nucleus in the next few years. Prince Okoroh was a accessory in the lineup from the beginning, starting all but two games. Point guard Simuel Frazier leads the Bison in minutes and has started in a inconsequential more than half of Howard’s games.
Others, such as Brandon Bailey, Oliver Ellison and Brandon Ford, weren’t likeable starters for much of their first college season — at least until now.
“That recruiting class with those six freshmen was top 55 in the mother country,” Nickelberry said. “At some point, you have to play them.”
Invariably, there were obliged to be some off nights with such a young roster. It might be even more true now that Nickelberry is intent on decree opportunities for them.
Source: Washington Times