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That's the outlook for the 2010-11 men's basketball season for Madonna University and second-year coach Noel Emenhiser.

 

The Crusaders return 12 players off a team that finished 7-23 overall, but MU is still picked tied for seventh in the Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference preseason coaches poll.
Two of the team's building blocks are 6-4 sophomore redshirt Kevin Henry, who averaged 13.1 points per game, along with 5-10 sophomore guard Bryant Slaughter, who averaged 12.1.
But the two All-WHAC preseason selections must cut down on their turnovers as they recorded a team-high 120 and 76, respectively.
The key to the team's fortunes may rest with incoming 5-10 freshman Bobby Naubert, a true point-guard who averaged 21 points as a senior at Livonia Stevenson High.
“Naubert can start for us at the point, but he also brings a change of tempo off the bench,'' MU coach Noel Emenhiser said. “He does a nice job because he makes the other players around him better.''

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Emenhiser has expanded his rotation as they prepare for Friday's season opener against Asbury (Ky.) College in the Spring Arbor Tip-Off Tournament.
Among the key returnees include 6-foot junior guard Josh Gay, 6-8 senior center Geoff Gaylor (6.6 ppg, 5.5 rpg) and 6-7 senior forward Ryan Waidmann of Canton (6.3 ppg, 5.3 rpg).
“We'll use quite a few guys,'' Emenhiser said. “We have some depth that we haven't had in the past. We'll go with five post players and six or seven guards.
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“We'll do more defensively as well. We'll pressure the ball harder and use our players in shorter spurts in four or five minute pieces. We want to turn the opposing point guard the other way so teams won't walk comfortably