Men return 5 players; women, 7

Five players on the men’s basketball team that saw playing time last season returned for action. For the women’s team, seven players are returning, after graduating only two seniors.

Three of the five men returning include seniors Davante McCallam, of Miami; Jay Feltson, of Saginaw, Michigan, and Justyn Anderson, of Las Vegas.

Feltson and McCallam combined to average nearly 10 points and over seven rebounds.

Other returning players include Sharif Black, sophomore of Detroit; Leigh Saffin, redshirt freshman of Warrnambool, Australia; and Matt Reader, sophomore of Appleton, Wisconsin. Reader will miss the opening weekend because he is a wide receiver for the football team.

Coach Brent Bargen brought in seven transfer students and four new freshman for the roster. Billy Johnson, junior of Cedar Hill, Texas, averaged 19 points per game last season at Cedar Valley College. Warren Gordon, junior of Indianapolis, transferred from Malcolm X Community College, where he averaged nearly 18 points per game and five assists.

Three senior women will be looked at to score for the Eagles­—Emma Block, of Copenhagen, Denmark; Stephanie Knowles, of Colorado Springs, Colorado; and Allegria Chisom, of Wichita, Kansas.

Knowles shot 54.3 percent from the field last season, a record at CSC. Block led the team in free throw percentage, shooting 80 of 104. Chisom averaged nearly eight points per game.

Also returning for the Eagles are sophomores Maka Daysh, of Tauranga, New Zealand, and Kayla Mathews, of Adelaide, Australia. Daysh averaged 10 points per game and five rebounds. Mathews shot over 30 percent behind the three-point line.

The men’s team will open its season with an exhibition game at South Dakota State University, Brookings, 8:30 p.m., Friday. The women will open their season at the University of Wyoming, Laramie, 4 p.m., Sunday.