Make fun of the so-called ‘worst college basketball team of all-time’ all you want. They have a bigger priority than winning

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Only a few minutes into his team’s first practice of the 2023-24 season, Logan Strand already had an inkling that the months ahead might be grim.

It was glaringly obvious to the Free Lutheran Bible College men’s basketball coach that most of his roster of 18-to-21-year-olds had hardly played before.

Strand began assessing his team with a shooting drill. One player heaved six straight corner 3-pointers off the side of the backboard.

Strand moved onto ball handling. So many crossover dribbles bounced off feet that Strand lost count of how many balls he chased after.

When Strand introduced a rebounding drill, he winced at confused expressions on the faces of several players. He might as well have been speaking in a foreign tongue when he asked them to close out on a shooter, turn and box out.

“It was like, oh boy, I guess we’re going to be doing a lot of third-grade basketball stuff, the things you usually teach young kids,” Strand told Yahoo Sports. “How do we shoot the ball? How do we pass the ball? How do we set a screen?”

For Strand’s hopelessly inexperienced team, the start of the season was like Ralph Wiggum’s “I’m in Danger” meme come to life. FLBC went 0-24 against an assortment of fellow bible colleges from Minnesota and neighboring states. Nineteen of those losses were by 40-plus points. One team outscored FLBC by more than 100. The closest FLBC came to victory was a 10-point loss to its own alumni team.

With its leading scorers from last year’s winless team departing and no experienced newcomers arriving to fill that void, this season’s FLBC team is even more overmatched. Opponents have outscored the Conquerors 378-39 in their first four games this season. FLBC trailed 61-0 in last month’s season opener before guard Westin Jenson rattled in a 3-pointer for his team’s first points. The following night, the Conquerors faced Division III Crown College’s JV team and still lost 87-11.

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Publish date : 2024-12-11 16:56:00

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