McCasland, Mitchell confident at C-USA media day

[Harry]

FRISCO — Conference USA media day felt completely different for North Texas men’s basketball coach Grant McCasland on Monday compared to his first time at the event a year ago.

Back then, McCasland was just trying to teach the players he inherited from a downtrodden eight-win team coached by Tony Benford that playing hard was a vital part of winning games.  The Mean Green are way beyond that point now.

“I have talked to Roosevelt Smart a lot about it,” McCasland said of taking the next step as a program. “Our approach to winning can’t just be to play hard. That is the initial part of winning games. Not that we didn’t want to execute at a high level, but your execution better be elite when people know what’s coming.”

Read more:  https://www.dentonrc.com/sports/mccasland-mitchell-confident-at-c-usa-media-day/article_25d71fba-4cad-5c85-9c9c-0288c73a468f.html

[NorthTexan95]

Both our coaches do a great job representing our school.