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Lid-lifter: Defending MAC regular season champion Central Michigan opens conference play Wednesday versus EMU

Thirteen games into the season and questions still abound from every angle concerning the Central Michigan University men’s basketball team.

After graduating only one contributing player from last season’s Mid-American Conference regular season title-winning roster, the Chippewas were chosen as the prohibitive favorites to win the regular season and conference tournament championships in 2015-16.

The sledding has been tougher than expected during the non-conference slate as CMU prepares for its MAC opener, a 7 p.m. showdown Wednesday night at McGuirk Arena versus Eastern Michigan.

Central Michigan enters with a pedestrian 7-6 record, a far cry from last year’s 10-1 non-conference start which amped up anticipation for the forthcoming MAC season.