HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — If you had sat in on the Blue Raiders final practice in Murfreesboro before they bused down I-65 to Huntsville for the CUSA Basketball Championships, head women's basketball Rick Insell said, you would not have thought that Blue Raiders were the two-time defending champs of the tournament, coming of a third-straight season with at least a share of the regular season title in Conference USA.
With the way his coaches got after his players when going over the scout defensively, Insell said, the message was clear: The Blue Raiders weren't coming to Huntsville to mess around.