DeKalb — The reigning Mid-American Conference champion Huskies, coached by Ray Gooden, have a challenging schedule ahead of them. The 2017-18 schedule includes matches against 10 teams who were 2016 NCAA tournament participants.
Gooden is the program’s all-time leader in wins with 289. In five of his 15 previous seasons, the Huskies faced at least five participants of the NCAA Tournament with 20-win seasons in three of those five years.
Gooden said he expects all of the matches to be tough ones and his team needs to be ready for every game.
“[Many of those] teams made it to the tournament alone,” Gooden said.