HOUGHTON — The No. 13 Michigan Tech Huskies men’s basketball team travels this weekend to open the season at the Small College Basketball Hall of Fame Classic. They will face a pair of teams that made it to the Elite Eight last season in No. 3 Dallas Baptist and No. 19 Lenoir-Rhyne.

While the Huskies are excited to be a pair of the tournament, the experience has been stressful on the coaching staff before they have even left, due to the fact that NCAA rules kept them from beginning team practices any earlier despite the fact that the Hall of Fame Classic takes place two weeks before most teams start their season.

“(We are) extremely excited,” said Huskies coach Josh Buettner. “It’s been wild. It’s a whirlwind playing. We get to play two weeks earlier than everybody else, and we don’t sta

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