Wolves Start Practice For Boys’ Basketball Season

The Wolf Point boys’ basketball team enters the campaign with the goal of repeating as district champions. Practice began Monday, Dec. 7.

Wolf Point has a strong recent past with the 2020 district title and coming a buzzer shot away from winning the 2019 district championship.

“We’re looking to repeat,” Wolf Point coach Troy Blount said. “We have some young, hustling players.”

Experience isn’t a strength since the Wolves lost six seniors off of last year’s squad. Antoine Manning, a senior, is the only returning player with a good deal of varsity playing time.

“He got some valuable varsity minutes last year,” Blount said. “We’re going to be young.”

Quickness is expected to be one of Wolf Point’s strengths.

“We’re fairly small, but we make up for it with speed,” Blount said.

The Wolves will use their quickness to play an up-tempo game. “We will be getting up and down the court,” Blount added. “We have a solid core of young guys.”

He doesn’t see a clear favorite in the league heading the season. “It’s usually pretty wide open,” Blount said. The Wolves have their season opener at home against Dodson on Saturday, Jan. 2.