Before the Zags open their home season with highly anticipated games versus Washington State and Wake Forest, the Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils travel to the Kennel on November 14^th for the regular season opener. The Delta Devils come from the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) and a program that is trying to reestablish itself. They are headed by Head Coach Sean Woods who will be in is sophomore campaign after a rocky first season with his club. Interesting note, many of you might remember Sean Woods as the player who scored the 10 foot jumper for Kentucky with 2.9 seconds left to put his Wildcats up 103-102 before Christian Laettner made the miracle shoot that sent Duke to the Final Four in the 1992 NCAA tournament and later to win the National Championship.

Well now Woods is the man in charge at MVS after assistant coaching stints at High Point, Texas A&M Corpus Christi and TCU. So, just like last year when Coach Few scheduled Montana State Billings and Idaho as a warm up for the Old Spice Classic, Mississippi Valley State should be a warm up before the team travels to East Lansing to play Tom Izzo and his Michigan State Spartans on November 17^th. 

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