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Message: [QUOTE="huskymedic, post: 5086353, member: 549"] UConn MHOC story within: [MEDIA=twitter]1840563691848364124[/MEDIA] -> … The roster had a lot of turnover, and so did the staff after last season. The transfer to Minnesota of Matthew Wood, the highest drafted player ever at UConn, was a headliner. But two veteran team leaders, Hudson Schandor and John Spetz, returned for fifth seasons, coming back as grad students, and they’re joined by 14 newcomers. “This is a third year in a row we’ve had players who had an opportunity to go wherever they want and they came back as fifth-year seniors,” Cavanaugh said. “It means a lot to me. It means this university and this program means an awful lot to them, and they want to finish their careers here as Huskies.” Cavanaugh couldn’t do the usual “deep dive” into what went right and wrong when the season ended. He had to replace players he wouldn’t have normally have lost, and staffers, such as assistant Mike Pereira, who became the coach at Choate. By midsummer, Cavanaugh and new assistant Tyler Helton huddled with his veteran players to try to get the chemistry right. “Hudson and John Spetz were excellent in that, we had bi-weekly meetings through the summer and Tyler and I took a lot of their input and we implemented it along with what we thought we needed to be better,” Cavanaugh said. “Establishing a super-consistent culture that can be continued year over year,” Schandor said. “Whether us two are at the forefront and finding a way to bring out consistency in this program was on our minds throughout the summer. I think we did some great things this summer to help this program take a lot of strides.” Spetz added, “We dialed in a lot of things. I think we brought it to our coaches’ attention that we want to hit the ground running from day one and not waste any day, because college is such a short season, and living in the moment is something we have preached to our teammates.” <- [/QUOTE]

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