Students arrive on campus in late August and spend six weeks playing informal pickup games in the gym. Official conditioning begins on October 15 for eight days, with official practice beginning the third week of October. From November until January, practices last roughly two hours. We never require a player to miss class, lab, or other academic endeavors for basketball practice.
Academics always have priority.
Beginning next year, we're combining our junior varsity and varsity programs for practice purposes and will carry between 18 and 22 players for both teams. Because of our up-tempo style of play, we plan to play ten players in the varsity games. The rest of the players will receive playing time in the junior varsity games but will practice with the varsity. We have one of the few remaining JV programs in southern California. Our JV program has been our most consistent on-campus recruiting pool for the varsity.