With duel before the Wildcats de Kentucky in the home run that will take place in the Bahamas starting this Thursday, the basketball team of the Tecnológico de Monterrey Campus Puebla The countdown begins with a view to the 2022-2023 season in the Student Basketball Association (ABE) Leaguewhere the challenge is to reach the final round in order to fight for the championship.
Duel in which the “woolly” will not only face one of the ten best collegiate teams in the United States, but also they will become the first Mexican university to confront feral catswhich will undoubtedly be an experience that will nourish the group in many ways, as stated by the head coach of the Borregos, Enrique Zúñiga.
“It will leave us a lot of learning both for the players and for me. In the structural part I will see how a high-level university team is managed, it is positive in all aspects. It will position us in a specific place at the international level, it will enhance the Tec de Monterrey Puebla campus team and I think it will open a bridge for Mexican student basketball, so that good things come in the future.”
In a conference prior to the trip that he will undertake with his squad, the helmsman specified that the management to obtain a place in the home run was something extremely complicated due to the quality of the rivals that will meet there, remembering that the Wildcats are eight-time NCAA champions.
“The difference is still great in infrastructure, but we want to point out that in Mexico we are working for it; If we want to reach a level of quality equal to theirs, we have to start facing teams of that level”.
Zúñiga reported that the players who will make the crossing this time are Gilberto Berrones, Alex García, Víctor Thomas, César Ochoa, Asael Mendoza, Joseph Graf Von Westarp, Sebastián Medina, Nicolas Meza, Bryan Ceballos, Martín Flores, Santiago Rodríguez, David Duque and Iván García.
On his occasion, the general director of ITESM Puebla, Jorge Rocha Orozco He highlighted the importance that this event has for the institution, which once again demonstrates that everything that one sets out to do can be achieved, a mentality that they seek to permeate with their students and athletes.
“We got to this game thanks to the ability to dream it. They will have an excellent experience, an excellent meeting and above all a learning adventure, what better way than to start the 22-23 Season than facing a University of Kentucky”, he highlighted.
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