Basketball season has begun

November is the month when both the men's and women's basketball season starts. Both teams have shown significant improvement over the last few years. Last year, the women's team finished in the middle of the pack with an overall finish of 14-16, which isn't the best, but still isn't the worst. The men's overall finish from last year was 19-13, which is a little better than the women's.

The only problem that I've found so far with both teams is that the fans don't show up. The women's team only had about 350 tickets sold for their first home game, out of the entire Moby Arena. The men's did not do much better according to the Athletic Media Relations Department. 

"I would love to see more people at the home basketball games," said Vicki Parker, a normal attendee to the women's games. "I think the more people who show up, the better the team performs because they have that crowd cheering for them." 

So far this season, both the men's and women's teams have won their first two exhibition games. They both have strong competition coming their way though, within the next couple weeks. 

The men play against Montana on Friday and the women play against Northern Iowa on Friday as well. Now although the first games of the season are exhibition games, they still matter to the team. 

"I've been happy with how both of the teams have been playing," said an alumni, Jeff Henry. "There have been problems for both teams that need to be fixed, but I think they pull through well enough to win each game."

Looking at the women's game played Saturday night, they really needed to work on their defense. The CSU-Pueblo team kept managing to work their way in and score. If the defense picked up, the opposing team would throw 3-pointers and score. Now even though Colorado State won, they still have things to fix. 

Saturday's game also consisted of a lot of players getting so upset, they would get fouls called on them. Kelly Hartig for instance, just kept getting so upset she would push or just use some type of physical violence towards CSU-Pueblo. She ended up being kicked out of the game for having five personal fouls.

I think that both teams have potential for doing very well this season. They just need to work out the issues in the games and practice those. Both teams consist of some great athletes and I know they can bring their teams far.