Notables

For the past few years, it's been women's basketball putting the Stormy Petrels of Oglethorpe on the Division III basketball map. But that talented class of players has finally graduated, no doubt prompting sighs of relief in San Antonio, Greencastle, Ind., and elsewhere.

However, the Oglethorpe men have a chance to do damage this season in the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference. The Stormy Petrels return their top seven players from last season, the team's second-consecutive 16-win campaign.

And with five scorers last season averaging in double figures, Oglethorpe will look to put as much pressure on the opposing defense as its defenders put on the ball-handlers, who averaged 15 turnovers per game last season.

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