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Coach Tim Miles said Saturday he's encouraged by what he's seen so far out of his CSU men's basketball team but that he'll have a much better idea where the Rams stand this season next weekend.

CSU men's basketball is making a home on the road to begin the season. After a three-game tournament in Oregon last weekend, the Rams travel to the Midwest to play their fourth straight road game to open the season, going up against the Indiana State Sycamores tonight in Terre Haute.

EUGENE, Ore. - CSU's men's basketball season got off to a strong start Friday night with a 91-75 victory over UC-Davis in the opening game of the Basketball Travelers Tip-Off Tournament.

Andy Ogide doesn't usually get excited about road trips. But this one's different, the junior forward on the CSU men's basketball team said.

Dorian Green had 16 points and Colorado State used a second-half surge to defeat Division II Western State, 64-50, in an exhibition game Saturday night.

Andy Ogide had 18 points and 17 rebounds and Dorian Green added 17 points to lead Colorado State past Regis 74-65 in an exhibition game Tuesday night.

Tim Miles is beginning his third season as CSU's men's basketball coach, and he's determined to get his program moving in the right direction.

Andy Ogide can't wait to get going. The junior forward on the CSU men's basketball team welcomes the fresh start a new season offers him and his teammates, who have suffered through two unusually trying years.

There is another hoops junkie on the Front Range who understands the agonizingly slow rebuilding process Jeff Bzdelik is going through at Colorado.

LITTLETON - Steve Alford led his team to the NIT in his first season as New Mexico's men's basketball coach and shared the Mountain West Conference title in his second season last year.

LITTLETON -- CSU's men's basketball team, with three starters back from last year's 9-22 team, was picked to remain where it finished last season, in next-to-last place in the Mountain West Conference, in a preseason media poll announced today.

Shortly after a family vacation to Disneyland, Rose was rushed into emergency surgery, where doctors removed his spleen and part of his pancreas after the tumor was discovered due to internal bleeding.

Colorado State announced in late April that guard Jesse Carr could be out 6-8 months because of a pelvis injury, which could certainly threaten at least part of next season.

Travis Busch, who played two seasons at Minnesota, has joined the CSU men's basketball team.

The Nebraska Pipeline is up and running for coach Tim Miles and his CSU men's basketball program.