CARBONDALE (WSIL) � SIU men’s basketball is preparing for their conference opener against Evansville. They’ve been taking care of business on the court and in the classroom too, 3.75 GPA for the fall, with a cumulative team mark of 3.60. We sometimes forget student first, athlete second. After the SEMO game, the media asked Brendan

CARBONDALE (WSIL) � On Thursday, Saluki fans were still talking about the men’s basketball team’s win over SEMO on Wednesday night. SIU didn’t have their head coach, a lineup full of new faces, no exhibition games to get acclimated with each other and the Salukis jumped right in, figured it out on the fly and