OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) – Coming off its first NCAA Tournament appearance in program history, Omaha men\u2019s basketball is back in the gym for summer workouts.<\/p>\n
Optimism is high around the program, but head coach Chris Crutchfield said the team is not settling for the heights its already reached.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re trying to get our energy level up and they\u2019ve come in every single day and been excited about being here,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
The Mavericks have re-tooled their roster with several key departures. For senior guard Tony Osburn, Omaha has become \u201chard to leave.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSince a little kid I\u2019ve loved basketball and I\u2019m getting to do it at the level I wanted to always play, so it\u2019s pretty hard not to be excited and bring joy every single day,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
Osburn is one of the team\u2019s leaders, both vocally and through his actions. Crutchfield said he is expected to play more point guard this season \u2014 a challenge he is embracing with joy.<\/p>\n
\u201cI get to come out and play basketball with my best friends,\u201d Osburn said.<\/p>\n
As the team navigates through summer workouts, Crutchfield said everything is intentional. It all comes in an effort to return to the national stage.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe talk about energy and enthusiasm every single day,\u201d Crutchfield said. \u201cNow they\u2019re bringing it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Copyright 2025 WOWT. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) – Coming off its first NCAA Tournament appearance in program history, Omaha men\u2019s basketball is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,21056,704,721,1534,21048,21050,21055,21049,85,21058,21057,21051,21052,21053,21054],"class_list":{"0":"post-20204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-chris-crutchfield","12":"tag-ncaa","13":"tag-ncaa-basketball","14":"tag-ncaa-tournament","15":"tag-omaha","16":"tag-omaha-mavericks","17":"tag-omaha-mavs","18":"tag-omaha-mens-basketball","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-summit-league","21":"tag-tony-osburn","22":"tag-uno","23":"tag-uno-basketball","24":"tag-uno-mavericks","25":"tag-uno-mavs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}