GREAT FALLS \u2014 University of Providence’s men’s basketball team finished the 2024-25 season with a 16-14 record and advanced to the Frontier Conference championship game but just missed out on the NAIA national tournament.<\/p>\n
The Argos lost two first-team all-conference players in Antoine Boyd Jr. and Jamil Bowles, among others. Head coach J.C. Isakson said his team has big shoes to fill.<\/p>\n
“I think we’re going to have to do it more by group in a collective,” Isakson said Tuesday at UP’s McLaughlin Center following practice.<\/p>\n
“We’re a long ways from a finished product right now. New guys are trying to get adjusted.”<\/p>\n
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Providence men’s basketball getting ‘adjusted’ as a unit with season starting up<\/p>\n
One of the new players on the team this season is University of Pikeville (Ky.) transfer Jakub Lloyd. The senior was a part of Pikeville’s regular-season conference championship team a season ago.<\/p>\n
“We’ve developed chemistry through conditioning in practice every day for the last few months and it’s been really good,” Lloyd said. “Good group of guys.”<\/p>\n
Whereas a returner from last season is sophomore Quinn Swanson. He got a good amount of minutes last year as a true freshman and said he hopes to contribute in big ways for this team.<\/p>\n
“Our coach has a saying, ‘Make the jump,’ so I’m trying to make the jump to get better and expand and add on to what I did last year,” Swanson said. “I’ve been working this summer trying to get better and hopefully have a good year.”<\/p>\n
Isakson said his team has players that know how to play the right way.<\/p>\n
“If we can get everybody on the same page, I think we have the ability to play really hard and get into people,” Isakson said. “If you play hard and are aggressive, anything can happen.”<\/p>\n
The first games of the season come this Thursday and Saturday on the road in California against Life Pacific and The Master’s University, respectively.<\/p>\n
“I’m just excited to go out there and compete,” Lloyd said, “compete against people that aren’t in this gym every day. It should be good.”<\/p>\n
“We haven’t played really anyone yet, so I feel like once we get into that game setting we’ll figure out what we can work on,” Swanson said. “It’ll just be nice to play someone different than ourselves.”<\/p>\n
Providence was selected to finish fourth in the preseason conference poll behind favorite Montana Tech as well as Carroll and Montana Western, who tied for second in the rankings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GREAT FALLS \u2014 University of Providence’s men’s basketball team finished the 2024-25 season with a 16-14 record and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[81041,402,132191,133084,133085,133086,30497,16247,133087,398,400,401,11748,133088,99],"class_list":["post-241989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-argos","tag-basketball","tag-frontier-conference","tag-frontier-conference-basketball","tag-j-c-isakson","tag-jakub-lloyd","tag-mens-basketball","tag-naia","tag-naia-basketball","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaabasketball","tag-providence","tag-providence-argos","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}