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NEXT STOP: Ellsworth Community College 📍🏀
Head Coach Bryan Bender joins the JUCO Virtual Tour to break down this year’s Ellsworth group and the names four-year coaches need to know heading into the season.View quoted post on X
C Emmanuel Ogbole from Rutgers got a full injunction against the NCAA and is eligible for the 26-27 season, per his agent Sam PermutView quoted post on X
For Ellsworth Community College head coach Brian Bender, the identity of his program starts with its values.
“We’ve always been a value-driven program. So our values are what lead us.”
Those values — passion, humility, discipline and academics — PhD — set the standard for how Ellsworth operates in three different areas.
“PhD is the highest level of education a person can get, and we want to do it in three places: court, community, classroom.”
But after reaching the national championship game last season and falling just short, the Panthers have added another message to their culture this year: One More.
“Everything that we’re doing is geared towards getting one more win, or one more rep, or one more night in the gym, one more anything that you possibly can get, myself included.”
For Bender, One More isn’t limited to chasing another win. It’s about finding another opportunity every day to improve and push the program forward.
“That’s kind of our identity and who we are as a program.”View quoted post on X
