-Last season several key Naperville North basketball players were still involved with a football state championship run by the time Thanksgiving tournaments rolled around. In their absence, the Huskies started slow on the way to an 11-16 finish.
The Huskies won't be double-booked this November. But basketball coach Mark Lindo - a regular presence at the Harshbarger-Welzel Field press box - didn't seem jealous or conflicted about the football program's success.
"We certainly wish they would've been playing, and I mean that. It was a nice problem to have, last year for example," Lindo said recently. "To be able to have your whole team there (will) certainly - I hope - benefit us. I don't think we really got started last year until the middle of December. We had a hole to dig (out of) already.
"I think right now we're right on schedule."
-The Glenbard North basketball program is expected to welcome back 6-foot-6-inch forward Evan Watkins, a Northwestern quarterback recruit.
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