Canisius Team Report (Yahoo! Sports)

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:05:37 PST

Tom Parrotta thinks it's time.

"When you start to rebuild a program, the blueprint is three years," the Canisius coach says as he starts his fourth year on the job. "With this group now, we have guys who have played together for the last two seasons."

The Golden Griffs won 11 games last year. There were signs things were getting better. Just not enough of them.

For this team to get better, it has to get better in the fundamentals department.

For instance, Canisius turned the ball over 509 times last year, 16.4 per game. And the Griffs shot .616 from the foul line, and .287 from 3-point range.

Their best player, Frank Turner, one of the better players in the conference, had 124 assists and 126 turnovers, shot just 18-for-64 from behind the arc and .646...