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UT Tyler tips off new season Friday in Denver
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Source: Tyler Morning Telegraph
UT Tyler will tip off the Doug Karleskint era on Friday in Denver, Colorado. The Patriots will take on Regis on its home court at 7 p.m. Friday and will then face Westminster at 5 p.m. Saturday. Karleskint was hired in March as the sixth head men’s basketball coach in UT Tyler history. “It started years ago when I got a phone call when I was at Central Missouri that this job came open, and they said I needed to take a look at the UT Tyler job,” Karleskint said. “They said it’s an unbelievable location and conference, and the school is definitely on the rise. And that started years ago. I’ve always kept an eye on it because at Central Missouri we lost a couple of kids in the recruiting battle to UT Tyler. “When I got to Abilene Christian and our assistant AD (Sam Ferguson) got the job here, with our relationship, I kept tabs of how basketball and all the sports were doing.
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