NORFOLK, Virginia -- The personnel and the strategy might differ for Norfolk State coach Robert Jones, but the expectation never will. There’s only one outcome to the season that will do.“It’s not going to change,” Jones said as he approached the start of his third year as head coach at the school. “I have to have a little bit more patience, I think, but it’s still the same thing: win a championship.”
The Spartans, who return just five players from a team that went 20-14 overall and 12-4 in the MEAC last season, have work to do to accomplish that.
Mainly, they have to figure out what kind of team they’re going to be.
After the departure of 6-foot-9 star forward RaShid Gaston to Xavier in the spring, Jones was left with a significant size problem. Weighing his options without time to replace Gaston’s 15.5 points and team-leading 9.6 rebounds per game, Jones decided to go with a lineup that could include as many as four guards at once, with 6-6 sophomore Jordan Butler the primary presence in the paint.
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