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WMU to open men's basketball season this weekend

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Western Michigan University will open the men's basketball season with three games in Hawaii beginning onSaturday. 

Kalamazoo Gazette sports reporter David Drew tells WMUK's Gordon Evans that the Broncos starting five will match up well with any team in the Mid-American Conference. Center Shayne Whittington is attracting attention from NBA scouts. 

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Interview with David Drew-air version

Drew picks Western to finish second in the MAC West Division. That's also where they were picked in the MAC's pre-season media poll. 

The Broncos won the division last year. Drew says the big question for Western will be their depth. He says the players coming off the bench are young and untested. 

In the extended web version of the interview Drew discusses the Broncos' first win of the football season, and Western sweeping Colorado College in its first National Collegiate Hockey Conference series. 

Gordon Evans became WMUK's Content Director in 2019 after more than 20 years as an anchor, host and reporter. A 1990 graduate of Michigan State, he began work at WMUK in 1996.