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SPORTS 4/10/17 10:10pm

Fans see reasons for optimism despite men's basketball overhaul

It wasn’t supposed to happen this way. The day after the Rice men’s basketball team concluded its first 23-win season in over 60 years, the news broke: Head coach Mike Rhoades was leaving to take over the reins at Virginia Commonwealth University, where he had served as an assistant under Shaka Smart from 2009-2014.