After finishing the 2024-25 season with a record of 11-17, the San Francisco State University men’s basketball team will enter the 2025-26 season with a handful of new talent under head coach Vince Inglima. This year’s team will feature 12 new players. Many players from last year’s roster transferred due to uncertainty of the SFSU athletic program because other athletic programs were cut in the Spring 2025 semester. Some of the players joining the roster have never played in a Division II college basketball game before. That dynamic comes with unpredictability, but Inglima sees it as an interesting obstacle. Once the season starts, Inglima will determine whether the team can consistently bring the effort and intensity throughout the season, given the roster’s inexperience. “I think we’re talented enough that at the end of the year, we could be playing really good basketball,” Inglima said. “We just don’t have that mindset and the experience that gives [the team] that grit to get t...