Frigid Chickasaws tumble on the road

Ryan Rausch may be less than a month into his boys basketball head coaching career, but he’s been around the sport  long enough to know that shooting 26.2 percent from the floor just isn’t going to cut it.
New Hampton went ice cold Tuesday night, and the result was a 60-29 loss to Waverly-Shell Rock in the Chickasaws’ Northeast Iowa Conference opener.
“It wasn’t that I thought we were taking horrible shots,” Rausch said after his team’s three-game winning streak came to an abrupt halt, “and I just told the guys in the locker room that you’re going to have nights like this — in basketball and life — and all you can do is learn from it and move on.”
The crazy thing is that New Hampton played a pretty darn good first quarter and trailed just 14-11 after eight minutes, and even at halftime, the Chickasaws were in striking distance at 26-17.
More on the story may be found in the Dec. 14 Tribune.