The new workout plan

After a season that lasts five months, players are, needless to say, exhausted. Still, college basketball teams have already started up workouts and semi-practices to get ready for the 2008-09 season.

Saint Joseph's men's coach Phil Martelli has a lighter, more unconventional approach.

"What we've been doing for the last two-and-a-half to three weeks is just shooting," Martelli said. "We do some heavy lifting to try to get some bulk, but we try to stay off of their legs. We don't let them play any pickup, and we very rarely will play one-on-one."

Pumping iron is a huge part of any college basketball team's offseason regiment, and the Hawks are no different. Players are often known to drop a lot of weight during the season.

"That's something that we pay a lot of attention to, [but] we weren't as bad this year," Martelli said.