<\/a>JDHS junior Jonathan Sleppy practices 3-point shots early on Wednesday before practice. (Jonson Kuhn \/ Juneau Empire)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
Casperson said within the offseason the team was primarily focused on getting to know one another better and holding each other accountable for meeting expectations of the program in practice. Additionally, Casperson said that fans will see a lot of familiar faces and names on this year’s roster and he’s excited to be welcoming back every player that led the team in any of the major statistical categories back this year.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
“I believe that any number of our guys could stand out or surprise folks in games as we move through the year,” Casperson said. “No matter what, I know that we will play the type of tough-nosed, team first, competitive basketball that brings excitement to the fans.”<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
Roster<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
1: Gavin Gerrin, sophomore<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
2: Bodhi Nelson, senior<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
3: Alwen Carillo, junior<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
10: Jhowel Esitogy, junior<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
11: Sean Oliver, junior<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
13: Jonathan Sleppy, junior<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
15: Alex Mallott, junior<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
20: Orion Dybdahl, senior<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
21: Caden Mesdag, senior<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
23: Joseph Aline, senior<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
24: Kai Hargrave, senior<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
31: Brandon Casperson, freshman<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
• Contact reporter Jonson Kuhn at jonson.kuhn@juneauempire.com.<\/em><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t JDHS Boys Basketball varsity schedule<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t Dec. 17 Alumni Scrimmage, home<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t Dec. 19-22 Tarkanian Classic, Las Vegas<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t Dec. 28 Soldotna, home tournament<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t Dec. 29 Haines, home tournament<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t Dec. 30 West Valley Fairbanks, home tournament<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t Jan. 1-5 Service, home, non-conference<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t Jan. 18 Colony, home non-conference<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t Jan. 19-21 TBA, South Anchorage High School O’Brady’s Invitational<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t Jan. 26 Soldotna, away tournament<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t Jan. 27 Anchorage Christian, neutral tournament<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t Jan. 28 Kenai Central, neutral tournament<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t Feb. 1 Thunder Mountain, home conference<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t Feb. 2 Thunder Mountain, away conference<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t Feb. 10-11, home conference<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t Feb. 17 Palmer<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t Feb. 24-25 Ketchikan, away conference<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t Feb. 28 Thunder Mountain, away conference<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t March 1 Thunder Mountain, home conference<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t March 8 Region V Tournament<\/p>\n\t\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Alumni Scrimmage Dec. 17 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":889,"featured_media":93768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[203,240],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-93767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-sports","tag-sportbasketball","tag-high-school-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93767"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=93767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}