SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. - The Slippery Rock University men's basketball program recently took a break from their spring semester to work with the Butler County Special Olympics Basketball Team.
 
Members of The Rock's team and coaching staff helped the Butler County Special Olympics Basketball Team prepare for their upcoming tournaments with practices and scrimmages.
 
As part of the practice, the men's basketball program set up skill stations which allowed Rock players to interact with and provide personal one-on-one coaching to the Special Olympic athletes before holding 3-on-3 and 5-on-5 scrimmages.
 
This year marked the second consecutive season in which the Slippery Rock men's basketball program worked with the Butler County Special Olympics team.
 
Slippery Rock is coming off a successful 2023-24 season in which it went 16-14 overall and 13-9 in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference. The Rock qualified for the PSAC Tournament as the No. 3 seed in the Western Division and snapped a five-year postseason winless drought by defeating Seton Hill University in the first round of the conference tournament.
 
This year's Rock team also posted a 13-1 record inside Morrow Field House, which is tied for the third highest single-game win total at Morrow Field House in program history.
 
SRU has now recorded six consecutive winning seasons, five of which have come under the direction of head coach Ian Grady.
 




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