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Farrell helped the Roadrunners rebuild their roster prior to the 2022-23 season, and the team finished 12-17 overall and 9-13 to tie for seventh place in the treacherous Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference.

Farrell served as an assistant coach under Ficke for the 2021-22 season at Belmont Abbey (N.C.), helping the Crusaders to a 22-10 overall record and a trip to the NCAA Division II National Tournament.

At Belmont Abbey, Farrell assisted with the day-to-day operation of the program, worked individually with the forwards and was in charge of directing the Crusaders’ offense.

Prior to his season at Belmont Abbey, Farrell spent nine years as the director of basketball operations at Division I Loyola (Md.), where his tasks included working with student-athlete support services to build schedules and monitor the academic progress of players, directing all video operations – including breaking down and evaluating Loyola and opponents’ games, and scheduling non-conference opponents.

Farrell had been the men’s basketball manager at Loyola from 2008 through 2012. Ficke played and coached at Loyola while Farrell was on the Greyhounds’ staff.

Ficke quickly put together an impressive recruiting class in short order, bringing in the likes of eventual RMAC Co-Freshman of the Year Brayden Maldonado and Division I transfer Caleb McGill after inheriting a threadbare roster. Implementing his style of uptempo, unselfish and unrelenting basketball for 2022-23, the Roadrunners went 12-17 overall, including 9-13 to tie for seventh in a treacherous Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference that saw four different teams ranked in the national top 10 throughout the season. MSU Denver knocked off one of those teams, at Colorado Mesa, in just Ficke's second conference game, and lost to another, Fort Lewis, in the closing seconds.

A Denver native, Ficke spent the previous three seasons as the head coach at Division II Belmont Abbey (N.C.), directing the Crusaders to a 61-25 record and three appearances in the national tournament. Belmont Abbey played in three straight Conference Carolinas Tournament championship games, winning the last two.

Ficke, a Regis Jesuit High School alum, played college basketball at Division I Loyola (Md.) before embarking on his coaching career. Prior to his successful run at Belmont Abbey, Ficke spent four seasons (2015-16 through 2018-19) as an assistant at Division I Denver. Among the highlights during his time at DU was helping the Pioneers lead the Summit League in scoring while finishing second in 3-point percentage during the 2017-18 season.

Prior to his experience at Denver, Ficke spent two seasons, 2013-14 through 2014-15, as an assistant coach at his alma mater. Before that, Ficke was on the staff at Wake Forest, where he was was promoted to special assistant to the head coach/director of scouting and recruiting in 2012-13 after two seasons as the program's assistant director of operations.

Ficke’s first coaching job came in 2009-10, when he was the junior varsity head coach and varsity assistant at Boy’s Latin School of Maryland.

At Loyola, Ficke was a part of some of the most successful Division I teams in program history. The Greyhounds won 64 games over those seasons, including the 2007-08 team that won a then-school record 19. He graduated in 2009 with his bachelor's degree in business administration and earned his master’s of business administration in 2010.

As a high school player, Ficke served as team captain during his junior and senior seasons, and averaged 17 points and 10 rebounds as a senior, earning all-state second team and all-conference honors.

Glover had spent the previous three seasons as the lead assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at CSU-Pueblo. With Glover on staff, the ThunderWolves developed two Academic All-Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference first team players as well as an All-RMAC second team selection.

Prior to CSU-Pueblo, Glover spent the 2018-19 season as a graduate assistant at Regis, and he spent the 2017-18 season at Sheridan College (Wyo.) as an assistant coach. Regis had two All-RMAC first team players with Glover on staff, and Sheridan produced five Division I players and six Division II players with his help.

At Regis, Glover earned a master’s degree in communication and leadership.

Glover played as a professional internationally in Georgia and Mexico for two seasons.

He played collegiately at Sheridan for one season, then at Penn State for one season, before finishing his career at Division I San Francisco. He was a two-year starter for the Dons, averaging 6.9 points and 5.6 rebounds while leading the team in assists in each of his two seasons. As a senior in 2014-15, he also led the team in steals and was second in rebounds – he was one rebound short of becoming the first player in program history to lead the team in assists, steals and rebounds in the same season. He played in 32 games and started 21 at Penn State in 2011-12.

Glover graduated from Tustin (Calif.) High School and was All-Empire League first team as well as All-Orange County while also earning All-CIF second team honors.

Previously, Lopez had been at Trinity International (Ill.), where he served as a graduate assistant coach, junior varsity head coach, player development coach, and strength & conditioning coach. Lopez was instrumental in developing NAIA All-American Brandon Lawani, and All-Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference second team selection Brandon McQueen, as Leon Williams. Both McQueen and Williams signed professional contracts. Lopez also played a crucial role in recruiting, scouting, game-time decisions, and operations.

Lopez earned a bachelor's degree in communications in 2020 from Colorado State. He served as a student manager for the Rams' men's basketball team for two seasons under head coach Niko Medved.

As the varsity assistant and sophomore head coach at Grandview in Aurora, Colo., from 2016 through 2018, he was part of the Colorado Class 5A state championship team in 2018.

Lopez also served as an assistant coach at Eaglecrest High School from 2014-16, helping that team reach the Class 5A semifinals in 2015 and the championship game in 2016.

He also spent three seasons leading the 16U Colorado Miners team.