Mike McGrath, head men's basketball coach at the University of Chicago, talks with D3hoops.com's Ryan Scott about his Maroons' prospects for this season, the state of the University Athletic Association this season, as well as Chicago getting two key graduate transfers from Wesleyan and Illinois Wesleyan, and how they will fit. Chicago just missed the top 10 in the D3hoops.com men's basketball preseason Top 25. 

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