Springfield, IL (CAPITOL CITY NOW) – Springfield’s a good place for high school basketball, but just off Toronto Road, coach Matt Brock says he’s building something good with the UIS men’s basketball team. He is in his seventh year here.

“We’ve had some success and a couple of the best years in our Division II history,” said Brock. “We’ve got some really outstanding young men who play basketball at UIS. They are excellent students and really good people, so it’s a fun group to coach and a fun group to watch.”

Brock’s father and brother are also coaches. “I think I was at a game when I was nine days old,” he says of his father’s first year coaching. He is a graduate of Truman State University.

Brock tells the WTAX Morning Newswatch one of his leading players is a local product – Tye Banks from Lanphier. The Prairie Stars are home tonight against Cedarville and then are at Missouri-St. Louis Saturday.