When Lafayette Men's Basketball Head Coach Mike McGarvey was looking for a smarter way to manage his program's training load, he turned to PlayerData.

The Leopards are now using PlayerData's EDGE Air units to monitor the volume and intensity of every practice and game, giving McGarvey and his staff the data they need to make informed decisions about how hard players are working and when to push harder and when pull back.

"PlayerData's technology is a helpful tool for basketball coaches to plan and manage practice in a more data-backed way," McGarvey said. "Monitoring volume and intensity over the course of our season will help our players be ready on game day when it matters most."

Basketball seasons are long, and the physical demands of practice stack up quickly. Without objective data, coaches are left relying on feel to gauge whether a player is carrying too much fatigue into a game or hasn't been pushed hard enough in the week leading up to it. PlayerData gives Lafayette's staff a clearer picture, session by session, so those decisions are grounded in evidence.

Lafayette's move reflects a broader shift in how college basketball programs think about preparation. High quality athlete tracking is now accessible to programs at every level. Lafayette is among the programs recognizing that the edge on game day is often built in the weeks before it.

For the Leopards, the data is now part of how they prepare.

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