A little more than three years ago, N.C. State had countless clubs. It had rugby, lacrosse, baseball, softball, women’s basketball, but the school of more than 30,000 students did not have a men’s basketball team. A school with a prestigious history of basketball success including two national championships was lacking a club that offered the chance for students to continue to play basketball in a competitive fashion.    However, the club was created and in just its second season of existence, it was able to win the American Collegiate Intramural Sports championship and plans on defending that title this season. Jon Smetana, the club’s president, loved how he and his fellow teammates had the ability to represent the school at a national level, but understands that this is a new season and the team has set their eyes on a repeat.    “It’s awesome,” Smetana, a junior in sports management said. “It is pretty cool how we get to represent State like that. Our goal is to win another championship, but it pretty cool because we are getting a lot more publicity now that we have won it.”   But the team has shown that its run in the ACIS tournament was not just a fluke run, as it has continually beaten almost every club team in the state, noting that it especially was able to dominate the Tarheels and other rivals.    “It’s pretty cool, we have played almost every club team in North Carolina, give or take a few teams, and we have not lost a game yet,” Smetana said. “We were 14-0 last year and we just slaughtered Carolina, ECU, Duke and people like that.”   But with the lack of competition at the club level, Smetana said the team has turned its focus to trying to find better competition at a higher level of play.    “So we are focusing more now on trying to play against Community Colleges and JV teams,” Smetana said. “This year we are playing Methodist’s JV team and if we show well against them hopefully we can develop some more contacts and get some better competition.   “It’s fun playing the other schools, but seriously a lot of the games are like 100-60 and it’s just not that great of competition.”   Before the team can go out and take on the JV  and community college teams, the roster has to be set, which could prove to be difficult based on the amount of interest the club has received so far this year.    “Tryouts are Wednesday, September 8th and then that next Monday we are holding another tryout because of the amount of people interested,” Smentana said. “There are over 100 people that have expressed interest trying out so we are going to split it up alphabetically between the two days, with A-L on the first day and M-Z on the second day.”   And with the team only keeping 11-15 players, competition will be high and roster spots will be at a premium. But vice president Taylor Payne said that just because you were on the team last season, doesn’t mean you are an automatically on this one.    “No one is guaranteed a spot,” Payne, a junior in business management, said.    Both days of tryouts will be at 8 p.m. and will be held on court 11 in Carmichael Gymnasium.    But with the high level of interest in the team, both Payne and Smetana are looking into ways to try and get more players involved on the team, even if they are not on the actual traveling roster.    “Taylor and I have a couple ideas floating around about ways to include more players,” Smetana said. “We are thinking of maybe having a practice team that scrimmages the club team every week and is basically a part of the club, just not on the main traveling team. But we are trying to find a way to get as many people as possible included.”   No matter how the season winds up and who makes the roster, Smetana is grateful about how far the club has come in only three years. The junior remembers the days of the lack of organization that went along with the first season and relishes where the team is now.    “We were just really unorganized,” Smentana said. “No one ever knew when practice was and we played like one game and we just didn’t really do much. Now since I have taken over I have just done my best to keep us organized and try and get everybody to come and I have had a set schedule.”