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Even though the Flyers men's basketball team will be in the company of some big name teams at this year's O'Reilly Auto Parts Puerto Rico Tip-Off, they are ready to take on the challenge.

The Flyers open the tournament against Georgia Tech Nov. 19 in San Juan. Among other teams that will be in attendance are the likes of George Mason, Indiana, Kansas State, Boston University, Mississippi and final-four participant Villanova. Despite this field of talented teams, the Flyers are ready to play.

"I think we'll be fine as long as we go out there and play hard and compete," senior guard Mickey Perry said. "There's a lot of good teams over there so we've got to go ahead and get that confidence out there and believe."

Senior guard London Warren agreed.

"I like our chances," Warren said. "It's going to be great competition there, but I think I like our chances."

The team is preparing for the tournament by taking it a day at a time and not focusing too far into the future.

"We are just sticking to the game plan every day," junior forward Chris Wright said. "The coaches do a good job helping us every day get along and work hard. We are fortunate that we are improving every day and are staying disciplined. Sometimes it's hard when you are working out and no games have been played. You gotta live in the moment right then and complete your work and build on that."

Although last season the Flyers were undefeated at home, the team could not carry that success to many of its road games.

"We are going to try to concentrate more on the road," Warren said. "When you know you're on the road, then it's just you and your team and there aren't that many fans for you there. So we will try to focus a little bit more and play a little bit harder on the road and a little bit smarter."

Perry attributes the road losses to a lack of mental focus which caused little mistakes.

"We've got one of the best fan bases here at UD," Perry said. "I think that little minor things for the games that we lost on the road [were why we lost]. We will just tighten up things for that on the road. In the game of basketball little things are very important, but I think if we can concentrate on those we will be fine."

Home or away, the Flyers are the same team, which is a fact the team is going to try to remember this year.

"We've got to understand that it doesn't matter what court we play on," Wright said. "We just gotta perform; we gotta play. At home we played with a lot of energy but sometimes our energy at home was a lot different than on the road. That's what we are going to focus on this year, the results and where we play; we gotta play the same way we would at home."

The Flyers are now ranked 18th in the AP Poll and 21st in the ESPN/USA Today poll and have been in the spotlight since being ranked in the preseason polls.

"We're challenged at home, we're challenged on the road and obviously we're challenged on some neutral courts as well," head coach Brian Gregory said. "We'll get a good test of where we're at, what we need to get better at and again you're looking at the growth and the progression of the team [which] will give you a good indicator of where we need to be."

The team is ready to test out where they stack up nationally.

"I think we are confident because we have experience," Wright said. "It's going to be interesting to see. We just can't wait."