That knee tear kept Shepard out of most preseason workouts before her freshman season. When she returned, Mark Shepard said, his daughter didn’t feel overworked or exhausted.

“If anything, she was frustrated when she was held out of practice when she thought she could play,” Mark Shepard said. He has never attended practice and is generally hands off in his parental approach.

One of the team’s male practice players, Nathan Schlautman, said any allegations of Yori overworking players in practice were false. Schlautman, a former Lincoln Pius X basketball player, practiced against NU women’s players for four seasons. He participated, he said, in more than 300 practices and was at “80 to 90 percent” of the practices over the last four years.

“All these accusations — nothing could be further from the truth,” Schlautman said.

Of the four seasons he practiced with the team, he said, this season had the easiest, least-stressful practices.

“It’s mind-blowing that this would be the year anyone would attach the words ‘mistreatment’ and ‘bullying,’ ” Schlautman said. “It didn’t happen.”