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Not 100% sure, but I think his extension was only a 3-year extension. His original contract, signed in 2018, was for 5 years. So if that is accurate, this would be the last year.

Bobby Boiler's gotta infiltrate the NBA Playoffs too?!?

I agree that Fuchs is more interesting than Wang. But whatever $ we were offering Wang it looks like it probably wasn't enough to get him over a school where he would play more and earn less. The only information I've seen on Fuchs in the portal is that in mid-April, Clemson was showing heavy interest.

Hold up there. I have seen conflicting info here. Some sources say his deal expires now in 2026 and others have him getting a five yr extension in 2023 after that 43 win season which was the one good one post-Covid. Either way, whether he has two years left on his contract or is done after this, he certainly could be let go after a spring like this as trying to recruit with only a couple seasons left on a deal as program trends down is not easy.

Former IU basketball big man Andrej Acimovic committed to Missouri State today

Mildly interesting tidbit on an otherwise slow news day. Kevin Boyle and SPIRE Academy have officially partnered with Adidas. All the years Boyle was head coach at Montverde Academy they were a Nike school.

Alec Lasley - Indiana transfer guard Bryce Lindsay is currently on campus visiting -- he committed to the Hoosiers without taking a visit.

Rabby just said a potential walk on about him to ease everyone’s minds lol

I agree a solid rotational big is a screaming need. I'm glad we aren't spending whatever we do have left on Wang tbh. His teammate Fuchs is much more interesting to me. Assume that's not a thing though. IMO it's pushing it to say barring injuries IU is "most definitely a tournament team." ... Certainly capable, but not definite IMO. We have a starting 5 that should be pretty to very good. Past that, a ton of question marks IMO

Chatter was he got $15M for his roster. I almost don’t believe the number given how few players he has. Insane!

One of those is probably LSU. Apparently it takes more than 20 million to field a team that wants to play for Will Wade. Rumor is that LSU is going to be relying at picking up a lot of Euro players because they have no choice.

20-25 schools over $20M? I’m not buying that Sean. Bit of exaggeration there imo. Maybe 10 are $20M+. That said, #10-20 still have a lot of money. IU needs to start developing and retaining players to help offset the increase in player costs.

Plus we simply have no idea what the plan is with Winker. No Leaks.

A solid back-up 4/5 would give us a 9 man rotation with only Moody being counted as part of the rotation. Karvala would be mop up minutes and Manhertz and 12-13 would be practice players. Not ideal but could definitely work. 5 guards/wings and 4 bigs. Build on that next year with Branham and a couple of additional bigs.

Portal needs rules and a cap

Personally, I think that Prince and Karvala are going to get some rotational time. I think the roster construction to this point has been decent.....with the one spot screaming need being a solid rotational big. That's not what Winker is. Right now barring injuries IU is most definitely a tournament team, assuming we get another rotational big. I'm hopeful that Winker isn't thought to be that kind of player and I do assume that isn't DeVries or Carr's plan. I would also assume that IU has at least a little money left, otherwise Wang wouldn't have bothered to visit.

This sounds like we we’re paying an awful lot of money for minds that should know better. Again, I hope this is not the case, but this is not serious roster construction. Manhurtz is nowhere ready physically to see anytime this year other than mop up.

I believe you are correct, but he didn’t need to and his body and game could use the year to improve. Bad decision imo.

I believe Manhertz was originally a 26 and then reclassified to 27 before deciding to go back to his original 26.

Not if a kid is willing to sign for scholly-only.

I mean, maybe we ran out of money, but I don’t think that’s actually it. I think they want the freshman to be rotational players then fill 11-13 with practice bodies. Well, Rabjohns indicated #11 could be a backup with size then 2 practice players. Problem is, if you want freshman to be rotation players at the highest level you need to hit homeruns. Zero indication in the Manhertz scout says he’ll be ready. Then he’s reclassifying on top of it. Which is why they don’t want to recruit over him. Compounding an error with another error.

But I think that if you go with 15 instead of 13, the pot of revenue share portion has to split more ways.

These days teams get 15 players; walk ons inclusive. They don’t have to give all 15 scholarships or money, but are allowed to and might as well.

My current vibe is that making the tournament with this group would be an achievement in itself. Maybe we make it comfortably, maybe we miss it. Regardless of who we round out the roster with, we will need our top 8 to stay very healthy. Suppose that applies to all teams but especially ours considering Burton is fairly injury prone. Need Sherrell to play like a $4M+ player. Harris is a huge question mark, hopefully we don't overextend his role. PAM and Sisley need to be at least solid. I like Yig and Mustaf fine enough and think we pretty much know what we can count on them for. Lindsay could be a lite version of Wilkerson. I don't think we'd love him in the PG role too much so hopefully Burton stays healthy. If I were filling out the roster I'd look for a PG, guy who can play 4 or 5, and a true C. And I'd look to Europe to fill those spots. Maybe the staff will sift through the portal and find some gold nuggets though. We can hope anyway.