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For anyone who cares about such things Jonathan Givony’s Twitter feed is the go to spot for NBA Combine measurements. Wildest thing so far is Aday Mara measuring with a 9’9” standing reach barefoot. Absolutely nuts.

Implied (if not outright stated) in the interview was that Burton needs to score less and faciliate better than he has with this IU team.

He wasn’t even good enough to start for Notre Dame a team that almost made the CFP. Shame he had to settle for going 16-0 and being the offensive player of the game of the Rose Bowl. Good thing Notre Dame didn’t settle for him

I can’t really see that comp. Two different style players. VanVleet was/is a strong often physical defender who was a pass-1st floor general type. I think Burton is a smaller, quicker scoring type PG who is also a solid passer and defender. If he’s trying to be more like FVV then that’s great but I can’t personally say I’d expect to get a FVV type player with Burton.

Scope Scouting: Earned All-Session I First Team honors at 17U 3SSB Session I. Parker covered a lot of ground at 6’3, protected the paint, and ran the floor hard in transition. She also showed the ability to stretch the floor and score in different ways. 13.8 PPG | 3.3 REB | 51.5% TS

I like what I heard. He's got a pretty clear case on why IU and what he wants to do. Hopefully IU can upgrade the career of another ND transfer. ;-)

7'2 Dorin Buca to Rutgers from Kansas State / Italy

Going to be a bunch of 7 footers in the B1G

Cites Fred Van Vleet as a player role model...Yes! That is some serious elf-awareness and can be his comp if (IF) everything goes really well. -- "What are you looking forward to most this year?" MB: "Playing in Assembly Hall." Lots of spot-on answers. Almost a Cignetti-player-like relaxed but on-point set of answers.

Goodman interview with Burton. Haven’t watched it yet but am looking forward to hearing what our new PG has to say.

Borzello - Four-star senior Ladarius Givan has committed to UCF.

Selected seats this morning. Moved down 30 rows while staying in my ideal price tier and went to the opposite (East) side from where I had been for a few years. Overall happy with where I ended up. I'm not an upper-tier guy, but those seats have been just about picked clean for anyone that's at the end of the line for selection and is looking at tier 2.

Men's bball is not the only IU sports program taking an overseas trip. In 2 weeks.

Agreed. Teams will need to find wealthy NIL benefactors who are willing to fund specific teams. Otherwise programs will instead be dropped or left to dangle

In a nutshell this is where a lot of non-revenue sports are going to be across the college spectrum. I fully expect to see more non-revenue sports being dropped at all levels as ADs put their efforts into revenue producing sports.

I’m no Puredoo mathy guy, but yes. It makes 100% sense.

So a team that finishes with the second-worst record has the best chance of picking...fifth? Makes sense, I guess.

Top 8 now and slugging .597

I had many issues with Stern when he held the office, but at the very least, he had a hand in expansion and basketball becoming a true globally popular sport. I always thought Selig was the worst commish of that era. But I could definitely hear the argument for Stern.

The NBA doesn’t even try to hide the fact that the lottery is rigged. There has been example after example. I’m not even a Pacers fan, but with the way Silver targeted the Pacers this season, there was zero chance he was letting the organization keep its pick.

Whether people want to believe it the NBA is absolutely rigged from the playoffs down to the draft. Too many coincidences. Mavs trade Luka and magically get the first pick in the next draft. Cleveland and LeBron. And on and on the list can go. Combine that with suspicious officiating at best and it’s hard to see it any other way. Best to be viewed similar to professional wrestling as “sports entertainment”

This conspiracy of rigging the draft now has to stop simply because it doesn't benefit the local team (and yes I am a Pacers fan and wearing a shirt with their logo as I type this). I do believe the frozen envelope was rigged in 1985 but today you had dozens of reporters in there including Pacers own beat reporter Dustin Dopirak who saw everything from beginning to end and wrote about it. For there to be a conspiracy you would have to believe Dopirak and other reporters are paid off by NBA and risking their jobs to hide a conspiracy they viewed in real time but wrote about in detail afterwards as fair and square. Think about how ridiculous this sounds. Its also equally stupid to think the lottery was rigged to benefit the Wizards, Jazz, and Grizzles who are the ultimate non-glamor franchises while dropping the Nets who are in the biggest market below the Pacers. To criticize the process on how picks are earned is fair. To criticize Kevin Pritchard for making this trade in first place is fair and who the primary arrows should be aimed at if mad. However, to say the Pacers didn't draw the fifth pick fair and square under this system (even if flawed) when this outcome was nearly 48%, is just so beyond stupid. The NBA has plenty of issues and its fair to not like it as a whole, but they do NOT rig the draft lottery.