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Interesting — reclamations with legal trouble haven’t really been his stock in trade before unless I’m forgetting some things.

Per Trevor Andershock’s Twitter, he had 48 of his team’s 77 in a 3 point win over Attucks today at IU’s team camp. Andershock is glowing about his game today. The word has been that if IU pushes its chips in, he’d be interested, no? Because I’ll remember this performance if they push for him and he commits.

Yep, from memory they went to the baseline cross screen for Zeller on all possessions down the stretch and he scored or hit FTs. Just rewatched, that was 2/3 and the other was a high PNR. The other thing that stands out rewatching the end is that M went 1/4 from the line with a parade of guys (GRIII, THJ, Burke) who you’d expect to hit at least 3/4. I’ll also always remember that Beilein played some deep bench guys just briefly, in at least one case because he was a senior, I think. And of course that’s not the reason UM lost, at least not more than the 1000 other things you can point to in any one point game…but man, I wonder if he’d like to have some of those choices back. I’d love to ask Yogi if he got a piece of the tip in that rolled out.

Happens way too much with non-athletes too, and it never goes well even if parents are just pushing an academic major, let alone a particular school, over the student’s wishes.

Why does everyone insist on pretending Ty Rodgers is a guard? This article continues the trend. He’s clearly a small-ball 4

Yep, no reason at all to write off Cupps being a contributor as a backup PG as soon as this year. In addition, IU has the depth for him to get only minutes he earns, health permitting. So if the TOs dry up, he shoots even better from 3, and he tightens up defensively, he’ll see the court.

Would imagine the U of A budget issues may be a concern too: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/governance/executive-leadership/2024/01/31/u-arizona-takes-steps-address-financial-woes

ASU is a good place to go if you’d like your HS All-Star games to be the brightest your star ever shined. Anyone other than Lu Dort played for B. Hurley make an impact on the P-12 or NBA yet? I love Dort’s game but he was there one year as a top ~35 recruit and went undrafted. Not sure I’d even want my son to visit ASU if he was lucky enough to be a coveted prospect.

This AND/OR they have proof of concept that their track record gives them a good shot at the best big in the portal each spring.

If, oh, Northwestern was starting the following lineup and had a typical (read: bad) NW bench, how would you expect them to perform? (Please spare me the coaching discussion, pretend the coach is League Avg B1G coach): Grey Talloway Tony Teal Tyson Brucker Hugh Loode Monmouth transfer C

Also: he’s not scheduled any other visits or even had one of those tweets from a national guy listing contacts/interests

Not sure the best place to put this, but can Dusty May’s first offseason at UM PLEASE put to rest the worst criticism of low- and mid-major candidates for big jobs: “how will he do at big boy recruiting?” Don’t mean to burst any bubbles or say there’s no specific ability involved. But of course a guy who put FAU on the map and only spent one season there after their big breakthrough didn’t have Mark Few’s recruiting track record. If you have any juice at all at a top ~50 program, you’ll get your share of guys. Is it an open question whether he’s more Crean, Archie, Jay Wright, Juwan Howard, or Matt Painter on the trail? Of course. But let’s not pretend that hiring a May-type means you have to settle for unknowns, lowly ranked, transfers only, or punt on the current class.

Illinois went 7-3 in the ten career games Goode played 25 or more minutes, and two of the three losses are @ #1 PU this year and the E8 blowout L to UConn. That’s a high-floor piece to have as your ~7th guy.

Celtics are obviously much, much better than the Heat without Jimmy Butler, but watching that second quarter yesterday I was thinking: Sam Hauser and Payton Pritchard are a great reminder that if you can shoot and try on defense, you’ll get on the floor and have a chance to help your team more than many flashier guys