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I am aware that various places that have been repeatedly wrong are saying this, yes. Anyone got this from Knecht? Anyone with a journalistic reputation to sully saying so publicly? It might be the case that he’s committing to UT tonight, as I said, no knowledge otherwise. See a lot of fake insiders saying so on Twitter to justify the money they’re throwing at various pay sites.

Yeah no special info here, and I know the UT insider said Knecht was down to two, but his process has been basically silent. And now Oregon takes a similar player and UT’s scholarship crunch is tight. If we were UO fans and he hadn’t committed by this point, I think we’d be getting nervous. Probably not visiting anywhere this weekend due to coaches’ AAU commitments but I wonder what’s coming.

I think Ledlum is a nice player but I definitely don’t think he was uniquely suited to next year’s roster at IU. Reasonable minds disagree, but I’m more inclined to buy @stuhoo’s leadership argument than a skill/fit one. There are other fish in the sea. IU has a lot to offer (more than UT imho).

Yeah I think the B1G officiating style is a real issue but you can’t watch UT and buy this

I liked him as a 4 but not really a 3, so if this gets e.g. Knecht more NIL / to campus then I think it can come out okay. I do like the defensive disruption Ledlum offers.

Overanalysis: feels like step one of a two step goodbye.

Heard this was coming from some UM folks. No idea what’s up but two threads I imagine may be intertwined here: 1. Ongoing rumors about Howard taking an NBA job as soon as next summer and 2. UConn’s close to home….

No inside info but: Flory, other 24s, Ware, Reneau, Ledlum

I think he’s pretty good but this is a strange fit to me. He’s from Rockford, IL, so this is close to home, but if that was the primary factor I’m surprised it wasn’t U of I, Marquette, a Chicago area school….

Much better than the rumored transfer to Illinois; thank you Tyger

Terrific news for me, a person who revels in the struggles of Illinois basketball: Shannon going pro

Cannot specifically speak to Catchings as a player or potential reclass. But in general, reclassifications up tend to work out well UNLESS the player is a small guard. That’s not just me hand-waving Lander away, someone did a study I can’t locate and that was the broad takeaway. Besides Lander, some other high-profile examples: Derryck Thornton, Ashton Hagans. There are counter-examples but if a staff has a 5-star grade on a junior eligible to reclass they should probably take him unless he’s like 6’2” or under and slight, IMO. That aside…is a reclass an option for Catchings? I’ve seen the flip rumors buuuut not that specifically.

I know age is a big projection factor so it’s unlikely he’s going to be a star. But on the other hand, I think he could play NBA wing minutes right now.

I was looking today to see if Terrence Shannon Jr. was leaving, and assumed he would. There’s no news yet. The Ringer has him as a borderline 1st rounder.

We’ve already seen Galloway as a ~25 minute/game bench player. One thing I like about potentially bringing him off the bench if IU gets its wishlist: he could sub anyone out, either to play the 1, 2, or 3, or to sit down a big and slide some guys up the positional spectrum.

Haven’t seen Ledlum up close, haven’t heard anything to this effect, but I wonder if he commits to IU if they might have him cut a little weight. He was a 4 at Harvard, played some minutes as a small-ball 5 even. At IU it seems clear he’s a fit at the 3, sliding into some minutes at the 4.

No idea whatsoever if IU has a chance but I would imagine they’d at least sniff around.

I believe IU’s in good company here. Before last season the various “everybody gets some” funds had everyone at like ~70k minimum, if I recall what Chris mentioned correctly. On the high end? Not sure, but I’d guess IU had a couple guys at or above a half mil.

One of the things that has made me so pro-Coach Mike Woodson from the start: he could be a trusted assistant on an nba playoff team right now; he could be enjoying retirement. He’s at IU because it’s a dream. Like Trayce, he’s one of the best Hoosiers to fall short of a final four. He’s got an NBA championship ring and he wants some more jewelry. He was never going to mess around.

Ware and Reneau are traditionally sized bigs, but they both showed enough last year that I expect with normal year-to-year improvement, opponents won’t be able to leave them alone all the way out to the three point line. Pair that open court with some dudes who can get in the lane — say X, Trey, Ledlum, Knecht — and ooohhh baby they’ll be tough to guard.

All along I felt he was a good player and on this roster, just not a great fit. He fits a bit better next to a floor-spacing 5 like Ware than he would next to Shedrick. I’m with @WayneFleekHoosier on this, if they add Ledlum and Knecht then PG insurance would be my last wish

Ok, “all other things being equal” he would’ve benefitted from it.

Do you know who would’ve benefited from the current state of the transfer portal while he was coaching at IU? Tom Crean.

This all makes sense — haven’t listened but thanks for summarizing. Just a couple thoughts: 1. Bates is a strange poster child for this, though I’m sure there are other examples in the minds of the staff. Even someone like Sensabaugh — pretty quick recruitment, they were pretty early, and he was good enough to be one and done…but so bad on defense that he didn’t contribute much to winning. Back to Bates: they didn’t invest a ton of time, and it’s not like they had years of scouting and relationship. I’m sure they did due diligence, but a late riser who played on a national prep team…it’s not insane to me that he’d have the first two years he had, especially given the changes in his personal life 2. There’s some irony in leaning towards transfers because of the variety of frustrations of recruiting high schoolers, and then going for Ware, who exemplifies some of those things well. To be clear, I think he’ll succeed at IU. 3. Probably preaching to the choir but I think going forward, it’ll be rare for a high major program to go ALL IN on either frosh or transfers — there will always be TJD types, JHS types, Hulls, Cupps, Galloway, Haralson, Sisley types, and so on. There are years, like after coaching changes, where you’re heavy on transfers. There will be years that are the opposite.

Ware, gotta be an autocorrect issue