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We’ve seen that movie before https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/game/_/gameId/401310909

With regard to Ledlum, but applicable to plenty of other transfers: consider context on shooting numbers. His FT% worries me, so I’m not claiming he’ll turn into Kopp. But he’ll surely get better shots with X probably carry a lighter load overall — which should mean fewer spots where he just HAS to force something as the best scorer on the floor.

That early window tonight that featured close games for VT/ND, CoC/UNCW, and NKU/UNCW, leading into the WCC final and most all majors getting underway tomorrow…we’ve arrived, friends

Agreed, he’s in a similar boat to Caleb Houstan last year: 1-and-done who didn’t meet expectations. If the best thing about frosh is they become sophs, it can be a bummer when they’re gone by then. Sometimes, as with JHS, it’s worth it because they actually help you win

Surely they’ll hope so. Their concern is they’re likely to lose Jett and Bufkin to the draft and already lack depth.

Everyone makes bad evals sometimes, to be sure. Seems like Arch specialized in them. Surely everyone here would take Trey Galloway over Ethan Morton — a fine player, no knock — and/or Carter Whitt? I’m not sure to what extent those were contingent but Arch clearly wanted Morton badly, and IIRC Whitt was a priority for awhile too

The good news is there’s lots of other hoops, almost all day much of the week, and IU’s season + win yesterday means I can watch it without emotionally overinvesting

Yes, massive shot on a possession where IU HAD to score. He has been terrific in close and late scenarios

I don’t comment in this thread as much as some but it’s a delight

NCAA tournament play has longer commercial breaks and you can play your very best players close to their max capacity for minutes, too. Minimizes IU’s lack of depth

For what it’s worth, Galloway has two more years of eligibility. The COVID year is a free roll

Would add that his current “fifth year” is the extra COVID year, so it’s not a normal sixth year situation, and he only played 18 games his third/last year at Pitt. That was not really his choice, and the NCAA has sometimes had leniency in that kind of case

Absolutely love him and need Notre Dame to love him too

I was going to say the same. They can grant a waiver if it’s over 30% if they want, though, and it’ll be close.

Need a portal big for depth, I’d throw in a combo forward, stretch 4, or maybe both from somewhere, not currently on the roster. And yeah — that’s a team with a defense that shows up every night, and enough offense to be pretty interesting.

Those particular new balances are popular with youngs.

I think IU did quite well in the portal in 2021, when it ostensibly had plenty of PT to offer. I’m not too worried about it, as the work since then is good proof of concept that if you can play, you’ll have a role. They haven’t really brought in and buried any transfers who deserved more burn, IMHO, and IU can probably be a good sport for NIL ops. It is important, but I’m not too worried right now. They wanted X and Kopp and got them. Players like CMW. This staff has proven to be strong in sprint recruiting battles.

This looks like the simplest way for it to happen but there are other scenarios. In at least one, IU can actually end up the 2 seed: need to win, and need Nebraska and Rutgers to win over the weekend.

I saw neither in HS but Galloway’s counting stats were dampened by playing through injuries as both a junior and senior, if I recall. My hunch is his earlier shooting issues have some connection to that era, which included a wrist injury. My recollection is that he was the standout among those two, plus Lander, on the Indiana Elite team they all played on in summer 2019, before his senior year. (Not that this was reflected in rankings, which would weigh the injury-riddled HS seasons and, at the time, Lander’s theoretical upside. But I thought watching them play he was clearly the best player at the time, setting aside awards or projection.)

I think the implication has been that it might be mutually beneficial. Staff wanted him to redshirt last year, he wouldn’t, played 20 total minutes in 9 games: clearly would’ve been in everyone’s interest if he hadn’t used a year of eligibility that way. So this year? 9 games, 51 minutes, Grandma tweeting angrily about the staff during IU’s losing streak. If I recall there was an early season *wink wink* three game suspension too. Yes, there will be frontcourt minutes available for someone, even if we assume Reneau and Geronimo are big-minute players next year. Just no reason to believe the staff is ready to put their trust here for even the third or fourth big. More broadly, last offseason it was clear this staff wanted to build by recruiting frosh when possible, but was willing to plug holes with transfers. They have quite a few grants to use this off-season; I assume they’ll jump at any current seniors they like who ask out due to coaching changes, a la Scoop in ‘21 and Malik in ‘22, and see if any ‘24 targets are candidates to reclassify up if they’re ready. There will be in-transfers, and where they are will tell us some interesting things about what the staff expects from returners and the incoming frosh.

My guess would be yes, and Torvik’s teamcast took says as much

Almost more impressive: MSU had a 13 point lead with two minutes left, scored 12 points before the horn sounded…and went to OT

Thank you. Kevin Warren’s successor should bang my line

The other option to balance the schedules would be to somehow flex the last 3 or 4 games. It would be difficult but not impossible, so it’ll never happen. But in theory you’d schedule the first 16, everyone gets 8 home and 8 road. You always play your protected rival(s) 2x. And then the last four are scheduled based on an attempt to balance the collective schedule strength.

I wish I could agree but the SEC’s entire existence is basically a shell game to avoid accountability for its various parties