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Jeff Goodman‏Verified account @GoodmanHoops 3h3 hours ago More Miami likely to land one of the top guards left on the board in the senior class: Montverde Academy’s Harlond Beverly. He also considered Georgia, Michigan, Virginia, Indiana, Baylor, Kansas. Combo guard originally from Michigan. 1 reply12 retweets13 likes Reply 1 Retweet 12 Like 13 Direct message

Cincinnati - (Mick Cronin) - Hired John Brannen (Northern Kentucky Head Coach) Northern Kentucky - (John Brannen) - OPEN Utah Valley - (Mark Pope) - Hired Mark Madsen (Los Angeles Lakers Assistant Coach) Wofford - (Mike Young) - Hired Jay McAuley (Wofford Associate Head Coach)

Former UCLA coach Steve Alford has been signed to a 10-year deal to become the next coach at Nevada, the school announced on Thursday. Alford was fired 13 games into his sixth season in Westwood after the Bruins started with a 7-6 record that included a four-game losing streak and home losses to Belmont and Liberty. He will succeed Eric Musselman, who left Reno last week to take the same position at Arkansas. Alford be introduced Friday afternoon at 11 a.m. ET. "There is no better coach than Steve Alford to continue the rise of Nevada basketball and we are excited for the next chapter," Nevada athletic director Doug Knuth said in a statement released by the school. "To get a leader of Coach Alford's caliber is a testament to the support of our community and our university. There is a great tradition of Wolf Pack basketball and the future is even brighter." Alford recruited at a high level at UCLA with top-25 recruiting classes in each year and three top-10 classes overall, including top-six classes in his final two years. But his demise with the Bruins was expedited by his lack of postseason success. He missed the NCAA Tournament just once (twice including his shortened final season), but only thrice advanced to the second weekend of the tournament and never made the Elite Eight. "To be able to continue my career in a tight-knit community that has demonstrated its support for the basketball program is exactly the opportunity that Tanya and I were looking for, and we are thrilled to be in Northern Nevada," Alford said. "I can't wait to get to work as we look to build off the established tradition and momentum of this great program. I want this to be the last stop of my coaching career." At Nevada, expectations for Alford will be tempered compared to UCLA. Though the Wolf Pack made the NCAA Tournament in each of Musselman's final three seasons and posted consecutive 29-win seasons before he left, the program is expected to experience a talent exodus. As a result, Alford could be undertaking a minor rebuild, though Nevada has recruited at a high enough level to compete at the highest level in the MWC.

Nevada - (Eric Musselman) - Hired Steve Alford (UCLA Head Coach)

Jeff Goodman‏Verified account @GoodmanHoops FollowingFollowing @GoodmanHoops More Arizona State and Bobby Hurley have agreed to a new five-year deal, source told @stadium. Hurley was pursued by St. John’s, but opted to remain in Tempe - where he will try and take the Sun Devils to the NCAA tourney for the third straight season. 6:18 PM - 11 Apr 2019

Jeff Goodman‏Verified account @GoodmanHoops FollowingFollowing @GoodmanHoops More South Carolina’s Frank Martin has emerged as a key target at Cincinnati, source told @Stadium. 4:18 PM - 11 Apr 2019

Presbyterian - (Dustin Kerns) - Hired Quinton Ferrell (College of Charleston Assistant Coach) Southern Mississippi - (Doc Sadler) - OPEN

Just did a quick google search and there are approximately 72 early entrants who have declared for the Draft at this time. There are only 60 picks and this is not counting Seniors and Overseas players.

Is it just me or has there been more players declare for the draft early, than there are actual draft picks? Is the draft expanding to a 3rd round and no one mentioned it to the world?

California - (Wyking Jones to Retire) - Hired Mark Fox (Former Georgia Head Coach 2017-2018) BYU - (Dave Rose to Resign) - Hired Mark Pope (Utah Valley Head Coach) Tennessee Tech - (Steve Payne) - Hired John Pelphrey (Alabama Assistant Coach) Stetson - (Corey Williams) - Hired Donnie Jones (Dayton Assistant Coach)

Belmont - (Rick Byrd) - Hired Casey Alexander (Lipscomb Head Coach) Lipscomb - (Casey Alexander) - OPEN

St. John's - (Chris Mullin) - OPEN

You’re about a week late to this party. However, it was never confirmed who was involved. The person hooking up has been several different people but the victim player seems to be consistent in Smith. But no confirmation has come forward on anything to this point. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

Cincinnati - (Mick Cronin) - OPEN Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

UCLA - (Steve Alford) - Hired Mick Cronin (Cincinnati Head Coach) Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

Forgot this one yesterday somehow... Nevada - (Eric Musselman) - OPEN

Arkansas - (Mike Anderson) - Hired Eric Musselman (Nevada Head Coach) Buffalo - (Nate Oats) - HIred Jim Whitesell (Buffalo Associate Head Coach) Virginia Tech - (Buzz Williams) - Mike Young (Wofford Head Coach) Wofford - (Mike Young) - OPEN

Elon - (Matt Matheny) - Hired Mike Schrage (Ohio State Assistant Coach) Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

I could be wrong but I am taking the "and the players were told" means that the players who have decided to transfer, have told all the other players that they have decided to leave.

Vanderbilt - (Bryce Drew) - HIred Jerry Stackhouse (Memphis Grizzlies Assistant Coach)

Georgia State - (Ron Hunter to Tulane) - Hired Rob Lanier (Tennessee Associate Head Coach)

Anyone know how to check the transfer portal?

Anyone know how to check the transfer portal?

Montana State - (Brian Fish) - Hired Danny Sprinkle (Cal State Fullerton Assistant Coach)

With all the transfers happening in college basketball today and the potential end of the One and Done (OAD) era, who should IU be recruiting in this day and age to sustain long-term success and get back to being an elite program? As a fan base, are our expectations for recruiting unrealistic and out of whack with what actually relates to sustaining a successful program? Lets start with OAD players. They are impact players who typically start from day one. They are very talented and highly sought after in the recruiting game. However, there are negatives that go along with the positives of a OAD. They are only around for 1 season, inexperienced, can have different agendas from the team, or may create atmosphere and continuity issues. So the notion has been floated and discussed that we are not in a position to recruit OAD players at this time. Also, it has been noted that 0 of the final four teams have a OAD player and all have experienced teams. Not to mention, this era may be going away anyway. So, if that is the case, then the notion is that we need players who will be here for 4 years. I would say though that these types of players usually do not make much of an impact as freshman. So how do your recruit for this? How do you keep them from transferring when they do not get the playing time they think they deserve as a freshman? As a fan, can you accept a player who does not make an impact as a freshman? There are players that fall between a OAD and non impact freshman. Such as Rob Phinisee but these are hard to come by and do not come about every year. What are your expectations of a freshman at IU? How much playing time should a freshman player be getting? If players like Forrester are likely to transfer after their freshman season due to not getting enough playing time, then is it beneficial to recruit those players? So where does that leave us? Transfers. There are 2 types of transfers, Grad Transfers and regular Transfers. Grad transfers typically only have 1-2 years of eligibility remaining and are eligible to play immediately. Regular transfers generally will have 1-3 years of eligibility remaining but have to sit out a year before playing (in most cases currently). So, is a transfer player more or less important in recruiting than a high school player? Transfer players typically have more experience at this level than incoming freshman and are extremely less likely to transfer again. So basically what I am getting at is this. As fans, is our expectation of the players we want to recruit and the players we need to recruit in sync? I would venture say they are not which leads me to believe that our expectations for CAM and perception of his recruiting is not reasonable either based on the outcome we all expect at IU. However, in the end, all that matters is that CAM understands the type of players he needs and recruits them. Only time will tell whether or not he succeeds at doing this here at IU. As a sidebar, what about the players perception of this topic? Is a recruits perception of how their freshman year should go, way out of whack when it comes to reality? Is the OAD era partly to blame for this? Is that why we are seeing close to 600-800 transfers in the off-season? Would it be better for a player to go to a smaller school where they can get playing time and game experience and then transfer to more prestigious school as an upperclassmen instead of the other way around? How much of a burden would that then put on bigger schools having to red-shirt a player and give a player 2-3 year scholarships to play 1-2 years.