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Yes. Very poorly phrased on my part. Will fix.

Ahmed’s now down to Houston and BYU and is visiting Houston 11/1. Since that’s after Diane’s visit I would assume a Ahmed cancellation would be a bad sign for IU and an honored visit would encouraging.

https://www.ncaa.org/news/2025/10/24/media-center-3-former-eastern-michigan-mens-basketball-student-athletes-did-not-cooperate-with-investigation-into-potential-sports-betting-conduct.aspx Release from the NCAA regarding an investigation into an Eastern Michigan game from January in which multiple players refused to cooperate. This is gonna get so ugly.

The NBA record for free throws in a season is Wilt Chamberlain in 1961-62 with 1363. 17 per game. SGA:

I think they have Brazile and Ewin, who’ve got to both be seniors by now, and seem to vaguely remember something about a Eurokid. So I imagine they’ll have minutes.

Putting aside any NIL advantage IU might have, if you’re a 6’7” elite athlete, and Karvala is a Troy Williams-level athlete, and you see that Marian game with that pace of play that’s what you’re looking for.

IU 45 UCLA 17

That doesn’t sound at all right, He’d already taken 1 to Iowa, though maybe it wasn’t an official. I don’t believe that’s correct.

Mendoza: “So, Vaughn, congrats on that Cal offer. Berkeley’s awesome. And just wait for that 1st time you take that 5 hr flight and get back there at 2am on a Wednesday morning after getting your a$$ whooped in Raleigh, NC on the late ESPN game. Sounds killer, huh?” Karvala: “Uhhh”

Rozier has signed contracts worth $160,000,000. He's in his last year of this one at 26 mil. And he's still good enough to have probably gotten 1 more short deal. Who in God's name risks that plus their reputation plus their freedom for anything at all? This isn't even a question of being not smart, obviously there are people with serious issues with this stuff, but you have this thing called life effectively licked. God, could he really not seek help?

Xavier’s a very good offer. New HC, good facilities, great fan support, elite conference. I can see a kid saying yes to them. Cal, Jesus, I don’t know what Madsen’s supposed to do there. That is a brutal gig.

No opinion on the kid at all, haven’t watched a second of him, but if they’re not hard on a 6’11” athlete from Marion County would think it’s way more likely to be the latter than the former.

Literally the DAY AFTER the NCAA announces that college athletes and coaches can bet on pro sports. This is gonna go really, really well.

Maybe something, maybe nothing: Houston is a finalist for 21yo G-League Center Abdullah Ahmed. Spent the last 2 years playing for the Knicks’ affiliate. Is still waiting for eligibility clearance, but, c’mon. Would assume Houston wouldn’t take both him and Diane. Fwiw

That is a really good get. Those kids have crazy high ceilings.

https://www.on3.com/news/how-g-league-players-can-now-play-college-basketball/ Some explanation of the NCAA’s thinking on the G-League situation. If I’m reading this correctly it sounds like any undrafted G-League players still within their 5 year post-HS window will be eligible to make the London Johnson move. Sounds a little murky as far as whether they were in the draft but undrafted vs a kid like Johnson who hasn’t gone through the draft process. The old days of the Fab 5 getting envelopes from Ed Martin seem positively cute now.

Here’s a hypothetical for you: how much would Damon Bailey have made between 4 years of high school and 4 years at IU in the modern era? 50 mil? More?

Somebody needs to. For Chrissake, we have full blown European pros, now we have American pros, we have college players who graduated from HS in 2018, 8 figure rosters and when private equity inevitably gets it’s foot in the door uniforms are gonna look like NASCAR. It’s beyond gross and the NCAA is worried about nothing but getting sued and clearly doesn’t even have the concept of a plan.

https://x.com/BenShockley_/status/1980835813534626049 Izzo on the London Johnson situation. Of course he!’s right.

https://x.com/allasley/status/1980428711162966121 Ok, I would not have bet that this visit actually took place since there was no evidence at all. But here we have it, Vaughn Karvala visit pics. Got to be one of the odder top 50 recruitments I can think of. Still no concrete evidence of an offer, but there’s got to be.

Apparently he will actually only have 2 years of eligibility. Not really sure why G League years would count against eligibility but junior college years don’t. But the pretzel logic of this stuff now is pretty incomprehensible. That’s why I’m continuing to advocate for age rather than years. Much simpler. Play all the ball you can until you’re 24. When you’re 25 you’re done.

https://x.com/DianeArafan1/status/1980322079666008214 Pics from the visit

I’m only semi-kidding when I say I’m waiting for the 1st NBA-College trade. Since Jaland Lowe is hurt UK trades Jasper Johnson and a McDonald’s All American to be named later to the Pelicans for Jeremiah Fears. Something like that is inevitable.

Well, this one’s kind of wild. Louisville takes a commitment for ‘26 from G League Ignite PG London Johnson. He was originally a ‘23 from the Atlanta area and had an IU offer from Ya. He’s 21 but will have full eligibility. Apparently he’s hitting campus in January and redshirting, so I suppose he’s technically a ‘25.

The kid shot 45% on almost 8 attempts a game last year. You might want to give it a minute.