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Miami PG Divine Ugochukwu to Michigan St. Former ‘23 top 100 recruit who played a fair bit for Miami last year. Interesting choice by Izzo. MSU’s biggest issues last year were they couldn’t shoot and didn’t take great care of the ball and Ugochukwu’s a penetrator and straight up non-shooter who’s sort of wild. But he’s young and a hell of an athlete.

Boogie Fland is visiting Florida this week. That fit is entirely too good.

Apparently the staff watched Greenville, TN top 50 ‘26 PF Trey Thompson yesterday. Has been a priority PU target for a while.

https://www.crimsonquarry.com/2025/5/12/24427549/im-gonna-show-em-tayton-conerways-drive-brings-him-to-indiana-mens-basketball Nice little background piece on Conerway. Explains some of why when you watch him play the giant chip in his shoulder is so glaring. Easy kid to root for.

Taking an official 6/17-18, per Rabby.

Watch, he’s gonna go out next year and average 17 or so on decent splits and he’ll be a pretty hot portal commodity after testing the draft process who plays his senior year at someplace like maybe Ga Tech and ends up a top 3 option on a tournament team. And after having 3 good college seasons the $64 question is gonna be what the hell happened at IU?

https://www.thedailyhoosier.com/iu-will-have-some-of-the-highest-paid-assistants-in-college-basketball/ Not like we didn’t know this, but they stepped up pretty good on the staff.

https://247sports.com/college/indiana/article/nationally-ranked-2027-point-guard-chase-branham-planning-to-visit-indiana-on-thursday-249834254/ On campus now, per Rabby.

Baba Miller to Cincinnati

Fwiw, which I doubt is much.

Absolutely, and I’m not sure even a lot of Pacers fans have an appropriate appreciation for just how good that guy is. SGA and Doncic are in another tier, but after those 2 I wouldn’t take any other PG in the League to run my team over that guy. Not 1. To get the ball to the right guy in the right spot over and over as efficiently as he does, unbelievable. Different player, but he’s borderline prime Chris Paul as a QB. And because he does, everybody runs, everybody gets to spots because they know he’s gonna create and find them. Oh, and then he just freaking makes shots. No disrespect to Sabonis or De’Aaron Fox, but how did Sacramento misread what they had so badly?

Yup. Terrible luck for a kid I’ve never heard a bad word from annyone about. Will say this, his game to isn’t tied to his athleticism, so I like his chances to get all the way back.

Wow. If you’re inclined toward the conspiratorial, a sequence of the Mavs gifting Doncic to the Lakers for 50 cents on the dollar followed by them then hitting the 50-1 shot for Cooper Flagg, is about as tidy a fix as is imaginable. I’m not, but, man, that is just so bad.

Ante Brzovic lost his court case for eligibility next year. Dude’s about to turn 25. Ok by me.

Mgbako and Tamar Bates both with the call up to the NBA Combine. Good for the young men.

Good for the young man. Best of luck on his career path.

Forgot about him. Would assume so.

Transferring to La Lumiere. No indication IU still involved here, but for the sake of completeness.

Someone came across my feed this morning straight out of her mind over apparently losing her family tickets of 30 years and being bumped up a pretty good ways. Curious, just how much did season tickets go up this year?

EYBL has their $hit together in a way none of the other circuits are even dreaming of yet.

Hey, Old Fart, I’m trying to put together a trip over to KC for the EYBL event Memorial Day weekend. In addition to who you’ve already noted above the new offerrees playing there would be Kinney, Taylor, Moody, Smith and Gaskins. Is that correct or am I missing someone? I feel like I am.

https://x.com/TheFieldOf68/status/1920856291393892491 Dauster’s thoughts on this year’s team right now. He is exactly where I am. Wilkerson was my favorite guy in the portal before IU was even on him. Love him. Would be willing to bet that he and Devries will be the highest scoring duo in the B1G this year.

Kenny’s pitching offers.

Smith’s an interesting case. I watched a fair amount of him as a freshman and didn’t love him as much as most because I had him pegged as an early maturer because he looked 3 years ahead of his class physically. Turns out he wasn’t, he’s just a straight physical freak. Kid’s 17 and got the body and athleticism of a grown man.

Feels like a very late offer for a kid who’s been near the top of his class for a couple of cycles. But Kenny Johnson is a Team Takeover guy and obviously thinks he can get a visit.