RaceToTheTop

Other signees today: Syzmon Zapala (Longwood), 7'0", signed with Michigan State. One year of elibility. Averaged 9.8 points and 5.6 rebounds in just 16.7 minutes at Longwood, but prior to that played three years at Utah State and scored only 53 total points three seasons. Mohamed Wague (Alabama), 6'10", committed to Oklahoma. Third team in three years, played at West Virginia as a freshman and then Alabama last year. Bit player but in the rotation at both places, averaging 9.5 minutes, 3.6 points, and 2.8 rebounds over two seasons. Kasean Pryor (South Florida), 6'10" forward, commits to Louisville. After doing absolutely nothing Boise State for two seasons, went back and played JUCO and then transferred to South Florida and had a breakout year. Good pickup. Averaged 13 points and 7.9 rebounds. Solid outsider shooter as well, making 37 of 105 threes (35%). Other note -- Ashton Hardaway transferred away from Memphis and his dad and committed to St. Mary's. Played in 30 games at Memphis averaging 8.3 minutes and 2.3 points, mostly as a stretch forward.

He's not. Most say he should go by Pretty Good Osomor and not Great Osomor. He's a solid player but not a guy who should be at the top of NIL. 247 ranked him as the 7th best player in the portal, On3 had him 15th.

I believe that if the head coach departs a program (Pope left for Kentucky) that players on the team have thirty days to enter the portal, so that extended his time.

You make an unmanageably large conference schedule you won’t get rid of the Florida Gulf Coast and Army games that teams schedule. Teams will keep those games on the schedule and remove the difficult non-conference games they are currently playing. AD’s aren’t stupid. They aren’t going to schedule themselves out of an NCAA berth.

No, no, no, no and no.

I believe he sat one semester at IU. His father died in November of 2020 shortly before his junior season was to be begin. He decided against playing that year and transferred to IU to start the second semester, I believe. But that was when Miller was still the coach.

To be fair, Miller IMO wouldn’t have had donors stepping up to fill the coffers for him. Woodson does have some support because of his past ties to Indiana. Miller didn’t have that nor did he have the personality to make up for that.

Plug for my cousin's husband's book: Soundtrack of Silence: Love, Loss and a Playlist for Life. His name is Matt Hay -- he attended IU and is still a very huge IU basketball fan. It's a biography about his time at IU as he developed neurofibromatosis 2, a condition which caused tumors to grow on the nerves that transmit sound to his brain. It is being optioned into a movie -- when it was first pitched as a movie, Channing Tatum was set to take the role as Matt but it was delayed and the production company decided that it should be released first as a biography and then as a film, so Tatum likely is too old to play the part at this point I would think.

I've been in South Carolina all week for my daughter's wedding so have been in and out of the message board but haven't been reading as much of the posts. Who has had info on a Hatton visit?

But other than the Branham crystal ball, what is the suspicion that he'll be there in the next couple of days if he's not already there based on? At this point we haven't heard of a visit date, only that a date hasn't been worked out.

i do wonder is reaching out to Mohammed is a sign that Hatton isn’t as close to being a Hoosier as was thought. Seems like some radio silence there, although seems to a lot of silence on Hatton in general. I thought he visited Minnesota some time ago but could be wrong, but I know the Gophers signed a different big after I thought Hatton visited.

Maybe, but if minutes on the court were his number one factor he could return to UT Martin or would have already signed with another low major. Guys still in the portal now are likely reevaluating their wants.

I wouldn’t be concerned about the amount that of movement a player with one year of eligibility has had.

30 minutes at UT-Martin and 24 minutes at New Mexico State really doesn’t translate into big minutes at a P5.

Webster’s dictionary says a journeyman is a worker or sports player who is reliable but not outstanding. there are a hell of a lot worse things to be called than reliable.