RaceToTheTop

BTW, making the rounds around Wisky social media this morning even prior to Hepburn announcing he was leaving was that Michigan State was trying to poach him.

So if he goes to a guard poor power 5 team that had an injured starter, he'd get more time? I'm not sure he's going to find many of those. What is funny is that there is a team that has now seen two starting guards enter the portal that he should get more time at than last year -- Wisconsin. Storr is at Kansas and Hepburn is in the portal. Rumor is that Hepburn will be looking at Michigan State.

If he goes to anyone P5, he will be walking in the situation he left. Unless he goes to DePaul.

I believe he considered Auburn, but I think IU was the frontrunner from the beginning.

Portal season has its highs and lows -- news comes quick and there we wait. I'm surprised this thread hasn't been derailed by Avengers movies prior to this.

Maybe -- will see in the coming days. He gave some info on the hacking of his account. The tweets that were being removed weren't even all that revealing, just seemed to be kind of random ones.

Thanks, went there and saw that now.

Essegian is one I would worry about -- didn't even know about him visiting until the day of his visit. If he signs, great, he's a shooter and a great reclamation project. If not, you look for someone similar to him.

Haven't seen anything this morning. That said, the Ballo commitment didn't get released quickly. Staff I am sure all know whether Essegian is committed or not, so nothing we can do but wait. Malone coming in today, Carlyle on Saturday. Haven't heard about Williams visit being cancelled but am assuming he would cancel.

Don't know what's going on with Tyme's account -- he had mentioned some time yesterday that he made tweets in the morning and they were deleted, not by him. He had some tweets yesterday as well, mostly in regard to Essegian that looked to be deleted now as well. Have no reason to believe that he is deleting them himself but it looks like someone is reporting his tweets and they are getting blocked. While I don't like his harping on other 'media' not knowing what is really going at IU, I certainly haven't seen anything he has tweeted that is ban worthy.

True, but Riley Monix of Morehead State was an NAIA player of the year I believe in 23 and he was a stud at Morehead State last year. I think it's a bigger issue if a player is simply more athletic than his NAIA counterparts which is how they score. Malone certainly was bigger, but the fact that he can shoot it as well IMO says he also did it with some skills.

I would not think that it is 'along with'. Also, is there even anything saying that Walker was on an official visit? With the little 5 this weekend, he could simply be there for the show. Assumption is that Carlyle is committing this weekend. Assuming that is the case, I can't see that both Essegian AND Walker would be on the roster. That would mean that IU would have Rice, Carlyle, Galloway, Leal, Cupps, Newton, Essegian or Walker. Obviously you can play some three guard lineups but if you have both Essegian and Walker, that's 8 guards.

FWIW, went to a Wisconsin board to see if they were posting about Essegian (they weren't but they aren't as active there). Did read that the belief there is that Wisky has $2.5 million in NIL, so under half of what IU has. That said, I don't want to compare our football NIL to theirs.

Portal is a bad thing for the NCAA. But damn it makes for an interesting off season.

Spring so time to start the thread up again. I developed golfer's elbow last year. Kind of thing that can linger for a long time. Been playing with a compression sleeve and have cut my swing back -- if I extend my elbow with too much force can start the pain pretty quickly. Honestly, the golfer's elbow has been the best thing to happen to my golf game in years. Playing more 'old man golf' -- not trying to crush the ball, putting it consistently in pretty good positions and taking my medicine when I am in poor position to avoid big scores. I'd been running a handicap of around 20 the last few years -- lowest I ever had was an 11 about 25 years ago -- and am currently am at a 13. Put up back to back 82 - 83 earlier this year which is great for me.

Anyway, Essegian commitment tomorrow morning? Would be a nice video to see. Add Malone and hold onto the last scholly as a break glass in case of emergency?

I've basically called it quits on it. Gave it my best shot and just reached dead ends. Will probably keep reading what he posts on twitter because if you muddle through the insults of what other insiders have said, what he has posted has been pretty accurate.

Bottom line right now is that while he continues in a style that is very abrasive and focused on calling others out, he has pretty accurate info. It wasn't ever the information that he offered here that was the issue. It was the pounding to death of it and lack of people skills that were the issue.

Gabe Cupps is the ultimate Hoosier.....kid recruits other players even if they would take playing time from him.

Pm being sent

Okay, maybe instead of FWIW I should have said FWIW

FWIW, Tyme basically said that it's done.

Any link?

Drew Thelwell (Morehead State) commits to Iowa. Perhaps their Perkins replacement -- doesn't play the defense Perkins does or score much, but good distributor. 10 ppg, 3.1 reb, 6.2 apg. 44/34/64 shooter. Tarris Reed of Michigan commits to U Conn. Of interest -- U Conn likely could be starting two bigs next year in Tarris Reed and Sampson Johnson. Malik Mack (Harvard) officially joins Georgetown. Nikita Kontstantynovskyi (Monmouth), 6'10" center enters. 9.3 points and 8.1 rebounds in 23 minutes. Mostly mentioned here because that last name.

Seriously….this could end him at the IndyStar. That last line…..ugh. https://x.com/ClutchPoints/status/1780681923553017878