RaceToTheTop

A.J. Storr may drive Chris Beard to drink....more.

Enright, G Wilkerson, G DeVrie, F Sisley, F Bailey, F/C Current roster.

Looks like my thought that Wilkerson didn't want to tell UK 'no' to them while on their campus turned out to likely be correct. Also think we can put to rest the 'if a guy leaves campus without a commitment, he isn't committing'.

General feeling over at Rupp Rafters is that it sucks to not get him.

To be fair, Reed Bailey also has some big boys wanting him. Might not have been at the same level, but Kentucky contacted Bailey.

I'm going to put it at 2.5.....so two guys and an Archie Miller sized person.

Conerway is a player I would like to see play for IU. He's an imperfect player -- really funky jump shot -- but has a lot of toughness that gets him to the rim on offense + he's a bulldog on defense.

Rabby just confirmed that Original Sin may or may not be a good watch, could go either way.

One random doesn’t mean anything thought…..if Wilkerson left without committing but narrowed it to IU and Kentucky, perhaps he didn’t want to give them a no to their face.

Oh great, another one of these posters.

Although he didn't shoot it particulary well in those games, Jasai Miles averaged 12 points and 6 rebounds against P5 competition last season (South Carolina, Georgia Tech, Georgia, Nebraska, Florida).

Dude, he covered Kentucky football and basketball for Kentucky Sports Radio and wrote a book on John Calipari.

He's probably saying 'hey guys, can you give me some information? Please?'

This is the same Aaron Torres who tweeted out Wilkerson's name as 'Lamar Wilkers'. https://x.com/Aaron_Torres/status/1911940031716942204

When looking at low/mid major guys and how well they will transfer athletically, it's always good to look at their rebounding totals. Guys that are plus rebounders at low/mid levels will translate athletically. In the case of Miles, 6.8 rebounds/game for a 6'6" kid is very nice. While he shot 34% from three, he did it on a ton of attempts (7.3 per game). While his overall shooting percentage was 42.5%, when you throw in the adjustment for threes his effective percentage was 52%. Inside the arc he shot 55%. Also has two years of eligibility left. Have to keep in mind as well that there isn't much difference between college 2's and 3's today. There is no reason that Wilkerson and Miles -- at 6'5" and 6'6" -- can't be on the floor at the same time. Always nice to have players capable of playing more than one spot. I mean, if you just go off of where a team lists a player's position then North Florida's rotation was 6 guards and 2 forwards. Miles is a small forward than can be a 2 or 3.

No, it was somebody on Twitter making a joke.

Not as bad as it would be at first glance because he was shooting 5.2 threes per game. FWIW, his shooting numbers mirror team mate Jayden Epps numbers -- Epps played at Illinois and averaged 9.5 points as a freshman.

A $500K difference for one year of college would cover a couple of full years of Europe ball.

Anyone else look at when certain poster's names pop up on a thread to see what info they have? Mack played his freshman year at Harvard and put up big numbers. Last year at Georgetown average 12.9 pts/3.6 ast/4.3 assists. Hasn't entered the portal yet, so if he does that would be interesting.

I know if it were my kid, I'd be telling him to take the bigger bag. He's only going to get one big college payday.

I feel like we are on watch right now for both Wilkerson and Conerway. As far as I've heard, Conerway doesn't have any other visits set up.

On3's Jack Pilgrim (a UK analyst) says that Wilkerson is leaving this evening and will be talking with family and weighing his decision between the two schools and will announce this week. This was posted 9 minutes ago, so I would say he isn't making a decision tonight. https://www.on3.com/teams/kentucky-wildcats/news/lamar-wilkerson-cuts-list-to-two-will-make-commitment-this-week/

Real good one enters -- and he's an all name team one: Xzayvier Brown, St. Joe's 6'2" guard. Two years eligibility left. 17.6 ppg, 5.2 rpg, 4.6 apg. Shot 42/35/90. Over two seasons has averaged 15 pts, 4.6 reb, 3.8 ast, shot 44/38/86.

This is what Evan Miya is putting at the 'valuation' of the players added via the portal, not what has actually been paid. Iowa pretty much has had a full rebuild with a lot of spots being filled by transfers from Drake. FWIW, Bennett Stirtz's valuation is off the charts (on On3, he has a valuation North of $2 million). But there is no way that Iowa paid that much......rumor was their offer to Dix was only $1 million and Iowa doesn't have big NIL. Personally, I also happen to think that Stirtz is going to show some struggles this upcoming season when he faces Big Ten competition game after game.

So is his commitment to Kentucky dead as well since he left there without committing?