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I would think that adding a GM from the NBA to the roster at IU would be shooting for challenging for a NC? This seems like…? i could be happy though with true dogs that leave blood sweat and tears out on every floor.

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It didn’t say

Lettuce said Wang got a payday

The clock is ticking..

The UConn men’s basketball teams that won the national title in 2023 and 2024 were exceptionally large and dominant in size compared to the rest of the NCAA. Both championship runs were fueled by substantial height, length, and frontcourt depth.

True, but Dusty seems to know how to get those players like Wolfe that have Big10 size/high IQ type players and have enough depth to keep them fresh enough throughout the season and it looks like he will continue that model going forward. I think it is short sighted to play one Big in this era of college basketball, especially in the B10. It's all about identifying the right players that can work for this system and be competitive in the upper tier of the league. I really do hope that all those years of experience we now have on staff will be able to navigate this and lock down a roster that we can be confident in. It's not over yet so maybe we have some hot irons in the fire for quality depth, but that comment Wayne was talking about that Rabby said we were only looking for practice players to round out the roster doesn't inspire confidence.

Michigan dominated last year because they figured out how to use Lenderborg, Mara and Johnson. Thats a better plan than using one Big in todays game as we just experienced IMO.

I concur…we just can’t wear out our bigs thru the grind of big10 season. Have to have fresh legs with not a lot of drop off.

This sounds like we we’re paying an awful lot of money for minds that should know better. Again, I hope this is not the case, but this is not serious roster construction. Manhurtz is nowhere ready physically to see anytime this year other than mop up.

hope not, but if this is the case, we are screwed next year again.

Looks like Ja'Quay is off the board to Portland State.

He and Givan would be nice.

I don’t like quiet time lol

Hard to believe there’s no rumblings of something..

My fear is that they are putting a feather in their cap for this portal haul and pretty much calling it good. Close to Non playable depth pieces will be the death of next season. Imo Dusty..Michigan figured it out pretty quickly and there is no reason we can’t do the same. It would be nice to go into one season with confidence instead of a bunch of ??? I would really like to see the staff pull in someone like Devin Williams at this late date and I would think we are starting to give ourselves a competitive edge.

These are all good points and things to hope for but if we’re going to be spending $20 million on a roster, we might as well go all the way so that we can make a deep run in the tournament and contend in the upper tier of the big. I know we’re not done yet and so this is just speculation but with what’s left, it’s not looking so great unless they pull a magic rabbit out of a hat, but one can only hope.

This is why I sure hope that we are adding some quality depth in those last three spots because if we aren’t, then our team is going to be dog tired at the end of the games like last season and I would bet that we finish middle of the pack or worse.

Thanks for filling in, I was just going off what was left on the ESPN portal tracker. Hope we get someone, somewhere, somehow..

Seems like several injuries (knee, ankle, foot and elbow)

Looks like these bigs are left in the portal: Ugnius Jarusevicius - Nebraska - 6'11 - needs a medical waiver Jordan Burks - UCF - 6'9 Aaron Bradshaw - Memphis - 7'1 Musa Sagnia - NC State - 6'10 freshman Stephen Olowoniyi - Oregon St. - 6'8

This doesn’t instill my confidence given what other top tier teams are moving on. We can’t afford to rely on these possible scenarios if we want to be relevant. Hopefully what we have invested in our GM it seems like we should be moving towards a solid roster with plenty of depth. “Depth” being the keyword. My worry is that it’s seeming to be based on a lot of “ifs” that we get the 55 deal and possibly someone like Alexis willing to come back to IU, and if that doesn’t work out, then we are left to the bargain bin.

Looking like our Bigs will be playing 40min/game

I sure hope something is in the works...the silence is defining...Alexis would be awesome and make sense if 5/5 is granted

Which leads me to wonder why we are always fussing about where player minutes are going to come from? Most kids these days don't have the drive to play extended minutes night in and night out, especially in the Big. We should have a quality back up for each of our bigs.