AH1971

He’s literally at a national coaching convention that over 5,000 coaches from all levels of basketball attend. It takes place this time of year, every single year, because it signals the conclusion of the season and precisely why this dead period exists. Every big wig in D1 basketball is in Phoenix right now and anyone even remotely interested in golf is golfing this weekend. It should be noted that Woodson is likely contractually obligated to attend this event. There’s absolutely zero optics behind this unless you’re hellbent on pushing some kind of narrative. It is an absolute nothing burger.

Laughed at what? Playing golf on a Sunday morning at the F4 during a recruiting dead period at a national coaching convention that he was possibly contractually obligated to attend? If that’s humor, I suggest you get out more and live a little.

It’s a dead period right now. He’s also at a national coaching convention held during every F4 along with over 1,000 other college basketball coaches who are also probably golfing. Grow up. This is a nothing burger.

There’s 1, maybe 2 guards on the roster capable of playing 30 mpg next year. MM will get his share of minutes at the 4 as well.

The first two followed Pat Kelsey from CofC and the third is testing the NBA waters.

Might not get 2/3 of Perkins/Carlyle/Rice but yeah I think it's absolutely plausible we get some combination of Williams, Hickman or Humrichous, and then Perkins, Carlyle, or Rice.

How would we feel about this portal haul: -Amari Williams -Hickman or Humrichous -2/3 of Perkins, Carlyle, Rice Could sign Blazi as well and that put you at 12 scholarships with 1 remaining.

Jordan Pope Oregon St officially in the portal. Wasn’t he one of the names thrown out during the season that we might be connected too? Seems almost forgotten at this point.

Malik as a 5 offensively would wreak havoc on the B10. He’s almost automatic in single coverage 5 feet from the rim.

It’s the first and only school he’s visited thus far, I wouldn’t put too much stock into On3 portal projections.

Really weird landing spot for him with Bailey and Harper coming in.

Well yeah we had a national player of the year candidate and a first round draft pick at guard.

Neither Reneau or MM guarded the perimeter against Miami.

Beat me to the post. I posted his intention to transfer a few weeks ago and thought he'd be an intriguing piece for somebody. I think he plays a lot like Luke Goode, have to wonder if he's going to put his name in the portal? The amount of times Kevin Harlan mentioned Luke Goode and his uncle Trent Green (who Harlan calls football games with) from Indiana makes you wonder if he knows something....

Reneau isn't a traditional PF. He played with Ware this last season to maximize on-court talent. Our back court was atrocious last year with very little depth. Get better and deeper at the guard and wing positions and it becomes a non-issue in my opinion.

Too many people getting wrapped up in starting lineups and what not. Minute allocation and rotations, especially end of game, tell a far more significant story. I could see someone like Bryson Tucker "starting" over Trey Galloway but Trey playing significantly more minutes. If someone like Huntley-Hatfield committed, I think there's a world where both he and Reneau start the game together but don't end up playing a ton of minutes together simultaneously.

Iowa's NIL is shot in men's basketball. I've heard from a little birdie that Fran is encouraging older plays with a year of eligibility to get out of Dodge while they can. The sh*t Fran and his players get from that fan base is crazy.

That's why I think it's less and less likely he comes here. Realistically to compete in the top half or third of the B10 next year IU needs: A starting PG (Perkins) $300k A scoring 2 guard (Conwell, Blackmon, insert 50-60 other names who will enter the portal) ~$550k A defensive 5 who can play 20-25 mpg whether he starts or comes off the bench (Huntley-Hatfield) $400-500k A shooter off the bench (Hickman or Humrichous) $200-300k That would complete your rotation and leave you with 11 scholarships filled. Would allow you to sign someone like Diamant Blazi. From there you would have a million potential lineups and rotations.

I think those numbers are highly inflated. If I had to guess coming these are the figures I see coming directly from collectives: Leal--$150-200k Galloway---$200-300k Cupps---$100-150k Newton---$100k Reneau----$500-600k Mgbako----$500-600k Tucker---$500-600k I don't think Tucker was in as high of demand as many think. He was G-League bound until 2 weeks ago Iowa boards are reporting that Perkins is looking for something in the neighborhood of $300k and guys like Walker, Hickman, Blackmon, etc aren't going to command anywhere close to half a million. There's only a handful of portal players that are going to sniff high 6 figures to a million plus. I would pu IU's current allotment closer to $2million than $3million with more than half to spend.

Realize the need for home runs. But you're down 4 runs in the 9th inning. Swinging for the fences does you no good. You need base runners. And then you can swing for the fences.

Take it however you will. Perkins had the best defensive win share on that team.

Would completely disagree. Lack of volume over percentage is a much bigger concern. If you’re going to continue to play the same system, your PG can’t turn the ball over the way IU’s have under Woodson.

Put X in Iowa’s lineup with their tempo his raw turnover numbers would skyrocket given his potency to turn the ball over as suggested by his TO%.

If Cupps was a 40% 3 point shooter last year (instead of 36%) it would have meant he made 16 3 pointers over the course of the season instead of 14, assuming volume stayed the same. So to answer your question: No.

Not even remotely comparable to X when you dive deeper into the numbers. X TO% was more than double Perkins.