steubenhoosier

Omaha Biliew 5 star PF and 13th ranked recruit in 2023 has entered the portal. Don't know what's going on with Iowa State, but they have 4 guys that have entered the portal since being eliminated. These guys getting recruited over, or is there an issue with the coach?

Didn't someone post a few pages back that only about 30 guys have committed who entered the portal? Maybe it was in the transfer portal thread. Not yet time to be concerned. After the games this weekend, there may be more guys entering. Iowa State for one just had some guys enter.

Agree. And his shooting percentage was a function of his having to handle the ball so much as well as having to guard the opposing team’s best player. Take some of that load off his shoulders and I bet his shooting numbers get closer to what 2 years ago was

Fair enough

You mean v Chuck Barkley?

The goalposts never moved to thugs and drug dealers. They were always there. Sampson recruited guys with sketchy backgrounds and did nothing to monitor, police, or otherwise correct the problems. These didn't just crop up once he was let go.

And that was my point completely. We had pot dealers, pot smokers, and pot throwers… so pretty much covered the spectrum there. We had guys who had no interest going to class. For people who defend Sampson and use the excuse that everyone else was doing it, or his discretions aren’t illegal anymore… He was the head of the Rules Committee while at Oklahoma. He got busted for breaking the rules there. He knew the rules. There were no ambiguities, or at least shouldn’t have been. Yep, pot is much more accepted now. Yep, the phone rules were changed. However that’s in hindsight. He didn’t function properly under the rules as they were at the time.

So, those guys represented the candy stripes well in your opinion?

Whenever I watch a Sampson team play I am reminded of the thugs that Eric Gordon and DJ White were surrounded by

They didn’t even go to Steratore for comment on the Edey mauling of Nembhard. I think the powers that be really want Painter to get to the FF.

Go Zags!

Nothing to be ashamed of. Played their hearts out. I will be surprised if S Carolina has another game as close as this one

Is the guy from Evansville anything like the Alabama big that transferred from S Dakota State? If close, he would be a great addition

got it

Per 24/7 Storr has committed to Illinois already. Pharrell Payne from Minnesota is in the portal.

Realize that this is a woman’s topic but posted here for better visibility… Big 3 offering Caitlin Clark $5 million. I don’t follow the WNBA but wonder how that compares to the highest contracts in the league

If we bring in some shooters… and I know that’s a big if, Trey doesn’t need to be what he was 2 years ago. Just somewhere in between that and this past year. Let him drive and dish as he did this year and be the interim until that new PG finds his place

I think people don’t give credence to the idea that guys get better. That what we saw this year is not going to be the same next year. Case in point… I don’t think Galloway forgot how to shoot this past season. I think he was asked to do so much more in handling the ball and guarding the best player on the opposing team. Ease his responsibilities and maybe he gets back to where he was two years ago. MR made a big jump. Why wouldn’t he continue to work to improve? Cupps the same. Mbako made a huge jump from the beginning of the season to the end. If he comes back, I would expect further improvement. Other teams will improve as well, but our guys aren’t going to be stagnant

Really. You just can’t respond without a dig.

There are more than 16 teams left though, if you count the NIT and some of the lesser tournaments. Could be some candidates from those teams as well

Nothing on either CBS Sports or ESPN. Definitely fake

Cooking could mean that now that OSU lost, Thornton is available

His dad just took the W. Virginia job. Don’t you think he’ll follow?

Don’t usually have any information way up here but was talking to someone today who knows both families. Luke Goode already has his degree from Illinois and is good friends with Furst. Story is that they are both going to finish their careers playing for Shrewsbury at ND