NCAA MBB Transfer Portal

[Scotty R]

Just now, WayneFleekHoosier said:

Transfers are yet to inspire too much hope. We’ve publicly reached out to at least 3 by my count. None of them are bigs. Colored me concerned and interested, but also hopeful there is an ace or 2 up someone’s sleeve.


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Still got players from 64 teams who are still playing. Actually more than that if you count the NIT teams

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

1 minute ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

Transfers are yet to inspire too much hope. We’ve publicly reached out to at least 3 by my count. None of them are bigs. Colored me concerned and interested, but also hopeful there is an ace or 2 up someone’s sleeve.


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Bigger names (pun intended) will start popping up as teams are steadily eliminated from the season ending tournaments.

[Stuhoo]

18 minutes ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

Unfortunately, will probably still get beat by 40. 

 

3 minutes ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

Just saying, we need more guards and less dudes clogging the lane. 

I told you that FDU plays five out and bombs away and you said that equals a 40 point loss, yet you think IU has too many lane-cloggers! 

#saltysandwich

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

LCS really should consider a different screen name.

[WayneFleekHoosier]

Bigger names (pun intended) will start popping up as teams are steadily eliminated from the season ending tournaments.

For sure. Nervous energy from me because we need a few Home runs. Also genuinely curious if this NIL business will lead to some major moves.


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[Class of '66 Old Fart]

Names aren't getting out in public but coaching staffs have a good read on who the likely transfer candidates are and those that might have reciprocal interest in IU.   There are some programs that are popping up with seemingly every announcement as having "reached out".  I don't sense that's how Woody will operate.  

[RaceToTheTop]

24 minutes ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

Transfers are yet to inspire too much hope. We’ve publicly reached out to at least 3 by my count. None of them are bigs. Colored me concerned and interested, but also hopeful there is an ace or 2 up someone’s sleeve.


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Have to say right now if IU had reached out to a lot of players, people would be wondering if the staff was focusing too much on next year and not this year.  Still end of season conversations that will be made with the players we have now that could change.

[go iu bb]

1 hour ago, Scotty R said:

Still got players from 64 teams who are still playing. Actually more than that if you count the NIT teams

 

1 hour ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

Bigger names (pun intended) will start popping up as teams are steadily eliminated from the season ending tournaments.

Exactly. The players in the portal already are from bad teams.

[go iu bb]

55 minutes ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

There are some programs that are popping up with seemingly every announcement as having "reached out". 

The past couple of seasons 2 of those programs were Nebraska and Arkansas. I wonder if that trend will hold for those 2.

[Josh]

I'm sure we'll hit the transfer portal, but we also have a couple 5 stars on our team that we picked up when the coaches they committed to parted ways with the schools they were planning to attend.  There are a few different avenues to get players now and Woody has been really good at it so far.

[RaceToTheTop]

2 hours ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

Transfers are yet to inspire too much hope. We’ve publicly reached out to at least 3 by my count. None of them are bigs. Colored me concerned and interested, but also hopeful there is an ace or 2 up someone’s sleeve.


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Who are the three?  I've heard Ledlum and Timberlake but who is #3?

[WayneFleekHoosier]

Who are the three?  I've heard Ledlum and Timberlake but who is #3?

Javon Small. I took Schumann’s tweet as we would have interest. I guess re-reading it, maybe nothing.


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[Class of '66 Old Fart]

IMO I don't see Schumann randomly tweeting about kids entering the portal unless he's sensed there's some potential IU interest.  

[JSHoosier]

16 hours ago, Gnet550 said:

 

Note: his overall FG% was about 40, his 3P% was a under 35.  2P% was mid 40s as well.

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

Javon Small's stats.  Not overwhelming IMO.

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/player/stats/_/id/4781746/javon-small

[jbeaman9]

17 hours ago, Hoosierfanyuh said:

Staff had a zoom with him, want to get him on campus.

[Stuhoo]

19 minutes ago, jbeaman9 said:

Staff had a zoom with him, want to get him on campus.

• Timberlake is a very, very efficient shooter. Two straight years at over 40% from three and over 80% from the line on high volume, with high minutes, and with defenses keying on him. Videos bear it out - great, repeatable shooting form with quick release.

Forget that this is a highlight reel from this year (of course every shot goes in). Just look at the shot form and release:

• Full size, B1G ready body at 6'4", 205. 
• One year of eligibility - not optimum but would keep scholly free for loaded 2024 class. 
• Would be a two/three combo at IU.
• Damn near every P5 team nationally is reaching out to Timberlake and Ledlum. So, every P5 fanbase is speculating about fit for these two and whether they'll get a campus visit.
• Let's see if we get a campus visit. If we do, one would think one of these two is a real possibility

 

[Gnet550]

2 hours ago, Stuhoo said:

• Timberlake is a very, very efficient shooter. Two straight years at over 40% from three and over 80% from the line on high volume, with high minutes, and with defenses keying on him. Videos bear it out - great, repeatable shooting form with quick release.

Forget that this is a highlight reel from this year (of course every shot goes in). Just look at the shot form and release:

• Full size, B1G ready body at 6'4", 205. 
• One year of eligibility - not optimum but would keep scholly free for loaded 2024 class. 
• Would be a two/three combo at IU.
• Damn near every P5 team nationally is reaching out to Timberlake and Ledlum. So, every P5 fanbase is speculating about fit for these two and whether they'll get a campus visit.
• Let's see if we get a campus visit. If we do, one would think one of these two is a real possibility

 

I would put him pretty high on my list so far....nice high release, so his shot really plays bigger than 6'4" (he can get it off over taller defenders because of the high release).  It is also very repeatable, no weird hitches in it, very smooth.  If we got him and Ledlum, that would be huge...obviously a long way to go on both and there will be a lot of interest so we would do well to get one, let alone both.

[Stuhoo]

1 minute ago, Gnet550 said:

I would put him pretty high on my list so far....nice high release, so his shot really plays bigger than 6'4" (he can get it off over taller defenders because of the high release).  It is also very repeatable, no weird hitches in it, very smooth.  If we got him and Ledlum, that would be huge...obviously a long way to go on both and there will be a lot of interest so we would do well to get one, let alone both.

I would speculate that IU is looking at one guy for a portal wing and reaching out to a few qualified candidates to see which has high interest. 

Next, I would strongly suspect that we are reaching out to, or have already reached out to a priority big. Especially one that can rim protect (more than create offense).

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

Things a little rough at Toledo.

Toledo has had five players enter the transfer portal this morning…Combined, those players averaged 9.1 points per game this season.

One of them is Trey Renn-Kaufman's former teammate Kooper Jacobi.