College Bball Thread

[Hovadipo]

Tyreke Key is transferring from Indiana State with one season of eligibility. Not that we'd have any recruiting connection, but that guy can absolutely fill it up and has been doing so for a long time in Terre Haute.

[Hovadipo]

9 minutes ago, Hovadipo said:

Tyreke Key is transferring from Indiana State with one season of eligibility. Not that we'd have any recruiting connection, but that guy can absolutely fill it up and has been doing so for a long time in Terre Haute.

May be too late for us anyway lol. From the Terre Haute Tribune Star:

Schertz wished Key well, hopes he somehow comes back, but the first-year ISU coach is unhappy about what he alleges are “people in [Key’s] ear”.

“I kind of felt it a month ago,” Schertz said when asked when he had the feeling Key might not be back for his super-senior season in 2022-23.

“The better you are as a player, the more people are trying to kind of talk to you and get involved. There’s been some people since I got here a year ago that have been in his ear consistently. Coaching is a business where you get a lot of people in it who are about the right things who have great motives, want to help kids be successful, want to compete, but certainly have their kids’ best interest at heart and want young men to be successful in life,” Schertz added.

“Because of the money involved and the way the rules are set up in the NCAA, there’s so much gray, you get an equal amount of snake-oil salesmen who are about themselves and what they can do for themselves,” Schertz continued. “In this situation, like I said, there’s been people in his ear, whether it’s a current college coach or a former college coach. At the end of the day, ultimately ‘Reke decided to come back with all of that pressure last year and he made the decision that he wasn’t coming back with the same amount of pressure.”

Schertz was asked if he could identify the parties he’s talking about. He declined to do so.

“I’m going to leave it as it is. It’s not one person, it’s people in the year I’ve been here working behind the scenes to make things difficult. That’s a part of it. At the end of the day, we have to focus on things we control. We can’t control what someone or someone’s are doing,” Schertz said.

Since Schertz cited an unnamed current college coach, he was also asked if he intended to pursue a tampering charge against the coach he referenced.

“There’s no rules on people who aren’t in college athletics. There are on those in college athletics. I’ll let our compliance staff handle that. Everybody’s certainly going to be looking at it. In today’s world? It’s so hard to prove. There’s a lot of means and mechanisms to connect with somebody,” Schertz said.

 

Key denied that there was any outside influence in his decision, apart from consultation from his family."

[MemphisHoosier]

Just pulled up Key's stats...very nice...I had no idea what the young man was pulling down in the Valley!

 

[RaceToTheTop]

3 hours ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

I believe the fat lady is warming up her vocal cords for Tom Crean at Georgia.  

UGA Athletics Launches Review of Basketball Program’s Culture Under Crean

https://www.dawgsports.com/2022/2/28/22954311/internal-probe-of-uga-mens-basketball-broadens-program-culture-tom-crean-rashaan-surles

To tie two posts together:  let's start a Tom Crean to Georgetown rumor.

[RaceToTheTop]

2 hours ago, Hovadipo said:

May be too late for us anyway lol. From the Terre Haute Tribune Star:

Schertz wished Key well, hopes he somehow comes back, but the first-year ISU coach is unhappy about what he alleges are “people in [Key’s] ear”.

“I kind of felt it a month ago,” Schertz said when asked when he had the feeling Key might not be back for his super-senior season in 2022-23.

“The better you are as a player, the more people are trying to kind of talk to you and get involved. There’s been some people since I got here a year ago that have been in his ear consistently. Coaching is a business where you get a lot of people in it who are about the right things who have great motives, want to help kids be successful, want to compete, but certainly have their kids’ best interest at heart and want young men to be successful in life,” Schertz added.

“Because of the money involved and the way the rules are set up in the NCAA, there’s so much gray, you get an equal amount of snake-oil salesmen who are about themselves and what they can do for themselves,” Schertz continued. “In this situation, like I said, there’s been people in his ear, whether it’s a current college coach or a former college coach. At the end of the day, ultimately ‘Reke decided to come back with all of that pressure last year and he made the decision that he wasn’t coming back with the same amount of pressure.”

Schertz was asked if he could identify the parties he’s talking about. He declined to do so.

“I’m going to leave it as it is. It’s not one person, it’s people in the year I’ve been here working behind the scenes to make things difficult. That’s a part of it. At the end of the day, we have to focus on things we control. We can’t control what someone or someone’s are doing,” Schertz said.

Since Schertz cited an unnamed current college coach, he was also asked if he intended to pursue a tampering charge against the coach he referenced.

“There’s no rules on people who aren’t in college athletics. There are on those in college athletics. I’ll let our compliance staff handle that. Everybody’s certainly going to be looking at it. In today’s world? It’s so hard to prove. There’s a lot of means and mechanisms to connect with somebody,” Schertz said.

 

Key denied that there was any outside influence in his decision, apart from consultation from his family."

Have to say the Indiana State coach isn't coming off to well in that piece.  Key played four years at Indiana State and tried to come back for a fifth but was sidelined with a shoulder injury.  Seems to me that he isn't willing to accept that there exists a strong possibility that Key's best interests for next year are to play somewhere else.  Doubt another year at Indiana State is going to do anything for him.

[Uspshoosier]

crazy 

[IU Scott]

6 hours ago, Stuhoo said:

As a true freshman he's 30.8% from 3pt, 73% ft, and low 40's% from 2pt fg. That's not terrible at all.

Also 14ppg ...and 8 (!) rebounds per game. For context, that rebounding number is right where Trayce and Race are ... and he's 6'5"

Kid can play.

A little additional quick research -- Bruiser Flint was his primary IU guy--when Bruiser left Kenya became the lead. If he ever hit the portal UK would probably make an immediate move on him.

Shooting in the low 40's is horrible.

[RaceToTheTop]

Crazy pointspread of the night:

18-7 San Diego State travels to 23-5 Wyoming.  San Diego State is a 1 1/2 point favorite.  Wyoming is 14-0 at home.

[RaceToTheTop]

1 hour ago, IU Scott said:

Shooting in the low 40's is horrible.

It's not good.  But Aminu Mohammed can play.  Patrick Ewing has coached that team into a train wreck, but if Aminu were to transfer you'll see how good he is.

[LIHoosier]

2 hours ago, Uspshoosier said:

crazy 

Why was it suspended in the first place? Were there COVID tests at halftime???

The only sport I usually see this happening in is baseball.

[Uspshoosier]

8 minutes ago, LIHoosier said:

Why was it suspended in the first place? Were there COVID tests at halftime???

The only sport I usually see this happening in is baseball.

Unsafe conditions on the court I think 

[woodenshoemanHoosierfan]

Looks like Kenny Payne is the front runner

 

https://thespun.com/college-hoops/theres-reportedly-1-favorite-for-the-louisville-job

 

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[Uspshoosier]

Cuse/North Carolina tied with 4 min to go 

[Uspshoosier]

Iowa up 19 at half over Northwestern.  

[Uspshoosier]

9 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

Cuse/North Carolina tied with 4 min to go 

Cuse up 1 with 15 sec to go.   

[Uspshoosier]

Just now, Uspshoosier said:

Cuse up 1 with 15 sec to go.   

Cuse turned it over trying to go up 3 now they need a stop 

[Uspshoosier]

2 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

Cuse turned it over trying to go up 3 now they need a stop 

Love buries a 3 and then Girrad comes down and hits a 2 to tie it back up with 1.4 to go 

[Uspshoosier]

Just now, Uspshoosier said:

Love buries a 3 and then Girrad comes down and hits a 2 to tie it back up with 1.4 to go 

OT

[Uspshoosier]

4 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

OT

Cuse is done.  Down 8 with 3 min to go 

[IU Scott]

8 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

Cuse turned it over trying to go up 3 now they need a stop 

Syracuse last possession was horrible.  Just let Buddy dribble the clock out until about 7 seconds to go on the shot clock. Ball got knocked out of bounds and had to take the ball out of bounds.  Just don't understand why coaches don't ruin plays at the end of the game instead of going one on one.