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It's a fair write up, like I said will be in the thick of it. I do think that writer is overrating Maryland, USC and Indiana, but I will acknowledge if it comes to get her with any of those teams they can be very good. I also think he is underrating UCLA and Iowa a bit, throw in Nebby, Wisconsin, Ohio State and Purdue, I think we are part of a ten team group that will be pretty close in the standingsWay-too-early Big Ten basketball tiers: Michigan, Illinois, Michigan State primed to shine in 2026-27
An early look at each Big Ten team after the NBA Draft stay-or-go deadline and weeks of transfer portal combat
Trotter is pretty good. Lots of roster info and projected lineups.
Would be interesting to see this same story from like 5 years ago or before the portal really exploded. Guessing the lists would be a whole lot shorter in general. Crazy to see the amount of player movement now.
I just randomly picked the 2017-18 Gopher roster:
Jarvis never suited up, Rudrud and Conroy were walk ons, but seven guys who got legit run at different times in their tenures. Jamie Harris was also on that team, he put up some big numbers at American and had a decent senior year at Seton Hall. Isiah Washington ironically finished his career at Long Beach playing for Monson after papa Pitino took the Iona job. Crazy it was only eight years ago and how many injuries that roster had.
Jamir (probably an autocorrect deal) had some promise as a freshman but had a long row to hoe to make it as a B1G player
I agree but he had a better chance than jellyfam because he could shoot, I think in Harris' case once Gabe K committed, Willis and Carr transferred in, we also had the weird Geno Crandell saga, I think Harris saw the writing on the wall, plus kimani Young recruited and he left for UCONN the same off season Ben left for Xavier. Kimani has had quite the run as Hurley 's number two
Even though Washington couldn't shoot, he still could've been a really good B1G guard. He just didn't have the motor or desire for it, which is unfortunate. Think of the season Reynolds had last year, and I think Washington had a higher ceiling if he'd have figured out the effort it takes and the willingness to give it. He wasn't as big obviously, but he had better handles and hopefully would've had fewer head scratching turnovers.
I will say Washington could break any full court press with ease, he also might be the only guy who could win a dunk contest without dunking