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Actually, NCAA tournament is more uncertain because you are dealing with a smaller number of teams in FBS football, football conferences have tie ins to particular bowls, and a larger percentage of FBS football teams make playoffs and bowls than D1 basketball teams make the NCAA tournament...

Well, what else can you be proud of if you live in Alabama, Louisiana, or Mississippi?

The WR group looks like the deepest in Fleck's tenure anyway. I don't have any thoughts on this year's offensive line other than hoping it's better than the last few years but Fleck certainly appears to have loaded up on defensive linemen. The defensive line was the best component of the team...

Yes, I saw that posted in various places. I think it hadn't been mentioned here because, as of yesterday, the commitment still didn't show up on either 247 or On3's portal trackers. This one stings because Rhode Island is the same place where Cochran went (and had a good season) after spending...

Good post! 1) Not in those exact words, more by way of accentuating one similarity between them: Tyson took a dip at UNC and Evans took a dip at UNC. Tyson was an accomplished scorer in both of his years at Belmont though and was the league's rookie of the year as a freshman and 2nd team as a...

1) "Roll the dice on high upside guys" is a plausible interpretation. After the first three commits, I sensed that Niko was using the portal with an eye toward future year contributions more than immediate year contributions. He may also believe (correctly I would say) that he has a long...

Michigan State doesn't rely much on the portal either but they recruit enough blue bloods that they probably don't have to do that.

I don't remember anyone saying that last season. Don't make up stuff. I can assure you that I never said that about Tyson. In fact, I didn't say that about any of Niko's portal recruits last season, not even Turner. My concern for this offseason is that we lost two very significant players...

Ridiculous comparison. Tyson was a double figure scorer in his first two seasons at Belmont (a pretty good mid-major program) and earned All-League honors both seasons.

I was very happy by Tyson's commit. In fact, I posted here that I thought he was about as good of a pickup as we could have hoped for at that time of the summer. I also thought Reynolds was a good bet since he was first team All Big Sky. I figure that if a player is one of the most elite...

Look, I watched the entire season (almost anyway, I missed a game or two). There's no question that when his scheme was working, it was a thing of beauty. But, I'm going to throw out a quote from one of the most venerable coaches in college basketball history, Dean Smith, who reflected back on...

Frankly, I don't know how anyone could be "sold" on it. With the exception of Evans who does have a collegiate record of some accomplishments, these portal acquisitions are all "potential" and Evans' history doesn't scream "star."

This was a player I was really hoping the Gophers would look at. He's turnover prone but does a lot of things well. He and Gavin Sykes (Long Beach State to TCU) were listed right next to each other on 247 commits today. Sykes was second in the Big West conference in scoring average as a...

I think "terrible" is a bit of an overstatement. Here is Austin Hollins' Effective Field Goal Percentage as a freshman: 45.9% That's not "good." According to AI, the average Effective Field Goal Percentage "hovers around 50% to 52%." On the other hand, here are the Effective Field Goal...

I don't know if that's right but I can't say definitively that it's wrong either.

No. He might get a summer league invite though.

There are some proposed rules floating around out there that would allow players to play 5 seasons over 5 years. There was a possibility (albeit slim) of the same thing last season. These players are entering the portal on the chance that standard is enacted. I sure hope the years of...

There are quite a few players who have already played 4 years who have entered the portal in the last few days. Same thing happened last offseason.

I wouldn't call him a "stiff." 8.2 points per game and 9.2 rebounds per game in only 23 minutes per game. Player Efficiency Rating of 20.7 this past season (5th in the conference).

Matas. We already have Bruns types on the roster although they don't have his record of collegiate accomplishments. Plus Bruns appears to have been hurt as he didn't play after mid-January. We had bad luck with that sort of thing last year.