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Their rise this season is not that stunning. Of their top six players, five are holdovers from a team that finished 23-13, won the NIT, and was ranked #33 by Sports Reference's quantitative index and #35 by Sagarin at the end of the season. 5 of their top 6 players are seniors with two of them...

In principle, I more or less agree with the views you state here although I think Johnson owes Ihnen a little extra as he was the only returning player who stuck around when he was hired (if you don't count Curry who pretty much "unretired" for one final season). Under the current...

Too early. I wouldn't expect anything for at least a week, maybe two.

My guess is that Ben has shared with his targets the fact that he needs and intends to recruit multiple guards from the transfer portal. It would be idiotic to attempt to keep something like that a secret. As far as your other concerns, I have no comment since you and a bunch of other tedious...

I wonder if someone bothered to tell him early in his tenure that no coach has ever been fired because the 12th man on the team wasn't happy but many coaches have been fired due to poor performance caused in part by lack of quality depth.

If they lose soon, we should know shortly if he enters the portal.

So, let me get this straight. Some high schooler is going to say "I'm not going there! They took a transfer from Quinnipiac for Christ sake!" My guess is that few high schoolers outside of New England & NY even know what a "Quinnipiac" is. The university is best known for their political...

Hey, newsflash: You're not in charge! Academics apparently does matter to this university. That why Coyle specifically mentioned it as one of the "Five Pillars" at a recent press conference. Fleck regularly touts the academic progress of the football team. Prior to the recent team...

Agreed

The problem in that season wasn't with those five. The problem was that we had a terrible front court with the best player being a physically limited Curry.

You can't control when players commit and the order of commitment doesn't clearly indicate the priority.

He played in 29 of SD's 31 games this year though and averaged 27.6 minutes per game. He performed reasonably well by the numbers at least. He was out the entire previous season.

Sure, but a Cinderella that develops into a perennial powerhouse is no longer a Cinderella. They've progressed into a target of fan hatred just like a Duke

Firing a coach after three losing seasons at least would be consistent with the treatment Iowa gave to Todd Lickliter and Rutgers gave to Eddie Jordan so I wouldn't say that's unfair. Nebraska didn't fire Hoiberg after three losing seasons and still didn't fire him after a fourth season of only...

Good observations. I've never looked at that: good rebounding small guards so maybe I'll start looking a little closer at that. I'm fine with him being recruited as one of three transfer guards.. He played for a small school conference but he was second team all conference so he's unlikely to...

We might be able to land 4 star transfers but they'd likely be ones who haven't played like four star players. There are more than a few of those too.

He'd probably be all right for a second point. I think I'd prefer the son of the women's basketball coach though.

Conference USA has had quite a postseason for a mid-major. 1st place Florida Atlantic is in the Final Eight. 2nd and 3rd place teams (North Texas and UAB) are in the final four of the NIT. 5th place team (Charlotte) won the CBI.

Gonzaga is different. They're not Florida Atlantic. They're a perennial powerhouse. Ranked in the AP top 25 at seasons end in 15 out of the last 20 seasons. 11 of those 15 have been Top 10.

I looked at that thread. I said he was an important addition as a backup point guard. That was true to the extent that we needed one and I didn't know that much about him. So now you're looking through past threads to uncover my previous comments? Are you obsessed with me? Get a life...