Maryland has a few bit players heading out as well - Noah Batchelor (already committed to Buffalo), Jahnathan Lamothe, and Caelum Swanton-Rodger. Similar to the non-Clary PSU exits, none are impact guys, but I mention them for completion's sake.
OU may feel like, if they're going to increase basketball NIL, they can find a better coach to give it to. Moser's going to make the Dance this year but his first two years there were not great; I can definitely see OU telling him "If you want to leave, there's the door" and thinking they can...
Jacksonville knocked off top seed Eastern Kentucky in that ASUN tourney tonight too, which leaves Treyton Thompson's Stetson Hatters as the highest remaining seed. (ASUN reseeds every round, so they get Jacksonville on Thursday night.)
Ty Berry (one of their original starting wings) is definitely out for the year. Ryan Langborg (another starting wing) has missed a couple games; Collins claimed after the Iowa game that if it was a tournament-style scenario, he could've played.
Matt Nicholson (their starting 5) had some kind of...
I'm excited for the Christie-Mgbako matchup here. Mgbako has been coming on to make a case as one of the top 3 freshmen in the league with Cam and Owen Freeman, and unlike when either the Gophers or IU play Iowa, Cam and Mgbako are probably going to match up directly with each other quite a bit.
Obviously not super likely to shake out this way, but it struck me that New Mexico vs Virginia would be some kind of First Four matchup - the fastest and the slowest adjusted tempos (via Torvik) that are projected in the field (UVA is, true to form, the slowest in the nation and none of the...
Chance to play spoiler is right - next 3 are at Northwestern, Michigan State at home, at Nebraska - PSU's opponents really need each one of those. Gotta give Rhoades a little credit hanging in at .500 in the league at this point with a Year Zero-style roster.