Recent content by MDchicago

He ought to throw in a magic show for that price.

Expect that he will get his $2M or close to it. If we ever get to something closer to true free agency, note that the NBA market today (even with a soft salary cap) has top players making ~3x what top coaches are making. $2M for a top CBB player is still less than 40% of what top college...

Luke Goode being the exception to your exception...

Evan Maya on Richmond: "Richmond is the best transfer in the portal. His offensive value is really high, and his detensive impact Is outrageously good...." #2 on his list is also pretty good. :cool: Evan Maya notes

Interesting that OA going back to Kentucky for a couple of years ends up helping us out in the end.

Where's Samba Kane when you need him? /s Remember squinting at his film trying to convince myself he was the uber athletic rimrunner we needed. :ROFLMAO:

If I am remembering correctly, there was some sort of technical compliance/NCAA issue, played in an impermissible summer league or something like that. Looks like he sat out the first six games, first played against Missouri on December 6.

I think Snake's relatively low production his first year was more a function of lack of minutes (reflecting Lou's general preference for experience and the experienced depth on the front line that year with upperclassmen Winters, Montgomery, Welch and Meents) than his not being ready to produce...

If he is walking away from a retention payment or bonus which has not yet vested, he should be looking to his new employer to make him whole.

Interesting that Amani and Booth were ranked within 1 spot of each other (58-59) coming our of HS. RSCI Still different pros/cons for each head to head, but if Amani's position was he was heading for the portal if a quality 5 was added that makes this decision at the 4 pretty easy.

What's up with this Alabama writer's ballot for the final AP poll?? LINK Has Illinois unranked, Purdue #8, Tennessee #18, while including 4 sub-.500 teams (including Rutgers and Maryland) in his final top 25. Assumed it must have been in error (e.g., too-early ranking for next year), but no...

My top 3 reasons to be optimistic about this game are: - Our age/experience edge: We are both older and more experienced. Our KP playing time weighted years of experience (3.11) is 11th in the country and 3rd out of the Sweet 16 teams (behind UNC and Creighton). ISU's is 124th in the country...

To be fair to FedEx, it was an Emery Worldwide envelope.... with cash and a game tape sent to HS AA recruit's father that came open at the shipping processing facility. Link Then Kentucky assistant (and future NBA coach) Dwayne Casey was listed as the sender, but apparently was out of town...

Using KenPom's ranking of conferences by the AdjEM of team that's expected to go .500 in conference play, - MVC is the 10th best conference (+3.40, more than 2.5 ahead of Gonzaga's WCC) and the MAC is the 25th best conference (-6.40). Not particularly close this season. Spread between the two...