College Sports (Basketball)
How many roster spots do they have? Feels like they keep adding more and more
They lost Saint-Supery so adding Lee makes sense for them. Is this guy involved in all of the flip-flopping court decisions we've seen of late? If so, never know if he actually lands there. Seems as a kid who played 30+ games in each of his 4 seasons would be in grave danger of being ruled ineligible once again before the season begins. There's no obvious hardship or injury waiver there. Seems his situation is far from final at this point.
He’s in the California state case, so he is expected to be eligible.
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The only state cases that have been “stayed” are the Ohio and Tennessee ones (in addition to the Colorado which was a class-wide injunction).
Anyone who gained their eligibility via those cases are in danger of losing their eligibility.
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The California case certainly does not mean immunity. The TRO granted in California, just like the ones in Ohio, Tenn, Georgia, is a temporary relief order and subject to NCAA appeals. There's also precedent danger with the NCAA already successfully securing higher court stays to overturn these other athlete wins.
The Ohio/Tenn/Colorado/Georgia cases do not help his chances, they hurt it immensely.
IANAL - but I don't understand why the conferences can't come out with their own rules for eligibility like the SEC did with Bediako last year. A local court eventually denied the injunction, rendering Bediako permanently ineligible. If the conferences had bylaws that declared players ineligible if they went through the draft process and went to the courts to deny these individual injunctions it should eliminate these 5 in 5 players coming back.
The RJ Louis case is particularly blatant as he singe multiple pro contracts and was even traded in the NBA! I thought the SEC bylaws clearly make him ineligible, but LSU added him anyway?
IANAL either, but I think players can 'commit' to schools freely without consequence. Its the whole being eligible and actually being able to play in games part that actually gets litigated.
I dont think RJ LUIS is still eligible
Lendeborg to McCoy is a shooting downgrade.
Morez to Estrella is a shooting upgrade.
Mara to Thiam is a shooting upgrade.
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All technically true, but “upgrade” doesn’t really mean much in this context. Thiam is a career sub-30% three-point shooter and Estrella attempted just 10 threes last year
Yes, but it does show that if it wasn't a problem last year, then it probably won't be a problem this year either.
They arent "worse" in that department.
Morez dwarfed Estrella's FT% (78 for Morez, 63 for Estrella) and was a far more willing shooter putting up 35 threes in 40 games to Estrella 10 threes in 33 games.
Mara and Thiam both bad FT% wise (63 for Thiam, 56 for Mara), Thiam shot more threes but is under 30% in each season he's played. Unsure there's a big difference here other than neither is a good outside shooter, but Thiam is just more willing to throw up the misses than Mara was.
Estrella is definitely a worse shooter than Morez.
Morez shot 34% from 3 on 35 attempts (that's nearly 1 attempt per game).
Estrella shot just 10 threes the entire season. Most of the time he's a non shooter (but yes, did shoot 40% extremely low volume though).
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I'm going to enjoy watching Michigan half Court offense this year
How many 3’s has Estrella shot in his college career?
Oh no.
I hate this stuff man.
Really hope it’s not as bad as that looks. I can’t totally tell from the clip but kinda looks like he slips and does the splits? (Reminds me of Ayo against MSU) Hope the knee wasn’t caught up in it and it was more a scary painful fall than a true non contact.
I know the young fella dealt with a lower leg injury in high school too - but not sure the severity of that or location of it
Just a nightmare of a euro trip for Michigan
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This !!!! is infuriating to watch. Hope B1G officials don’t take the bait.
I mean look at the foul call Fears got on KJ.
Not sure where to put this...
"McCoy, a 6-foot-4 guard whom ESPN recently projected as the 23rd pick in the 2027 draft, slipped early in Michigan's win over Megabasket, a professional team in Serbia. He fell to the floor and grabbed his knees as the training staff treated him.
"When McCoy was helped off the court, it appeared that he could not put any weight on his right knee."
Michigan freshman McCoy's injury mars exhibition win in Croatia
"McCoy, a 6-foot-4 guard whom ESPN recently projected as the 23rd pick in the 2027 draft, slipped early in Michigan's win over Megabasket, a professional team in Serbia. He fell to the floor and grabbed his knees as the training staff treated him.
"When McCoy was helped off the court, it appeared that he could not put any weight on his right knee."