I know it is preseason but, as a looooong time fan, please do not let the injury bug carry over to this year. Last year was plenty bizarre. We should be healthy for a decade after last year.
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The good news is no one has pink eye.
Georgi asks who's Sky?
The 11 most important men's college basketball freshmen
Andy Katz updates his list of freshmen he expects to have the greatest impact on their teams going into the 2022-23 men's college basketball season. Duke center Dereck Lively II tops the list.www.ncaa.com
Sky made the list.
I give Izzo credit for not putting the cart before the horse.I heard Izzo still writes checks at the grocery store. Why embrace new things?
Man, I did not realize their schedule was so tough. They play one cupcake, then it's...
Gonzaga (N)
Kentucky (N)
Nova (H)
Bama (N) - first game of 3 in a Maui style tournament in Portland with a winners bracket and losers bracket, very solid tournament
Notre Dame (A)
He really wasn't kidding about starting 1-7.
Is this the part where we’re supposed to weep for the wealthy?
A little insight from Andy today.
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247 article on the team this year.
“I’m going back to my days as a junior college coach in terms of putting this team together,” Underwood said. “We’re going to be a different team as the season progresses because we haven’t been together before. We’ve seen that already — we’re a much different team now than we were the first day of practice. Last year — I knew what we had. This year, we’re figuring it out. But we’ve got versatility. We’ve got shooting. We’ve got a lot of really good players.”
collegehoopstoday.com
Brad Underwood: This is the best roster I've had at Illinois
Brad Underwood has led Illinois to a combined 47-17 record over the past two seasons as well as a Big Ten Tournament title in 2021 and a share of the Big Ten regular season title last year. He’s had All-Americans like Ayo Dosunmu and Kofi Cockburn that have helped elevate this program back among...
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How do you know what side to buy on?
Nice write up by Sam Vecenie over at The Athletic on Hawkins. He has him as a top 20 big in all of college basketball. He says he's expecting something like 15 and 10 from Coleman in this offense. If Hawkins averages 15 and 10, we're going to be very, very good.
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Oscar Tshiebwe, Drew Timme and the rest of the top 20 bigs in men's college basketball
So many elite big men returned to college hoops that it made life difficult for Sam Vecenie.
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Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
I’m trying to remember how I knew last year, but it WAS apparent. I might have even asked someone here (presumably a season ticket holder).
Dan
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This one goes out to Pru for all he does. Little ditty is from Travis Graf of Rivals titled, Which Team Do You Think Is Undervalued.
GRAF: Indiana is a top-10 team in the country on paper in my opinion, and it really has an argument to be ranked that high in the preseason. The Hoosiers, who are ranked No. 13, return Trayce Jackson-Davis, one of the best players in the country, and surround him with talent in the frontcourt and on the perimeter.
Xavier Johnson will be a key piece for the Hoosiers, as will Race Thompson. Miller Kopp and Tamar Bates should be good rotational pieces as well. Lastly, the Hoosiers have one of the most underrated freshmen duos in Jalen Hood-Schifino and Malik Reneau.
GRAF: Indiana is a top-10 team in the country on paper in my opinion, and it really has an argument to be ranked that high in the preseason. The Hoosiers, who are ranked No. 13, return Trayce Jackson-Davis, one of the best players in the country, and surround him with talent in the frontcourt and on the perimeter.
Xavier Johnson will be a key piece for the Hoosiers, as will Race Thompson. Miller Kopp and Tamar Bates should be good rotational pieces as well. Lastly, the Hoosiers have one of the most underrated freshmen duos in Jalen Hood-Schifino and Malik Reneau.
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
Another day , another idiotic statement to ponder..........................I usually ponder about more interesting topics.................
and enjoy this ponderation greatly , as she is definitely ponderlicious......................................
I just don't understand the infatuation with a dim-witted , unhustling doofus loosier like TJD...........He is always a step slow and looks like his brain is having trouble staying up with the fast pace of today's college game ..........
Well , to each his own ,,,,,Opinions are like rear ends , everyone's got one ,,,,,,,I have a lot of confidence that TJD will again fail to live up to the blusterous praise heaped on his meager abilities and be lucky to get in to the dance as was the case last year.........
JMHO...................................
I hate loosier's.................................I really really do....................
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