"Just as Good?" No. Boswell is the much better player with more upside. The important numbers...shot percentages and assist to turnover ratio for Rice...they are downright ugly. Heaven knows why this message board guy is so enamored with him. Once Boswell dials in his nutrition and gets Fletched up, I think we'll see even greater improvement than we did from freshman to sophomore year from him. We are getting the guy with far more potential who will make our team much better in the long run than Rice will make Indiana.
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I was just gonna remind you about a few predictions you made last summer based on how the recruiting/portal was looking
Just giving ya a hard time, this stuff all makes me want to puke too, but I have faith we will have good players as we've had a large number of guys over the past 5 years basically sail over the expectations I had for them
Govoner Vaugn Fan
- New Orleans
Not yet. This is the next brother who is a 2027
Is Sean reading our board? How else would he get this inside information?
Any shot at this one or is he following Cal?
Purdue
Braden Smith (12.2 PPG)
Fletcher Loyer (10.6 PPG)
Camden Heide (3.4 PPG)
Trey Kaufman-Renn (6.4 PPG)
Caleb Furst (2.2 PPG)
Maryland
Ja'Kobi Gillespie (17.2 PPG at Belmont)
Rodney Rice (7.4 PPG at Virginia Tech)
DeShawn Harris-Smith (7.3 PPG)
Julian Reese (13.7 PPG)
Derik Queen (No. 10 in ESPN 100)
UCLA
Dylan Andrews (12.9 PPG)
Sebastian Mack (12.1 PPG)
Kobe Johnson (10.9 PPG at USC)
Lazar Stefanovic (11.5 PPG)
Berke Buyuktuncel (4.5 PPG)
Currently the number 1 ranked team in the transfer portal
Rutgers
Dylan Harper (No. 3 in ESPN 100)
Jeremiah Williams (12.2 PPG)
Tyson Acuff (21.7 PPG at Eastern Michigan)
Ace Bailey (No. 2 in ESPN 100)
Emmanuel Ogbole (2.1 PPG)
Wisconsin
Chucky Hepburn (9.2 PPG)
John Blackwell (8.0 PPG)
Max Klesmit (9.9 PPG)
Carter Gilmore (1.8 PPG)
Steven Crowl (11.2 PPG)
If Indiana lands 3 of the top 15 transfers as it's looking like they will. You can put them in this list too. Not even Mike Woodson could mess that up
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Its not just schools or coaches. Disinformation, feeding "insiders", happens in all types of political and social circles.
Haha, I'm you. I'll eat crow about last year.I was just gonna remind you about a few predictions you made last summer based on how the recruiting/portal was looking
Just giving ya a hard time, this stuff all makes me want to puke too, but I have faith we will have good players as we've had a large number of guys over the past 5 years basically sail over the expectations I had for them
I do have faith in Brad. He'll figure it out. I think Boswell will be out best PG since Dee. Everyone is talking about his performance sliding during the tournament but I think you can blame coaching and being on a Caleb Love team for destroying morale.
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ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
OK that's 5 of 18.
Minnesota will be better than Maryland or Rutgers too if they reassemble, but that's 6.
We'll be in this mix somewhere.
Maryland lost 3 of their top 5 scorers and weren't good to begin with. Wisconsin lost 2 of their top 3 scorers, and Rutgers lost 7 of their top 8 scorers and are counting on freshman which as we've seen recently isn't a solution in today's college basketball.
None of those teams has a better coach nor the track record except Wisconsin of finishing in the top 4 of the conference.
Tell me you aren't reaching without telling me you aren't reaching
Man, if Boswell is better than upper-classman Demetri we gonna be a'ight.
Bottom half of the B10 is 10th place or worse and you named 5 teams (which we would absolutely compete with). Bottom half of the B10 is a joke. We would be a LOCK for top half.
ChiefGritty
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This will be the last offseason in which anyone forgets the LA schools in this conversation, for the record
You are out of your damn mind!!! I wish you would transfer to a mid-major with your lack of knowledge
With totally different expectations. This would be a rebuild.
Not at all. They're not putting all their eggs in one basket this time and they're not gonna wait on him like they did RayJ
Noblesville Illini
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Not bad money for a guy with no left hand. Can you imagine the NIL if he had two hands?
ginabackes00
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In the end, missing out on him wasn't as devastating as some thought it would be.
Boswell is still 18. Harris is two years older than him. Boswell was on almost all draft boards up until tournament time. He was the starting PG for a top 10 team. He'll be better than Demetri when all is done.
Or his agent.
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