Recent content by cbertus6

I'd be surprised if Rooths doesn't start over Hendricks. Feels like Hendricks would make more sense coming off the bench as a multi-purpose wing, but obviously there's a lot of time between now and next season

The race feels over because the amount of game changing players that are still available are dwindling and we aren't even in on many of those. This may be our worst roster since year 2 under Moser. And to those saying we don't have the money to compete, the roster this year was at least middle...

I hear this argument all the time and, truly, do not understand it. Students that want to go to the game will go to the game. People acting like the stadium not being on campus is a huge detriment to students making it because the game is going to have to be driven to? LNC is pretty much driving...

This would obviously be nice to have, but I would question the fit with X since he also likes to have the ball in his hands running the show

The trend this offseason does seem to be athleticism and defense. So we may be seeing the overcorrection we were discussing a few weeks ago. Not a lot of shooters that we are making the lists for. Time will tell.

Not to put more work on you, but I'd be curious if you are able to isolate trends of "jumps" players make from Freshman to Sophomore year or Soph-JR and so on. Would be interesting to see how those stats project onto your average sophomore for Mingo. I know Penn St isn't very good, but...

I imagine Moser sees Rooths similar to how he viewed Jalon Moore coming over from GT. Moore's offensive numbers took a pretty sizable jump at OU. Hopefully Rooths can do the same. He is bouncy as hell, fluid, and a pretty good ball handler/distributor at his size. He's also a plus defender. I'll...

This is an absolute yes all day if he's interested. Dude can hoop

Maybe, maybe not. What it will do, though, is greatly reduce the number of players in the portal which could still lower spending if you aren't having to recruit 5-7 guys at inflated salaries and only have to bring in 2 or 3

I believe the portal closing just means you can no longer enter the portal, not that it is the last day that you can join a new school. So we should still see many commitments that take place after that date out of the portal, I'd think.

I think the most interesting thing will be what we prioritize in the portal this year. Every year there seems to be a clear theme in players we target and every year it seems to be different from the last. That's been one of my frustrations with this regime. It doesn't feel like they know what...

Yeah, a lot of the guys for High Point were brought in this season were new, but there were a few holdovers including Terry Anderson and Chase Johnston who both were important players on that team. In my opinion it is also easier to bring in transfers when you have a shown history of winning at...

Huss took over a school that from 2018-2023 (under 2 different HCs) went 58-95. He then proceeded to go 56-15 (27-5 in conference) and make the NCAA tourney. He has a background in developing bigs, and in my opinion Clayman benefitted from the situation that Huss left him. That's not to knock...

So long to my hopes that we would ever hire Alan Huss

Things I've found that work for me in picking upsets in my brackets most years. Pick little schools that 1) win a LOT and 2) have a guard that can get a bucket whenever he wants. The other - and this is arguably the biggest one in my opinion - is to pick AGAINST the high seeds you don't like...