#1 Seed Middle Tennessee falls to Southern Miss. Joe Lunardi still has them in his Last 4 in

Wow! Huge loss. That's like our 2016 team losing in the semis to Corpus. Shocking.

sfa17 said:

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#1 Seed Middle Tennessee falls to Southern Miss. Joe Lunardi still has them in his Last 4 in

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Just said that knocks Louisville out.

I don't know how long middle Tennessee will stay in the "last 4 in" bc it early n more p5 team will lose.

#22 Nevada is getting their doors blown off by San Diego State. Wow!

In other shocking news Providence thumped #3 Xavier and probably supposed to be #1 seed today.

UConn's women put a 140 spot on Saint Francis (PA) today. 140-52. Their next lambs to the slaughter will be Quinnipiac on Monday. Their 140 was an NCAA tournament record, as were their 94 in a half, 55 in a quarter, most assists with 38, and most rebounds with 69.

Methinks that perhaps little ol' Saint Francis should not have been in this tournament......

PurpleOut said:

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Didn't want to start a separate thread, but you can keep eye on all NCAA hoops transfers here. It's already long and going to get VERY long over the next few weeks.

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183 so far. Recent years have been over 800, so many more to come indeed.

PurpleOut said:

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Didn't want to start a separate thread, but you can keep eye on all NCAA hoops transfers here. It's already long and going to get VERY long over the next few weeks.I

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I think we're all so interested in a transfer big man that it may be worth it's own thread.

TallTexan said:

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Those will be big shoes to fill.

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Well, this part's correct.

Texas guard Jacob Young, a sophomore, has requested a release from UT. He was a very highly recruited player out of high school. At Texas he was mainly a reserve, averaging 6.2 ppg, but against Texas Tech in the Big 12 Tournament he hit 6-7 from downtown and scored a career-best 29 points.

YOUNG PLAYED AT YATES HIGH SCHOOL, THE SAME SCHOOL AS FUTURE LUMBERJACKS DEUCE HUGHES AND MITCH SERAILLE. Could he possibly end up at SFA??? Fingers crossed!

PurpleOut said:

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Oklahoma Sophomores Kameron McGusty (SG) and Jordan Shepherd (PG) are transferring. We recruited McGusty fairly hard for a while.

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McGusty is a 6'5" 192 lb shooting guard from Katy. Started 17 games his freshman year at OU but only eight this year. His dad, Kerol, played at SFA '93-'95.

I assume he would have to sit out a year, giving him two years of eligibility to follow Bogues' senior year.

Third transfer plus one underclass going pro. Underwood has plenty of opportunity for o remake his roster. Tyler Underwood might get some PT.

Finke is a 6'10", 235 pound forward that averaged 9.8 points and 4.6 rebounds in 25 minutes per game against Big 10 competition.

Coach Mason is on the case. (The McGusty Case)

Interesting. Unless someone transfers, or we offer a walk-on opportunity, we only have one spot available and two guys that would be nice additions to the team.

Do you add the PG McGusty and shore up the depth in the backcourt, or do you add another big body in Finke that gives us a big that has seen big time competition? Decisions decisions...Remember that both of these guys will walk in wanting to start immediately as well. Who's spot do they take in the lineup?

PurpleOut said:

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Just a generic thread for all hoops talk this year.

I love Brandon Averette.

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Brandon Averette to transfer from Oklahoma State.

Hummmmm...

Several SFA connections mentioned in these transfers. Wonder if we'll see Who's Next happening soon.

And BTW, 09, I'm leaning toward grabbing a Guard, either Averette or McGusty, both with lots of Big 12 experience.

cboothe09 said:

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Interesting. Unless someone transfers, or we offer a walk-on opportunity, we only have one spot available and two guys that would be nice additions to the team.

Do you add the PG McGusty and shore up the depth in the backcourt, or do you add another big body in Finke that gives us a big that has seen big time competition? Decisions decisions...Remember that both of these guys will walk in wanting to start immediately as well. Who's spot do they take in the lineup?

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McGusty couldn't play this year so we wouldn't have to worry about that.

I'm REALLY confused by the Averette transfer. Didn't see that coming. It'll be interesting to see if our staff thinks that next year's team is complete enough to go grab a guy that can't play this year. Or if we need somebody who can make an impact now.

I think we're set up for several good years, but I got to think with TJ and Bogues, they feel next year is the year....until next year.

His minutes really dropped off the last eight games of the season. Ended the season averaging over 20 minutes per game, but not close to that except for 21 the last game against Western Kentucky. Something changed.

"Averette played in every game this season, starting six. He averaged 6.3 points and 2.9 assists in 19.9 minutes per game.

He finished his season with one of his best games, putting up 12 points, five assists and no turnovers in the 92-84 loss to Western Kentucky last week. "

Don't know why he is transferring. Got a dream situation when BU left and he was getting decent minutes. I was really happy for him when I saw how good he was doing at Okstate after not getting a single P5 offer. He even had a YouTube video "overlooked" remember watching it when he committed.

People on Okstate Forum dont seem to heartbroken about it. Several people saying he is not a BIG 12 player.
Idk maybe they know something we dont since they saw him player regularly and we just saw highlights.

http://www.orangepower.com/threads/brandon-averette-requests-release-to-explore-transferring.245104/

"I wish him the best of luck. We will miss his heart and hustle. But, in my opinion, he is not really a Big 12 point guard.
He would kill it at a UTSA or similar, however.
Good luck, Brandon."

5 Star recruit Darius Bazley decommits from Syracuse, becomes first top high school prospect to choose turning professional in the NBA G League.

https://sports.yahoo.com/projected-top-10-draft-pick-make-leap-high-school-g-league-193725979.html

To each their own, but I think I'd take flying around with Syracuse & a year of college over the Gleague.

maybe it was for academic reasons bc he would get more money overseas, if money was his only goal

Interesting article, means absolutely nothing but cool concept.
How much is sfa basketball worth?

"Brewer assesses what every college team would be worth on the open market if it could be bought and sold like a professional franchise. The study analyzes each program's revenues and expenses with cash-flow adjustments, risk assessments and growth projections"

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-much-is-your-college-basketball-team-worth-1522670400

Sfa #150
2017 valuation 8,129,000
2016 valuation 9,141,000

Villanova is a machine. I hope coach was taking notes to fine tune the purple machine.