Preseason summer exhibition games

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given the regularity that Carleton beats NCAA D-I teams during exhibitions, I have to think they would play at a high mid-major level - maybe comparable to the upper level of CUSA, MVC, or possibly as good as the lower end of the BCS conferences if they were in D-I

There is one Canadian college that has applied for and been accepted into NCAA D-II - but they are not a strong team - so I wonder if that would be the ultimate plan for Carleton - although the motivation is decreased now with all the football schools separating themselves.
Simon Fraser Univ. - playing in a D-II conference went 3-15


Kentucky gets beat in the Bahamas - losing 63-62 to the Dominican team - so in their 6 games - three were quite close and they lost one
...all we've seen all week are articles by people drooling about how Kentucky was going to go UNDEFEATED this year!!
BTW - lots of people using the excuse that they played a lot of games in a 10-day span...but the Bahamian & Dominican teams likewise were often playing 2 and 3 games a day with rosters of only 8 & 9 guys - UK has a full roster....excuses, excuses...

UIC just beat York (Canada) 81-57

Michigan just beat Perugia in Spain - 99-60 - Max Bielfeldt dnp

Miami 77 - Albacete (Spain) 66

Ohio 98 - Brookwood 82 (Canada)

Loyola Marymount beat the Angolan National Team in Spain 80-63

George Mason 89 - CB Castelldefels 65 (Spain)

UAB is just arriving in Spain for their tour - ex-Bradley recruit Nick Norton is with the team

edit ...
late scores....
Memphis snaps back and beats Ottawa 104-89
Detroit 81 - Fraser 70
Northern Arizona goes 3-0 on Bahamas

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a few other exhibition scores
Memphis beat Ottawa late Sun night 104-89
then beat McGill 93-71 Monday
UIC beats Brock 71-57 to finish 3-2
La Tech beat Pyramid Foods in Bahamas 134-52
Detroit over Fraser Valley 81-70 then 88-78 over Trinity Western
George Mason goes 3-0 with a 72-68 win over Toulogest in Spain
UAB loses to Combinado de Madrid 84-80 - former Bradley recruit Nick Norton was 0-3 from the arc but had 6pts, 6 assists, and 5 steals!

wish there were some MVC teams playing so we could see more of what they have...and in fact of all the teams playing -
..only UIC & Memphis are future BU opponents...and objectively - neither of those teams really looked very impressive in their exhibitions...
UIC lost to 2 Canadian teams - Memphis has lost to one and been challenged pretty well by two others.

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Hartford lost to North Bears in Australia 83-76
then they lost again to Sydney Kings 100-86

Memphis got walloped by Carleton 92-60

Michigan 93 - Vincenza 53

George Mason 92 - CB Quart 68 (they finish tour 3-0)

Samford 108 - Atlantis All Stars 71


Former BU rceruit Nick Norton with NINE assists in last night's game!!

http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/albr/sports/m-baskbl/auto_pdf/2014-15/misc_non_event/StatsTwo.pdf

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Michigan gets another blowout win in Italy - but this time one of their no-name centers, redshirt frosh Mark Donnal had an impressive game.
I know it's a weak exhibition opponent - but a 20 pt/11 reb performance by Donnal almost certainly catapults him well in front of Max Bielfeldt when the real playing time comes...

BTW - you might also reflect back to how much stock and hype our guys and our press put into the freshmen last year having a couple good performances against the woeful Bahamas competition --as we have seen...
using those exhibition opponents may be a little risky for accurate talent assessment....

Immediately after those Bahamas game last year Geno Ford declared..."This team has more talent than last year’s"..
we then proceeded to win only 12 games - so he was either wrong or were undercoached...

[Nacho]

Michigan gets another blowout win in Italy - but this time one of their no-name centers, redshirt frosh Mark Donnal had an impressive game.

Mark Donnal was a 4* recruit on Rivals, Scout, and ESPN. Just because he redshirted last year, does not mean he is a "no-name center". Your point may stand on playing over Max, but don't belittle the kid!

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I stand by my point - very few expected him to be starting at center in his very first collegiate game ever -
and even the Michigan press said things like ...
"...no one is going to mistake him for Dirk Nowitzki" and "There was a time when Mark Donnal couldn’t picture himself at a major-conference school, let alone a Big Ten powerhouse like Michigan"
- LINK

... but if you did, then you & his mom were about the only one

[Nacho]

Or from an article that isn't 2 years old...

Mark Donnal looks like the natural fit to slide into the starting five-spot in Michigan??™s offense.

http://www.umhoops.com/2014/04/25/mc...ng-frontcourt/

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you nicely clip your quote fully out of context - as reading the entire article clearly indicates he was expected to
"slide" into the starting lineup somewhere way down the road, like maybe 2015-2016..

...your own link also says....
"Donnal......supposed to be thrown into the mix in 2015-16, not in 2014-15...
....is, and always was, the future of Michigan’s frontcourt."

and of course most newer articles know there's nobody else because of injury - thus the "sliding" into the starting lineup is quite a bit more out of necessity and lack of anyone else not in a walking boot or in rehab
either way - I will let you believe whatever you want as I decline to get into a gotcha nitpicking game

[tornado]

The exhibition games are winding down...only a handful of teams still have games - Loyola-MD, Hartford, Portland State, Boston U., Fordham
but Hartford finally picked up a win in Australia, beating Dandenong 80-67 -
Dandenong plays in the same league (SEABL-East) that Dyricus' team plays in and one of the players on Dandenong is Illinois State's Tony Lewis
http://basketball.australiabasket.co...Rangers/170098.

[Nacho]

So the future of Michigan front court is a no-namer???? GOTCHA!!!

I will let you believe whatever you want as I decline to get into a gotcha nitpicking game

And this is about the funniest thing I've ever read from you! And that's saying a lot!

[Da Coach]

So the future of Michigan front court is a no-namer????

Wasn't Max Bielfelt supposed to be the future of the Michigan front court?

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getting back to the topic of this thread....the preseason exhibition games.......

of all the D-I teams playing exhibitions so far - the US Division I teams have won 90%+ of them....of the 60 or so games played in the Bahamas - only TWO were won by the exhibition opponents...

BUT oddly of the only two future Bradley opponents - Memphis & UIC...had two of the worst records during the exhibition season and are among the only 4 I can find that lost multiple games....
those two teams combined for a particularly less-than-stellar 5-4 record....
One other way of looking at it ...
The 60 or so different teams playing abroad amassed roughly 15 losses between them - but our two future opponents logged FOUR of those losses, more than 1/4 of all the exhibition losses ...

[Da Coach]

Xavier finishes their tour of Brazil 4-0 with a 91-68 win over Flamengo.

http://www.goxavier.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/080914aab.html

Remy Abell had 13 points and a team-high 5 assists. Freshman Larry Austin, Jr. has also played well in their 4 games in Brazil, and former BU recruit Matt Stainbrook has rebounded well.

[tornado]

So the future of Michigan front court is a no-namer???? GOTCHA!!!







And this is about the funniest thing I've ever read from you! And that's saying a lot!

Watching the Illini-Michigan game... It kinda bears out what I said since last spring...Bielfeldt still might be their best big man but Beilein has already made up his mind he doesn't want to use Bielfeldt.
I had thought Illinois with Egwu would be perhaps the weakest Big Ten team in the paint but these Michigan big men are making Egwu look like an NBA player...

Michigan does have talent and they still may pull this one out with their guard play....but they have absolutely nothing in the paint and Illinois plays four small guards!

...if this is the future for Michigan they are in deep trouble when they do play someone with a decent low post player..
Donnal, btw, averages 5 ppg & 2 rpg - against the likes of Bucknell, Nicholls State, Coppin State, NJIT...
...but thus far he's totally scoreless against the four-guard Illinois defense.
He may get eaten alive vs. the Big Ten schedule.

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Kentucky paid for the trip to the Bahamas - but also supposedly paid for all their opponents' expenses getting there

http://www.sportingnews.com/ncaa-basketball/story/2015-01-15/kentucky-bahamas-trip-cost-expenses-uk-bbn