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I wonder if they are hoping any of the players who entered their names into the draft and might not go too high, such as Jaylen Fisher, would be wanting to come there. Without looking it up I can’t remember the final pullout date, but I know they moved it later. Plus, there might be someone at Michigan or some other school with a late coaching change who will shake free. We’ve seen that, just because you don’t build a program through 4 year recruits, doesn’t mean you won’t be competitive. Mueller plays very short benches, sort of a super discount-Rockets, so if their current transfer players that are eligible for next year are good enough they might not miss a beat. I’m skeptical, but it’s still too early to say Mueller has them in a hole they can’t climb out of.
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Gotta stop feeding the trolls.
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there probably aren't but a couple schools in all of Division I that are sitting on more than one or two open scholarships...
but ISU is sitting on FOUR (and that's after giving one to a walk-on otherwise it would be 5) with very few recruits available this late....
...this is actually quite unusual - they have to be the only DI school with that many open scholarships at this point.Comment
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Muller keeps trying...now they are hosting a visit from Preston Urbanic, a 2019 6-3 (or 6-2 or even listed as 6-0 some places) shooting guard from First Baptist Academy in Naples, FL
First Baptist Academy is a Class 3A school - enrollment 192 (roughly the size of Kewanee, Oblong, Pawnee or Peoria Hts.), Florida has 7 classes (1A thru 7A)
He is described as a "lethal shooter", a lefty with a 4.0 GPA
The only other offer listed for him is Oral Roberts.
https://twitter.com/GregUrbancic/sta...19790603988999
https://twitter.com/Aholmes20/status...21241524826113
I gotta think he sees potential playing time at ISU while Oral Roberts will have 6 seniors and has already signed another incoming shooting guard- PLUS they also just took in a solid grad transfer SG - so ISU should have the advantage.
Meanwhile, there's almost no discussion on the ISU board about this Preston Urbancic, only the statement "Who?" - LINK
..they're also wondering if possibly Muller can go after AJ Youngman or coax walk-on Isaac Gassman to come back and be on scholarship- LINKComment
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He looks like a good shooter from his highlight videos, and he has a quick release. He looks a little like Isaac Gassman. Surprising that this late in the recruiting cycle he only has the ORU offer. When a kid has a hint of potential D1 ability, he usually has either signed with someone, or has multiple offers, considering there are 13 Division I schools in Florida (only 6 states have more). I suspect it is mostly related to the fact he is thin and not very athletic looking. But if he is as good a shooter as reports suggest, every team can use shooters.Originally posted by tornado View PostComment
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If he is a great shooter then obviously every team can use that but college ball is so much more - just that recent interview with Bradley commit Sean Houpt will tell you that - in which he concedes he will never see the floor unless he gets in the weight room, gets stronger, better conditioned, learns defense, etc....and Urbancic appears to be about 160 lbs dripping wet! (LINK)
..PLUS - ya gotta wonder about the level of competition he has faced.
They got knocked out of the State playoffs by Tallahassee St. John Paul II School (enrollment 140) 55-37 with Urbancic scoring 13.Comment
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ISU's Harouna Sissoko added
..now they have only three scholarships to fill, and I believe that all nine other MVC teams have all their scholarships accounted for
2019
Bradley - Stephan Gabriel, Antonio Thomas, Ville Tahvanainen, possibly JaMir Price, Rienk Mast,Danya Kingsby- transfer, will not sign LOI, Terry Nolan, Jr., Kevin McAdoo, Sean Houpt (now zero open scholarships)
Drake - Roman Penn - transfer eligible in 2019, Issa Samake, Joseph Yesufu, Nate Ferguson, Jonah Jackson, Brady Ernst, Okay Djamgouz (zero scholarships, Matt Gray transferring)
Evansville - Artur Labinowcz - transfer, eligible in 2019, Sam Cunliffe - transfer eligible in 2019, DeAndre Williams- freshman redshirting 2018-19, Marcus Henderson, Peace Ilegomah - eligible mid-year 2019-20, Thomasi Gilgeous-Alexander, Demontay Dixon (0 open scholarships)
ISU - DJ Horne, Dedric Boyd, Jaycee Hillsman, Keith Fisher - all three ineligible until fall of 2019, also Abdou Ndiaye will be ineligible until 2019 , Malcolm Miller - walk-on. Harouna Sissoko, Antonio Reeves, Ricky Torres(still have 1 scholarship open)
Indiana State - Cobie Barnes, Jared Hankins, Tre Williams, Cameron Bacote (transfer will be eligible in 2019), Christopher Agbo, Jake LaRavia (zero scholarships open - Hughes & Huenermann leaving)
Loyola - Tate Hall (transfer, eligible in 2019-2020), Paxson Wojcik, Tom Welch, Marquise Kennedy, Keith Clemons, Jalon Pipkins, Braden Norris - transfer (zero open scholarships)
Missouri State - Tyem Freeman, Jamonta Black, Dajuan Harris, Gaige Prim, Tyrik Dixon - transfer, eligible 2019, Isaiah Mosley, Spencer Brown- walk-on, Lamont West-transfer, Anthony Masinton-Bonner, transfer (appear to be oversigned by 1 or 2 now that both Wojciks leaving)
UNI - James Betz, Noah Carter, Cole Henry, Logan Wolf (walk-on for basketball & scholarship for football), Evan Gauger, Derek Krogman- walk-on, Antwan Kimmons
(zero open scholarships- now that Croft is gone)
SIU - Avery Taggart (will also walk on for football), Lance Jones, Chris Payton, Trent Brown, Barret Benson, Harwin Francois, Ben Harvey - transfer, Marcus Domask(now looks like 1 or 2 open scholarship)
Valparaiso - Eron Gordon and Nick Robinson - both transfers eligible in 2019, Donovan Clay, Sigurd Lorange, Emil Freese-Vilien, Ben Krikke, Luke Morrill - walk on, Zion Morgan(should have zero open scholarships now that Freeman returning)
2020
Bradley - JaMir Price- if he does a year at Prep School (currently 3 open scholarships - we lose Brown, Kennell, Bar)
UNI - Tytan Anderson, Nathan Heise (3 open scholarships)Last edited by tornado; 05-18-2019, 11:10 AM.Comment
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Northern Iowa gets a commitment form a Class of 2020 shooting guard out of Lake City, Minnesota
6-4 Nathan Heise -
Verbalcommits lists five other offers, all of which are DII's, so UNI must see something special in the kid...
He averaged 21.9 ppg and hit 35.6% from 3-pt (and notice that even a small town like Lake City has far superior local sports coverage than we get here - LINK)
..he will be able to sign a Letter of Intent next NovemberComment
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I think Jacobson is a good coach who gets the most out of his players. I thought Joe Stowell did the same thing. He would bring players in and maximize their abilityOriginally posted by tornado View PostNorthern Iowa gets a commitment form a Class of 2020 shooting guard out of Lake City, Minnesota
6-4 Nathan Heise -
Verbalcommits lists five other offers, all of which are DII's, so UNI must see something special in the kid...
He averaged 21.9 ppg and hit 35.6% from 3-pt (and notice that even a small town like Lake City has far superior local sports coverage than we get here - LINK)
..he will be able to sign a Letter of Intent next NovemberComment
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for much of a decade, Jacobson's shooting guards (James, Sonnen, Lohaus, Moran, Farokhmanesh, Bohannon, Jesperson and others) have killed us...
..he does have the ability to land good shooters. The last couple years have been a bit of an exception this their records the last two years (14-16 & 16-16)Comment
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ISU gets a commitment from another 2-guard Antonio Reeves. He is a 6'4" shooting guard from Simeon HS in Chicago.
Illinois State Signs Antonio Reeves to National Letter of Intent
https://goredbirds.com/news/2019/5/1...of-intent.aspx
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For the record- the title and the statement in that ISU article says: "Illinois State head men's basketball coach Dan Muller has announced that Antonio Reeves has signed a National Letter of Intent to play for the Redbirds starting in the 2019-20 season."
Reeves just announced his college commitment this evening, The NLI signing dates were from April 17, 2019 to May 15, 2019. After Wednesday, May 15, he couldn't have signed a NLI. So he must have signed an NLI prior to the deadline Wednesday and waited until today to announce it.
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they still have two scholarships
lots of predictions had Reeves going to SIU - but maybe this is an example of the AAU influence - now that SIU is an "Illinois Wolves" schoolComment
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they still have one scholarship left...
they have in 2019-2020:
Seniors- Hillsman, Copeland, Torres (may have to redshirt)
Juniors- Boyd, Chastain, Fisher, Bruninga (actually will be a redshirt soph)
Sophomores- Idowu, Ndiaye (actually will be a redshirt freshman)
Freshmen- Horne, Reeves, Harouna Sissoko (anyone think he'll redshirt?)
only four have played for ISU (Copeland, Chastain, Bruninga, Idowu)
and they account for total of 50 starts - (Bradley returns 280 starts among their returnees - over 200 of which are our returning seniors DB, Nate & Bar)Comment
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SIU lands another transfer
Malik William transferring from Clemson..
https://twitter.com/malikwilliam38/s...06741199822848
he is a sophomore 6-8 forward who will possibly sit out one year (unless he gets a waiver) then maybe have 3 to play -
in his freshman year at Clemson, he played little, averaging 1.5 ppg, then he sat out 2018-19 with injuries
https://247sports.com/college/clemso...ll--131243754/
SIU (8 new guys) joins several MVC teams who will have more new guys than returneesComment
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Hopefully, all those teams are upgrading their talent. The MVC was down last year and needs better talent. Yes, I am aware Bradley didn't finish in the top four. Next year is going to be interesting with all the new players on the teams.Comment
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SIU's official Tweet-Originally posted by tornado View Post
"SIGNED | Big pick-up for #Salukis, who added Clemson transfer forward Malik William today.
He was a Top-200 high school prospect out of Orlando. Skilled big man and shot blocker. "
He will have to sit out and play in 2020-2021 but his numbers are hard to judge.....didn't play much at Clemson...
in two years at Clemson, he totalled 3 blocks...(average of 0.176 blocks per game)Comment
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