Dwight Buycks

[tornado]

Buycks was 1st Team All-Tournament at the NJCAA Finals, despite his team's 6th place finish


Here are the other All-Tournament picks:
NJCAA All-Tournament Team

Dwight Buycks - Indian Hills
Dwight Hardy - Indian Hills
Will Bynum - Eastern Arizona
Reggie Chamberlain - Seward County
Darko Cohadarevic - Seward County
Brian Green - Salt Lake
DaVell Jackson - Salt Lake
Jonathan Hall - South Plains
Nick Okorie - South Plains
Mario Little - Chipola
Bryan Sherrer - Three Rivers
Eric Tramiel - Paris

Tourney MVP
Jonathan Hall - South Plains

Coach of the Tournament
Steve Green - South Plains

South Plains (TX) beat Salt Lake (UT) for the Title

Here's how the Elite Eight finished:
Champion- South Plains
Runnerup- Salt Lake
3rd Place- Seward Co. (Theron Wilson's alma mater)
4th Place- Three Rivers (MO)
5th Place- Eastern AZ
6th Place- Indian Hills (IA)
7th Place- Chipola (they were the favorites and rated #1 most of the season)
8th Place- Paris JC (TX)

Mott (MI) won their 2nd straight D-II Juco Title
Danville Area (who knocked out ICC) finished 4th.

[tornado]

I am not sure if Dwight Buycks is still on BU's radar screen, but I have to think he is.

Anyway, Buycks will be a soph at Indian Hills next year along with teammates Dwight Hardy and Leon Powell, and their team (which finished 6th at the Nationals this past spring) just signed a couple of D-I transfers.
The two kids are both leaving Western Illinois, where Jim Molinari just took over.

--Delvon Johnson, 6-8 averaged 2.6 ppg
--James Washington, a high school teammate of Leon Powell, a 6-0 guard who averaged 10 ppg as a freshman at WIU.



By the way, I found a pic of the new WIU court to show what it will look like with the new 3-point line.
(They have a garbage collection company that sponsors the court and it is named for them, "Waste Management Court")
Of course every college court will have to include at least TWO lines, since all the womens games and high school games will use the shorter line.

[tornado]

Marquette has offered and their fans are buzzing about him.
It would be hard for BU to compete at this point........

[BradleyBrave]

Marquette has offered and their fans are buzzing about him.
It would be hard for BU to compete at this point........

This really, really sucks. I talked to Chuck Buescher right after DB committed to BU, and he was raving about him. All of the staff were very, very excited about him coming. It's too bad he will end up elsewhere.

[tornado]

Well, you can't spend too much time worrying about the ones who want to go elsewhere or who aim higher but just sit on the bench.

Buycks this fall will be playing on an Indian Hills team that doesn't historically send that many playters to the BCS-caliber programs, and there will be at least six D-I caliber sophomore kids battling for playing time (Buycks, Hardy, Powell, Relphorde, then the two WIU guys Washington & Johnson -- and four of them are shooting guards).

[BradleyBrave]

Well, you can't spend too much time worrying about the ones who want to go elsewhere or who aim higher but just sit on the bench.

Buycks this fall will be playing on an Indian Hills team that doesn't historically send that many playters to the BCS-caliber programs, and there will be at least six D-I caliber sophomore kids battling for playing time (Buycks, Hardy, Powell, Relphorde, then the two WIU guys Washington & Johnson -- and four of them are shooting guards).

I love how we talk guys up when they're interested in us and then throw them under the bus when they aren't interested in us anymore.

[BradleyBrave]

I don't get the "aim higher" part of your post. Bradley is on an equal plain with Marquette or even higher. Have we not won our last 6 or 7 games against the Big East. Be strong and don't worry, we've got a lot of good guards.

Can you please elaborate on how we're on a higher plain than Marquette, a school that has been to a Final Four in the last 10 years, has won a national championship, and plays in arguably the toughest conference in America? I look forward to your response.

[Scouter]

I love how we talk guys up when they're interested in us and then throw them under the bus when they aren't interested in us anymore.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. That doesn't happen here.

[Stryker]

hey we drink an amazing amount of kool-aid here no matter what the subject. It's what makes this place so much fun!

[tornado]

I love how we talk guys up when they're interested in us and then throw them under the bus when they aren't interested in us anymore.

BB, that's not at all what I am doing...please read the post.
I would like to have Buycks at BU, but I said you can't cry when they want to go elsewhere, you've said the same thing.
Then if he goes to Marquette like Devan Bawinkel went to WVU, he'll waste the precious little time he has at the D-I level sitting the bench.
Have you not see the caliber of player Marquette brings in at shooting guard.
Kids like Dwayne Wade, Dominic James, etc...in the past..
They will be recruiting over him and DB will be a sub on the bench, and I hope Dwight sees that.

Last question....how many junior college kids, no matter how talented or how highly rated,
go to BCS programs and actually get playing time? and please don't go back to Larry Johnson at UNLV, I mean within recent years.
I know of only a very small handful....
This post sums it up, but even a few of those I considered a success in that post, have since flopped or been dismissed (Hannah, Takais Brown)
leaving only maybe 1 or 2 of the top 5 juco kids actually having a decent D-I career, since they all aimed a little too high.

http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=4250

Here's just one more example-- Andre Gilbert was offered a year ago by BU and JL really wanted the athletic scoring wing.
He spurned BU's offer and went to K-State. Maybe he liked sitting the bench and watching Michael Beasley...but here's what ended up happening.
He was given a chance to play, even given a few starts, but he struggled severely, then by the 2nd half of the season, when the Network cameras were coming to see Beasley, Andre was mostly sitting the bench.
He barely played at all down the stretch, averaged a pitiful 3 ppg, then at the end of the season was dismissed and is now in limbo.
Meanwhile, BU was forced to go with a backup option and landed Theron Wilson....and so it goes......Andre Gilbert aimed too high and is now looking for a school that even wants him.

[Chico]

Have to agree with BradleyBrave on this one. When DB said he was coming to Bradley, all the posts were glowing. Now. he might go to Marquette, where he'll ride the bench. Reminded me of the Matt Roth saga. As soon as he committed to Indiana, all of sudden he couldn't play defense, etc. I admit there are a lot of kids who, for some reason, would rather sit on the bench at a school than play for another, but I don't see that being the case here.

[Big Mike]

I think DB will get pt anywhere he goes!

[BBallPimp]

I don't get the "aim higher" part of your post. Bradley is on an equal plain with Marquette or even higher. Have we not won our last 6 or 7 games against the Big East. Be strong and don't worry, we've got a lot of good guards.

Wow.... talk about drinking Kool-Aid!!

[Da Coach]

Didn't Wisconsin have an 18 year-old drinking law? I recall a lot of people from Illinois driving up to Wisconsin to legally get alcohol. The federal government eventually required all states to have uniform minimum age laws.

[Braves4Life]

Wow.... talk about drinking Kool-Aid!!

I'm a drinker as well. Bradley has a MUCH richer basketball history than Marquette and, IMO, would beat Marquette again today if they played. Good call BURick!