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well travelled Robert Eppinger has signed with UIC.
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'Well-traveled'. Well put T.
Onward and Upward!
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That is a pretty good recruiting class. I have heard DeMarkus Isom-Jones got looks from BU and ISU.Comment
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Wow - Jimmy C is putting together some decent players.
And at a time when things for BAM down at UIUC are gonna be a little warm on the buns for another year.
Hmmmmm.......Comment
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Swipes at Illinois aside, UIC certainly looks like they will have a pretty decent team next year. VanderMeer, Dailey, and Buttell form a nice inside rotation. All can rebound, and VanderMeer is an outstanding shotblocker. None of them are great scorers, but they aren't bad either.
Josh Mayo is a rising star, and Robert Kreps had an excellent freshman year as a marksman. Spencer Stewart is the one guy that needs to really pick it up. He had a ridiculously high turnover rate and didn't shoot well at all. If Stewart can improve, UIC will have a nice top 6 players. Maybe Eppinger can make it a solid 7-man rotation, with Tori Boyd getting some time off the bench as well.
I think UIC becomes a top 100 team next year, but probably not much better than that. I'd be really surprised to see them make the NCAA tournament, but the NIT is probably within reach. That's a nice step forward for a team that hasn't been in the postseason since 2004.Comment
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personally I am puzzled why Eppinger didn't get more recruiting attention.Originally posted by BradleyBrave View Post'Well-traveled'. Well put T.
There is a literal feeding frenzy for big men as we have seen, and here is just one more example...
Even a backup juco center from obscure jucos, with only 5 ppg and 4 rpg numbers, get a decent D-I scholarship!!!
By contrast, Eppinger certainly played in front of plenty of scouts, for a very good (28-5) team, as he had two other D-I candidates on his team with him, and Robert averaged 13 & 8, and was ranked in some rankings as high as #29 best junior college player in the nation.
So I am curious if there may be more to this story.
BTW, some on the UIC board think they are going to land at least one more, possibly a transfer big man and speculation is either UW-M's Tim Flowers or UIUC's Brian Carlwell.Comment
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That might be a premium article, so here are a couple clips from it.
Pepperdine is an impressive and beautiful campus, so I can't blame the kid for wanting to go there if they offered, but he was a backup at Collin County Juco, and averaged just 5.5 points and 4 rebounds a game. He is a big guy with reportedly a lot of potential.--
Jonathan Dupre heading west
As the spring signing period went on, Jonathan Dupre became a scorching hot commodity. At 6-foot-8, 210-pounds, skilled, potential-laden, it was quite understandable. The Collin County Community College forward started taking his official visits, and it was on his third one this past weekend that he figured out that he wanted to continue his college career on the West Coast.
"I just visited Pepperdine this weekend and told the coaches before I left that I wanted to sign with them," Dupre said. "I've got a great relationship with the coaching staff and it's a good school location. When I was there, I had a one-on-one with Coach (Tom) Asbury and he told me that when he was there, Pepperdine was really on top. He wants to get it back to there and wants me to be a big part of that rebuilding process."
Dupre had previously visited UC Irvine and Southern Utah the past two weekends, and a trip to Wintrop was possibly on the horizon. But Dupre liked the opportunity in front of him at Pepperdine and knew it was one he couldn't pass up.
This past season at Colin County CC, Dupre was a key contributor off the bench in the frontcourt, averaging 5.5 points and 4.0 rebounds while ranking second on the team in blocked shots (15).Comment
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By the way, the "frenzy" for securing big men has really paid off foe Eureka's Jordan Prosser.
Of course he's good, and lots of programs see that, but Prosser now has at least a dozen majors who have offered according to one report, with Kentucky and UNC supposedly about to offer.Comment
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I remembered this discussion we had about Pepperdine...Originally posted by Da Coach View Post
and in survey published by "The Best Colleges"......
Pepperdine comes in 4th in the whole USA as far as
"Most Amazing/Beautiful Colleges"
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