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Come back to the Ocean State Two-Pump!

Rhode Island isn't waiting very long to find Dan Hurley's replacement, as the Rams hope to name his successor in the next 10-14 days, athletic director Thorr Bjorn told Adam Zagoria of ZagsBlog.com.

Hurley inked a new six-year contract with UConn this week, creating the vacancy on the Rams' bench. During his media presentation Friday, he mentioned that one of his former assistants remained in the mix to be named as his replacement.

Rumors have swirled regarding who could potentially be the next Rams coach, which included the names of Vermont's John Becker, UMBC's Ryan Odom, and even former Louisville head man Rick Pitino, sources told Zagoria.

 
JuniorGong said:
Come back to the Ocean State Two-Pump!

Rhode Island isn't waiting very long to find Dan Hurley's replacement, as the Rams hope to name his successor in the next 10-14 days, athletic director Thorr Bjorn told Adam Zagoria of ZagsBlog.com.

Hurley inked a new six-year contract with UConn this week, creating the vacancy on the Rams' bench. During his media presentation Friday, he mentioned that one of his former assistants remained in the mix to be named as his replacement.

Rumors have swirled regarding who could potentially be the next Rams coach, which included the names of Vermont's John Becker, UMBC's Ryan Odom, and even former Louisville head man Rick Pitino, sources told Zagoria.
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Thorr and Pitino both are UMass alums ... not that that is worth anything. (I graduated with Thorr.)

 
Most of you might not remember him, but it looks like Lefty Driesell will finally make the Naismith HOF. 

IT'S ABOUT DAMNED TIME!

Dude won over 700 games, took four different schools to the NCAAs, made the ACC more than just Tobacco Road, and was probably the first "modern" coach in that he talked #### and used the media as he saw fit (though that sometimes came back to bite him). He also started the Midnight Madness tradition.

What else....? Oh, he coached the team that forced the NCAA to open up the field to more than one team per conference.

He got black-balled by a bunch of writers/administrators after Len Bias died who spread rumors that Lefty ordered Bias' room "cleaned" before any evidence to be gather. It was actually the opposite - Lefty got a call asking if he wanted evidence removed and he forbid it.

He wasn't an angel. I have first-hand accounts of hundred-dollar-handshake kind of stuff happening. And he could be petty and vindictive - he hated Dean Smith with a passion that was not healthy.

When he got to Maryland - after TWO runs to the Elite Eight with Davidson - he proclaimed he'd make Maryland "The UCLA Of The East". He never got there. 

 
Uruk-Hai said:
Most of you might not remember him, but it looks like Lefty Driesell will finally make the Naismith HOF. 

IT'S ABOUT DAMNED TIME!

Dude won over 700 games, took four different schools to the NCAAs, made the ACC more than just Tobacco Road, and was probably the first "modern" coach in that he talked #### and used the media as he saw fit (though that sometimes came back to bite him). He also started the Midnight Madness tradition.

What else....? Oh, he coached the team that forced the NCAA to open up the field to more than one team per conference.

He got black-balled by a bunch of writers/administrators after Len Bias died who spread rumors that Lefty ordered Bias' room "cleaned" before any evidence to be gather. It was actually the opposite - Lefty got a call asking if he wanted evidence removed and he forbid it.

He wasn't an angel. I have first-hand accounts of hundred-dollar-handshake kind of stuff happening. And he could be petty and vindictive - he hated Dean Smith with a passion that was not healthy.

When he got to Maryland - after TWO runs to the Elite Eight with Davidson - he proclaimed he'd make Maryland "The UCLA Of The East". He never got there. 




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Lefty was a coach's coach. Good for him.

 
Good Posting Judge said:
I mean, his logic seems pretty sound to me.
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It is in a way, but supposedly the facilities and training of the G league are still pretty poor.  It seems like the NBA is going to try to focus on enhancing these, but I don't know if they will really be there next year.  Plus, the composition of the G league teams tends to be somewhat fluid and the players are all at different stages with different motivations.  I think that as long as he has good advice and is mature enough to figure out how to work around these limitations to further his development, it is probably better.  For a lot of kids, having some kind of schedule and transition away from home (plus training facilities) might still be better.

 
Uruk-Hai said:
Most of you might not remember him, but it looks like Lefty Driesell will finally make the Naismith HOF. 

IT'S ABOUT DAMNED TIME!

Dude won over 700 games, took four different schools to the NCAAs, made the ACC more than just Tobacco Road, and was probably the first "modern" coach in that he talked #### and used the media as he saw fit (though that sometimes came back to bite him). He also started the Midnight Madness tradition.

What else....? Oh, he coached the team that forced the NCAA to open up the field to more than one team per conference.

He got black-balled by a bunch of writers/administrators after Len Bias died who spread rumors that Lefty ordered Bias' room "cleaned" before any evidence to be gather. It was actually the opposite - Lefty got a call asking if he wanted evidence removed and he forbid it.

He wasn't an angel. I have first-hand accounts of hundred-dollar-handshake kind of stuff happening. And he could be petty and vindictive - he hated Dean Smith with a passion that was not healthy.

When he got to Maryland - after TWO runs to the Elite Eight with Davidson - he proclaimed he'd make Maryland "The UCLA Of The East". He never got there. 
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Had a chance to meet Lefty twice and listen to him tell stories for an hour once.  Great experience and glad to see him finally get recognized.  I wish I could remember the story now but he had me crying in tears talking about recruiting Moses Malone.

 
Scoresman said:
They apparently got what they wanted out of the whole thing. Gave them back the quarterfinal bye and 2 additional OOC games. 

Im sure St.Marys is celebrating by scheduling another OOC game against Incarnate Word CSU Monterey or Grambling Mills College. 
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I made this joke way better by making it more geographically realistic.

 
U.S. Marshals arrest K-State basketball player

"A Kansas State Men’s basketball player is in federal custody Tuesday after he was arrested by U.S. Marshals in Kansas City.

The U.S. Marshal’s Office in Kansas City tells 41 Action news that they arrested K-State junior guard Amaad Wainright Monday in Kansas City on a warrant out of Johnson County, Kansas."
 

"Amaad Wainright is facing two charges out of Johnson County, including fleeing and eluding and obstruction of justice in connection to a road rage incident on Jan. 17, 2018 in Overland Park along Interstate 435.

A police report indicates that someone fired a shot from Wainright's car."

The K-State athletic department has suspended Wainwright from the basketball team.  


Report doesn't say when on 1/17/2018 the incident happened.  On the evening of 1/16/2018, K-State blew out Oklahoma in Manhattan, when OU was ranked #4.  

Overland Park is in the KC suburbs, about a 2-hour drive from Manhattan.  The stretch of I-435 where the shooting incident happened is cut through a giant slice of white bread suburb (Clayton Custer and Ben Richardson, who played for Loyola-Chicago in the NCAAs, are fairly typical Overland Park kids), but that freeway perpetually has sections under construction, so road rage isn't totally unheard of there.  Just not road rage escalating to shots fired.  
 

 
Bruce Dickinson said:
U.S. Marshals arrest K-State basketball player

"A Kansas State Men’s basketball player is in federal custody Tuesday after he was arrested by U.S. Marshals in Kansas City.

The U.S. Marshal’s Office in Kansas City tells 41 Action news that they arrested K-State junior guard Amaad Wainright Monday in Kansas City on a warrant out of Johnson County, Kansas."
 

"Amaad Wainright is facing two charges out of Johnson County, including fleeing and eluding and obstruction of justice in connection to a road rage incident on Jan. 17, 2018 in Overland Park along Interstate 435.

A police report indicates that someone fired a shot from Wainright's car."

The K-State athletic department has suspended Wainwright from the basketball team.  


Report doesn't say when on 1/17/2018 the incident happened.  On the evening of 1/16/2018, K-State blew out Oklahoma in Manhattan, when OU was ranked #4.  

Overland Park is in the KC suburbs, about a 2-hour drive from Manhattan.  The stretch of I-435 where the shooting incident happened is cut through a giant slice of white bread suburb (Clayton Custer and Ben Richardson, who played for Loyola-Chicago in the NCAAs, are fairly typical Overland Park kids), but that freeway perpetually has sections under construction, so road rage isn't totally unheard of there.  Just not road rage escalating to shots fired.  
 
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My favorite girlfriend in my twenties is from Overland Park. It's really white bread. This seems like a weird confluence.  

 
NBA Draft Early Entries

85 players and growing

DECLARED, PLANS to SIGN WITH AGENT

RAWLE ALKINS, Arizona
DEANDRE AYTON, Arizona
MARVIN BAGLEY III, Duke
LIANGELO BALL, Vytautas Prienu (Lithuania)
MO BAMBA, Texas
KEITA BATES-DIOP, Ohio State
LERON BLACK, Illinois
MILES BRIDGES, Michigan State
TROY BROWN JR., Oregon
TONY CARR, Penn State
ERIC DAVIS JR., Texas
DIKEMBE DIXSON, Illinos-Chicago
DREW EUBANKS, Oregon State
ROBERT FRANKS, Washington State
HARRY FROLING, Marquette
AARON HOLIDAY, UCLA
JAREN JACKSON, Michigan State
TERRY LARRIER, UCONN
BRANDON MCCOY, UNLV
JACK MCVEIGH, Nebraska
DE’ANTHONY MELTON, USC
CHIMEZIE METU, USC
MICHAEL PORTER Jr., Missouri
MITCHELL ROBINSON, None
LANDRY SHAMET, Wichita State
ANFERNEE SIMONS, IMG Academy H.S.
RAY SPALDING, Louisville
ALLONZO TRIER, Arizona
TRAE YOUNG, Oklahoma

TESTING THE WATERS

DENG ADEL, Louisville
KOSTAS ANTETOKOUNMPO, Dayton
JORDAN BRANGERS, South Plains JC.
BARRY BROWN, Kansas State
BRUCE BROWN, Miami
JORDAN CAROLINE, Nevada
KAMERON CHATMAN, Detroit
YOELI CHILDS, BYU
TYLER COOK, Iowa
ISAAC COPELAND JR., Nebraska
BRYANT CRAWFORD, Wake Forest
JON DAVIS, Charlotte
TERENCE DAVIS, Mississippi
TYLER DAVIS, Texas A&M
NOAH DICKERSON, Washington
CARSEN EDWARDS, Purdue
JON ELMORE, Marshall
JACOB EVANS, Cincinnati
JARREY FOSTER, SMU
MELVIN FRAZIER, Tulane
EUGENE GERMAN, Northern Illinois
ETHAN HAPP, Wisconsin
JAYLEN HANDS, UCLA
MUSTAPHA HERON, UConn
JALEN HUDSON, Florida
DEWAN HUELL, Miami
JUSTIN JAMES, Wyoming
FLETCHER MAGEE, Wofford
MATUR MAKER, Mississauga Prep H.S.
JALEN MCDANIELS, San Diego St.
CALEB MARTIN, Nevada
CODY MARTIN, Nevada
SHAKE MILTON, SMU
ELIJAH MINNIE, Eastern Michigan
SHELTON MITCHELL, Clemson
DORAL MOORE, Wake Forest
MATT MORGAN, Cornell
ISAIAH MOSS, Iowa
JOSH OKOGIE, Georgia Tech
JAMES PALMER JR., Nebraska
AJDIN PENAVA, Marshall
SHAMORIE PONDS, St. John’s
MARCQUISE REED, Clemson
KERWIN ROACH II, Texas
QUINTON ROSE, Temple
ADMIRAL SCHOFIELD, Tennessee
MAX STRUS, Depaul
DESHON TAYLOR, Fresno State
NICK WARD, Michigan State
PJ WASHINGTON, Kentucky
ANDRIEN WHITE, Charlotte
LINDELL WIGGINTON, Iowa State
AUSTIN WILEY, Auburn
KRIS WILKES, UCLA
JUSTIN WRIGHT-FOREMAN, Hofstra
OMER YURTSEVEN, NC State

Not a final list.  

A lot of the “testing the waters” guys have no intention of entering the draft; they throw their names in, get feedback from NBA teams on their strengths and weaknesses, and go back to college armed with honest assessments of their NBA prospects.

 
rockaction said:
My favorite girlfriend in my twenties is from Overland Park. It's really white bread. This seems like a weird confluence.  
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Looks like he was passing through.  He finished high school in Burbank but grew up in KC MO and still has family and friends In KCMO and Grandview MO.  If he was headed to/from Grandview, makes sense he would be on that stretch of freeway. 

 
Bruce Dickinson said:
Looks like he was passing through.  He finished high school in Burbank but grew up in KC MO and still has family and friends In KCMO and Grandview MO.  If he was headed to/from Grandview, makes sense he would be on that stretch of freeway. 
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Yeah. Makes sense. I wasn't questioning anything, just relating. I love your area of the country, by the way, especially the boulevards of MO that I remember driving. 

 
rockaction said:
Yeah. Makes sense. I wasn't questioning anything, just relating. I love your area of the country, by the way, especially the boulevards of MO that I remember driving. 
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Oh I was with you the whole way, but appreciate your words anyway.  

It’s a great place to live.  Maybe not the best place to visit, but I’ve enjoyed raising my daughter here. We might move on after she graduates, but we’ve exceeded our professional goals, made some close friends, and put the kid in great public schools.  And with a Southwest hub here, it’s cheap to fly to more exotic locales if we need a break from the low cost of living and next-to-zero crime.  

But enough sentimental bull####.  Who is on Twitter watching the airports to track coaching carousel moves?  I need some new accounts to follow.

 
Bruce Dickinson said:
A lot of the “testing the waters” guys have no intention of entering the draft; they throw their names in, get feedback from NBA teams on their strengths and weaknesses, and go back to college armed with honest assessments of their NBA prospects.
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This was a great "rule change" when they put it in a couple years back, IMO.

 
heckmanm said:
This was a great "rule change" when they put it in a couple years back, IMO.
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IMO it’s one of the best ways the NCAA and NBA cooperate.  

One underrated skill top programs have is placing their non-NBA players in foreign pro leagues that are good fits.  Those connections work better if players aren’t surprised they aren’t first-round picks.  And sure, Serie A or Liga ACB isn’t the NBA, but there is a lot of money to be made in those leagues playing a game these guys have been training for years.

 
Why do so many NBA fans have this weird obsession with arguing about how much better of a product the NBA is? 

It is a different game. There are like 10 times as many college teams and they are younger and smaller on average. Big freaking shock that there is a massive talent difference. 

Why does it seem to bother some NBA fans so much that people actually like college basketball more? 

 
parasaurolophus said:
Why do so many NBA fans have this weird obsession with arguing about how much better of a product the NBA is? 

It is a different game. There are like 10 times as many college teams and they are younger and smaller on average. Big freaking shock that there is a massive talent difference. 

Why does it seem to bother some NBA fans so much that people actually like college basketball more? 
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Let them bask in their delusion.  College Basketball has the single best sporting event in the country every March and its not really close.  I don't know how you could argue against this.  

 
SHIZNITTTT said:
Louisville, Adidas Reportedly Agree to 10-Year, $160 Million Apparel Contract    http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2729458-louisville-adidas-reportedly-agree-to-10-year-160-million-apparel-contract

edit to add:   Louisville's deal with adidas at $16 million a year is $7 million more than any other apparel deal for an ACC school.
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 Adidas was started by Adolf Dassler in his mother's house; he was joined by his elder brother Rudolf in 1924 under the name Dassler Brothers Shoe Factory. In 1949, following a breakdown in the relationship between the brothers, Adolf created Adidas, and Rudolf established Puma, which became adidas' business rival. In 1952, adidas acquired its signature 3-stripe logo from the Finnish athletic footwear brand Karhu Sports, for two bottles of whiskey and the equivalent of 1600 euros.

 
exhibition games starting up, so might as well get this back on page 1.

of course the top story for this year will be kellan grady, the presumptive A-10 player of the year, and how far he and redshirt freshman Luke Frampton will take Davidson.

 
Is there a new thread or is this still the spot? :unsure:

Anyway, three great games tonight.  Don't overlook UNC at Wofford. There's only one coach at an elite program with the cojones to regularly play early season non-conference road games like this one, with real upset potential. In contrast, Duke doesn't play a single road game until the second week of 2019.

 
TobiasFunke said:
Is there a new thread or is this still the spot? :unsure:

Anyway, three great games tonight.  Don't overlook UNC at Wofford. There's only one coach at an elite program with the cojones to regularly play early season non-conference road games like this one, with real upset potential. In contrast, Duke doesn't play a single road game until the second week of 2019.
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Yes, that Kentucky matchup to start the season was a real cupcake.

 
In The Zone said:
Outside of the NBA,

Best team money can buy.
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Just the state of current affairs in major college athletics.  Cal's face in the second half said it all.  He watched Williamson and Barrett run past him on the floor and had the look of *man, I wish you guys would have signed with us"..  

 
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