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We know his HS numbers were inflated Actually, his high school performance was not truly inflated. As shown more specifically in the Recruiting thread, his high school is about the size of Wahoo but his team played each year five-or-so Class-A-size (in Nebraska) schools--and usually beat them. His Junior year, for example, his team won against a school about the size of Omaha Central! Bakari Evelyn looks to be a Tarin Smith equivalent but with a better outside and three point shot.

Had a chance to sit near the dugout last night. Erstad is pretty intense and was not happy. I'd imagine it was due to us playing a pretty sloppy game. When Krayton tied the game in the 8th due to a miscue from our infielders on who should be covering second Erstad obliterated his clipboard against the dugout wall. After the inning was over he ran over to the middle infielders coming into the dugout and kindly gave everyone on the team a nice a$$ chewing. But a win is a win....lets get another tonight.

Under the radar 6-3 PG Bakari Evelyn verbally commits to the Huskers and plans to make it official when the spring signing period opens. This post has been promoted to an article

Leslee or Tarin?

lol..that's what all the upset Villanova fans are trying to figure out. We are the last team they want to play. I think secretly, Nova fans are upset about the match-up because they are scared of us. They would rather take a loss on their home court to the likes of Sparty or the Badgers. When they lose to us, its going to crush their RPI!

It's official - both Page girls are Wildcats. http://kansasstate.scout.com/forums/2672-women-s-basketball/13803344-welcome-to-k-state-lanie-page?s=173

Found this interesting with the Evelyn signing........

He is going to be a very impactful player IMO. I love his game from what I've seen of him. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Is the letter in yet? It is already almost tomorrow in the land Down Under.

We are 0-2 against the Wildcats. Hopefully this will change after we play them. And as a bland midwesterner, I would be dissapointed if the Phillie fans were not obnoxious. In the day when I used to work at Philmont for the boy scouts, the scouts from Philadelphia were inevitably the rudest groups to come through each summer. How's that for stirring the pot early?

Darren was lucky enough to be coached by some of the best in the games. I think he does a very good of job patting and chewing butts at the right time and to the right guys. I know I would run though a brick wall for him if I played for him.

Best two thing that happened tonight, we win and my heart rate is high enough that I don't need to go to the gym.

A person...far wiser than me...once stated: "A win is a win is a win!" GBR next up...SWEEP!

Any win against the evil Jays is a good one!

I just wanna chime in and say he played on one of the better AAU teams in the state of Michigan

He missed quite a bit of time his junior year before coming back before their state championship run and then basically missed his senior year with the transfer. I honestly feel his case is similar to a guy by the name of Jordan Tebbutt in terms of small school players. He went to a small christian school like Evelyn. He was a star scoring like 30+ a game as a freshman and sophomore. He was getting interest from KU, UNC, etc. but he was still an unknown against the creme de la creme. He finally decided to transfer to Oak Hill to garner more than interest and gain offers. He ended up being a bench player and kind of disappeared. Its like he went from phenom to flop and decided to never play again. Now I'm not saying Evelyn is a flop before he gets his chance but by comparison its hard to gauge players at that level and schools dont want to take the gamble. I feel like thats kind of what we are doing here but I see a lot of good qualities in his game that make him a serviceable backup which every team needs. I wish we werent in that predicament but I dont like to see the schollies go unused anymore like the first two years.

Well... at least we are going to be going in to an environment full of big heads.... reallllllllly big heads.

Kind of how we would feel if we played them in any other sport but men's basketball correct?

Welcome Bakari!!

He really shouldn't say "brick by brick".

I know there are some that think this kid may redshirt. I personally think not. He will be coming in as a mature young man, he is a scorer, and he has played on the big stage. Many of the top Australian players who come to the states play immediately and become contributor. I think that will be the case here as well.

is it too late to convince petteway and pitchford to come back?