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Plus, Huggy has no sense of style.

Update: He will begin a visit to Texas Tech on Tuesday. Has narrowed his choices to Creighton, Northwestern and the Red Raiders. Source: The Athletic.

I have zero faith in that statement.

Updated. Thanks.

Back on the market as of 5/1/2018. Started one game for SHU in two years. Shot 33.5 percent from behind the arc in 17-18, but hit only 6 of 15 FTs.

Eron Gordon, 6-3 sophomore PG from Seton Hall. Averaged 8.5 minutes and 1.2 points in 30 games. Started one game. Went 6 of 17 from deep, but only 6 of 15 from the FT line. Yikes. Eric Gordon's brother. From Indianapolis. Was a Rivals Top 150 (#134) out of HS class of 2016.

Announced today that he's headed to Baylor after spending the last two years at UNC-Asheville. Big South Frosh of the Year in 2017, all-conference in 2018.

It's a pay site, so I won't paste the entire article; however, he describes the lengths coaches go to in order to attract the Romeo Langfords of the world is, and then reaches this conclusion: Every coach understands that it doesn’t matter how great you are at drawing up plays. You need players. As the old saying goes, “It’s not about the X’s and O’s, it’s about the Jimmys and Joes.” So they're not worried about sacrificing a little pride if it means improving that all-important 70 percent category.

Ike Obiagu, C, Florida State: The freshman 7-footer announced on Twitter on Sunday that he is transferring. Obiagu blocked 2.1 shots in only 10.7 minutes per game. His 20.9 block rate would have ranked first nationally had he played enough minutes to qualify on KenPom.com’s leaderboard. Obiagu also averaged 2.3 points and 2.6 rebounds.

That's what it sounds like. He then wrote about the Harrison Barnes drama and how that only put pressure on Barnes to live up to his own hype. Maybe the Romeo Langfords of the world have the power in such a dynamic. But it's not as if KU is going to shrivel and die if he chooses IU. And lower-ranked players certainly don't feel so powerful. Nice hair, BTW.

Of course we're not in it (Kansas, Vanderbilt and Indiana), but this is an interesting lede from Seth Davis in The Athletic: When I was covering high school sports for the New Haven Register many moons ago, a local basketball coach named Gary Palladino, who worked at Notre Dame High School in West Haven, explained the sport this way: “Basketball is 70 percent talent, 20 percent coaching and 10 percent luck.” That was more than 20 years ago, and I have yet to hear anyone lay it out any better than that. Keep that in mind later tonight, when one of the most anticipated recruiting decisions of the year will be made. Romeo Langford, a 6-foot-5 guard from New Albany (Ind.) high, will announce his decision in front of what will likely be a packed gymnasium at his high school. Langford’s final choices are Indiana, Kansas and Vanderbilt. It’s dangerous to try to read the tea leaves in recruiting, but the hometown Hoosiers have been widely considered to be the team to beat from the beginning. Needless to say, that’s what the local fans would prefer. It would be quite a risk for Langford to get everyone together, draw so much attention to his decision and then reveal that he is headed elsewhere. Did Langford drag out his decision this long because he wanted to generate as much suspense and hype as he could? Or has he been genuinely undecided? We’ll never know, I suppose, but it’s a stark indicator of who really has the power in these situations. It’s also a dangerous game to play.

I've hated Xavier since March 1991. This doesn't help.

It's fiddy-fiddy, right? Miles versus Jeff Capel III.

It's spelled B-A-L-L-E-R.

Woo-hoo! We've been upgraded to "mediocre"!!

It all comes down to the Bucket List. At 56, I've enjoyed a ton of Husker success on the football field. Almost none on the basketball court. I'm going to root harder for and die little deaths more often related to basketball games until I can check off an NCAA Tournament win. And that doesn't become a possibility unless the regular season goes really well. So hoops.

Great. That means he'll be a solid first-rounder in 2020.

OK. Tom Waits should be the official #Nebrasketball singer/songwriter. Contest Over!

There's an assistant at Connecticut with a pretty talented son.

I was gonna name my next child Kenya "Chin" Burno. Now what?