Jacob Padilla

Not a rumor. Creighton offered him for 2019 but not 2018. And if he doesn't redshirt, he's probably going to struggle quite a bit.

He was not the best player in the state. He played on one leg in the final after getting hurt in the semi. He was a 6'8" kid playing high school basketball in Nebraska yet settling for taking 6 3s (many of them just awful shots) a game while shooting 31% (he was 94-336, or 28%, for is career at Papio). He was rated as the top player in the 2018 class because of his upside and offers, but upside only gets you so far. I'll take Shereef Mitchell and his trajectory over Ed without a second thought. Ed's been the same player the whole time I've known him and doesn't seem very interested in changing the way he plays. That's a red flag for whoever ends up taking him.

Powell is really good. Cale was a 4-star recruit but apparently can't shoot and wasn't all that productive as a freshman; they need him to make a big leap. As for their recruiting class, ESPN has those two rated as generic 4-stars (ESPN is not good) but Rivals and 247 have both of them as 3-star guys. McKnight is a guy who got buckets inefficiently against mostly low-to-mid-major competition; hard to know what you're going to get out of that guy jumping up to a higher level of competition (see guys like Jaaron Simmons and Mark Alstork). Thompson should be good for them. I'm just not sold on Seton Hall being good next year. Nebraska should win the game, and if Seton Hall does end up putting it together I'd expect them to be better late than early.

He listed himself at 7'1" on his Twitter account but he wasn't ever that tall unless you're measuring to the top of his mohawk.

Haven't seen him recently. He was 6'7.5" in shoes and 185 pounds with a 7'1" wingspan heading into his junior year.

Brady's standing reach after his junior year was 8'9.5 at 6'10.5" in shoes. He has a short wingspan – about 6'9.25" – which is why I'm wondering to what degree his shot-blocking will translate (good instincts but lacks plus-length). He runs well and is pretty mobile for his size but he's not Roby in terms of length or explosiveness. I've watched Brady play for four years now. I will say I've seen him miss a lot more jumpers than he's made. As for Patton, yes, he was definitely a project as well. The difference is he showed much better ball skills – he's an awesome passer, handles the ball well for a 7-footer and has a better shooting touch than Brady has shown. His biggest problem was the lack of strength and stamina, which is why he redshirted at Creighton. His growth spurt wasn't quite as dramatic as khoock suggested, though. I think he was about 6'2" as a freshman. Shot up to about 6'7" as a sophomore and was 6'11" heading into his senior year.

If Brady wants to be a "stretch four" he has a looooooot of development to do. He's a rim runner/roll man at this point and got a lot of his offense in the post in high school, but even there he struggled at times. His strength and touch both need to improve a lot to be a real offensive threat. As for Roby, just confirming that he is not nor was he ever in the 2018 NBA Draft.

Seton Hall has one good player back from last year's team, Myles Powell (15.5 ppg, 37.9% 3FG). Four of their other 5 top scorers all graduated. They add Taurean Thompson as a transfer from Syracuse as well as a Sacred Heart transfer guard and a juco center that both sat out last year. Their recruiting class is made up of three 3-star players.

Probably the same way Teddy Allen did which is the same way most kids do: he managed to play well with the right people watching. With most of the viable 2018 targets off the board, I'm sure he had a few more coaches looking to round out their classes that took notice of him. It sounds like he's been shooting the ball at a very high clip. As for Ed, put me down for SDSU as well.

Well, that was quick. Visited Wichita State and already made up his mind. https://twitter.com/JussHoopTeddy/status/994008457102725120

Don't really have a whole lot else to share beyond what I have already. As for Teddy, if Miles wanted to talk to him I believe he'd listen. As for Wingett, I think it'll probably be Memphis. Like I posted on the Wingett recruiting thread, he's planning to sign sometime next week.

When this whole process started, I felt like Copeland was probably gone and Palmer was probably back just based on the situations for both of them and what I had heard. When Kenya left, I thought that might be it for both of them (again, based partly on my read and partly on what I heard). Now it sounds like both guys are probably going to be back.

This is incorrect. Copeland hasn't done those workouts yet. They're coming next week. Also, Palmer's workout with LAC is on Tuesday.

FWIW, he's signing with somebody next week.

I don't believe he was forced out. I do believe he'd be open to hearing from both the high-major schools in Nebraska (but not UNO).

They did not.

Yep. They have a couple of freshmen who suited varsity and played a lot of JV plus DaiShon Neal's brother Abe Hoskins who came off the bench for them as a sophomore this year. They have a 6'9" kid who is a junior but he's not coordinated at all and not a whole lot else in the frontcourt.

He actually already has/had the jump shot. As a sophomore he was basically just a spot-up shooter who didn't play much varsity. Got a lot better over the summer heading into his junior year and really developed the rest of his game to go with the jumper. Had a very good junior season at Central including shooting 46% from 3. He did visit UNO on Thursday. Ball-handling and lateral quickness are probably the things he needs to work on the most.

Haven't heard anything yet. I'm guessing we'd know if he left the workout with an offer.

There are a lot more practices than games in high school basketball. Akol is getting plenty of opportunities to work on his perimeter skills even if he was being asked to serve mostly as a screen-and-roll or post player for Prep on game days. Prep had the most stacked team in the state this year (as the Class A title can back up) and while Akol was the team's leading scorer, basically everyone else in the rotation was a better perimeter shooter than he is. Next year I'd imagine we'll see his usage increase both in volume and in variety. Showing an improved jumper is a big part of why Darian DeVries offered him at Drake. He knocked down a few 3s in OSA's first tournament with DeVries in the crowd (his son plays on the 15U OSA Gauntlet team).

That team is stacked. Tyrell Terry and Zeke Nnaji are on the team too, as is Patrick McCaffery. OSA Gauntlet minus Shereef Mitchell (prom) played them Sunday morning and lost by 15.

Jasen Green is planning on going to Millard North. His sister is a junior there right now, I believe. He's about 6'4" as an 8th grader and their dad is about 6'7" or 6'8". He' been playing up a grade on Chucky Hepburn's AAU/club team for a while. His ball skills still need a lot of work but his physical tools at this stage are terrific and he has a lot of game. He's definitely the guy to watch in that 2022 class. I'm a big fan of Hepburn. He's the best player in that class right now by a considerable margin in my mind (and that class is pretty good). His feel for the game is tremendous and he's a really solid athlete to go with it. I just wonder about how much more he's going to grow; he's already taller than his older brother and their dad is not a tall man.

FWIW, as far as I know Wingett's only offers since reclassifying are Iona, Illinois-Chicago and Delaware State. His best offer before that was South Dakota State.

Nebraska is a lot more interested than Creighton. The Jays' "contact" was mostly a courtesy call. Creighton already has a similar yet better player signed in the class.

They recruited him for 3 years then let him go to Washington is probably more accurate. It's not like Washington won a fierce recruiting battle for him.