Dead Dog Alley

He's currently, technically, an end of the year transfer from Nevada who used up his sophomore year of eligibility by playing in 4 games last year. With no waivers, he's ineligible next year and have two years left. There's a good chance he will get a waiver to be eligible at semester, which would give him a year and a half of eligibility. There is not as good a chance that he'll get a waiver so that last year counted as a redshirt year. There's even less of a chance that he'll be eligible at the start of the season.

Duke, Schmook. Why on Earth would he go play for an old has-been who's way past his prime.

Sounds la little like DaPreis Owens.

I've been watching games for far too long and I'm too used to watching games with halves now; it's too late to change.

Normally the rule is if you play in the first semester and transfer, unless you can claim a medical redshirt that year of eligibility is gone. If you were a sophomore and transfer at semester, you are eligible at the end of the first semester the next year and you would be a junior. It would take one waiver to claim that as a redshirt year, and another waiver to be eligible for the first semester. Also, since he is technically a end of the year transfer from Nevada, he would need another waiver just to be eligible at the semester, otherwise he wouldn't be eligible until the next year when he'd be a junior. So it's not cut and dried.

He also went 3-13 in conference in the Big 12 that year. With the job they've done putting together a really good backcourt, it would be a shame to waste a year just because they're a couple players short.

I would prefer a couple grad transfers, even if they produce Duby/Old Testament numbers or worse, or Johnny Trueblood to a couple open scholarships. As long as they are seniors so there's some options for the 2020 cycle.

Even if your ideal lineup is to have a multi-talented player in the 6'7" to 6'9" range at the 5, when you're in the Big 10 it's a lot easier to get one of those players if you also have a legitimate center. If you don't, when you're recruiting the smaller guy he'll look at the prospect of going head to head down low full time, and might have some second thoughts about coming here. Even if you've got a guy who can come in 10 minutes a game and play the goon role it would help. Do you think Roby would have came here had he known he'd end up playing the 5 75% of the time?

Wisconsin? I guess if they go there and Davison hits one of them in the jewels again, at least it won't be on television. https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ncaabk/wisconsins-davison-earns-flagrant-1-for-punch-to-groin/ar-BBQGyjg

big tens best backcourt can put up some points but they still have no johnson

Here's the comparison to Roby's freshman numbers. Western Kentucky went 20-14 in 2019, Nebraska went 12-19 in 2017. season Team 2018-19 WKU FG FG% 3PT 3P% FT FT% OR DR REB AST BLK STL PF TO PTS 39-97 40.2 8-37 21.6 19-34 55.9 16 76 92 65 16 14 27 52 105 season Team 2016-17 Nebraska FG FG% 3PT 3P% FT FT% OR DR REB AST BLK STL PF TO PTS 37-94 39.4 4-20 20.0 16-21 76.2 36 52 88 22 25 16 36 58 94

The best case scenario wins 25 games. The other wins 15.

Well, this looks like a step above Danai Young, Justin Boeker, Marques McCarty, and Kedric Ford. (Nothing against any of those guys by the way.)

His tape looks a lot like Ed Morrow's high school tape. Except for he's two inches taller. And 20 lbs heavier. And has a range of 20' and not 2', and can actually handle the ball like a wing and can actually pass it. So what gives? How is this guy not rated higher?

Here's the approximate minutes by position for the Iowa State sweet sixteen team. (Approximate because it's hard to determine whether Ejim or Hogue was the 3/4 or the 4/5, for example.) The question remains, would it work in the Big Ten? C PF SF SG PG DeAndre Kane SR G 6-4 200 3.4 18.4 12.6 17.1 Pts, 6.8 Reb, 5.9 Ast Melvin Ejim SR F 6-6 220 16.6 13.8 17.8 Pts, 8.4 Reb, 1.8 Ast Georges Niang SO F 6-8 230 28.5 16.7 Pts, 4.5 Reb, 3.6 Ast Dustin Hogue JR F 6-6 220 5.8 24.1 11.6 Pts, 8.4 Reb, 1.0 Ast Nazareth Mitrou-Long SO G 6-4 210 20.3 7.1 Pts, 1.6 Reb, 1.1 Ast Monte Morris FR G 6-2 170 28. 1 6.8 Pts, 2.6 Reb, 3.7 Ast Matt Thomas FR G 6-4 195 21.2 5.5 Pts, 2.1 Reb, 1.1 Ast Sherron Dorsey-Walker FR G 6-4 200 3.2 1.2 Pts, 0.6 Reb, 0.5 Ast Daniel Edozie JR F 6-8 252 3.8 1.0 Pts, 1.5 Reb, 0.1 Ast K.J. Bluford JR G 6-1 185 1.1 2.7 Pts, 0.1 Reb, 0.4 Ast Percy Gibson JR C 6-9 260 2 1.2 Pts, 1.4 Reb, 0.0 Ast Tyler Ellerman SR F 6-8 240 0.6 1.0 Pts, 1.0 Reb, 0.0 Ast

Against Power 5 + Big East conference teams, in the 22 games Nana played in, his averages were: 11.6 minutes, 2.7 points, 2.3 rebounds, 0.2 assists, 0.4 steals, 0.1 blocks, 28.8 FG%, 17.0 3P%, 45.5 FT%. It will take a lot for him to turn it around.

I can live with that choice but I would have preferred this:

I bet they're leaving because Ed Morrow is moving to the wing and will take all their playing time. Edit...and ConkintheCorner beats me to it.

If Karrington Davis can replicate what he did in high school, we will have a damn good team. That is, if he is the backup to two different top 5 NBA draft picks, like he was in high school. To be serious, though, I think he can be pretty good, but he missed last year, and didn't play much with injuries the year before that. If it weren't for bad luck he'd have no luck at all.

That is if Thor doesn't go play in Iceland, and if Karrington Davis is healthy enough to play. If Thor is back, then Nebraska returns a total of 20.9 minutes per game, 3.7 points per game, 4.1 rebounds per game, 1.8 assists per game, 0.9 steals per game, 0.4 blocks per game, and the returnees shot 43.8% from the floor, 19.4% from 3, and 43.6% from the line.

We're in deeper if Thor goes back to Iceland and is replaced by Open Scholarship. That dude has been on the roster for years and years now and ain't ever done jack squat.