spiderman said:

more about Knowling ... I think it's kind of like Dji. if they do other things really well, you can have a non-shooter if you have the right guys around him. you can't have just that kind of player though.

looking at USC this year, they've gone nuts in the portal with what looks like all 1 year guys:
PG Bryce Pope, UCSD, 18 ppg, 4 rpg, 2 apg, 33% from 3
PG Clark Slajchert, Penn, 18 ppg, 3 rpg, 3 apg, 42% from 3
SG Chibuzo Agbo, Boise St, 14 ppg, 5 rpg, 41% from 3
SF Saint Thomas, No Colorado, 19.7 ppg, 10 rpg, 4 apg, 33% from 3
SF Matt Knowling, Yale, 11.6 ppg, 4.5 rpg, 2 apg, non shooter from 3
PF Rashaun Agee, Bowling Green, 13 ppg, 8 rpg, 1.6 apg, non shooter from 3
C Josh Cohen, UMass, 16 ppg, 7 rpg, 1.7 apg, 34% frmo 3

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Was travelling and this USC update was very helpful sman. USC is one of those schools that lost their coach and entire roster. Interesting roster. Knowling is a Connecticut player, thought was a pretty good shooter out of hs but turned into more of a Dji like glue guy at Yale.

The Spider men just fell to 3-seed Dayton in the semis, 4–0. The Flyers will face top-seeded VCU, who cruised by SLU.

We’s the underdog from this panel:

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spiderman said:

hmm. I do like their other one's. couldn't sign up for lavendar though.

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Reminds me.

Right after I graduated I had a roommate who threw his white tee shirts and briefs in with my red UR tee in the washer.

He decided to still wear them afterwards but always had the nickname Lavenderman…

I count protests on 77 different college campuses. Each one is disrupting classes and exams.

It's also happening at George Washington University.

Would welcome him back for sure

Spider women just won a tough 4–2 match over Fordham to advance to the finals against 3-seed UMass tomorrow at 5:30.

Eight Legger said:

Suck it, lambs and your mercenary European tennis team! Have a nice flight home, losers!

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Careful 1 of 9 men non-US, but 6 of 9 women non-US

Yes as much as some are downgrading on here, I believe Jordan King did pretty good moving up from a lower conference. This guys game appears very much different than Roche's to me. Hope we are still in on Deuce or Matt, both look like they can fill it up.

I read that UCLA is interested in Becht.

Wood Hall said:

In today's world he never would have played in one of those meaningless all-star games and might have been healthy for his career.

Not everything was better in the good old days.

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I agree in retrospect that All Star game was a crazy risk from the players and team's perspective, but as a fan I remember being in front of my black and white TV set every August to see if the College All Stars could knock off the NFL Champs.

I believe it was always played at Soldier Field in Chicago?

Go Spiders!

UR80sfan said:

I know for a fact that we are in touch with and have had more visits than the google sheet would suggest.

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good to hear. crazy to me that we reached out to this many as it is. but I guess that's you have to do it in the portal.

We win 9-4. Good start to the weekend. Party hardy in Olean, the city of my birth!

spiderman said:

I'm going off MD's google sheet, which is all we have.
currently 66 guys we know we reached out to. I'm sure there are a few others.
of the 66, we landed Beagle. 45 committed elsewhere. 20 remain uncommitted.

11 of those 20 we're fine from 3.
Becht was by far the best at 44.8% ... with the caveat that it was in D2.
the other 10 range from 32.3% to 37.4%.

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I know for a fact that we are in touch with players and have had more visits than the google sheet would suggest.

Top gun for UMass didn’t play.Injured in UR game(in which he scored 5 goals)

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HPU. gets 3rd seed ,UMass 4th seed.

In today's world he never would have played in one of those meaningless all-star games and might have been healthy for his career.

Not everything was better in the good old days.

Spiders get four more in the 7th to lead 9–1 heading to the bottom.

VT4700 said:

I'm pretty confident we have contacted more guys than you think, and does your post above mean 11 of the 20 were good from 3? And, don't forget Harris became a key piece last year and Bigs was in the 20s 2 years ago.

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I'm going off MD's google sheet, which is all we have.
currently 66 guys we know we reached out to. I'm sure there are a few others.
of the 66, we landed Beagle. 45 committed elsewhere. 20 remain uncommitted.

11 of those 20 we're fine from 3.
Becht was by far the best at 44.8% ... with the caveat that it was in D2.
the other 10 range from 32.3% to 37.4%.

Spiders lead 5-1 through 6 innings. E-Rod was able to get through 4.2 with just one allowed and Reinke has thrown 1.1 scoreless.

Top 4 of the lineup each have at least one RBI.

Close this one out!

So all of our women entering the portal already have a new home. Just scrolling through the list that seems to be fairly remarkable. There's still no news on Budniik as far as I know - hasn't gone the portal route and hasn't committed to playing a fifth year.

Harris was a perfect role player last year, bought into whatever was asked of him, which was defense, rebounding and corner 3s. Hopefully there are guys like that each year, but who knows what kind of role any kid is looking for as a transfer. I'm fairly confident that our staff is laying out that kind of situation for transfers who aren't expected to be starters, like Harris. You obviously can't promise 5 returnees and multiple transfers that they'll all start and be 25-30 mpg guys but can promise them a shot at proving they belong in the rotation of a team expecting to win in the A10.

I expect most of the role player guys are guys like Harris, one year transfers looking to move up for a final year. Finding the glue guy who can easily translate his lower level stats - even if modest numbers - is an interesting aspect of the portal.

Also, i agree it's not Roche's shooting numbers that worry me at all, it's his opportunity. If he's healthy this coming year, they just have to let him shoot away, we need scoring badly.

spiderman said:

and yet of the 20 targets we have left, 3 took 15 or fewer 3's and 6 others had 3 point shooting percentages in the 20's.

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I'm pretty confident we have contacted more guys than you think, and does your post above mean 11 of the 20 were good from 3? And, don't forget Harris became a key piece last year and Bigs was in the 20s 2 years ago.

Eight Legger said:

In our system we always need shooting. And when we have enough of it, we still need more.

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and yet of the 20 targets we have left, 3 took 15 or fewer 3's and 6 others had 3 point shooting percentages in the 20's.