After you corrected my error regarding Manthy (thanks again), I agree there are three open spots at the moment. One other thing to note is that unlike the men's team, I don't believe there are any walk-ons on the women's side. So Roussell does not have the complication Mooney faces with how to treat walk-ons.

High Point(5-6,2-0)

UMASS Box score

https://www.insidelacrosse.com/game/78851/2025

Theee spots available, correct? We have six that are out of eligibility plus Swider in the portal, and we signed four in the fall.

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How many guards are we going to look at? Is this foreshadowing a guard transferring out?

Honor Huff has had Zooms with Iowa and Penn State, and will Zoom with Vandy and St. John’s tomorrow. Also talking to WVU. A zillion other big boys have also been in touch. Oh, and VCU.

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SpiderGuy said:

Would really like to get a Bigelow type. He really stepped up his 2nd year in several facets of game. Don’t think we have that set of skills on our roster????

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Would love a Bigs type. I hope we have at least 2 spots left, and just haven't heard a transfer make an official announcement yet.

MrTbone said:

I think one ncaa tournament visit every four years is my absolute minimum and what we’ve sort of heard from the university (only BobB was willing to utter this ofc). So by that logic, we have to go next year. It feels like an incredibly low probability given this years results and the state of the roster.

But yes, we have different expectations.

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The last 4 seasons, VCU is the only A-10 team with more than 1 NCAA bid:
VCU 2 (23,25).
Dayton (24).
Duquesne (24).
Richmond (22).
Davidson (22).

That's it for A-10 bids. So, Davidson also needs to go next year to meet your criteria, Loyola went in 22 before they joined the A-10 so they need to go to, while every other A-10 team did not meet your criteria the past 4 years.

Last year we brought in four from the portal. Three were announced as a group on May 7 and the Jimenez add was announced on May 31. So it could be a while before we know what the results of this year's portal might be.

Should have an opportunity at some PWO guys at big schools who went thru spring ball & now finding out they don’t have a spot due to roster caps.

He stepped up when Hunt went down and became go to scorer. In my mind we would have been even worse without him. That might sound like a backhanded compliment, but he was a decent get.

We just didn’t have a decent roster with depth last year. If we don’t up the roster next year, it will be disastrous.

See the link for a very interesting NIH study to treat cancer that has been shut down. Was of special interest to me as I lost a friend approx. 30 yrs ago they had tried a similar treatment at Johns Hopkins. I understand he was one of first.

mojo-spider said:

32...do you have any idea whether, or not, we'll get hit again by transfers out during this period?

Go Spiders!

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Good question.Not sure.With Spring ball finished and the Spring academic calendar coming to a close,anything is possible.

Eight Legger said:

I usually enjoy the portal, but I agree that this year it seems rather blah. I’m coming around a bit on Johnston, seems like he’ll be a decent scorer for us. Thomas, meh. At the moment we only have one other opening, correct? We really need to kill it with that one if so.

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Would really like to get a Bigelow type. He really stepped up his 2nd year in several facets of game. Don’t think we have that set of skills on our roster????

gospidersgo said:

I agree he could be a ballstopper at times, but who was he supposed to pass it up to for a shot? Our menagerie of guys shooting 3's in the 20% range?

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It was flat out ugly, when I watch the ball movement on some of these other teams and the open looks - and then see the supposed pretty offense we don't actually run - its a bit much. The little I watched, the Dusan jacks and dribbling just left the other guys frustrated. I agree, not a lot of great options, but maybe, just maybe this greatest shooting team that couldn't shoot was a result of poor ball movement (this is a fact), ball stoppers, and no urgency until 5 seconds in the shot clock and a forced contested shot. Probably being too hard on Dusan, but Philly has a point, and I saw the kid in prep school and seemed to be same type of game then.

This hyping of Dusan is just part of the problem with our program. Now I'm open that there are many ways to win at college basketball. But we need to accept that the areas VCU, Houston, SDSU excel at - that we can at least try to be average, and play with toughness and not let teams have direct line drives to the basket so often.

spider23 said:

Well, its such a moving target - the proliferation of transfers early this year - I think 1000 in portal after 2 days makes it impossible task. And of course, Gkiller right on cue - we tend to land the guys that have not been mentioned with us yet - so again an effort in futility. The portal was fun last couple seasons, this year its just blahhhh. I do think the two guard pickups can help us, but front court looking average if no Unsensible pick ups.

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I don't think the portal is blah at all. I am always very interested in seeing which guys we get. I think moreso this year when I am so ready to see new players and new starters next season.

Meanwhile, he's stopping the fight against some forms of cancer. As a survivor, that hits home.

Well, its such a moving target - the proliferation of transfers early this year - I think 1000 in portal after 2 days makes it impossible task. And of course, Gkiller right on cue - we tend to land the guys that have not been mentioned with us yet - so again an effort in futility. The portal was fun last couple seasons, this year its just blahhhh. I do think the two guard pickups can help us, but front court looking average if no Unsensible pick ups.

32counter said:

FYI.

The college football spring transfer portal window is open from April 16th to April 25th, 2025, a 10-day period for players to enter the transfer portal.

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32...do you have any idea whether, or not, we'll get hit again by transfers out during this period?

Go Spiders!

SFspidur said:

You know things are bleak when MD can’t find the motivation to put together a spreadsheet this go-around.

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Yeah...sorry guys, just don't have the time these days to get the spreadsheet together. Can't say I feel particularly motivated to do so after last year anyways.