Silvia Gonzalez is transferring in from Bryant. She averaged 3.6 ppg and 2 rpg in a reserve role. Unlike the Morris (who fits a need in terms of go-to scorer/shooter) and Wilson transfers (showed promise/upside as a freshman at Georgetown and was a four star recruit out of HS) I don't really get this one.

Gonzalez regressed from year 1 to year 2, and this just feels like a step down from Planes Fortuny, who is also from Spain and came in from Bryant. I guess as a stretch frontcourt player she fits what Coach G wants to do in terms of shooting, but she only made 31% of her threes last year. Given the holes in the frontcourt, I hope WBB can land at least a couple of players who had a bigger impact. McCombs was able to do so with Mott/Planes Fortuny, so it should be doable especially since it's been reported that GW is going "all in" in WBB and upping the commitment.

Good article on Coach G: https://www.thenexthoops.com/ncaaw/mid-majors/ganiyat-adeduntan-new-head-coach-george-washington-atlantic-10/

Overall, I like the philosophy/long term vision but wanted to say two things: 1) It's great that she wants to be competitive right away, but the current roster that's mostly filled with McCombs recruits likely clash with what she wants to do. Most are not good shooters and turn the ball over a lot (although some definitely have promise with better coaching). Internal development will be critical if her goal is to make sizable strides in year 1. 2) She mentions wanting to play fast, but that sounds like classic coach speak. None of her teams at Colgate even ranked top 300 in tempo.
 

Promis N'landu
Year: 2026
Position: PG
Height: 6-3
Hometown: Montréal, Canada
High School: Fort Erie International Academy (Fort Erie, Canada)
AAU Team: UPlay (CAN)

Offers: Arizona State, Colorado State, Detroit Mercy, East Carolina, George Mason, Seton Hall, St. Bonaventure, Stonehill

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GW opens up at #50 in Bart Torvik's preseason projections (although it's obviously still very early for many teams in adding to their roster)

The additions of Bubu and Woo Marshall yesterday certainly answered certain ? marks with the roster, especially with regards to athleticism on the roster.

I guess if we're nitpicking, would it have been beneficial to get a down transfer in the backcourt in place of one of the up transfers from an upside perspective? In general, it appears that CC doesn't prefer to recruit athletes in the backcourt, so hopefully at least a couple of the guards can break down defenses and attack the basket to either finish or set up for an open three to the shooters mentioned above. Jean has that ability, but his game reminds me more of Pato in terms of being more crafty than a pure penetrating guard. CJ did that sometimes last year and hopefully can take a step forward. Tricky and Tre don't really do that as much. That would open up an opp for Trey Moss, but right now he's looking like an end of bench player given what CC has brought in. Hopefully the guards can finish better in transition too.

It will be fascinating to see what the whittled down rotation will look like come conference play. Every year on paper it looks like the team can go deeper, but this might be the deepest team yet. I'm not even sure where Ty fits into the puzzle, and I was hoping to see him get more minutes next year. I wonder if CC goes back to an uptempo style after slowing things down after January this past year. Perhaps more chances to press more, although we saw that the better teams GW faced were able to better take care of the ball.

I guess if there's a hole left, it's an emergency big? Neither Bubu nor Woo have the pure height to slide down to the 5 if Luke/Slim are unavailable for any reason but I'm sure CC has a plan.
 

Bubu Benjamin
Year: 2023
Position: SF
Height: 6-7
Hometown: Medicine Hat, Canada
High School: Edge School For Athletes (Calgary, Canada)
AAU Team: UPlay (CAN)

Offers (out of high school): Lehigh, Montana State, Northern Arizona, Tarleton State

Eligibility: Two years to play

Statistics:
(from sophomore year at Tarleton State) - 13.9 ppg, 4.6 rpg, 1.7 apg, 1.5 spg, 0.5 bpg; 44% FG, 38% 3-PT, 79% FT per 36 mpg/32 GP
(from freshman year at Tarleton State) - 2.8 ppg, 1.7 rpg, 0.7 apg, 0.4 spg, 0.1 bpg; 43% FG, 23% 3-PT, 75% FT per 11.7 mpg/22 GP

Notable Performances (against D1 competition):
2/27/25 vs. Abilene Christian: 16 points, 6 rebounds, 1 steal, 2 blocks; 7-11 FG, 1-1 3-PT, 1-2 FT in 36 minutes (sophomore year at Tarleton State)
2/8/25 @ Utah Valley: 18 points, 3 rebounds, 2 assists; 3-14 FG, 2-5 3-PT, 10-13 FT in 34 minutes (sophomore year at Tarleton State)
2/6/25 @ Seattle: 19 points, 6 rebounds, 2 assists, 1 steal, 1 block; 6-11 FG, 4-7 3-PT, 3-4 FT in 40 minutes (sophomore year at Tarleton State)
2/1/25 vs. Southern Utah: 18 points, 6 rebounds, 1 assist, 2 steals, 1 block; 8-14 FG, 1-4 3-PT, 1-3 FT in 37 minutes (sophomore year at Tarleton State)
1/4/25 vs. UT Arlington: 21 points, 4 rebounds, 4 assists, 2 steals, 2 blocks; 8-16 FG, 3-6 3-PT, 2-2 FT in 39 minutes (sophomore year at Tarleton State)
12/16/24 @ UTEP: 18 points, 2 rebounds, 3 steals; 6-12 FG, 1-4 3-PT, 5-8 FT in 40 minutes (sophomore year at Tarleton State)
12/8/24 @ UCF: 13 points, 1 rebound, 1 assist, 1 steal; 5-7 FG, 3-3 3-PT in 26 minutes (sophomore year at Tarleton State)
12/1/24 vs. Indiana State: 20 points, 4 rebounds; 8-16 FG, 2-4 3-PT, 2-3 FT in 31 minutes (sophomore year at Tarleton State)
11/29/24 vs. Iona: 22 points, 7 rebounds, 1 assist, 1 steal, 1 block; 7-11 FG, 3-6 3-PT, 5-5 FT in 40 minutes (sophomore year at Tarleton State)
11/21/24 @ Michigan: 15 points, 3 rebounds; 5-9 FG, 5-7 3-PT in 3

Need to have Garrett contingency plans at the 3/4 this year, so I wouldn't be opposed to using the two spots on those positions. Adding Dayan late last offseason from a talent perspective looked good, but he had too much of an injury history prior that it was risky.

Hopefully the 4 can slide down to the 5 if needed in an emergency, as expecting Slim/Luke to not miss a single game next season due to injury would also be unwise.

Adding one guy with a bit of size on the wing would make sense to me just to give CC that option that doesn't have to be Garrett (otherwise he would have to turn to Chaudhri who has no experience in college). It definitely appears that Ty or Tricky will see sizable minutes at the 3 as CC opts to go smaller a lot. Maybe even Jean as well. Also not seeing a lot of opportunities for Moss as of now, although would love to see an Armel Potter-like breakout in his second year at GW.
 

Gwmayhem wrote:

Take away the small sample size of 2-18 shooting 3's (from a guy who does seem to like taking them) and I think there's a lot to like here as long as expectations are reasonable.

Agreed. I think as a backup it's not a bad get and he has played in high leverage situations on a Big 10 team during his second year. I'm imagining him as being like Isaac Jack at Dayton (probably because both were backups and are Canadian). Having said that, I can understand where people are coming from when they are not impressed by his metrics when he did see the floor. His highlight film also shows that - he has a slightly awkward hitch when he shoots, but I did like when he made decisive moves in the mid-post and accelerated to the basket for a layup.

Gwmayhem wrote:

I did not see Hofstra play this past season though it was perhaps noteworthy that the team endured a subpar season relative to recent seasons. Jean's statistics certainly imply he possesses sound abilities as a complete player and perhaps the team's record had more to do with his supporting cast.

I think Aranguren is easily the best get of the three guys GW has landed so far. Hofstra had a subpar season because they lost nearly 80% of their scoring (their top four guys) from 2023-24 to either the transfer portal or graduation. Jean really stuffed the stat sheet and was relatively efficient despite the Pride not having many options.

Gwmayhem wrote:

Nevertheless, the notion of bring in a good player on a below 500 CAA team does not sound overly inspiring if the recent past is any indication. (Trey Moss played on a 23 loss William & Mary team while Gerald Drumgoole competed on a better 19-14 Delaware squad.) 

I get this, and I have some trepidation about another CAA guy coming to GW myself. I do think Jean is the best of the three CAA guys though. Moss was never a good three point shooter, and Drumgoole showed over the course of his career that he was streaky from both 3 and the FT l

Sam Kayser @247HSHoops 5m
NEWS: Duquesne guard Maximus Edwards is entering the transfer portal, he tells @LeagueRDY.

Edwards is a 6-foot-5 guard out of Samford, Connecticut who began his career at George Washington before playing one season at Duquesne.

Averaged 8.3PPG, 3.6RPG and 1.1APG this season.

Luke Hunger
Year: 2022
Position: PF
Height: 6-10
Hometown: Montréal, Canada
High School: Northfield Mount Hermon School (Gill, MA)
AAU Team: BABC (MA)

Offers (out of high school): Boston College, Boston U, Bradley, Brown, Bucknell, Cal Poly, East Carolina, Iona, Lehigh, Loyola Chicago, Massachusetts, Miami (FL), Mississippi, Northeastern, Northwestern, Pittsburgh, Rice, Richmond, San Francisco, Towson, UC Santa Barbara, William & Mary, Wofford, Yale

Eligibility: Two years to play

Statistics:
(from Junior year at Northwestern) - 2.8 ppg, 2.4 rpg, 1.2 apg, 0.1 bpg; 38% FG, 11% 3-PT, 63% FT per 12.5 mpg/25 GP
(from Sophomore year at Northwestern) - 3.8 ppg, 2.1 rpg, 0.6 apg, 0.1 spg, 0.2 bpg; 45% FG, 20% 3-PT, 68% FT per 12.8 mpg/31 GP
(from Freshman year at Northwestern) - 2.7 ppg, 1.3 rpg, 0.2 apg; 43% FG, 50% 3-PT, 60% FT per 6.5 mpg/6 GP

Notable Performances (against D1 competition):
2/25/25 @ Minnesota: 8 points, 4 rebounds, 2 assists; 4-9 FG in 17 minutes (junior year at Northwestern)
1/26/25 @ #17 Illinois: 5 points, 1 rebound, 1 assist; 2-3 FG, 1-2 3-PT in 8 minutes (junior year at Northwestern)
12/3/24 @ Iowa: 7 points, 4 rebounds, 1 assist; 3-6 FG, 0-1 3-PT, 1-2 FT in 22 minutes (junior year at Northwestern)
11/12/24 vs. UIC: 10 points, 3 rebounds, 1 assist; 4-8 FG, 0-1 3-PT, 2-2 FT in 20 minutes (junior year at Northwestern)
11/4/24 vs. Lehigh: 15 points, 2 rebounds, 2 assists; 7-10 FG, 1-3 3-PT in 15 minutes (junior year at Northwestern)
3/24/24 vs. Connecticut: 6 points, 7 rebounds, 2 assists; 3-7 FG, 0-1 3-PT in 31 minutes (sophomore year at Northwestern)
3/22/24 vs. Florida Atlantic: 8 points, 8 rebounds, 4 assists; 1-8 FG, 0-2 3-PT, 6-8 FT in 29 minutes (sophomore year at Northwestern)
3/15/24 vs. Wisconsin: 6 points, 4 rebounds, 2 assists; 3-5 FG, 0-2 3-PT in 31 minutes (sophomore year at Northwestern)
2/22/24 vs. Michigan: 8 points, 2 rebounds; 3-5 FG, 2-2 FT i

Kam Craft is off to Georgia Tech.

Sad. I guess the NW transfer is the fallback option. Didn't this also happen to Yacine Toumi a few years back? There were definitely others.

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Former Iowa center Ladji Dembele is visiting Butler tomorrow.

Tre Dinkins
Year: 2020
Position: PG
Height: 6-2
Hometown: Chester, PA
High School: Cardinal O'Hara HS (Springfield, PA)
Junior College: Harcum College (Bryn Mawr, PA)
AAU Team: Jersey Force (NJ)

Offers: Canisius, Duquesne, Maine, Northwestern State

Eligibility: One year to play

Statistics:
(from year at Duquesne) - 12.9 ppg, 2.3 rpg, 3.1 apg, 0.9 spg, 0.1 bpg; 41% FG, 38% 3-PT, 78% FT per 29.1 mpg with 32 GP
(from year 2 at Canisius) - 15.4 ppg, 2.7 rpg, 3.6 apg, 1 spg, 0.3 bpg; 41% FG, 37% 3-PT, 79% FT per 35.1 mpg with 32 GP
(from year 1 at Canisius) - 5.9 ppg, 1.9 rpg, 1.4 apg, 0.4 spg, 0.2 bpg; 34% FG, 34% 3-PT, 83% FT per 20.3 mpg with 30 GP
(from year 2 at Harcum College) - 15.1 ppg, 3.2 rpg, 2.7 apg, 1.3 spg, 0.2 bpg; 45% FG, 38% 3-PT, 78% FT per 28.1 mpg with 34 GP
(from year 1 at Harcum College) - 12.8 ppg, 3.4 rpg, 2.3 apg, 1.6 spg, 0.1 bpg; 48% FG, 39% 3-PT, 72% FT per 23 mpg with 18 GP

Notable Performances (against D1 competition):
3/1/25 vs. George Mason: 20 points, 1 rebound, 3 assists, 1 steal; 7-11 FG, 6-9 3-PT in 29 minutes (year at Duquesne)
2/15/25 @ Dayton: 21 points, 3 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 steals; 8-13 FG, 3-7 3-PT, 2-2 FT in 35 minutes (year at Duquesne)
1/29/25 @ St. Joe's: 27 points, 4 rebounds, 1 assist, 2 steals; 11-19 FG, 5-11 3-PT in 27 minutes (year at Duquesne)
1/8/25 vs. St. Joe's: 26 points, 2 rebounds, 2 assists; 10-20 FG, 4-12 3-PT, 2-2 FT in 35 minutes (year at Duquesne)
11/19/24 vs. Milwaukee: 20 points, 3 rebounds, 4 assists; 5-11 FG, 4-9 3-PT, 6-6 FT in 25 minutes (year at Duquesne)
3/12/24 vs. Mount St. Mary's: 24 points, 3 rebounds, 4 assists; 10-21 FG, 4-11 3-PT, 0-1 FT in 40 minutes (second year at Canisius)
2/18/24 @ Siena: 22 points, 6 rebounds, 4 assists, 1 block; 7-13 FG, 5-8 3-PT, 3-3 FT in 36 minutes (second year at Canisius)
2/10/24 vs. Iona: 21 points, 2 assists, 1 steal; 7-14 FG, 5-9 3-PT, 2-3 FT in 39 minutes (second