First and foremost, notwithstanding my progressive short term memory loss caused by aging, if there is one post I will remember all summer, it will be our preseason ranking of 52 (which, sadly, has now plummeted to 55).   

Now, as much as I considered myself a bit of a statistical geek, I am looking at the stats associated with Torvik's rankings and see things like Projected Effective Talent and Projected Effective Experience and must scratch my head.    (Free Quebec must be having a wet dream over all of the stats provided).  And please, someone tell me if I should be happy or concerned that our team Barthag is 8225,  Is there anything that we can do to get it higher (or lower if it is a bad thing).

Finally, in reviewing our specific roster members, Torvik has his top 10 projected contributor, with Ty Bevins getting the "The Professor and Maryanne" treatment as being listed as part of "and the rest", along with the 2 frosh and 2 returning non scholarship players.    I was very impressed with Bevins, who played a strong defense all season and with confidence gained over the course of the season showed himself to be an effective 3 point shooter at .389 for the season.  In fact, other than Autry, I don't know if there was anyone I was more comfortable with shooting the 3 on last season's team other than Ty.  If we indeed have 10 players on the team that are better than Bevins, we could be very good this season.

Luke Hunger...The good and the bad

https://www.insidenu.com/2025/4/9/24404213/mens-basketball-player-reviews-luke-hunger

I agree.  Seems like nickle and dime stuff.  Today you can pay an athlete a million dollars but can’t take a recruit bowling or to a basketball game?

dmvpiranha wrote:

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.

The only surprise about this is what took so long for Max to enter the portal.   After leaving GW, I couldn’t imagine Max staying at Duquesne to come off the bench .

Joel Joseph wrote:

If this is "great news" and the quality of player we are filling our needs with, it's going to be another mediocre season.
As someone used to say, we need Power 5 talent to compete in the A-10! Not #10-15 P-5 players who realize they want to finish out their college careers with a little more playing time.
Hopefully I am proven wrong. All I'm asking for is the type of transfer hits we used to get at GW - Zeke, Cavanaugh, Mo, etc. They are out there. CC needs to put on the sales pitch charm.

After looking at his stats from last season, I am in Joel's camp on this one...skeptical.   One stat that immediately jumpted out at me was in 313 minutes on the court, he shot only 8 free throws.  At 6'10: 260 lbs, how do you only get to the line 8 times for the season?    How passive must he be?  His rebounding numbers were nothing special.   I would say that maybe he is filling the Hansen role as a big with an outside touch,since he obviously is not a banger or a low post player, but he shot 2-18 from the 3 for the season.  Those are Buchanan numbers.    Hopefully the initangibles are there and he is a great defender and sets a good pick, but there is nothing in his stat line that I really like.    I assume he will see similar minutes at GW (around 12 per game), maybe a few more, as I hope that we aren't looking at him for 25-30 minutes per game.   Frankly to me, this signing has an air of desperation about it.  Somebody tell me why we should be excited.
 

I know that Jamison played for GW for 2 seasons, which is as long as he played anywhere else.  And I know times are changing in terms of transfer rulls, NIL money, etc, even if my mindset hasn't been as quick to change.   Where am I going with this?   I am happy for Jamison...but not to the extent I was happy for Yuta, Cavanaugh and those few others that went into the NBA after finishing their college careers at GW.  I would check those players NBA box scores all the time.    Jamison rarely.     I still like to think that the players are playing for the names on the front of the jersey and not the back, and no matter how valid the reaons may be for leaving (and they are absolutely valid), a part of me still thinks "traitor", I just just can't feel about them as I would a graduate, even if that graduate was only at GW for one or 2 seasons.  

adclub wrote:

Is Tre our first intra-A10 transfer?

My guess is yes.  Certainly nobody recently.  Before this madness started, A-10 discouraged intra conference transfers by imposing a 2 year redshirt rather than 1 year.

DC Native wrote:

This year's tournament was great if you like to see Blue Bloods and Goliaths duke it out, but if you're like me and want to see some Davids mixed in, it was pretty disappointing. Based on the viewership numbers, however, which were apparently up across the board, then I am in a distinct minority...

As for San Antonio, I haven't been there in many years, but I remember it as being a great town.

Me too.   I also found San Antonio to be a great town.

Happy for Jamion.   Upon reflection, he brought some quality players to GW and may have deserved at least one more season (although I was happy for the change at the time).   Also seemed to be a nice guy in my limited contacts with him.  Wish him nothing but the best.  

The walk-ons are part of the team, even with the understanding that their playing time is going to be almost non-existant.   They have GW on their uniforms, show up for practice and do what is asked of them to make the team better.    It would have been nice to let them experience post season play, on national TV, for even 1-2 minutes.  Small reward for the sacrifices they have made during the course of the season.  Unless you bet GW giving 30, what difference would it have made?