Today an email was sent out announcing the cancellation of the proposed Smith Center renovation to create a state of the art basketball practice facility where the pool used to be. For our men's and women's basketball teams, this is a big disappointment. For a proposal that has been in the works since 2020, it's a bit shocking and even distressing it took four years to realize the plan was flawed.

While the email said they are looking at all other options, how much longer will the program have to wait this time.

Hoping for the best but incredibly frustrated by this result. 

While we didn’t get him, it looks like GW State and Loyala didn’t either.
https://x.com/tp4pt/status/1777787436224938387?s=46&t=at8kc9mPPiJ11sWji-4ekA

As of 23 March these are the players I found on X who claim we’ve shown interest:
- Josh Cohen (UMass)
- AJ Smith (Citadel)
- Sean Hansen (Cornell)
- Isaiah Gray (Cornell)
- Jalen Leach (Fairfield)
- Dre Bullock (Niagara)
- Sean Moore (Farleigh Dickinson)
- Jake Davis (Mercer)
- Ahmir Langlais (USC Upstate)
- Sadaidriene Hall (SFA)
- Tre Dinkins (Canisius)
- A’lahn Sumler (Charleston Southern)
- Arturo Dean (FIU)
- Ryan Forrest (Northwestern State)
- Justin Wright (LMU)
- Makaih Williams (UTA)
- Antonio Chol (Rutgers)
- Jailen Bedford (ORU)
- Roger McFarlane (SE Louisiana)
- Josh Corbin (Robert Morris)
- Bernard Pelote (Western Carolina)
- DJ Campbell (WCU)
- Tyler Perkins (UPenn)
- Seth Hubbard (Western Michigan)
- Dejour Reaves (Northern Colorado)
- Maleek Arington (Idaho State)
- Troy D’Amico (SIU)
- De’Shayne Montgomery (MSM)
- Jlynn Counter (IUPUI)
- Jerry Deng (Hampton)
- Eric Sondberg (Lafayette)
- Zavian McLean (Columbia)

Anyone else I’m missing?

What is so interesting to me FQ is that his shot selection hasn’t been terrible the past two games. For someone who came to GW and was very inefficient scoring his first two years here, he has greatly improved his shot selection under Caputo. For the last two games though, he just isn’t hitting his shots. Several of the threes he has taken have been wide open and he just can’t knock them down.

I’m assuming it is something mechanical that he may just be able to fix in practice or just by continuing to shoot, but either way, this slump has not been ideal.

Free Quebec wrote:

James is a great kid, but his inconsistency this year and his regression in some categories is holding us back.

Some stats on his inconsistency this year:


Over the last two games he’s a combined 2-17 from 2 pt range, with each game being worse from 2 than any game last year.

He’s had 9 games already this year in which he has made 2 or fewer two point shots; last year he had just 6 all season.   In those 9 games, he is 11-49 from 2: last year in those 6 games he was 11-39.

Overall, last year he shot 50.6% from 2, this year he’s at a career low 43.2% from 2. 

And while he’s significantly improved his three point shooting (37.4% this year, 30.3% last year), his turnover rate is way higher (14.4 last year, 19.0 this year) and his assist rate is down. 

I don’t know why he has regressed this year (we’ve seen other guys better than second to last year than their last, like Kwame Evans IIRC), but if we want to finish in the top half of the A10, Bishop just has to play better than he has.

DC Native wrote:

GW appears to be much better this year than in recent years, but so is the A10. Four teams in the KenPom top 100, only one team +200 (just barely), and everyone else in the 100s, just like us and our last three opponents.

As of this evening GW has now played the 111, 112, and 113 KenPom teams and come out 2-1 (Ohio, Hofstra, and UIC in order).

Top 100 games coming up include 68 South Carolina, 69 Dayton, 79 Richmond, 80 Duquesne, and VCU 83. If we went 3-2 against these five (5) and won the majority of our remaining schedule does anyone think we could end up a Top 100 Team by end of season?

I know Kenner means nothing, but has Harvey shown anything in the scrimmage or practice? I could see him getting minutes if we need size. Remember last year with Dean hurt we actually got some minutes from Harvey before he went down.

So Davidson did a thing...
https://marketing-toolbox.davidson.edu/branding-assets/logos-marks/

Were they feeling so overshadowed by the other North Carolina schools they figured they should compete with the DC market?

This means we had the 6th highest ranked class in the A10. Dayton came in #1 at 75. Interesting because early in the year we had the 2nd and 3rd ranked class in the A10. Not sure if others signed more guys or the ones we signed saw their ratings drop.

@GWRising, any updates on our international big Freshman recruit? 

Not as sexy as a new transfer or recruit update, but our new moniker will be announced this afternoon.

https://twitter.com/gwtweets/status/1661425101563101200?s=46&t=at8kc9mPPiJ11sWji-4ekA