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Quinnipiac grad transfer Rich Kelly (@richkelly2222) will be announcing his college commitment LIVE with us at Noon ET Tommorow! Rich will be choosing from:
Ohio State
Wake Forest
Boston College
BYU
GW
Tulane
Santa Clara

UPDATE (3/29): Kelly heading to Boston College. Closer to home so I guess it makes sense. From a basketball standpoint though Jim Christian is a mediocre coach and the Eagles aren't likely to make the NCAA tournament anytime soon.
 

I guess Marfo wanted to play for a BCS school in which he'd get a lot of minutes, it will be interesting to see what he can do as a starter against SEC competition for 18 games. Someone mentioned that Marfo had 13 rebounds against Miami(the best BCS team he faced this past season), so he may be able to hold his own at Texas A&M. 

I'm assuming that the Mitchell twins will be eligible at some point during the upcoming 2020-2021 season, with all the defections from Rhode Island, they should have plenty of opportunity to make an immediate impact. Fats Russell declared for the NBA draft, but he won't hire an agent and could come back. F.Russell seems to be too small to be considered a 1st or even early 2nd round pick, but we see a lot of guys who have late-2nd round/ undrafted projections who stay in the draft, so you never know. 

About the NBA draft, Georgetown guard Mac McClung declared for the draft, and it appears as if he won't hire an agent which will allow him to come back next year. If McClung does stay in the draft, Georgetown could be in BIG trouble next year!!

Well, I wasn't a Math major, but if Rich Kelly was considering us up to his 3/29 announcement, I would think there may be another transfer coming.

It definitely feels like another spot could be opening up at some point, as the staff is continuing to follow 2020 prospects and transfers. Many are point guards, which tells me there is some concern about Amir's availability for next year. I do like Lindo (definitely can shine when given more of a chance than just 8 minutes per game), but if we have only a spot left, it should probably be on a guard. Three more recently:

Darius Perry (Louisville) - 5.2 ppg, 1.5 rpg, 2.5 apg; 39% FG, 39% 3-pt, 75% FT. Odds of landing him seem long but I do like that we are going for it on the transfer market this year.

Calvin Wishart (Georgia Southern) - 9.4 ppg, 2.5 rpg, 2.7 apg; 43% FG, 38% 3-pt, 72% FT. Mark Byington, Georgia Southern's previous coach, just left for James Madison which may have led to Wishart deciding to leave. He is a Minnesota native.

Robbie Heath III (D2 West Chester) - 24.6 ppg, 7.3 rpg, 2.6 apg; 44% FG, 38% 3-pt, 81% FT. Heath is an Australian native, and I'm sure he will get quite a few looks from schools at the D1 level. He led all freshmen in scoring at the D2 level, and was 9th overall. West Chester is where former Colonial Marcus Littles played this past season. Littles averaged 3.8 ppg this season.

Some other updates from the past weeks:
Brendan Barry (Dartmouth) - elected to return to Dartmouth for senior year.
Ian DuBose (Houston Baptist) - returning closer to home to play at Wake Forest.
Tahj Eaddy (Santa Clara) - east coast kid staying west to play for Enfield and USC.
Sam Sessoms (Binghamton) - returning closer to home to play at Penn State.

Other A10 Updates:
Malik Martin committed to Rhode Island. He is Hassan Martin's younger brother who averaged 9 ppg with the Charlotte 49ers this past season, and replaces another Martin at URI, Tyrese Martin. He joins the Mitchell twins at URI who also committed today. There are now four Mitchell players in the A10, all who play for either URI or UMass.

Speaking of UMass, Samba Diallo is leaving the program. He averaged 6.7 ppg and 5.9 rpg. Seems like if you don't come from the Woodstock Academy, you no longer have a place on the team. The Minutemen will have 7(!) players from that one school next year.

Other A10 transfers out in the past few days include KC Hankton of SLU, Lorenzo Edwards of SJU, Ashton Miller and Evan Buckley of Duquesne, Jhery Matos of Dayton. None were big contributors to their respective teams, so no surprise.
 

I LOVE Charles minlend’s game.  He’s not a great outside shooter (31% for his career). but he is an excellent player.  Have followed him since we lost out to SF for him (or pulled out of recruiting him, no way to know the truth from internet gossip) and have watched him several times.  He’s a very physical guard who plays with aggression and puts pressure on the D and gets to the line. Also has good size for defense.   

For context, in 5 games vs Gonzaga his sophomore and junior years, he’s averaged over 16 ppg. 

I am sure he’ll go bcs (and succeed) but if he still wanted to spend a year a GW, I would be pumped, even though he’s not a PG.

GW0509 wrote:

DMV, I think you've touched on this before but does it seem to you like the P5's are dipping further and further down for transfers than in the past?  Seems like some of these low level guys that used to transfer up to maybe the A-10 are getting plucked by the blue bloods.

I know you didn’t ask me, but I definitely think that’s the case.  I suspect there’s three reasons. 

One, the ncaa is expected to give a waiver so there’s not sit out this year, which means bcs schools don’t have to burn a scholarship year for a guy sitting out until he’s eligible.  Two, it’s becoming more and more clear that the talent gap between good players on low and mid majors vs most of the bcs players is not real.   There have been so many success stories (Ryan wooldridge at Gonzaga this year, Baylor getting to #1 this year thanks to Asheville transfer Macio Teague and D3 transfer Freddie Gillespie, Dwayne Sutton on Louisville also from Asheville, etc) that I think the stigma of a guy coming from a lower program is long gone.  I would say this is also like anything else - it was pioneered by A10 type teams looking for an edge (like Jarvis recruiting heavily overseas) but once it was shown to work, the big money teams took it over.  Wouldn’t be shocked if they are now paying these kids, too, like they do with recruits.

Three, I think there’s been a bit of a recruiting consolidation by the biggest brand name teams.  Teams like Kentucky, Duke, Kansas, Villanova don’t go for many transfers because they seem to be able to get whoever they want. The teams that want to compete with that have to pay big money (see will wade at lsu) To recruits, or find another way to acquire talent.  Transfers seem to be the best way now.

To add to the complication of this year's transfer market, the NCAA extended the dead recruiting period through May 31st, effectively meaning that most transfers will have to commit to schools sight unseen in terms of a visit or wait until after that date, leaving them open to the possibility that someone else could take their spot if they are unwilling to commit now. 

dmvpiranha wrote:

Josh Pierre-Louis is leaving Temple. Averaged 3.8 ppg, 0.9 rpg, 1.3 apg; 43% FG, 38% 3-pt, 47% FT per 12.7 mpg in 27 GP. I could see him becoming a priority guy for various schools in the A10 looking to fill their roster.

Wouldn't mind either him or Wishart.

Also two more A10 transfers in:
Mark Gasperini (American) headed to UMass. Didn't have a great game against us last year, but a pretty good offensive player.
Jack Forrest (Columbia) headed to St. Joe's. Seems like a step down in terms of education, but Forrest gives the Hawks some more three point shooting. Shot 35% from deep last year for the Lions.
 

Not expecting much from either of these guys.  Gasperini is both slow and a below the rim player.  Hard for me to see him making an impact on a good team. If he puts up numbers, it’s probably a bad sign for Umass.   

Forrest, if I remember right from the two times I watched Columbia, was kind of a stand around at the three point line and wait for a shot guy, though it looks like he got more aggressive toward the end of his freshman year.  He was just a freshman so maybe he’ll shoot better and/or develop into a more well rounded player with better coaching. B

    Colby Giacubeno[/url] [url=https://twitter.com/ColbyGHoops]@ColbyGHoops·4h Former @MSJ_Basketball standout James Bishop officially in the transfer portal. Spent his freshman year at LSU. The 6-foot-2 lefty will have programs calling quickly. Natural three-level scorer.

It looks like GW's incoming freshman Tyler Brelsford and James Bishop were teammates at Mount St.Joe's for a few years, J.Bishop reuniting with his former MSJ teammate at GW may appeal to J.Bishop. J.Bishop didn't get a lot of playing time at LSU as a freshman this past season, so I don't know how much interest Georgetown or Maryland would have in him, if he wants to come back home to play. 

I like Ricky Lindo from Maryland, he's long, athletic and played on the perimeter in high school, the fact that he became a decent rebounder in limited minutes at Maryland indicates the type of potential he has. I'm assuming Rhode Island will go after him hard since he went to the same high school as the Mitchell twins, who recently committed to Rhode Island. 

Highly sought after Columbia grad transfer Patrick Tape backed out of his commitment to Duke yesterday!! According to twitter, Jim Boeheim was able to get him to back out of Duke and he will announce his intention to sign with Syracuse very soon.

About BCS schools dipping further down for transfers nowadays and the NCAA seriously considering waiving the 'Sit-Out-For-1-Year' rule, the ONLY good thing in it for non BCS schools is, you'll see more BCS guys transferring down. BCS coaches will be a lot more quicker to run off guys which will help the non BCS schools. 
 

Last edited by Thomas (4/03/2020 9:54 am)