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Dan Diantoni rocking the suit coat and T-shirt look again tonight. The t-shirt has the West Virginia state outline in green and reads “Hillbilly ball.”
Don't lump us all together...too lazy...
Horton-Tucker looks solid for Iowa St. Hard to imagine a D1 coach let him go elsewhere to satisfy another commit’s parents. Especially considering that recruit is a one & done on an awful team.
Realize they suck (just suck a little less than WF), but after playing well in their first 3 ACC games (beating WF, losing to VT in the final minute and dominating Cuse 73-59 on the road), GT has been devastated by injuries. Tech was not that deep to begin with, then they lose their most important player, PG Jose Alvarado and another starter Abdoulaye Gueye to injury. Also, GT's first guard off the bench, Brandon Alston is out for "personal reasons". GT essentially has no one that can play the point. In their last game, GT was down 43-16 at the half. Tonight, GT plays ND (another team that has suffered through injuries).
It was an enormous missed opportunity for Illinois to bring in two immediate impact kids on a team in desperate need of talent. Still, I'm not sure what Underwood could have done differently. He successfully convinced both kids to want to play for him but then was faced with the threat of both Dosunmu bailing and alienating an important Chicago aau team. He chose to stick with the higher rated kid who had already committed.
I'm not sure that Dosunmu is one and done. He may well choose to go but he's not a first round pick. Horton-Tucker is arguably getting more draft hype than is Dosunmu.
Steve Prohm and his Iowa State team up on Kansas again in the 2nd half. If he beats them a 2nd time this season and takes over 1st place in the Big12, I'd bump him up to option 1B with Oats as 1A.
Shayock, who was a UVA transfer, is having a great year for Iowa St. I'm happy for him because he seemed like a good kid. My recollection was he was a somewhat lightly recruited 3* out of Toronto.
Realize they suck (just suck a little less than WF), but after playing well in their first 3 ACC games (beating WF, losing to VT in the final minute and dominating Cuse 73-59 on the road), GT has been devastated by injuries. Tech was not that deep to begin with, then they lose their most important player, PG Jose Alvarado and another starter Abdoulaye Gueye to injury. Also, GT's first guard off the bench, Brandon Alston is out for "personal reasons". GT essentially has no one that can play the point. In their last game, GT was down 43-16 at the half. Tonight, GT plays ND (another team that has suffered through injuries).
Can you imagine if Ayo had come here and we had Hoard and him together?
What a waste of talent that would have been.
It's also State's third straight road game which usually means go against the road-weary team
Since 2005 teams in at least the third straight away game in conference play have covered 53.6% of the time