A few transfer/recruit updates:
6'9 Spanish forward Eric Villa will be visiting Texas A&M, Missouri, and Wake Forest. He plays for the best non NBA team in the world in FC Barcelona, so he's gotta be pretty good. Hopefully he comes over to one of these schools; every white player helps.
2016 wing Matt Chastain, out of Illinois, will be taking an official visit to Utah in a couple of weeks. That's easily his biggest offer. Utah also has freshman C Jayce Johnson, who should take over from Poeltl next year, as well as two more commits: JUCO PF Tyler Rawson, and Utah State transfer David Collette, as well as SG Parker Van Dyke returning from an LDS mission. If things play out right, the Utes would be watchable again next year.
I felt the need to mention Virginia: they have three top 100 white recruits coming in next year, and that doesn't even count 5 star PF Austin Nichols, who'll also be eligible coming off of his transfer year; it looks like Virginia will be a good team to cheer on next year.
I see transfer Max Strus is visiting Butler this weekend. Out of the teams that are looking at him, Butler would be his best bet for a landing spot, especially with Dunham graduating, and the probable starting backcourt next year graduating as well before he'll be eligible.
Former New Mexico combo guard Cullen Neal will be visiting Ohio State; he's already taken a visit to Ole Miss as well.
Columbia grad transfer guard Grant Mullins is looking at Michigan and Syracuse for his last year of eligibility. I'm sure Phall would be pretty happy if he chose to play for Michigan. I haven't seen him play, but he sounds more than capable of possibly starting or playing big minutes. With Aubrey Dawkins transferring to play for his dad, it should open up a spot for Mullins to get some big minutes.
Marquette is looking at USC grad transfer Katin Reinhardt, as well as VCU(!!!!), Alabama (!!) and UTEP. I'd actually want to see him go to VCU; I'm sure their DWFs would be left speechless seeing a white guy on the team, let alone starting for them.
Also, this is speculation, but it looks like Harvard grad transfer Patrick Steeves may be pursued by St. John's. The Red Storm wouldn't be a bad spot; they have Federico Mussini as well as 6'8 German SF Richard Freudenberg coming in.
In coaching news, South Dakota State's Scott Nagy surprisingly jumped ship after 20+ years as the Jack's head coach for Wright State. Also, Joe Krabbenhoft went back to Wisconsin as an assistant coach, which should make Celtic happy. Hopefully, SDSU keeps doing what they've been doing.
Valpo's Bryce Drew also was named Vanderbilt's new head coach after Kevin Stallings went to Pitt.
