Buying college basketball players doesn’t seem to work as well as football. Last year Rutgers bought two NBA lottery picks, but didn’t even make the tournament.
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Very well put. The same could be said about UT Martin. UT Martin is currently undefeated having beat both UNLV and Bradley. Remarkably, UT Martin has done this with their top 9 guys all being Eastern European! Serbian wing Andrija Bukumirovic currently leads the team in scoring at 20 points a game. They play Florida State tomorrow in their only game against a power conference school.
Wisconsin is playing at 7 PM central tonight against Southern Illinois Edwardsville - should be an easy win, but the game is on Big Ten Network for those interested. As mentioned here previously, Wisconsin features numerous pale faces (Winter, Rapp, Rodhe, etc) although their best player is black guard John Blackwell.
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Penn is playing St Joe's right now and they are yet another team starting 5 Whites. They are led by guard/wing Ethan Roberts, who is averaging over 20 points a game so far this season. The Ivy League champion is usually a competitive tournament team, so it would be great to see Penn win it. To those unaware, former Iowa coach Fran Mccaffery now coaches the Quakers. It was still sad he got let go at Iowa, but I think he can have success at Penn.
Purdue is the prime example currently starting 3 whites and most of the bench being white as well and currently ranked 2nd in the country and undefeated so far
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Tonight top 25 teams square off with Kentucky facing Michigan State. We’ve already discussed the Wildcats this year since they have a few interesting White players. I don’t think we’ve mentioned the Trojans in any detail.
This year their top 2 scorers are White athletes. Senior Jaxon Kohler (another of those vanishing Utah born talents) leads the team with 14.3 ppg and 13.3 rpg. He’s less of a surprise breakout than the #2 man Carson Cooper. The senior center and Michigan native is averaging 12 ppg, 5 RPG and a block. Big improvement from his previous career high of 5 ppg.
If this one is starting now on ESPN.
This year their top 2 scorers are White athletes. Senior Jaxon Kohler (another of those vanishing Utah born talents) leads the team with 14.3 ppg and 13.3 rpg. He’s less of a surprise breakout than the #2 man Carson Cooper. The senior center and Michigan native is averaging 12 ppg, 5 RPG and a block. Big improvement from his previous career high of 5 ppg.
If this one is starting now on ESPN.
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Thanks for mentioning this. Michigan State usually has a few Whites in the rotation but it is a little unusual to see them both scoring over 10 points a game. Hauser was the most recent star White player for Michigan State.
Gonzaga won by 72 points over Southern Utah last night and they play 3 Whites in the rotation, which is bad for Gonzaga historically but better than some of their recent teams. Their best White player is big man Braden Huff, who averages near 15 points and 5 rebounds on 62% shooting. He is instant offense whenever Gonzaga plays. New to the starting lineup as of last game is Spanish freshman phenom Mario Saint-Supery. The young point guard is averaging about 10 points, 4 assists, and 3 rebounds so far this year. Expect these averages to increase as he further grows into his role. He originally started the season on the bench, but is too talented to not start in my opinion. Steele Venters is a piece off of the bench, although him having consecutive seasons missed due to injury limited his ceiling. Venters was orginally a top transfer from Eastern Washington in 2023; however, he is just playing for Gonzaga now, so he is sure to have some rust. Young wing Davis Fogle gets some minutes off of the bench although it has mostly been in garbage time so far. Fogle, a true freshman, is stuck behind a 5th year player, a 6th year player, and a player who will be 26 before the end of the season....great work NCAA!
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i’m watching this one, too! high level basketball in the first half.
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UConn vs Arizona was on before this! I’m enjoying the Blue Bloods battling it out early in the season!
Go Illinois Fightin Slavs!
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i never thought i’d see the day when Brad Underwood coached a White team, but that day has arrived! Illinois had 7 different White athletes see significant playing time in the first half against all-Black Bama.
in the first half, the Illini never had fewer than 3 of our guys on the court, and they had 4 on the floor for the majority of the half. 5 of the gym rats have scored already, as well. what a development!
here’s hoping they get the win (and give the Black Tide whitemares after they lost to the Boilermakers their last game).
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i watched the second half of this one, as well. UConn found them a good one, i think, in the freshman big man, Eric Reibe.
the game was incredibly even, with the exception of Zona’s dominance on the glass. the Cats out-rebounded the Huskies by 20!!! that’ll definitely provide the edge in a down to the wire game.
Zona also played 3 White athletes to UConn’s 2.
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I am watching Illinois-Alabama as well. Underwood has had a few Whites playing the last few years (Goode, Matthew Mayer, Marcus Dmask), but never like this! Underwood definitely played a fair number of Whites at Stephen F Austin although this Illinois team is the Whitest (and maybe best?) team that he has coached. It is worth noting that UConn is down star freshman Braylon Mullins. He will almost certainly be a starter when he returns and will probably be their 3rd best player. This definitely makes UConn more watchable in my view. Coach Hurley deserves a ton of credit for actually being willing to recruit a decent number of White players to UConn as that was never happening under Calhoun! UConn was also missing their best big man, which definitely did not help the rebounding deficit.
Went to OSU game last night in Stillwater. New regime this year, only two players remain from last year‘s squad. Crazy transfer portal and international flavor. Players from Greece, Serbia, Iran, Israel, and Nigeria. Freshman guard Ryan Crotty is the son of former Virginia and NBA point guard John Crotty. Anyway, plenty of pale faces, and a 5-0 record. But, haven’t played any good teams yet.
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Thanks for the report! Wouldn't have thought of OKST otherwise but another team to keep an eye on.
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all-black Utah, with all their nil money spent on WGAs and transfer portal “improvements,” lost to the nerds from Cal Poly last night, despite Cal Poly starting 3 White athletes and a brown Qatari muslim. the Mustangs also brought 2 more gym rats and a brown Egyptian muslim off the bench with starting minutes.
how is this possible?!? LOL
i hope self-loathing head coach Alex Jensen, a tremendous White player in his college days who played for some very good White teams at Utah, is experiencing the kind of self-induced suffering that causes MAJOR life change. bring back White athletes to Utah!
how is this possible?!? LOL
i hope self-loathing head coach Alex Jensen, a tremendous White player in his college days who played for some very good White teams at Utah, is experiencing the kind of self-induced suffering that causes MAJOR life change. bring back White athletes to Utah!
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Unlike Utah and BYU, Utah State plays tons of Whites in their rotation (although their two leading scorers are black so far), and they are playing Tulane at noon central today on ESPN2. They are led by Mason Falslev, who is averaging about 12 points a game so far this season, but I would expect that number to increase. Forward Karson Templin starts and averages 10 a game as well. Wing Tucker Anderson starts as well although he only averages 16 minutes a game. Guard Drake Allen has also been starting although he has been limited by an ankle injury. Tulane is not exactly a White-friendly team, but their best player is undoubtedly guard Rowan Brumbaugh. Brumbaugh, who is in his second season at Tulane after previous stops at Texas and Georgetown, is averaging over 20 points, 3 assists, and 5 rebounds per game! I believe he was the preseason AAC player of the year.
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Also, did anyone see that Troy beat San Diego State and lost to USC in 3 overtimes starting 4 Whites and a Mexican player? In the USC game, the leading scorer for Troy was guard Cooper Campbell (from Washington of all places, so not close to Troy). Cooper scored 32 points, had 12 rebounds, and 8 assists. Unbelievably, he did all of this as a 6 foot one guard. His brother Cobi also joins him in the starting lineup. Center Theo Seng scored 20 points. Forward Thomas Dowd had 19.
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Also, did anyone see that Troy beat San Diego State and lost to USC in 3 overtimes starting 4 Whites and a Mexican player? In the USC game, the leading scorer for Troy was guard Cooper Campbell (from Washington of all places, so not close to Troy). Cooper scored 32 points, had 12 rebounds, and 8 assists. Unbelievably, he did all of this as a 6 foot one guard. His brother Cobi also joins him in the starting lineup. Center Theo Seng scored 20 points. Forward Thomas Dowd had 19.
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the best player on the court during this game was the lone bright spot, literally, in BYU’s starting five. Richie Saunders was nearly unstoppable tonight for the Cougars.
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Saunders also tore up the Badgers in their exit from last years tournament.. He’s definitely had their number! Great player at 6’7 and can do a little bit of everything. Worthy of a draft pick.
What did you think of Dybantsa?
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Purdue, led by their White trio of Smith , Loyer, and Cluff are currently DESTROYING the all-black Raiders from Texas Tech.
Cluff is just a MONSTER on the glass, and he loves to dunk on nappy headed hoes, er, foes. Smith and Loyer have been operating like surgeons. they’re currently up nearly 30 with 17 minutes still to play in the game.
Cluff is just a MONSTER on the glass, and he loves to dunk on nappy headed hoes, er, foes. Smith and Loyer have been operating like surgeons. they’re currently up nearly 30 with 17 minutes still to play in the game.
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well, he’s gonna be a one-and-done, so there’s that. however, despite the obvious elite physical tools that he possesses, he also has some of the glaring red flags that busts often share. the most obvious being he frequently simply doesn’t play hard, especially on the defensive end.
you can pick just about any game and count on him to take significant minutes where he’s completely disengaged on defense. if this aspect is a sign of a larger self-discipline problem (he’s already getting paid, so why work hard?), then how will he handle the even bigger distractions of being a potential lottery pick?
his little jump shot from the block is elite, but he falls in love with it too much, in my view. he’s also a poor rebounder considering his length and leaping ability: he’s only averaging just over 6 rebounds despite playing 30 minutes a game.
in the scouts lingo, high ceiling high bust probability, but it all depends on info i don’t have access to, primarily what’s his work ethic and discipline like.
