I'm rooting big time for the Cowboys to rope the Hoosiers in during a Dance play in game today because the Big 10 doesn't deserve 9 tickets. Wyoming had an erratic finish to the season and as usual will rely heavily on Hunter Maldonado and Ike Graham.
NIT games:
Interesting intrastate battle in Texas for teams who thought they'd be Dancing. TX ST(Sunbelt) faces NTX(CUSA). Mean Green of NTX looked lean in CUSAT so I'll roll with the Bobcats to scratch out a win in Denton.
I'll hang with former with UMBC Head coach Odom, who may remind his Utah St Ags that he was the coach who took down the 1 seed UVA Cavs in the Dance a few years ago. USU(MWC) 67 Oregon 65 as the Ducks descent continues.
List of HC openings in the O5: Ball St, ECU, Western Michigan, and Tulsa. I've heard rumors that Mike Anderson will leave St Johns for Tulsa but not sure at this point if anyone can get SJU back to its glory days of Chris Mullen and Walter Berry.
March 16, 2022
Maldonado had a solid night but it wasn't enough for the Cowboys. IU 76 WYO 68
In the NIT ,NTX beat TX St and Oregon beat Utah St.. Tonight Toledo(MAC) faces Dayon(A10) and SMU(AAC) faces Nichols(Southland)
march 17, 2022
Toledo got crushed by Dayton and SMU beat Nichols in NIT play.
I like UAB upsetting Houston, Boise St beating Memphis, and Colorado St beating Michigan in rd1 of the Dance.
March 22, 2022
O5 has Houston left in the Dance and no teams remaining in the NIT.
Tulsa(AAC) hires La Tech's HC Eric Konkol. ECU (AAC) hired Mike Schwartz, ex Associate HC at Tennessee. In the MAC, Ball St and WMU are looking for new head coaches.
I didn't see this coming. SMU's Tim Jankovich retires. Well, we know the next coach won't be Larry Brown.
MARCH 26, 2022
UCLA assistant coach Michael Lewis is the new HC at Ball St (MAC). He played for Bobby Knight at Indiana and coached under Brad Stevens at Butler.
March 27, 2022
Houston lost a low scoring game to Nova 50-44 so no F4 for the Cougars
Allegations of major violations have been levied against the Memphis. They stem from the recruitment and short stint(3 games) of former top recruit James Wiseman. It looks bad but how tough has the NCAA enforcement been recently so Penny may not be dropped from coaching quickly.
March 28, 2022
SMU named Rob Lanier as HC after he took Georgia State(Sunbelt) to the Dance this season.
He was 53-30 in his three seasons at Georgia State. He took Siena(MAAC) to the Dance in 2002 and had been an assistant for Billy Donovan and Rick Barnes. I recall his Sienna team giving Loyola of Baltimore fits in his MAAC days. I'm still a bit surprised at the hire.
March 31, 2022
Talvin Hester, an ex asst at Texas Tech, is the new HC at La Tech
April. 6, 2022
Jonas Hayes, interim coach who led Xavier to its first NIT championship in 64 years, is the new Georgia State's HC.
I thought WMU(MAC) forgot they had an opening. After 19 seasons as an assistant at Michigan State, Dwayne Stephens is the new W. Michigan HC.
April 12, 2022
Transfer portal gets nuttier: SMU Mustangs guard Kendric Davis, AAC Player of the Year, is in the portal. He played at TCU before joining SMU.
Lofton is leaving La Tech.
April 14, 2022
Nate Oats looks toward his former conference, the MAC, and signs Former Ohio U point guard Mark Sears, who averaged nearly 20 points a game last season. Sears is from Muscle Shoals, ALA
June 2, 2022
O5 guys leaving 2022 NBA draft pool: Sasser returns to Houston U. DeAndre Williams will return to Memphis U.
June 16, 2022
While reading a list of International players and others who removed themselves from early entry in the 2022 NBA draft , I found Dhieu Deing, who played for UTSA(CUSA) last season . Wise move ! He's a 6'5 guard with this stat line from last season PTS13.6 ,REB 5.3, AST1.5, FG% 34.5 .
June 24, 2022
AAC (2) Memphis — (2): Jalen Duren (13), Josh Minott (45) both to the Hornets
Mountain West (1) Colorado State — 1:David Roddy (23) to the 76ers
MAC (1) Toledo — 1:Ryan Rollins (44)--to the Hawks
Duren got traded to Knicks then Detroit. Rollins was traded to GSW.
