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2026 recruiting targets?

Huskyforlife said:
This is a strange one, must be a roster filler candidate.
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For 2026. Could be a riser over the summer like husky99 said or could be a developmental guy like you are alluding to. Hard to tell. Every year several players make a huge leap at the summer events. Our staff is usually in on those type of guys before most teams. Time will tell.
 
Hopefully some dude we’re in on early who explodes. I remember being on the old AOL UConn boards back in the day when Jeff Kulas was the resident “expert.” Think he was at the Adidas camp and he reported back that some kid named McGrady who nobody knew about was the best player there day one and whoever was on him earliest might get a chance to grab him. By the end of the camp TMac was the consensus top recruit in the country.
 
SoFla Steve said:
In addition to Toure, Rippey and Holt, I've seen offers for Jordan Smith Jr, Miikka Muurinen and Qayden Samuels (his sister was on the women's team and just entered the portal). Also, there was interest but no offer yet for Brandon McCoy and Tyran Stokes.

Admittedly, I haven't followed 2026 very closely in recent months so things may have changed.
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Miikka Muurinen will surely be in demand. 6'10 shooter from Finland with serious offers. If we see his name pop up as having UConn interest that would be excellent.
 
husky429 said:
Mullins was a sub-100 player a year ago too. If we're recruiting him, he's got talent.

Playing up for the Lightning this year. Averaging 15ppg on good percentages only 2 games). He's due for a huge rankings bump if that continues.

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I think he's more like 6'6 based on what I'm seeing here:

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Thought he was 2027. Not playing up--my bad.
 
husky429 said:
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EYBL live streams are there if you want to watch the two games he's played in.
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EYBL bumped up their website stats for this year, which is a blessing. His team went 0-3 on the weekend. He only played a few minutes in one of the 3 games, but put up 15 points each in the other 2. 5 assists to 6 turnovers in the 2. 4/8 from 3.
 
auror said:
EYBL bumped up their website stats for this year, which is a blessing. His team went 0-3 on the weekend. He only played a few minutes in one of the 3 games, but put up 15 points each in the other 2. 5 assists to 6 turnovers in the 2. 4/8 from 3.
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Their statkeepers are terrible. I always take anything but total points with a grain of salt.
 
Is it possible or realistic that Danny is going to continue doing a 10 man roster going forward and use walk-ons as filler instead of developmental guys? Genuinely asking. Nowadays it seems like developmental guys will leave pretty quick unless you can pay them a ton AND make the final four, which is a high bar just to retain players.
 
auror said:
EYBL bumped up their website stats for this year, which is a blessing. His team went 0-3 on the weekend. He only played a few minutes in one of the 3 games, but put up 15 points each in the other 2. 5 assists to 6 turnovers in the 2. 4/8 from 3.
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Pretty decent start, maybe he is a sleeper.
 
boog204 said:
Hopefully some dude we’re in on early who explodes. I remember being on the old AOL UConn boards back in the day when Jeff Kulas was the resident “expert.” Think he was at the Adidas camp and he reported back that some kid named McGrady who nobody knew about was the best player there day one and whoever was on him earliest might get a chance to grab him. By the end of the camp TMac was the consensus top recruit in the country.
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I remember those days. What ever happened to Jeff Kulas Chester?
 
6&counting said:
Is it possible or realistic that Danny is going to continue doing a 10 man roster going forward and use walk-ons as filler instead of developmental guys? Genuinely asking. Nowadays it seems like developmental guys will leave pretty quick unless you can pay them a ton AND make the final four, which is a high bar just to retain players.
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No, they are not going to keep the roster at 10. Tom will address this in his media availability today. I posted it in another thread, but I will link it here as well.

They are planning to bring in at least three more scholarship players this year. He can’t come right out and say that they won’t play, but they would like to be developmental pieces, or players who would need an injury to crack the rotation. It sounds like the biggest reason is honestly for practice. Running meaningful practices with 10 guys becomes tough if you have any injuries. And he said our players who played a lot of minutes endured a lot of wear and tear this season between games and practicing short-handed.

 
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