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Message: [QUOTE="lange10, post: 3454902, member: 5741"] I did quite a bit of research because I had a feeling our recruiting last year was similar to what we're hearing this year from the likes of Borges. On 1/18/19 Akok committed which left us with one open scholarship. At the time we were still pushing for Precious and Kofi. Again, we only had 1 scholarship known to be available at the time. Throughout the next 2 months there were rumors about a variety of players potentially leaving and many thought we'd have open scholarships. However, Mamadou and other players' futures were still unclear. Following the Akok commitment we were linked to the following players over the next 4 months: Precious Kofi Joel Ntambwe Khadim Sy Tre Mitchell Kareem Reid Qudus Wahab Anthony Kabala Emmanuel Ugboh Derrick Quansah Ricky Issanza Tomas Woldentensae LJ Figueroa Nah'shon Hyland Demarr Langford (to potentially reclass to '19) RJ Cole Richie Springs Kofi committed to Illinois on 4/24. Still, at this time we had 1 remaining scholarship despite recruiting both guards and bigs. Cole committed to UConn on 5/14 filling our last scholarship. At this time, Borges tweeted that we were still recruiting for one more player. Still, no one knew where it was coming from (this was at the time when the Mamadou rumors of becoming a coach were in full force, though) Finally, on 6/12, UConn announced Mamadou would become a student assistant freeing the last scholarship that'd eventually be filled in August by Springs as you mentioned. With that all said, I'm not sure how you could say Hurley wasn't recruiting last offseason similarly to how he is recruiting this year - recruiting to fill more scholarships than publicly known to be available at this time. [/QUOTE]

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