Big East Transfers

[BGesus4]

The best part is that Pitt fans were convinced that scheduling SJU was a way to ensure Champagnie came back. Whoops!

Lol. Did anyone else get a BR update last week that Efton Reid committed to Pitt. It caught my attention because I thought wtf is a 5 star big doing committing to Pitt. Then the update was retracted 30 seconds later lol. ...and then obv actually committed to LSU

lol brutal

 

[Storrs South]

Lol. Did anyone else get a BR update last week that Efton Reid committed to Pitt. It caught my attention because I thought is a 5 star big doing committing to Pitt. Then the update was retracted 30 seconds later lol. ...and then obv actually committed to LSU

lol brutal

Someone created a fake account on Twitter pretending to be Reid and tweeted he committed to Pitt. It fooled a lot of reporters.

 

[Pgh2Storrs]

Someone created a fake account on Twitter pretending to be Reid and tweeted he committed to Pitt. It fooled a lot of reporters.

Creating a fake account to mess with a kid’s announcement is pretty weak, but the Pitt schadenfreude is quite strong right now. I thought Capel would be bad but this is a total dumpster fire.

 

[auror]

Creating a fake account to mess with a kid’s announcement is pretty weak, but the Pitt schadenfreude is quite strong right now. I thought Capel would be bad but this is a total dumpster fire.

It was a low starting point and he brought them to somewhat respectability immediately, but yeah his inability to retain the people he did bring in and the decent people who stayed originally nor improve from there is troubling.

 

[Hey Adrien!]

It was a low starting point and he brought them to somewhat respectability immediately, but yeah his inability to retain the people he did bring in and the decent people who stayed originally nor improve from there is troubling.

I gave a look at their 21-22 lineup and if you thought 20-21 was bad, 21-22 is awful.

They're attempting to replace Champagnie/Toney/Johnson (46.6 ppg) along with bigs Coulibaly/Brown (combined 33.5 mpg, 7.7p, 6.5r, 1.7b).

All in all, that's 79% of their scoring that's gone, all but one (Champagnie) who have transferred. Their only incoming talent is Nate Santos, Jamarius Burton and Daniel Oladipo from Oakland.

I forgot which Pittsburgh guy (@storrsroars or @Pgh2Storrs) said it, but arguably Robert Morris has acquired better talent than Pittsburgh this offseason:

• Ferron Flavors Jr. from Oklahoma State, 6’3 190 grad, 13.5p, 43.9 3p% in 30.4 mpg from Cal Baptist
• Rasheem Dunn from St. John’s, 6’2 190 grad, 9.4p, 4a, 1.4s in 29 mpg
• Michael Green III, 5’11 155 junior from Bryant, 16p, 3.7r, 3.7a, 1.3s in 33.9 mpg
• Justin Winston from Saint Bonaventure, 6’8 225 junior, 8.7p, 3.4r, 33.3 3p% in 20.2 mpg former #312
• Mattia Acunzo from Toledo, 6’6 225 sophomore, 5.9p, 3.5r, 40.5 3p% in 15 mpg, former #430 prospect
• Brandon Stone from La Salle, 6’11 200 junior, 9 mpg, 1.3b, former #364 prospect

Possible hyperbole aside, Duquesne should be a better team than Pitt this year.

It'll be between BC and Pitt for the worst team in the ACC.

 

[rollskies]

Complete roster overhaul for MU. They will have 4 returing scholarship players if Garcia decides to return.

 

[Hey Adrien!]

Manhattan now with three former Big East players (Josh Roberts and Anthony Nelson). Team also has former UMass forward Samba Diallo.

 

[rollskies]

 

[Hey Adrien!]

247 updated '21 class rankings:

7) Creighton
14) UConn
16) Georgetown
18) Marquette
20) Villanova
29) Seton Hall
52) Xavier
53) DePaul
60) Bulter
62) St. John's
65) Providence

 

[Tiamat7]

247 updated '21 class rankings:

7) Creighton
14) UConn
16) Georgetown
18) Marquette
20) Villanova
29) Seton Hall
52) Xavier
53) DePaul
60) Bulter
62) St. John's
65) Providence

Impressed that Creighton has such a highly ranked class. McDermott might actually get past the incident and save his job.

 

[rip7774]

Impressed that Creighton has such a highly ranked class. McDermott might actually get past the incident and save his job.

They were one of the schools willing to give Brian bowen 6 figures I believe. I didn’t follow the Big East then and was shocked they were players in that recruitment one and like that, two. So maybe that’s part of it. But it’s also a good program and looks like a good offensive system to play in as well.

 

[HooperScooper]

Impressed that Creighton has such a highly ranked class. McDermott might actually get past the incident and save his job.

And they lost #11 ranked TyTy Washington, who decommitted and signed with Kentucky. If they had kept him their class was probably top 5.

 

[Storrs South]

247 updated '21 class rankings:

7) Creighton
14) UConn
16) Georgetown
18) Marquette
20) Villanova
29) Seton Hall
52) Xavier
53) DePaul
60) Bulter
62) St. John's
65) Providence

Villanova would be top 10 as well if Patterson didn't come to campus early last semester. Hardly even played but figure will be better off this year and long term spending those extra months on campus than in high school.

 

[rollskies]

Obviously this isn’t even close to as bad as losing Wahab, but Ewing continues to have issues getting players to stick around.

Edit: Looks like he’s from Milwaukee so maybe trying to team up with Baldwin

 

[Hey Adrien!]

Obviously this isn’t even close to as bad as losing Wahab, but Ewing continues to have issues getting players to stick around.

Edit: Looks like he’s from Milwaukee so maybe trying to team up with Baldwin

Not a shocker with Tre King, a very capable grad transfer, coming in to play the 4 spot.

 

[rollskies]

 

[rollskies]

This is a yikes for PC. wow.

 

[TRest]

This is a yikes for PC. wow.

Cooley has been having a rough time with the high school crowd, transfers are keeping them alive for now.

 

[navery12]

Wonder if that's related to VT hiring Jones

 

[rollskies]

Ill bet $10,000 he won’t miss a free throw.

In all seriousness, good player, but hoping he can stay healthy for a season. Injuries have seemed to plague him his entire career

 

[Storrs South]

 

[Hey Adrien!]

Nick pickup for Xavier. At 6'7 215 and shooting 34% from 3, Hunter fits in nicely as a potential starter at the 4 along with Scruggs/Johnson/Jones/Freemantle. At the very least, a very good depth piece at either forward spot.

 

[rip7774]

Xavier has basically everyone back that played a major role, right? And they're adding shooters and other pieces - how does that work lol? Won't existing guys be offended or the culture ruined?

Will be interesting to see who's right - the stand pat crowd or the we don't have enough offense crowd (obv I'm firmly in that camp). Genuinely hope I'm wrong - but see so many other programs add pieces that have lineups mostly returning and few losing a talent like Bouk.

Thought our win vs them without Bouk was one of our best outings of the year. Feel like Freemantle is gonna be one of those guys seems like he's been around a decade by time he's done.

 

[How Sway?!]

Xavier has basically everyone back that played a major role, right? And they're adding shooters and other pieces - how does that work lol? Won't existing guys be offended or the culture ruined?

Will be interesting to see who's right - the stand pat crowd or the we don't have enough offense crowd (obv I'm firmly in that camp). Genuinely hope I'm wrong - but see so many other programs add pieces that have lineups mostly returning and few losing a talent like Bouk.

Thought our win vs them without Bouk was one of our best outings of the year. Feel like Freemantle is gonna be one of those guys seems like he's been around a decade by time he's done.

Our squad is still significantly better than Xavier's.

When you have a C+ squad, adding a B level player is a positive. When you have a B+ squad and you add a B level player, that's a negative and you bring down the overall level of the squad.

Unless we got an A level player, which by all accounts we tried to do, adding any other player would have been a negative.

 

[MU in MKE]

Obviously this isn’t even close to as bad as losing Wahab, but Ewing continues to have issues getting players to stick around.

Edit: Looks like he’s from Milwaukee so maybe trying to team up with Baldwin

Sibley and Baldwin did play on the same AAU team (with Duke's Jalen Johnson and Ole Miss Jaemyn Brakefield among others). But Sibley just doesn't seem like the guy that would play for a school like Milwaukee in an arena that fits 10k but only has 500 fans in the seats even before COVID, even if he was best friends with Baldwin. I think he'll head to another power program.