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2026 Recruiting: Colben Landrew Official Visit (10/3)

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Hurley continues to put pressure on himself by landing his top choices.
 
RuffRuff said:
Question now is does this close out this class? Or is there any chance Mingo is still in play?
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Landrew isn’t projected as a OAD or even a frosh starter necessarily, so avoiding an “Adams situation” must mean we don’t wanna bring in a Mingo type and then have Mullins return. If that’s the case I agree it makes sense to see how the season goes. If Mullins leaves then we need to get a replacement starting wing in the portal. If he stays then great all we need is a backup big.

1st & 2nd string not necessarily the rotation:
Demary / County
Ball / Furphy
Mullins or Transfer / Landrew
Stew / Ross
Reibe / Transfer
 
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All of the coaches have done an unbelievable job creating this unreal culture we offer and also have been exceptional at making players better. We have never relied on an abundance of 5 star talent like our friends in Durham. Our coaches know how to win but I don’t think every kid wants to be pushed hard and we are also very selective in who we offer to.
 
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Fire up the Ruffballs. 😀

4-star SF Colben Landrew​

Colben Landrew has a final six with a decision coming on Wednesday. Texas A&M, Purdue, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, UConn, and Louisville are the programs that made the final graphic. I am told this became a two-team race between Louisville and UConn. While I am told that Louisville is pushing, speaking with some sources around the recruitment, UConn is the school I have heard the most about.

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bendm said:
Landrew isn’t projected as a OAD or even a frosh starter necessarily, so avoiding an “Adams situation” must mean we don’t wanna bring in a Mingo type and then have Mullins return. If that’s the case I agree it makes sense to see how the season goes. If Mullins leaves then we need to get a replacement starting wing in the portal. If he stays then great all we need is a backup big.

1st & 2nd string not necessarily the rotation:
Demary / County
Ball / Furphy
Mullins or Transfer / Landrew
Stew / Ross
Reibe / Transfer
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Mingo and Landrew don't overlap enough for it to be a concern. County is the one to be concerned about.

Mullins is going to be in the league 12 months from now. Book it.
 
bendm said:
Landrew isn’t projected as a OAD or even a frosh starter necessarily, so avoiding an “Adams situation” must mean we don’t wanna bring in a Mingo type and then have Mullins return. If that’s the case I agree it makes sense to see how the season goes. If Mullins leaves then we need to get a replacement starting wing in the portal. If he stays then great all we need is a backup big.

1st & 2nd string not necessarily the rotation:
Demary / County
Ball / Furphy
Mullins or Transfer / Landrew
Stew / Ross
Reibe / Transfer
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Still waiting on your minutes breakout for the 2029 roster.
 
husky429 said:
Mingo and Landrew don't overlap enough for it to be a concern. County is the one to be concerned about.

Mullins is going to be in the league 12 months from now. Book it.
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Hmmm but If Mullins is a first round draft pick lock then we’re gonna need a replacement starting wing no matter what. Right? Pretty confident that county or Furphy or Ross or Landrew won’t be starting. So Are they waiting on Mingo specifically due to overlapping skill sets with county? Does staff need to go after a more traditional wing in the portal as opposed to a big guard like Mingo? Issue there becomes you’re recruiting directly over LAndrew with a traditional wing. That’s why I didn’t/dont see the issue with getting Mingo now. He’d likely be the third G in a three G lineup with Silas and Ball. County could backup any of those three spots…
 
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bendm said:
Hmmm so If Mullins is a first round draft pick lock then we’re gonna need a replacement starting wing no matter what. Right? Pretty confident It’s not gonna be county or Furphy or Ross or Landrew. So Are they waiting on Mingo specifically due to overlapping skill sets with county? Does staff need to go after a more traditional wing in the portal as opposed to a big guard like Mingo?
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I wonder if the kind of season Silas Demary will have is the biggest factor on whether Mingo will commit here or not.
 
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bendm said:
Hmmm so If Mullins is a first round draft pick lock then we’re gonna need a replacement starting wing no matter what. Right? Pretty confident It’s not gonna be county or Furphy or Ross or Landrew. So Are they waiting on Mingo specifically due to overlapping skill sets with county? Does staff need to go after a more traditional wing in the portal as opposed to a big guard like Mingo? Issue there is you’re recruiting directly over Andrew with a traditional wing. That’s why I didn’t/dont see the issue with getting Mingo now. He’d be the third G in a three G lineup. County can backup any of those three spots.
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No one is waiting on Mingo. If he wanted to come to Storrs, we'd accept a commitment in a millisecond.

Ball and/or Demary is likely gone to the league. That's where Mingo slides in as a starter.
 
husky429 said:
No one is waiting on Mingo. If he wanted to come to Storrs, we'd accept a commitment in a millisecond.

Ball and/or Demary is likely gone to the league. That's where Mingo slides in as a starter.
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then what’s the Adam’s situation staff is allegedly worried about? If We’re gonna need two starters out of the transfer portal to replace Mullins and either Silas or Ball then I don’t see a way around recruiting over either or both of county and Landrew either now or next summer
 
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bendm said:
Hmmm but If Mullins is a first round draft pick lock then we’re gonna need a replacement starting wing no matter what. Right? Pretty confident that county or Furphy or Ross or Landrew won’t be starting. So Are they waiting on Mingo specifically due to overlapping skill sets with county? Does staff need to go after a more traditional wing in the portal as opposed to a big guard like Mingo? Issue there becomes you’re recruiting directly over LAndrew with a traditional wing. That’s why I didn’t/dont see the issue with getting Mingo now. He’d likely be the third G in a three G lineup with Silas and Ball. County could backup any of those three spots…
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It doesn't have to be a wing. The projected roster needs some steadier secondary PG play that County or Furphy are going to bring. If you bring in another Demary/Newton-type that would accomplish a lot of what brining in Mingo would have done (in a more veteran form). And it isn't my money, so it is all easy.

But waiting until after the season has the advantage of a more complete picture what roles Ross and Furphy might be able to handle before adding that final top 10 rotational piece.
 
ec33 said:
It doesn't have to be a wing. The projected roster needs some steadier secondary PG play that County or Furphy are going to bring. If you bring in another Demary/Newton-type that would accomplish a lot of what brining in Mingo would have done (in a more veteran form). And it isn't my money, so it is all easy.

But waiting until after the season has the advantage of a more complete picture what roles Ross and Furphy might be able to handle before adding that final top 10 rotational piece.
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Agree with all that. I was questioning what 429 said about concern with County / Mingo overlap. If we need to bring in at least 2 transfer starters there’s going to be overlap with county and Landrew no matter what. He later said we would bring in Mingo despite his previously stated concern so maybe he agrees an “Adams situation” appears unavoidable.
 
bendm said:
then what’s the Adam’s situation staff is allegedly worried about? If We’re gonna need two starters out of the transfer portal to replace Mullins and either Silas or Ball then I don’t see a way around recruiting over either or both of county and Landrew either now or next summer
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Ball & Demary aren't going to the league unless they want to be second round draft picks.

Let me break it to you - this draft is stacked and deep up until about pick 25. You have guys like Yaxel mocked 20th, 5 stars like Isiah Evans mocked 25th. It's very Uconn brained to just auto default 3 guys to the league. Ain't happening. They'll come back for NIL, and to run it back to a very good team.


I'm honestly not even 100% Mullins leaves. There are a lot of guaranteed millions of dollars at stake to come back after another year of maturing to get better draft status. If he drops into the 20's, not so sure it's slam dunk this year.

Can't blame Mingo Salsa for wanting to watch things play out a bit to see where his best landing spot is. He has plenty of options and will want the one that sets him up best to go high in 2027. I'd call Uconn a very low probability unless he holds out on signing for awhile.
 
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RuffRuff said:
Ball & Demary aren't going to the league unless they want to be second round draft picks.

Let me break it to you - this draft is stacked and deep up until about pick 25. You have guys like Yaxel mocked 20th, 5 stars like Isiah Evans mocked 25th. It's very Uconn brained to just auto default 3 guys to the league. Ain't happening. They'll come back for NIL, and to run it back to a very good team.


I'm honestly not even 100% Mullins leaves. There are a lot of guaranteed millions of dollars at stake to come back after another year of maturing to get better draft status. If he drops into the 20's, not so sure it's slam dunk this year.

Can't blame Mingo Salsa for wanting to watch things play out a bit to see where his best landing spot is. He has plenty of options and will want the one that sets him up best to go high in 2027. I'd call Uconn a very low probability unless he holds out on signing for awhile.
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Yeah I wouldn’t be surprised if no one leaves early this year.

Solo needs proper ball handling first and foremost before he leaves and that part of his game didn’t look very encouraging last night.

I expect Silas to grow to some growing pains developing into a playmaker at PG.

Unless Mullins shows an ability to put it on the floor and create for himself I can’t see him declaring in this draft. The only thing he looks better at McNeeley at currently is shooting and maybe moving off the ball but it’ll take more than that to go lottery. Hes going to have to show he can defend at a high level and create on his own.

Which would mean good things about next years team if everyone is back.
 
RuffRuff said:
Ball & Demary aren't going to the league unless they want to be second round draft picks.

Let me break it to you - this draft is stacked and deep up until about pick 25. You have guys like Yaxel mocked 20th, 5 stars like Isiah Evans mocked 25th. It's very Uconn brained to just auto default 3 guys to the league. Ain't happening. They'll come back for NIL, and to run it back to a very good team.


I'm honestly not even 100% Mullins leaves. There are a lot of guaranteed millions of dollars at stake to come back after another year of maturing to get better draft status. If he drops into the 20's, not so sure it's slam dunk this year.

Can't blame Mingo Salsa for wanting to watch things play out a bit to see where his best landing spot is. He has plenty of options and will want the one that sets him up best to go high in 2027. I'd call Uconn a very low probability unless he holds out on signing for awhile.
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I agree so not sure why you’re responding to me. But I’m interested in people’s thoughts re. how staff would replace Mullins and/or Ball and/or Silas with Mingo and/or transfers given the concern of another “Adams situation” as it relates to County and/or Landrew. It’s a sticky wicket
 
bendm said:
Hmmm but If Mullins is a first round draft pick lock then we’re gonna need a replacement starting wing no matter what. Right? Pretty confident that county or Furphy or Ross or Landrew won’t be starting. So Are they waiting on Mingo specifically due to overlapping skill sets with county? Does staff need to go after a more traditional wing in the portal as opposed to a big guard like Mingo? Issue there becomes you’re recruiting directly over LAndrew with a traditional wing. That’s why I didn’t/dont see the issue with getting Mingo now. He’d likely be the third G in a three G lineup with Silas and Ball. County could backup any of those three spots…
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I would not be so confident that Landrew isn't starting. The coaches have a model, and recently that includes a starting freshman 5* who goes one and done. Mullins was ranked 15th in On3's composite and Landrew is 17th in On3's own ranking.

If they didn't think Landrew was that guy, they'd have prioritized Samuels or waited for Mingo.
 
RuffRuff said:
Ball & Demary aren't going to the league unless they want to be second round draft picks.

Let me break it to you - this draft is stacked and deep up until about pick 25. You have guys like Yaxel mocked 20th, 5 stars like Isiah Evans mocked 25th. It's very Uconn brained to just auto default 3 guys to the league. Ain't happening. They'll come back for NIL, and to run it back to a very good team.


I'm honestly not even 100% Mullins leaves. There are a lot of guaranteed millions of dollars at stake to come back after another year of maturing to get better draft status. If he drops into the 20's, not so sure it's slam dunk this year.

Can't blame Mingo Salsa for wanting to watch things play out a bit to see where his best landing spot is. He has plenty of options and will want the one that sets him up best to go high in 2027. I'd call Uconn a very low probability unless he holds out on signing for awhile.
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Enjoy Mullins for this season.
 
superjohn said:
Enjoy Mullins for this season.
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75/25 he's goes. There could be a cool 15mm guaranteed reasons for him to wait out a weak draft. He goes 20-25 this year, 15-17mm contract value. He waits out and gets himself into the top ten, he's bumping that up 15mm or so. Of our last 3 McD AA's, he looks like the one that could use the additional year the most based on physicality. Kid just came out of Indiana public school hoops to boot.

I'm hoping he blows up and goes first of course.
 
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auror said:
I would not be so confident that Landrew isn't starting. The coaches have a model, and recently that includes a starting freshman 5* who goes one and done. Mullins was ranked 15th in On3's composite and Landrew is 17th in On3's own ranking.

If they didn't think Landrew was that guy, they'd have prioritized Samuels or waited for Mingo.
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This is how I feel as well. He’s arguably a better fit in that guard/wing role than Mingo because he’s farther along as a shooter already. But it seems obvious this is something the staff is trying to do each year.

He might not be done rising either, he could end up ahead of where Mullins finished if he keeps dominating, saw one tweet he was standout at the USA minicamp last weekend.
 
husky429 said:
No one is waiting on Mingo. If he wanted to come to Storrs, we'd accept a commitment in a millisecond.

Ball and/or Demary is likely gone to the league. That's where Mingo slides in as a starter.
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I wouldn't put too much thought into Mingo coming to UConn. Ain't happening.
 
Based on everything I've read about him, he's been on a meteoric trajectory since focusing solely on hoops after being a 2 sport (BB & FB) elite athlete. This type of recruit often turns out better than some who were ranked in the top 20 but seemed to hang around that initial ranking even though their game hasn't seemed to improve much.

Regardless of Colben's ranking, it's evident that the staff has zeroed in on him, seeing something special and great program fit. His shot and all around game continues to improve. And his rep as a call-upon lockdown defender has me sold on him.
 
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