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An article I just read about UConn for 2025-2026 includes this nugget.

Souleymane Diabate©Sport News Africa
Diabate is a powerful and physical frontcourt player. His goal as a physically intimidating big man will be to defend the basket and finish well on the inside. In games that need control of the inside, UConn's size offers an extra weapon.
 
Diaby is listed as a guard on our roster. At 6'5 185lbs is he the physical intimidating frontcourt big man that is described in the writeup with a different spelling?
 
In some of the videos, I feel like I have seen a bigger dude that I don't recognize. Thought maybe he was a walk-on.
 
Last year Diaby was a walk-on and a partial qualifier - meaning not a scholarship and not playable.

This year, is is fully qualified to play, but not a scholarship so doesn't eat into the 15 limit and likely won't see much play unless Hurley needs to grouch at Ball and Mullins and Demary so Smith and Diaby would be the guards during that sideline "conversation".

Would file him under - great bench presence and great practice player.
 
I tried looking this guy up and found some basketball players with that name but they're all at least 30 years old!
 
Lafayette said:
Last year Diaby was a walk-on and a partial qualifier - meaning not a scholarship and not playable.

This year, is is fully qualified to play, but not a scholarship so doesn't eat into the 15 limit and likely won't see much play unless Hurley needs to grouch at Ball and Mullins and Demary so Smith and Diaby would be the guards during that sideline "conversation".

Would file him under - great bench presence and great practice player.
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The 15 now is a roster size limit, not a scholarship limit, so it doesn't matter if he's on scholarship. If he's on the roster (which the website implies), he's eating into the 15. But we're not likely to fill 15 with scholarship-caliber players anyways, so it doesn't matter.
 
auror said:
The 15 now is a roster size limit, not a scholarship limit, so it doesn't matter if he's on scholarship. If he's on the roster (which the website implies), he's eating into the 15. But we're not likely to fill 15 with scholarship-caliber players anyways, so it doesn't matter.
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15 is both a roster size AND the scholarship limit. Either way he eats into the 15.
 
Diaby is a walk on but yes, doesn’t matter in terms of roster limit anymore (from my understanding of it). We still have room to take one more dude.
 
Lafayette said:
15 is both a roster size AND the scholarship limit. Either way he eats into the 15.
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You can’t give out men's basketball scholarships to players not on a roster, so ipso facto a roster limit is a scholarship limit, sure. But the distinction is important. The NCAA specifically did away with "scholarship caps" and replaced them with maximum roster sizes in order to curb the number of walk-ons that teams could have, since theoretically colleges could have recruited extra players as walk-ons and then paid them with revenue sharing instead of a scholarship to go beyond scholarships caps. We saw this with a few teams in basketball.
 
auror said:
You can’t give out men's basketball scholarships to players not on a roster, so ipso facto a roster limit is a scholarship limit, sure. But the distinction is important. The NCAA specifically did away with "scholarship caps" and replaced them with maximum roster sizes in order to curb the number of walk-ons that teams could have, since theoretically colleges could have recruited extra players as walk-ons and then paid them with revenue sharing instead of a scholarship to go beyond scholarships caps. We saw this with a few teams in basketball.
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Beginning in the 2025-2026 season, scholarship limits, roster size and revenue sharing will all be introduced.

Starting this year, division-I Men’s basketball teams will be capped at 15 roster spots. Programs will be allowed to offer up to 15 scholarships. However, basketball will be reclassified as an equivalency sport. This means coaches will have the flexibility to divide those 15 scholarships as full or partial awards among their players, tailoring them to their recruiting strategies.

So as not to put too finer point on this, They brought scholarship limits back, same as roster cap so at 15 we are.
 
auror said:
You can’t give out men's basketball scholarships to players not on a roster, so ipso facto a roster limit is a scholarship limit, sure. But the distinction is important. The NCAA specifically did away with "scholarship caps" and replaced them with maximum roster sizes in order to curb the number of walk-ons that teams could have, since theoretically colleges could have recruited extra players as walk-ons and then paid them with revenue sharing instead of a scholarship to go beyond scholarships caps. We saw this with a few teams in basketball.
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In the long history of punishing many, many innocent, hard-working kids in order to stick it to a few of cheats.
 
ec33 said:
In the long history of punishing many, many innocent, hard-working kids in order to stick it to a few of cheats.
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And of course which cheats the NCAA has "stuck it to" and "how hard they stuck it to them" has always been done fairly and accurately too....................................................................................................................... Haha, just seeing if you were all paying attention.
 
navery12 said:
I think the author is confusing Souleymane Diaby, a UConn Basketball walk on, with Souleymane Diakite, an Ivory Coast national basketball team member who is pictured in the article. Neither of which are big men
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At this point he could be referring to Souleymane Wane from the 90s.
 
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