Utes Land USF Transfer. Quietly putting together a solid BBall team.

[AlohaUte]

Utes land Mongolian Player

[JBx2034]

Agreed! The roster is coming together. Should be a solid lineup. Hopefully we can land another PG to back up Miro and there will be some solid depth across the board.

Quietly coming together and I would also add slowly. Ha ha. Seems like it’s worth waiting for.

[krindor]

Current two-deep… With the caveat that there’s some positional flexibility, so some of these guys may get very limited minutes

PG: Miro Little, Hunter Erickson
SG: Gabe Madsen, Mason Madsen
SF: Mike Sharavjamts, Jake Wahlin
PF: Ezra Ausur, Keanu Dawes
C: Lawson Lovering, Zach Keller

And also doesn’t yet include Caleb Lohner since I’m not sure how things will work with him. The crazy thing to me is how different the team is from last year. It’s basically impossible to predict the team one year to the next at this point

[AZUTE]

Any two deep that Hunter Erickson and Jake Whalin in it is hot garbage

Keller is NOT a C he’s not even a POWER forward. He’s a slightly taller slightly more athletic Ben Carlson. He’s a stretch 4 who’s game will mostly outside the arc.

Smith desperately still needs to find a C and pg who can compete for starting spots.

The last scholarship can go to best player available.

[Minnesota Ute]

If nothing else, we have some good stories to follow. IMO, there is no way that anyone can look at this lineup and last year’s and tell for sure whether we will be better or worse. To me, its 50:50 at this point, but could easily tilt in favor of this year if we secure one or maybe two more solid pickups. I don’t think Hunter is as bad as many portray him. He had some bright spots and looks like he could improve with age and experience. I don’t have high hopes for Whallin, but outside of him and maybe Hunter, it looks like a team that can play.

At this point, I just want to see this team finish the season strong and buck the trend of the last 2 years where we start strong and look like a lock for the tourney. Then fall on our face in the second half of the season narrowly missing the mark.

[DieHardUtahUtesFan]

A Mongol invades the West? Hide your daughters and wives. The last time this happened, the impact it had on genetic diversity was globally significant.

[AZUTE]

Cancel him.

If you can’t add anything to the conversation and just want to troll and clog up threads you deserve to be canceled

#cleanuptheboard

[Rick]

Are the folks on here trying to convince us that this roster presented is better than last year’s? If so, I am not buying what you all are selling.

[thirtyfour-thirtyone]

Eh, the dust has not settled yet, but this roster should not be a complete embarrassment. That seems pretty good considering the level of turnover. I was worried we were going to be filling our roster out with 5 more Rily Battins for a minute there, but this is workable. It will probably not be a dumpster fire.

[bopahull]

Link

[The Miami Ute]

Just for the record, Sharamjavts is not Mongolian. He was born in Phoenix and has lived his entire life in the US. He does play for the Mongolian national basketball team because his parents were born in Mongolia.

[chinngiskhaan]

That isn’t entirely correct. He was born in Phoenix, that is true. He is an American citizen. However, he spent much of his life in Mongolia. I don’t know how many years he spent in Mongolia, but from the looks of it he spent at least a third of his life there. He moved there after being born in America, then came back to America for high school (don’t know exactly what happened in between, but at least several years of that time were in Mongolia), but went back to Mongolia for the COVID years. I assure you, he speaks more than just a little Mongolian. Listen to his interviews, if you are familiar with what Mongolian people sound like when they speak English, it is very clear that he speaks English with a Mongolian accent. That wouldn’t be the case if he didn’t speak Mongolian.

His Mongol-ness goes far beyond his parents’ nationality. He is the son of one of the most famous athletes in Mongolia. He himself is one of the most famous athletes among Mongolians. The first-ever D1 athlete out of Mongolia (according to the article I saw, not sure how accurate that is). He was the captain of the U-18 Mongolian team (could be the 3×3 team, not sure). His grandfather was also a member of the first Mongolian national basketball team and played for them for 20 years. He is under a ton of pressure to succeed. Mongolia loves basketball, and he is by far the best player to come out of Mongolia. He’s been the hope and pride of the Mongolian basketball community since he was a little kid.

He is 100% Mongolian. He would never claim otherwise, and neither would any sane Mongolian.

[Calgradutedad]

Bit of an article on him last year.

His country’s first D-I athlete, USF’s ‘Mongolian Mike’ close to NBA dream
By Connor Letourneau, Enterprise reporterUpdated Sep 15, 2023 3:00 p.m.

Mike Sharavjamts glanced up from his beef stew as a young waiter mustered the courage to speak with him.

“Excuse me,” the teenage boy said, his voice barely rising above a whisper. “Are you the USF player? My friends have been talking about you.”

Sharavjamts smiled. To many passersby, he probably looked like just another college student. But this was Mongol Cafe in Nob Hill, where San Francisco’s sizable Mongolian community has long gathered to speak the native language, reminisce about the homeland and catch up on current events.

Few topics are more buzzworthy these days than Sharavjamts (SHAR-uv-jomts). Three months after the sophomore point guard withdrew from the NBA draft and transferred from Dayton to the USF, he is a major source of pride for one of the nation’s largest Mongolian populations.
Mike Sharavjamts dines at Mongol Cafe on Nob Hill last month. Sharavjamts, a guard for the USF men’s basketball team, is the only Mongolian-born player to sign with a Division I team.

Between 8,000 and 10,000 Mongolians are believed to live in the Bay Area, many of whom are among the 7,400 followers on USF’s newly launched Facebook page for Mongolian fans. At 6-foot-8, 180 pounds, with smooth ballhandling and elite court vision, Sharavjamts isn’t just Mongolia’s first NBA prospect — he is its first athlete of any kind at the NCAA Division I level.

By charting new territory in the country’s second most popular sport (behind Mongolian wrestling), he has earned iconic status. Three months ago, while visiting his hometown of Ulaanbaatar, Sharavjamts couldn’t leave his parents’ house without being hounded for photos. A popular Mongolian news network recently released a documentary about him that has a quarter-million views on YouTube.

Though shy by nature, Sharavjamts — “Mongolian Mike” to his supporters — hardly minds the attention. This has been his goal for as long as he can remember.

[chinngiskhaan]

Yep, I got much of my information from that article (or a very similar one). The kid is Mongolian through and through.

[D T]

Mike

[Hahnenwk]

Something interesting no one has mentioned yet, his father was a Harlem Globetrotter.

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