FountainofUte

Let’s start with the basics: How’s Collette’s health? Will Daniels be reinstated? The answers to those questions will heavily influence how far we go.

I kinda wish we weren’t bringing in the biggest recruit in…maybe ever on a 9pm tip that fans seem generally unexcited about.

I’ll be there, and bringing a couple of friends from tickets that a neighboring ticket holder knew he wouldn’t use for such a late tip off. And I also turned down four other tickets from a neighbor who doesn’t want to make the trip so late.

The late tip, mixed with the deflated enthusiasm of a likely NIT year will reduce the numbers tonight, I’m sure.

If we even had one signature win to hang our hat on, I’d maybe say yes. Two signature wins would do it. But with zero, I’m afraid we’re a day late and a dollar short.

At this point the question is, short of winning the PAC tourney, can any combo of wins get us in? What if we run the table to the conf tourney final but lose that game? Is that enough?

It’s hard to argue with the suggestions in this thread already, but I’d add to the list Big Apple Pizza in Millcreek. their Buffalo Chicken pizza is fantastic.

I get what you mean, but at what point do you just take the good with the bad? I mean, for all of Majerus’s genius, he also had some serious issues. Look at Romar in Washington. He can recruit like a crazy man, but seems weak with X’s and O’s.

If Larry’s weakness is end game stuff, that would be frustrating for sure, but man, he brings so many…[Read more]

I agree, it seems like LK has finally got this thing pointed where he wants it. Just think, while Larry was still calibrating this program we’ve been to two NCAA’s (including one Sweet 16), and put two Larry-recruited guys in the NBA with one going in the lottery. And this is all arguably in the rebuild of the program.

To be honest, I’m not quite…[Read more]

This is great news!

Now I think we have two more spots to fill for 2017. My thought for the last few months has been:
1) Land Tillman (check!)
2) Go get the most talented JC we can find to fill our greatest need. I’d say some front-court depth, but a stud is a stud is a stud. Just get someone who can make an impact next year.
3) Push the…[Read more]

Responding to Minnesota Ute, I agree that our athleticism is better than in the Majerus years. What also used to vex us back then was depth. In the WAC/MWC we could usually put a starting 5 on the court that could hang with some pretty good teams. Where I remember the Utes getting thrashed was when P5 powers could just keep bringing 6’6″+ studs…[Read more]

We do have the element of surprise on our side. Heck, even we don’t know what our team really is yet, let alone the Wildcats figuring it out by now. If we can get solid performances out of Barefield, Bonam, Collette, and Kuzma, and then get one of the secondary guys to go off – like Daniels did against Xavier – maybe we catch them off guard.

I searched his name on Twitter and it brings up a *little* more. A couple nuggets about him allegedly being on campus as of last fall.