2017-2018 Season
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Were you referring to Keita and thinking Diakite? Because if Keita is 6'9 and 240 then there is no way Diakite is 6'8 or muscular.
Hopefully in a couple of years he can contribute while gaining strength and height.
gotta respect Trimble for being only kid not to wear leggings to a photo shoot.
keep the yoga pants for the dance team (minus the new guy dancer)
keep the yoga pants for the dance team (minus the new guy dancer)
Clarify please RS
eligible 2017-18 of not?
Thanks
Keita - not eligible, transfer sit-out required
Diakite - freshman redshirt sit out due to knee injury & surgery. Still amazed how these 11th graders magically skip 12th grade at last minute.
Diakite - freshman redshirt sit out due to knee injury & surgery. Still amazed how these 11th graders magically skip 12th grade at last minute.
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This post triggered a 2004 flashback
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Why? Did you graduate with Mohamed Diakite?
First cut through the schedule, assuming Molloy doesn’t count towards the record, I’m at 17-13 overall / 10-8 Big East. Challenging, tricky schedule, and was conservative with the OOC as a result.
If it were to play out this way, would view this as a quality conference performance and a slight underperformance overall. Think this needs to be at least an 18-19 win regular season with a chance to get to 20 in the BET.
Easiest path to improvement is in the Nebraska, Oregon State, Iona, St. Joseph’s grouping. St. Joseph’s is just a good basketball team, Nebraska was squirrelly against good teams last year, Iona presents challenges in high-scoring approach and will likely be up for this game, and Oregon St. was hurt by injuries last year including to a star freshman, now back, and projects to be much improved. I have them at 2-2 here but hope it’s 3-1 or better.
Don’t like the West Coast trip which has not been friendly to us recently. Grand Canyon is a team we should beat, but neutral site, 11:30pm on the East Coast likely the day after travelling, and a team that went 22-9 last year, beat SDSU, and lost by 10 or less to Zona and Louisville…not an automatic win. Would be happy coming home 1-1 after ASU, if they get both that’s another found win in my projection.
Nova, SHU, and Xavier could be 0-6, 1-5 probably most likely right now, finding a way to 2-4 there is another way to push towards 20 wins prior to the BET and start talking about having a legitimate Tourney chance.
The Xavier-Duke-@Nova stretch is absolutely brutal, and if that goes 0-3 regrouping quickly for a critical Marq-@DePaul-@Marq (2 of the most significant road games on the conference slate) is important before SHU-Butler-@Providence to end the season. This might be our most favorable extended stretch on the conference schedule and 4-2 would be big.
Obvious point but avoiding an 0-3 start helpful as well. I have it at 1-2. 2-1 or better would certainly be a statement to start Big East play.
If it were to play out this way, would view this as a quality conference performance and a slight underperformance overall. Think this needs to be at least an 18-19 win regular season with a chance to get to 20 in the BET.
Easiest path to improvement is in the Nebraska, Oregon State, Iona, St. Joseph’s grouping. St. Joseph’s is just a good basketball team, Nebraska was squirrelly against good teams last year, Iona presents challenges in high-scoring approach and will likely be up for this game, and Oregon St. was hurt by injuries last year including to a star freshman, now back, and projects to be much improved. I have them at 2-2 here but hope it’s 3-1 or better.
Don’t like the West Coast trip which has not been friendly to us recently. Grand Canyon is a team we should beat, but neutral site, 11:30pm on the East Coast likely the day after travelling, and a team that went 22-9 last year, beat SDSU, and lost by 10 or less to Zona and Louisville…not an automatic win. Would be happy coming home 1-1 after ASU, if they get both that’s another found win in my projection.
Nova, SHU, and Xavier could be 0-6, 1-5 probably most likely right now, finding a way to 2-4 there is another way to push towards 20 wins prior to the BET and start talking about having a legitimate Tourney chance.
The Xavier-Duke-@Nova stretch is absolutely brutal, and if that goes 0-3 regrouping quickly for a critical Marq-@DePaul-@Marq (2 of the most significant road games on the conference slate) is important before SHU-Butler-@Providence to end the season. This might be our most favorable extended stretch on the conference schedule and 4-2 would be big.
Obvious point but avoiding an 0-3 start helpful as well. I have it at 1-2. 2-1 or better would certainly be a statement to start Big East play.
For sure, meant neutral in the technical sense only. Although I am happy it's not at their home arena. The Final Four 3pt/Dunk contests there last year looked like an insane atmosphere and would likely only make the game more challenging. In any event don't like that game.