UGA MBB
UGA WMBB
Portal
Contacted:
Amaree Abram PG Mississippi 6-4 190 FR TX 8.0 2.0 2.0
Ta’lon Cooper PG Minnesota 6-4 190 SR+ SC 9.8 4.0 6.3
Damian Dunn SG Temple 6-5 195 SO NC
15.3 3.7 3.0
John Hugley PF Pittsburgh 6-8 265 JR OH 8.0 3.6 0.8
Denver Jones SG Florida International 6-4 190 SO AL 20.1 3.8 2.4
Chris Ledlum PF Harvard 6-6 225 SR NY 18.8 8.4 1.6
Ishmael Leggett SG Rhode Island 6-3 190 SO MD 16.4 5.8 2.4
Jordan Minor PF Merrimack 6-8 240 SR MA 17.4 9.4 2.3
Johnny O’Neil PF American 6-9 200 JR FL 11.3 6.6 1.4
Jackson Paveletzke PG Wofford 6-3 185 FR WI 15.1 2.7 3.7
Kowacie Reeves SF Florida 6-6 192 SO 8.5 2.6 0.5
(Has had/is having in homes with BC, Loyola CHI, Ga State, Miss State, possible visit to GT)
Primo Spears PG Georgetown 6-3 185 SO CT 16.0 3.0 5.3
Myles Stute SF Vanderbilt 6-7 215 JR DC 8.4 4.6 0.6
Evan Taylor SG Lehigh 6-6 205 SR IL 14.2 6.5 1.1
Jayden Taylor SG Butler 6-4 195 SO IN 12.9 3.8 1.3
Nicolas Timberlake SG Towson 6-4 205 SR MA 17.7 3.9 2.4
Tedrick Wilcox SG St. Francis, NY 6-6 188 SR RI 11.3 3.7 2.1
Probable Contacts:
Josh Cohen PF St. Francis
UGA Follows on Twitter:
Amaree Abram PG Mississippi
Ricky Bradley PG VMI
Jaemyn Brakefield SF Mississippi
**Blue Cain SG IMG (Georgia Tech) (Followed by multiple UGA coaches)
Nate Calmese SG Lamar
Chico Carter SG South Carolina
Tyzhaun Claude PF Western Carolina
Josh Cohen PF St. Francis. NY
Jared Garcia PF Salt Lake CC
Keshon Gilbert SG UNLV
Hakim Hart SG Maryland
EJ Jarvis PF Yale
Dalton Knecht SF Northern Colorado
Maxwell Land SG St. Francis, Pa
Chris Ledlum PF Harvard
Ishmael Leggett SG Rhode Island
Lawson Lovering C Colorado
Mike Meadows SG Portland
** Quincy Olivari SG Rice (Followed by multiple UGA coaches)
Johnny O’Neil PF American
**Jackson Paveletzke PG Wofford (Followed by multiple UGA coaches)
Isaiah Pope SG Utah Tech
Myles Stute SF Vanderbilt
Nicolas Timberlake SG Towson
Jaykwon Walton SF Wichita State
UGA Followers on Twitter:
Amaree Abram PG Mississippi
Ricky Bradley PG VMI
Blue Cain SG IMG Georgia Tech
Chico Carter SG South Carolina
Tyzhaun Claude PF Western Carolina
Josh Cohen PF St. Francis, NY
Jared Garcia PF Salt Lake CC
Robert Jennings PF Texas Tech
Dalton Knecht SF Northern Colorado
Maxwell Land SG St. Francis, Pa
Mike Meadows SG Portland
Quincy Olivari SG Rice
***Jackson Paveletzke PG Wofford (following 3 UGA coaches)
Isaiah Pope SG Utah Tech
Myles Stute SF Vanderbilt
Asher Woods SG VMI ( Following UGA Coaches and Charles Mann)
2023 HS Signees affected by coaching changes we would love to talk to:
Contacted: Blue Cain SG IMG - Georgia Tech (NIL release) 6-4 180 (UGA Contact) (UGA follows him and his parents on social media and they follow back)
Garwey Dual PG Southern California Academy Providence (NIL Release) 6-5 180 (UGA Contact)
Brandon Gardner PF Christ the King - St.John’s (Originally from Waynesboro
Committed Elsewhere:
Bradley Dean SG UVA Wise - Miami, OH
Tyler Houser C VMI - Delaware
Xander Rice PG Bucknell - Monmouth
BJ Mack PF Wofford - Not in his final 10
NCAA Basketball
NYT: Garden State’s Basketball Talent Blooms in N.C.A.A. Tournament
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/24/sports/ncaa-basketball-tournament-new-jersey-princeton.amp.html
Alabama
Forde SI.com: Brandon Miller, Alabama and ‘a Moral Dilemma of the Highest Order’
“Miller is the epitome of new-age basketball, which is why he is arguably the most unguardable player in the college game,” says a second NBA scout. “It’s practically impossible to see him failing, in a sense, with the NBA level in mind. He is just too dynamic, big and versatile with his offensive game to see failure ahead.
“I guess the only inherent risk—to the naked eye at this moment—is the cold, hard facts related to the off-the-floor incident. Is there more to come from that, or is there a trickle-down related to it as far as off-the-floor red flags? Is there more to Miller and his background? How does he handle his circle when he does make the big bucks? Is he a follower who finds it hard to say no to the wrong people?”
https://www.si.com/college/2023/03/...tournament-alabama-brandon-miller-daily-cover
Rodak Alabama.com: Inside the Wisconsin youth prison where Nate Oats taught the Bible, played hoops and offered hope
https://www.al.com/alabamabasketbal...-the-bible-played-hoops-and-offered-hope.html
Butler
Indianapolis Star: Butler basketball center Manny Bates enters NBA Draft, retains eligibility
https://www.indystar.com/story/spor...rs-nba-draft-retains-eligibility/70043727007/
Connecticut
Fox Sports: UConn's run to Elite Eight shows power of talent, toughness and identity
https://www.foxsports.com/stories/c...-shows-power-of-talent-toughness-and-identity
Florida Atlantic
Palm Beach Post: Florida Atlantic basketball storms back in second half vs. Tennessee to reach Elite Eight. Here are 3 takeaways
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story...half-to-continue-historic-season/70042079007/
CBS Sports: A school that didn't have basketball until the late '80s can play itself into the F4 on Saturday night. What an outrageous tournament we've found ourselves in once again.
Column from MSG on FAU's unsurprising E8 run. You don't go 34-3 by accident.
https://www.cbssports.com/college-b...t-34-3-owls-dont-feel-like-were-a-cinderella/
CJ Moore The Athletic: How Dusty May turned Florida Atlantic basketball into an NCAA Tournament team (Subscription)
Excerpts pertaining to Mike White, offensive, defensive philosophy. I recommend the whole article
“The light of Dusty May’s MacBook used to keep Mike White up at all hours of the night. Back in their days together at Louisiana Tech, White and May would hit the road recruiting across the Southeast. Because of a lack of funds, they’d share a car and a hotel room. These were long days and early wake-up calls, but May rarely slept.
It’d be the middle of the summer, at 4 o’clock in the morning, and White would ask May what the heck he was watching. “He’d just throw out some random Euro tournament of some random year with two random teams,” White says. “It’s fun for him just to study random basketball at all levels. He’s addicted to it. He is a basketball encyclopedia.”
May tries to teach his players how their brains work, and by the time the game arrives, he’s figured out how to get them to memorize the important stuff.
In late February, May read a story in The Athletic about how Kansas star Ochai Agbaji developed a workout routine with trainer Phil Beckner that helped him transform into an All-American. May printed the story and gave Davis a copy.
Since that day, Davis has mimicked Agbaji’s routine. He arrives every morning a couple of hours before FAU’s first team activity for an individual workout, then often returns at night for extra shooting.
“He never did any of that before he read that article,” May says.
Davis averaged 6.8 points per game and shot 33.3 percent from 3 last season. This season, he’s the team’s leading scorer (13.2 PPG) and shoots 41 percent from 3.
When COVID-19 hit in March 2020, May used the pause in everyday life to figure out how he could get his players to thrive in his system. He looked at it as a professor’s sabbatical. If anyone would let him on a Zoom with a good coach, he was there. He had always loved the Spanish Liga ACB. “It’s much closer to the college game than the NBA,” he says. He was able to study those offenses like never before, even landing on Zooms with some of the league’s top coaches.
There are always four guards on the floor who can dribble, pass and shoot, and they’re quick. Anyone can be a screener too.
The Owls run a lot of ball-screen action and are creative in how they get to those. It’s not just the point guard and a big man. Sometimes it’s set up by a dribble hand-off. Sometimes the point guard will be one of the screeners after he makes the first pass. Sometimes it’s a “chase,” a concept those old Phoenix Suns teams often utilized where the point guard throws it to the big and then gets it back. Away from the ball, there’s always a lot of movement.
“It kind goes back to what we learned through teaching,” May says. “Your eyes take in information, your eyes then give that information to your brain and your brain decides what to do with it. So if you’re going to run a ball screen, we never felt like we had great spot-up shooters, where you could just space and make the decisions easy. So we felt like we had pretty good shooters who were also pretty good drivers and they were pretty good cutters. And so we wanted the defender’s eyes and balance not to be focused on the ball screen.”
“Our whole offensive philosophy is if you see space, then attack space,” May says. “And if you don’t see space, then we have to create space. So if a guy drives into bad spacing, we stop and say, what do you see? I just drove into terrible space. If I drive, and there’s another defender’s chest, it’s an automatic pass to the open guy and then play.”
May has always been a big believer in staying out of defensive rotations as much as possible, so his teams switch almost every screen. He learned it from Davis and got to test it out for himself when White let him coach the defense during White’s four-year run at Louisiana Tech.
The Owls also try to keep Goldin near the basket for rim protection, so they play him in drop coverage. This makes it so they rarely ever have to use a help defender to tag the roller.
“When you’re small, we just feel like if we get off balance or we’re over-helping or if we’re over-tagging, then now you have bigger, stronger, more physical guys with angles to rebound, angles to cut,” May says. “We’ve got to keep bodies in front of bodies, and that way when the shot goes up, you’re balanced.”
“Their schemes are really tight,” McCasland says. “Their understanding of what they’re trying to do is really good, but to me it’s the effort that they put forward and their activity level that makes them different. Because a lot of people can be in the right spot, but those dudes make plays in the right spots. For 40 minutes, they’re relentless on both ends. It’s really a special combination.”
“He’s never been one to talk about what they’re doing,” McCasland says. “He’s been the one to ask how to do things better. He’s always searching to try to improve.”
This is what White loves about May. The two met when White got the job at Louisiana Tech in 2011. May had been on staff for two seasons already and offered to help with the transition. It was White’s intention to bring in entirely new assistants. But as they sat down to talk, one hour turned into two, and two to three … and White realized he might want to keep May around.
White took May with him when he got the job at Florida and still talks to him daily. He says May has never had a bad day. His capacity to work is unmatched. In a profession where everyone has a high energy level, “his is off the charts.”
In the day, at night …
“At commercial airports, long bus rides, you never see him without a Mac in front of him, studying film or reading a book about basketball or coaching or leadership,” White says. “He’s relentless in his pursuit of greatness.”
https://theathletic.com/4284970/2023/03/09/dusty-may-florida-atlantic-college-basketball-ncaa/
Indianapolis Star: Former Bobby Knight student-manager Dusty May is coaching's next big star (2-02-2022)
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You want to hear this story or not? Dusty was 14 when he started doing yardwork for a guy in Greene County, Dave Rutherford. Turns out, Rutherford had served in the U.S. Navy with longtime IU team physician Larry Rink. Turns out, Dr. Rink needed some yardwork done in nearby Bloomington, too.
One thing led to another, and pretty soon Rink is giving Dusty tickets to IU basketball games, then suggesting – if he’s serious about being a coach – he work for Knight as a student-manager. Dusty spent a year at Oakland City, 40 miles north of Evansville, then transferred to IU, where the doctor whose grass he once cut put in a word with Coach Knight.
May goes from student-manager on Knight’s last four teams at IU to a video position at Southern California for Henry Bibby to an administrative position for Knight’s replacement at IU, Davis. After nine years behind the bench, he gets his first assistant coaching position at Eastern Michigan, then goes to Murray State with Kennedy, then is reunited with Davis at UAB.
In 2009 he moved to Louisiana Tech, where he coached for Kerry Rupp. Here’s where life and death come together, one of those odd connections – like cutting Dave Rutherford’s grass – that can change a career. For May it started with the firing of Rupp in 2011. Louisiana Tech hired promising young Ole Miss assistant Mike White.
White didn’t know much about May, but had known one of his best friends: Torrey Ward, who played at UAB in the late 1990s and met May while working Knight’s basketball camps. Ward and May stayed close until 2015, when the Cessna 414 taking Ward from the 2015 Final Four in Indianapolis back to his assistant’s job at Illinois State crashed, killing all seven aboard.
White, who’d worked with Ward on Andy Kennedy’s staff at Ole Miss from 2006-11, started settling in at Louisiana Tech. May took his wife and their kids to Fort Myers, Fla., where she had family. He dropped them there and went on a driving tour of high school programs around Florida.
“Just to have a pulse on some guys out there (still available as recruits),” he says. “I wasn’t ever really stressed. I don’t do this to provide for my family – I do it because I love the game. Love being around it, being in the gym. I have a degree, so I knew I could figure out a way to coach ball – whether it be high school or D-II, whatever I can to stay in the game.”
White, still looking to fill his staff at Louisiana Tech, arranged a meeting with May at the 2011 Final Four in Houston, then invited him back to Ruston for another interview.
“He had me put up a list of guys who were available, that we could recruit,” May says. “He had names too, and we filled up the board and ended up signing three or four of them. That was the class that won 100 games at Louisiana Tech and changed the culture.”
White went 101-40 in four seasons at Louisiana Tech and was hired by Florida in 2015. May stayed with him until 2018, when the job opened at FAU. Any idea who the athletic director is, at FAU? Brian White.
Mike White’s brother.
“Dusty was my No. 1 choice,” Brian White said when he hired May in 2018…”
Furman
WYFF: Furman men's basketball coach Bob Richey signs contract extension
https://www.wyff4.com/amp/article/f...-bob-richey-signs-contract-extension/43402610
Gonzaga
NCAA.com: Gonzaga tops UCLA in another instant classic as Drew Timme's huge day powers Bulldogs to Elite Eight
https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketbal...ssic-drew-timmes-huge-day-powers-bulldogs?amp
Indiana
Indianapolis Star: IU basketball sophomore center Logan Duncomb enters transfer portal
https://www.indystar.com/story/spor...ansfer-portal-iu-hoosiers-roster/70042972007/
Kansas State
Maryland
SB Nation: Maryland guard Hakim Hart declares for NBA draft, enters transfer portal
https://www.testudotimes.com/platfo...ansfer-portal-maryland-terrapins-philadelphia
Michigan
Detroit Free Press: Michigan basketball's Jett Howard declares for NBA draft
https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...n-jett-howard-declares-nba-draft/70043378007/
Michigan State
Detroit Free Press: Michigan State basketball falls in Sweet 16 to Kansas State, 98-93, in overtime
https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...-state-score-recap-march-madness/70043184007/
Notre Dame
Penn State
Daily Collegian: 4-star recruit Carey Booth requests release from Penn State men's basketball following Shrewsberry exit
https://www.collegian.psu.edu/sport...cle_479265ce-c9e8-11ed-a2b9-7fe2023ef2a9.html
Princeton
Forde SI.com: Princeton’s Sweet 16 Appearance Is Your Atypical Cinderella Run
https://www.si.com/college/2023/03/24/march-madness-mens-ncaa-tournament-princeton-great-run
ESPN: 'Mitch is Princeton': A coach, a university and the 1,000,000 connections
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-b...versity-one-million-connections-march-madness
Providence
Providence Journal: It's official, Kim English is the new Providence College men's basketball coach
https://www.providencejournal.com/s...y-as-providence-basketball-coach/70040693007/
South Carolina
Tennessee
Knoxville News: Tennessee basketball's tantalizing season tanked by consistent inconsistencies in Sweet 16
https://www.knoxnews.com/story/spor...-barnes-sweet-16-ncaa-tournament/70025878007/
The Tennessean: Sifting through Tennessee basketball's bitter Sweet 16 loss
https://www.tennessean.com/story/sp...ore-fau-sweet-16-ncaa-tournament/70029906007/
UCLA
LA Times: UCLA crumbles in second half of heartbreaking Sweet 16 loss to Gonzaga
https://www.latimes.com/sports/ucla...aa-tournament-live-updates-betting-start-time
Portal General:
Some portal entrants with Georgia (local) connections (updated:
Quincy Olivari SG Rice 6-3 200 JR 19.3 6.1 2.2 Westlake HS, Atlanta
Damian Dunn SG Temple 6-5 195 SO
15.3 3.7 3.0 ( Player his senior year at Meadowcreek HS from North Carolina)
Marcus Watson SF NC A&T 6-6 235 JR 14.4 4.6 1.9 Buford HS, Buford
Asher Woods SG VMI 6-3 180 FR 14.1 4.6 2.3 Parkview HS, Newnan
Jaykwon Walton SF Wichita State 6-7 206 JR 14.0 5.3 1.9 Northside HS, Columbus (Georgia)
Rayquan Brown SG Mississippi Valley State 6-6 190 JR 12.6 6.6 1.1 Mundys Mill HS, Atlanta
Eli Lawrence SG MTSU 6-5 185 JR 12.6 4.3 1.5 Tri-Cities HS, Atlanta
Jalen Forrest SG Presbyterian 6-4 230 FR 11.3 2.7 1.4 Greenforest HS, Decatur
Kamar Robertson SG Mercer 6-0 182 SR 10.9 2.4 1.5 Cambridge HS, Alpharetta
Toneari Lane SG Winthrop 6-5 210 SO 10.6 2.4 0.5 Grayson HS, Atlanta (Committed to Georgia State)
Kowacie Reeves SG Florida 6-6 192 SO 8.7 2.6 0.6 Westside HS, Macon
Carlos Curry C Georgia Southern 6-11 240 SR 7.6 7.0 0.3 Dougherty HS, Albany
KJ Jenkins SG New Mexico 6-2 180 SR 7.4 1.8 1.0 Creekview HS, Atlanta
Jackson Price PF Citadel 6-8 250 SO 6.7 2.7 0.3 Hiram HS, Hiram
Izaiyah Nelson C Arkansas State 6-9 FR 4.6 4.8 0.2 Marietta HS, Marietta
Nolan Causwell C Tennessee Tech 6-10 235 JR 4.0 3.3 0.3 Morgan County HS, Duluth (Gulf Coast State College)
James White SF Mississippi 6-5 190 SO 3.4 1.8 1.0 Heritage HS, Conyers
Zocko Littleton SG Appalachian State 6-3 175 FR 2.9 0.9 0.8 Osborne HS, Albany
Ebenezer Dowuona C NC State 6-11 225 Ghana 1.7 1.9 0.0 Played on varsity team at The Heritage School in Newnan, Ga., since eighth grade
Cole Middleton SF Cleveland State 6-6 220 SO 1.3 1.0 0.2 Atlanta
Tyler Shirley SF South Alabama 6-7 205 SO 1.1 2.1 0.2 Pebblebrook, Gary
D’Ante Brass PF Georgetown 6-6 200 FR 0.3 0.6 0.3 Windsor Forest HS, Savannah
Kaleb Washington SF Dayton 6-7 FR (DNP)
UGA WMBB
Portal
Contacted:
Amaree Abram PG Mississippi 6-4 190 FR TX 8.0 2.0 2.0
Ta’lon Cooper PG Minnesota 6-4 190 SR+ SC 9.8 4.0 6.3
Damian Dunn SG Temple 6-5 195 SO NC
15.3 3.7 3.0
John Hugley PF Pittsburgh 6-8 265 JR OH 8.0 3.6 0.8
Denver Jones SG Florida International 6-4 190 SO AL 20.1 3.8 2.4
Chris Ledlum PF Harvard 6-6 225 SR NY 18.8 8.4 1.6
Ishmael Leggett SG Rhode Island 6-3 190 SO MD 16.4 5.8 2.4
Jordan Minor PF Merrimack 6-8 240 SR MA 17.4 9.4 2.3
Johnny O’Neil PF American 6-9 200 JR FL 11.3 6.6 1.4
Jackson Paveletzke PG Wofford 6-3 185 FR WI 15.1 2.7 3.7
Kowacie Reeves SF Florida 6-6 192 SO 8.5 2.6 0.5
(Has had/is having in homes with BC, Loyola CHI, Ga State, Miss State, possible visit to GT)
Primo Spears PG Georgetown 6-3 185 SO CT 16.0 3.0 5.3
Myles Stute SF Vanderbilt 6-7 215 JR DC 8.4 4.6 0.6
Evan Taylor SG Lehigh 6-6 205 SR IL 14.2 6.5 1.1
Jayden Taylor SG Butler 6-4 195 SO IN 12.9 3.8 1.3
Nicolas Timberlake SG Towson 6-4 205 SR MA 17.7 3.9 2.4
Tedrick Wilcox SG St. Francis, NY 6-6 188 SR RI 11.3 3.7 2.1
Probable Contacts:
Josh Cohen PF St. Francis
UGA Follows on Twitter:
Amaree Abram PG Mississippi
Ricky Bradley PG VMI
Jaemyn Brakefield SF Mississippi
**Blue Cain SG IMG (Georgia Tech) (Followed by multiple UGA coaches)
Nate Calmese SG Lamar
Chico Carter SG South Carolina
Tyzhaun Claude PF Western Carolina
Josh Cohen PF St. Francis. NY
Jared Garcia PF Salt Lake CC
Keshon Gilbert SG UNLV
Hakim Hart SG Maryland
EJ Jarvis PF Yale
Dalton Knecht SF Northern Colorado
Maxwell Land SG St. Francis, Pa
Chris Ledlum PF Harvard
Ishmael Leggett SG Rhode Island
Lawson Lovering C Colorado
Mike Meadows SG Portland
** Quincy Olivari SG Rice (Followed by multiple UGA coaches)
Johnny O’Neil PF American
**Jackson Paveletzke PG Wofford (Followed by multiple UGA coaches)
Isaiah Pope SG Utah Tech
Myles Stute SF Vanderbilt
Nicolas Timberlake SG Towson
Jaykwon Walton SF Wichita State
UGA Followers on Twitter:
Amaree Abram PG Mississippi
Ricky Bradley PG VMI
Blue Cain SG IMG Georgia Tech
Chico Carter SG South Carolina
Tyzhaun Claude PF Western Carolina
Josh Cohen PF St. Francis, NY
Jared Garcia PF Salt Lake CC
Robert Jennings PF Texas Tech
Dalton Knecht SF Northern Colorado
Maxwell Land SG St. Francis, Pa
Mike Meadows SG Portland
Quincy Olivari SG Rice
***Jackson Paveletzke PG Wofford (following 3 UGA coaches)
Isaiah Pope SG Utah Tech
Myles Stute SF Vanderbilt
Asher Woods SG VMI ( Following UGA Coaches and Charles Mann)
2023 HS Signees affected by coaching changes we would love to talk to:
Contacted: Blue Cain SG IMG - Georgia Tech (NIL release) 6-4 180 (UGA Contact) (UGA follows him and his parents on social media and they follow back)
Garwey Dual PG Southern California Academy Providence (NIL Release) 6-5 180 (UGA Contact)
Brandon Gardner PF Christ the King - St.John’s (Originally from Waynesboro
Committed Elsewhere:
Bradley Dean SG UVA Wise - Miami, OH
Tyler Houser C VMI - Delaware
Xander Rice PG Bucknell - Monmouth
BJ Mack PF Wofford - Not in his final 10
NCAA Basketball
NYT: Garden State’s Basketball Talent Blooms in N.C.A.A. Tournament
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/24/sports/ncaa-basketball-tournament-new-jersey-princeton.amp.html
Alabama
Forde SI.com: Brandon Miller, Alabama and ‘a Moral Dilemma of the Highest Order’
“Miller is the epitome of new-age basketball, which is why he is arguably the most unguardable player in the college game,” says a second NBA scout. “It’s practically impossible to see him failing, in a sense, with the NBA level in mind. He is just too dynamic, big and versatile with his offensive game to see failure ahead.
“I guess the only inherent risk—to the naked eye at this moment—is the cold, hard facts related to the off-the-floor incident. Is there more to come from that, or is there a trickle-down related to it as far as off-the-floor red flags? Is there more to Miller and his background? How does he handle his circle when he does make the big bucks? Is he a follower who finds it hard to say no to the wrong people?”
https://www.si.com/college/2023/03/...tournament-alabama-brandon-miller-daily-cover
Rodak Alabama.com: Inside the Wisconsin youth prison where Nate Oats taught the Bible, played hoops and offered hope
https://www.al.com/alabamabasketbal...-the-bible-played-hoops-and-offered-hope.html
Butler
Indianapolis Star: Butler basketball center Manny Bates enters NBA Draft, retains eligibility
https://www.indystar.com/story/spor...rs-nba-draft-retains-eligibility/70043727007/
Connecticut
Fox Sports: UConn's run to Elite Eight shows power of talent, toughness and identity
https://www.foxsports.com/stories/c...-shows-power-of-talent-toughness-and-identity
Florida Atlantic
Palm Beach Post: Florida Atlantic basketball storms back in second half vs. Tennessee to reach Elite Eight. Here are 3 takeaways
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story...half-to-continue-historic-season/70042079007/
CBS Sports: A school that didn't have basketball until the late '80s can play itself into the F4 on Saturday night. What an outrageous tournament we've found ourselves in once again.
Column from MSG on FAU's unsurprising E8 run. You don't go 34-3 by accident.
https://www.cbssports.com/college-b...t-34-3-owls-dont-feel-like-were-a-cinderella/
CJ Moore The Athletic: How Dusty May turned Florida Atlantic basketball into an NCAA Tournament team (Subscription)
Excerpts pertaining to Mike White, offensive, defensive philosophy. I recommend the whole article
“The light of Dusty May’s MacBook used to keep Mike White up at all hours of the night. Back in their days together at Louisiana Tech, White and May would hit the road recruiting across the Southeast. Because of a lack of funds, they’d share a car and a hotel room. These were long days and early wake-up calls, but May rarely slept.
It’d be the middle of the summer, at 4 o’clock in the morning, and White would ask May what the heck he was watching. “He’d just throw out some random Euro tournament of some random year with two random teams,” White says. “It’s fun for him just to study random basketball at all levels. He’s addicted to it. He is a basketball encyclopedia.”
May tries to teach his players how their brains work, and by the time the game arrives, he’s figured out how to get them to memorize the important stuff.
In late February, May read a story in The Athletic about how Kansas star Ochai Agbaji developed a workout routine with trainer Phil Beckner that helped him transform into an All-American. May printed the story and gave Davis a copy.
Since that day, Davis has mimicked Agbaji’s routine. He arrives every morning a couple of hours before FAU’s first team activity for an individual workout, then often returns at night for extra shooting.
“He never did any of that before he read that article,” May says.
Davis averaged 6.8 points per game and shot 33.3 percent from 3 last season. This season, he’s the team’s leading scorer (13.2 PPG) and shoots 41 percent from 3.
When COVID-19 hit in March 2020, May used the pause in everyday life to figure out how he could get his players to thrive in his system. He looked at it as a professor’s sabbatical. If anyone would let him on a Zoom with a good coach, he was there. He had always loved the Spanish Liga ACB. “It’s much closer to the college game than the NBA,” he says. He was able to study those offenses like never before, even landing on Zooms with some of the league’s top coaches.
There are always four guards on the floor who can dribble, pass and shoot, and they’re quick. Anyone can be a screener too.
The Owls run a lot of ball-screen action and are creative in how they get to those. It’s not just the point guard and a big man. Sometimes it’s set up by a dribble hand-off. Sometimes the point guard will be one of the screeners after he makes the first pass. Sometimes it’s a “chase,” a concept those old Phoenix Suns teams often utilized where the point guard throws it to the big and then gets it back. Away from the ball, there’s always a lot of movement.
“It kind goes back to what we learned through teaching,” May says. “Your eyes take in information, your eyes then give that information to your brain and your brain decides what to do with it. So if you’re going to run a ball screen, we never felt like we had great spot-up shooters, where you could just space and make the decisions easy. So we felt like we had pretty good shooters who were also pretty good drivers and they were pretty good cutters. And so we wanted the defender’s eyes and balance not to be focused on the ball screen.”
“Our whole offensive philosophy is if you see space, then attack space,” May says. “And if you don’t see space, then we have to create space. So if a guy drives into bad spacing, we stop and say, what do you see? I just drove into terrible space. If I drive, and there’s another defender’s chest, it’s an automatic pass to the open guy and then play.”
May has always been a big believer in staying out of defensive rotations as much as possible, so his teams switch almost every screen. He learned it from Davis and got to test it out for himself when White let him coach the defense during White’s four-year run at Louisiana Tech.
The Owls also try to keep Goldin near the basket for rim protection, so they play him in drop coverage. This makes it so they rarely ever have to use a help defender to tag the roller.
“When you’re small, we just feel like if we get off balance or we’re over-helping or if we’re over-tagging, then now you have bigger, stronger, more physical guys with angles to rebound, angles to cut,” May says. “We’ve got to keep bodies in front of bodies, and that way when the shot goes up, you’re balanced.”
“Their schemes are really tight,” McCasland says. “Their understanding of what they’re trying to do is really good, but to me it’s the effort that they put forward and their activity level that makes them different. Because a lot of people can be in the right spot, but those dudes make plays in the right spots. For 40 minutes, they’re relentless on both ends. It’s really a special combination.”
“He’s never been one to talk about what they’re doing,” McCasland says. “He’s been the one to ask how to do things better. He’s always searching to try to improve.”
This is what White loves about May. The two met when White got the job at Louisiana Tech in 2011. May had been on staff for two seasons already and offered to help with the transition. It was White’s intention to bring in entirely new assistants. But as they sat down to talk, one hour turned into two, and two to three … and White realized he might want to keep May around.
White took May with him when he got the job at Florida and still talks to him daily. He says May has never had a bad day. His capacity to work is unmatched. In a profession where everyone has a high energy level, “his is off the charts.”
In the day, at night …
“At commercial airports, long bus rides, you never see him without a Mac in front of him, studying film or reading a book about basketball or coaching or leadership,” White says. “He’s relentless in his pursuit of greatness.”
https://theathletic.com/4284970/2023/03/09/dusty-may-florida-atlantic-college-basketball-ncaa/
Indianapolis Star: Former Bobby Knight student-manager Dusty May is coaching's next big star (2-02-2022)
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You want to hear this story or not? Dusty was 14 when he started doing yardwork for a guy in Greene County, Dave Rutherford. Turns out, Rutherford had served in the U.S. Navy with longtime IU team physician Larry Rink. Turns out, Dr. Rink needed some yardwork done in nearby Bloomington, too.
One thing led to another, and pretty soon Rink is giving Dusty tickets to IU basketball games, then suggesting – if he’s serious about being a coach – he work for Knight as a student-manager. Dusty spent a year at Oakland City, 40 miles north of Evansville, then transferred to IU, where the doctor whose grass he once cut put in a word with Coach Knight.
May goes from student-manager on Knight’s last four teams at IU to a video position at Southern California for Henry Bibby to an administrative position for Knight’s replacement at IU, Davis. After nine years behind the bench, he gets his first assistant coaching position at Eastern Michigan, then goes to Murray State with Kennedy, then is reunited with Davis at UAB.
In 2009 he moved to Louisiana Tech, where he coached for Kerry Rupp. Here’s where life and death come together, one of those odd connections – like cutting Dave Rutherford’s grass – that can change a career. For May it started with the firing of Rupp in 2011. Louisiana Tech hired promising young Ole Miss assistant Mike White.
White didn’t know much about May, but had known one of his best friends: Torrey Ward, who played at UAB in the late 1990s and met May while working Knight’s basketball camps. Ward and May stayed close until 2015, when the Cessna 414 taking Ward from the 2015 Final Four in Indianapolis back to his assistant’s job at Illinois State crashed, killing all seven aboard.
White, who’d worked with Ward on Andy Kennedy’s staff at Ole Miss from 2006-11, started settling in at Louisiana Tech. May took his wife and their kids to Fort Myers, Fla., where she had family. He dropped them there and went on a driving tour of high school programs around Florida.
“Just to have a pulse on some guys out there (still available as recruits),” he says. “I wasn’t ever really stressed. I don’t do this to provide for my family – I do it because I love the game. Love being around it, being in the gym. I have a degree, so I knew I could figure out a way to coach ball – whether it be high school or D-II, whatever I can to stay in the game.”
White, still looking to fill his staff at Louisiana Tech, arranged a meeting with May at the 2011 Final Four in Houston, then invited him back to Ruston for another interview.
“He had me put up a list of guys who were available, that we could recruit,” May says. “He had names too, and we filled up the board and ended up signing three or four of them. That was the class that won 100 games at Louisiana Tech and changed the culture.”
White went 101-40 in four seasons at Louisiana Tech and was hired by Florida in 2015. May stayed with him until 2018, when the job opened at FAU. Any idea who the athletic director is, at FAU? Brian White.
Mike White’s brother.
“Dusty was my No. 1 choice,” Brian White said when he hired May in 2018…”
Doyel: Former Bobby Knight student-manager Dusty May is coaching's next big star
The brightest star on Bob Knight's coaching tree is Dusty May, an ex-IU student-manager who has made FAU a mid-major you don't want to see in March.
www.indystar.com
Furman
WYFF: Furman men's basketball coach Bob Richey signs contract extension
https://www.wyff4.com/amp/article/f...-bob-richey-signs-contract-extension/43402610
Gonzaga
NCAA.com: Gonzaga tops UCLA in another instant classic as Drew Timme's huge day powers Bulldogs to Elite Eight
https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketbal...ssic-drew-timmes-huge-day-powers-bulldogs?amp
Indiana
Indianapolis Star: IU basketball sophomore center Logan Duncomb enters transfer portal
https://www.indystar.com/story/spor...ansfer-portal-iu-hoosiers-roster/70042972007/
Kansas State
Maryland
SB Nation: Maryland guard Hakim Hart declares for NBA draft, enters transfer portal
https://www.testudotimes.com/platfo...ansfer-portal-maryland-terrapins-philadelphia
Michigan
Detroit Free Press: Michigan basketball's Jett Howard declares for NBA draft
https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...n-jett-howard-declares-nba-draft/70043378007/
Michigan State
Detroit Free Press: Michigan State basketball falls in Sweet 16 to Kansas State, 98-93, in overtime
https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...-state-score-recap-march-madness/70043184007/
Notre Dame
Penn State
Daily Collegian: 4-star recruit Carey Booth requests release from Penn State men's basketball following Shrewsberry exit
https://www.collegian.psu.edu/sport...cle_479265ce-c9e8-11ed-a2b9-7fe2023ef2a9.html
Princeton
Forde SI.com: Princeton’s Sweet 16 Appearance Is Your Atypical Cinderella Run
https://www.si.com/college/2023/03/24/march-madness-mens-ncaa-tournament-princeton-great-run
ESPN: 'Mitch is Princeton': A coach, a university and the 1,000,000 connections
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-b...versity-one-million-connections-march-madness
Providence
Providence Journal: It's official, Kim English is the new Providence College men's basketball coach
https://www.providencejournal.com/s...y-as-providence-basketball-coach/70040693007/
South Carolina
Tennessee
Knoxville News: Tennessee basketball's tantalizing season tanked by consistent inconsistencies in Sweet 16
https://www.knoxnews.com/story/spor...-barnes-sweet-16-ncaa-tournament/70025878007/
The Tennessean: Sifting through Tennessee basketball's bitter Sweet 16 loss
https://www.tennessean.com/story/sp...ore-fau-sweet-16-ncaa-tournament/70029906007/
UCLA
LA Times: UCLA crumbles in second half of heartbreaking Sweet 16 loss to Gonzaga
https://www.latimes.com/sports/ucla...aa-tournament-live-updates-betting-start-time
Portal General:
Some portal entrants with Georgia (local) connections (updated:
Quincy Olivari SG Rice 6-3 200 JR 19.3 6.1 2.2 Westlake HS, Atlanta
Damian Dunn SG Temple 6-5 195 SO
15.3 3.7 3.0 ( Player his senior year at Meadowcreek HS from North Carolina)
Marcus Watson SF NC A&T 6-6 235 JR 14.4 4.6 1.9 Buford HS, Buford
Asher Woods SG VMI 6-3 180 FR 14.1 4.6 2.3 Parkview HS, Newnan
Jaykwon Walton SF Wichita State 6-7 206 JR 14.0 5.3 1.9 Northside HS, Columbus (Georgia)
Rayquan Brown SG Mississippi Valley State 6-6 190 JR 12.6 6.6 1.1 Mundys Mill HS, Atlanta
Eli Lawrence SG MTSU 6-5 185 JR 12.6 4.3 1.5 Tri-Cities HS, Atlanta
Jalen Forrest SG Presbyterian 6-4 230 FR 11.3 2.7 1.4 Greenforest HS, Decatur
Kamar Robertson SG Mercer 6-0 182 SR 10.9 2.4 1.5 Cambridge HS, Alpharetta
Toneari Lane SG Winthrop 6-5 210 SO 10.6 2.4 0.5 Grayson HS, Atlanta (Committed to Georgia State)
Kowacie Reeves SG Florida 6-6 192 SO 8.7 2.6 0.6 Westside HS, Macon
Carlos Curry C Georgia Southern 6-11 240 SR 7.6 7.0 0.3 Dougherty HS, Albany
KJ Jenkins SG New Mexico 6-2 180 SR 7.4 1.8 1.0 Creekview HS, Atlanta
Jackson Price PF Citadel 6-8 250 SO 6.7 2.7 0.3 Hiram HS, Hiram
Izaiyah Nelson C Arkansas State 6-9 FR 4.6 4.8 0.2 Marietta HS, Marietta
Nolan Causwell C Tennessee Tech 6-10 235 JR 4.0 3.3 0.3 Morgan County HS, Duluth (Gulf Coast State College)
James White SF Mississippi 6-5 190 SO 3.4 1.8 1.0 Heritage HS, Conyers
Zocko Littleton SG Appalachian State 6-3 175 FR 2.9 0.9 0.8 Osborne HS, Albany
Ebenezer Dowuona C NC State 6-11 225 Ghana 1.7 1.9 0.0 Played on varsity team at The Heritage School in Newnan, Ga., since eighth grade
Cole Middleton SF Cleveland State 6-6 220 SO 1.3 1.0 0.2 Atlanta
Tyler Shirley SF South Alabama 6-7 205 SO 1.1 2.1 0.2 Pebblebrook, Gary
D’Ante Brass PF Georgetown 6-6 200 FR 0.3 0.6 0.3 Windsor Forest HS, Savannah
Kaleb Washington SF Dayton 6-7 FR (DNP)
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