UGA MBB
UGA WBB
Marc Weiszer ABH: Georgia women's basketball will play Columbia and Purdue in November tournament in Bahamas. Purdue reached NCAA tournament last season. Columbia lost in WNIT finals.
SEC
Arkansas
2023-24 Arkansas basketball non-conference schedule:
Nov. 6: Alcorn St.
Nov. 10: Gardner-Webb
Nov. 13: Old Dominion
Nov. 17: UNC-Greensboro
Nov. 22-24: Battle 4 Atlantis
Nov. 29: Duke
Dec. 9: Oklahoma(Tulsa)
Dec. 16: Lipscomb(Little Rock)
Dec. 21: Abilene Christian
Dec. 30: UNC-Wilmington
Auburn
Alabama.com: Steven Pearl earns promotion, named associate head coach of Auburn men’s basketball
https://www.al.com/auburnbasketball...of-auburn-mens-basketball.html?outputType=amp
Kentucky
College Basketball
Ball State
Ball State has announced that Jarron Coleman is entering the transfer portal as a grad transfer.
The 6’5” guard started all 30 games, averaging 14.3 points, 4.9 rebounds, 3.8 assists, and 1.3 steals. Coleman shot 35% from deep (68/193).
All-MAC Second Team selection
California
Cal To Face San Diego State In SoCal Showcase
Programs To Clash For First Time Since 2018 In Neutral-Site Matchup
https://calbears.com/news/2023/8/1/...o-face-san-diego-state-in-socal-showcase.aspx
Creighton
George Mason
Hoop Scoop: Top 100 Countdown: #97 George Mason
https://hoopscoopmedia.com/top-100-countdown-97-george-mason/
Providence
Rothstein: Early prediction on Providence's 2023-24 starting five:
Jayden Pierre, Corey Floyd, Devin Carter, Bryce Hopkins, Josh Oduro
Wichita State
Wichita Eagle: Wichita State basketball adds last-minute transfer, and he’s going to Greece with team
“On the same day when the Wichita State men’s basketball team departed for Greece, head coach Paul Mills found the 13th and final scholarship player for this upcoming season.
It must have been quite the introduction on Tuesday morning for Missouri State graduate transfer Dalen Ridgnal to meet his new teammates right before they took a 13-hour plane ride to Greece together.
In the 72 hours since Ridgnal entered the transfer portal this past Friday, he was recruited by Mills, swayed to join the Shockers and then added to the itinerary to join the team’s overseas exhibition tour, according to sources with knowledge of the situation. Ryan Hillard, Mills’ chief of staff, and WSU’s admissions department both worked overtime to make the logistics work and ensure the proper paperwork was on hand to pull off the speedy turnaround. Luckily, Ridgnal already had a passport…”
https://amp.kansas.com/sports/college/wichita-state/article277863103.html
NBA
Minnesota
History
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: A we-have-to-get-him type of mentality': The oral history of Dwyane Wade's recruitment at Marquette
“Wade will be inducted into his sport's pantheon on Aug. 12 in Springfield, Massachusetts, the first former MU player to earn that honor. His three years in Milwaukee were a crucial stop on his path to basketball immortality…
Crean: "There was concern, right off the bat, that we knew Dwyane had some challenges with the grades. But from my phone conversation with him from June 21 of 1999 on a Thursday night, I’ll never forget it, I was driving from the offices at Marquette to our house in Mequon. There was only a couple days during the week, and it was right when you could first start calling people (per NCAA rules), that you could call him because he wasn’t at home and he didn’t have a cell phone or anything like that. So you had to have a certain time, we did it, the phone call lasted probably 25 to 30 minutes. Even though I hadn’t seen his face yet. Just talking to him, it was one of those things, it was an incredible feeling. It was one of those things. When I saw him, I walked in with a preconceived bias, that I wanted to like him and I wanted to believe in him. From the first conversation on. And that’s rare. Sometimes you get that. He’s not the only one that I’ve had that with. But usually I’d seen them play before I’ve had that conversation. And with Dwyane, I hadn’t seen him play. But I trusted Tim Buckley and Tim Buckley had seen him play. And so when we get to July, I just see tremendous upside."
Crean: "I remember vividly the visit to (then-girlfriend and future wife) Siohvaughn’s house with her mother. And Jack Fitzgerald was there and Tim Buckley and I went. And I remember us putting together a diploma to show that he would graduate and spelling his name wrong. We spelled it the old-fashioned way and not the Dwyane Wade way. I remember feeling bad about that, but they laughed it off."
Crean: "It was a big deal to me when we had him on campus. It was a we-have-to-get-him type of mentality. And really, in all honesty, not knowing how his grades were going to turn out, I wasn’t 100% certain that we were getting him in, but I knew I was going to fight for it."
Crean: "The football coach (at Richards High School), I think he coached there 28 years, and he said this is one of the three finest young men that I’ve watched in this school that didn’t play for me over my career here. I was sitting in his office, I’ll never forget it, and I used that as a testimony for him (for enrollment at MU).
"You sign your scholarship, but that doesn’t mean you are admitted. The man that deserves all the credit for that is (former MU President) Father Robert Wild. There’s no question. Because they did something they’ve never done. They’d never allowed a partial qualifier in to my knowledge. And Father Wild OK’d it. Because if Father Wild doesn’t OK it, then it doesn’t happen. Obviously it has to go through admissions, but if he doesn’t OK it, then it’s not happening. And he deserves tremendous credit for that because he believed in me and trusted my vision and what I was saying about Dwyane."
UGA WBB
Marc Weiszer ABH: Georgia women's basketball will play Columbia and Purdue in November tournament in Bahamas. Purdue reached NCAA tournament last season. Columbia lost in WNIT finals.
SEC
Arkansas
2023-24 Arkansas basketball non-conference schedule:
Nov. 6: Alcorn St.
Nov. 10: Gardner-Webb
Nov. 13: Old Dominion
Nov. 17: UNC-Greensboro
Nov. 22-24: Battle 4 Atlantis
Nov. 29: Duke
Dec. 9: Oklahoma(Tulsa)
Dec. 16: Lipscomb(Little Rock)
Dec. 21: Abilene Christian
Dec. 30: UNC-Wilmington
Auburn
Alabama.com: Steven Pearl earns promotion, named associate head coach of Auburn men’s basketball
https://www.al.com/auburnbasketball...of-auburn-mens-basketball.html?outputType=amp
Kentucky
College Basketball
Ball State
Ball State has announced that Jarron Coleman is entering the transfer portal as a grad transfer.
The 6’5” guard started all 30 games, averaging 14.3 points, 4.9 rebounds, 3.8 assists, and 1.3 steals. Coleman shot 35% from deep (68/193).
All-MAC Second Team selection
California
Cal To Face San Diego State In SoCal Showcase
Programs To Clash For First Time Since 2018 In Neutral-Site Matchup
https://calbears.com/news/2023/8/1/...o-face-san-diego-state-in-socal-showcase.aspx
Creighton
George Mason
Hoop Scoop: Top 100 Countdown: #97 George Mason
https://hoopscoopmedia.com/top-100-countdown-97-george-mason/
Providence
Rothstein: Early prediction on Providence's 2023-24 starting five:
Jayden Pierre, Corey Floyd, Devin Carter, Bryce Hopkins, Josh Oduro
Wichita State
Wichita Eagle: Wichita State basketball adds last-minute transfer, and he’s going to Greece with team
“On the same day when the Wichita State men’s basketball team departed for Greece, head coach Paul Mills found the 13th and final scholarship player for this upcoming season.
It must have been quite the introduction on Tuesday morning for Missouri State graduate transfer Dalen Ridgnal to meet his new teammates right before they took a 13-hour plane ride to Greece together.
In the 72 hours since Ridgnal entered the transfer portal this past Friday, he was recruited by Mills, swayed to join the Shockers and then added to the itinerary to join the team’s overseas exhibition tour, according to sources with knowledge of the situation. Ryan Hillard, Mills’ chief of staff, and WSU’s admissions department both worked overtime to make the logistics work and ensure the proper paperwork was on hand to pull off the speedy turnaround. Luckily, Ridgnal already had a passport…”
https://amp.kansas.com/sports/college/wichita-state/article277863103.html
NBA
Minnesota
History
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: A we-have-to-get-him type of mentality': The oral history of Dwyane Wade's recruitment at Marquette
“Wade will be inducted into his sport's pantheon on Aug. 12 in Springfield, Massachusetts, the first former MU player to earn that honor. His three years in Milwaukee were a crucial stop on his path to basketball immortality…
Crean: "There was concern, right off the bat, that we knew Dwyane had some challenges with the grades. But from my phone conversation with him from June 21 of 1999 on a Thursday night, I’ll never forget it, I was driving from the offices at Marquette to our house in Mequon. There was only a couple days during the week, and it was right when you could first start calling people (per NCAA rules), that you could call him because he wasn’t at home and he didn’t have a cell phone or anything like that. So you had to have a certain time, we did it, the phone call lasted probably 25 to 30 minutes. Even though I hadn’t seen his face yet. Just talking to him, it was one of those things, it was an incredible feeling. It was one of those things. When I saw him, I walked in with a preconceived bias, that I wanted to like him and I wanted to believe in him. From the first conversation on. And that’s rare. Sometimes you get that. He’s not the only one that I’ve had that with. But usually I’d seen them play before I’ve had that conversation. And with Dwyane, I hadn’t seen him play. But I trusted Tim Buckley and Tim Buckley had seen him play. And so when we get to July, I just see tremendous upside."
Crean: "I remember vividly the visit to (then-girlfriend and future wife) Siohvaughn’s house with her mother. And Jack Fitzgerald was there and Tim Buckley and I went. And I remember us putting together a diploma to show that he would graduate and spelling his name wrong. We spelled it the old-fashioned way and not the Dwyane Wade way. I remember feeling bad about that, but they laughed it off."
Crean: "It was a big deal to me when we had him on campus. It was a we-have-to-get-him type of mentality. And really, in all honesty, not knowing how his grades were going to turn out, I wasn’t 100% certain that we were getting him in, but I knew I was going to fight for it."
Crean: "The football coach (at Richards High School), I think he coached there 28 years, and he said this is one of the three finest young men that I’ve watched in this school that didn’t play for me over my career here. I was sitting in his office, I’ll never forget it, and I used that as a testimony for him (for enrollment at MU).
"You sign your scholarship, but that doesn’t mean you are admitted. The man that deserves all the credit for that is (former MU President) Father Robert Wild. There’s no question. Because they did something they’ve never done. They’d never allowed a partial qualifier in to my knowledge. And Father Wild OK’d it. Because if Father Wild doesn’t OK it, then it doesn’t happen. Obviously it has to go through admissions, but if he doesn’t OK it, then it’s not happening. And he deserves tremendous credit for that because he believed in me and trusted my vision and what I was saying about Dwyane."
'A we-have-to-get-him type of mentality': The oral history of Dwyane Wade's recruitment at Marquette
Before the NBA championships, Olympic medals and career earnings north of $200 million, he was an unknown, skinny kid in Chicago.
www.jsonline.com
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