2024-2025 B1G Basketball Thread

[bayareabadger]

Yep. Kid was supposed to transfer to UW and ended up at GB. Can't remember his name but I think he was a guard?

Point guard. Would have been like a better version of McGee. I understand why the kid did it. He probably committed to Wisconsin too quickly, and his older brother is on staff at Green Bay. But it didn’t sound like the kid handled it well. 

he ended up having quite a nice season for the Phoenix. Would have been such a bonus for the Wisconsin lineup that I honestly just understand the choice.

[847badgerfan]

I'm fine with it.

UW doesn't need guards right now. McGee is fine to give Chucky some rest.

[bayareabadger]

Wisconsin's Connor Essegian hit the portal. Not surprised. He had a nice freshman year, with defensive issues and then got buried by two new additions and some struggles with weight and conditioning that were a precursor to an underwhelming offensive season.

It's wild that last offseason, there was a ton of angst about needing to keep him. Now, him leaving mostly doesn't concern me. I get it. He played the good soldier when they first recruited someone to take his starting spot. It didn't work out. Hope the next stop does (maybe IU?).

[847badgerfan]

He just simply can't play defense. He'll find a good spot though. They kid can shoot.

[847badgerfan]

There's no way that's true.  I mean if Ole Miss is offering $800k, good on them, but I would imagine every serious school is at least near the $2 million range

UW is strong in football NIL. Not so much in hoops. The $750K number is real, based on a number of solid sources.

[MaximumSam]

Meechie Johnson is in the portal with some rumors he will come back to OSU. A bit weird, since they could still return their starting guards.

[Abba]

Meechie Johnson is in the portal with some rumors he will come back to OSU. A bit weird, since they could still return their starting guards.

I don't really get it.  I watched a couple of their games this year, and he seems like the same guy he was here, just with more volume.  He averaged about 14 PPG, but had a low FG% and still seemed fairly erratic to my eye test.

[847badgerfan]

Point guard. Would have been like a better version of McGee. I understand why the kid did it. He probably committed to Wisconsin too quickly, and his older brother is on staff at Green Bay. But it didn’t sound like the kid handled it well.

he ended up having quite a nice season for the Phoenix. Would have been such a bonus for the Wisconsin lineup that I honestly just understand the choice.

He's in the portal again. I hate this.


UW-Green Bay basketball star Noah Reynolds enters NCAA transfer portal (msn.com)

[medinabuckeye1]

I don't really get it.  I watched a couple of their games this year, and he seems like the same guy he was here, just with more volume.  He averaged about 14 PPG, but had a low FG% and still seemed fairly erratic to my eye test.

OTOH, he was the leading scorer on a very good USCe team so maybe?

I don't know. 

[grillrat]

IU's ware to the draft.  Likely mid to late first rounder.  

[bayareabadger]

I don't really get it.  I watched a couple of their games this year, and he seems like the same guy he was here, just with more volume.  He averaged about 14 PPG, but had a low FG% and still seemed fairly erratic to my eye test.

I don’t think that’s wrong. They had two other pretty good gardens, including a Minnesota transfer who took a leap. Nice stable of Big‘s, OK enough wings. Basically, he could do a lot of the things he was good at and had a lot of support for the stuff he wasn’t good at. 

[MaximumSam]

Sounds like Louisville looking hard at Josh Schertz of Indiana State. Relevant to me because I'm currently in Louisville, and he's the guy I wanted OSU to hire.

[ELA]

Sounds like Louisville looking hard at Josh Schertz of Indiana State. Relevant to me because I'm currently in Louisville, and he's the guy I wanted OSU to hire.

Would be quite a thing if the two biggest job openings went to an alum, and an in state mid major coach, while Indiana decoded to ride it out with Mike Woodson

[Cincydawg]

UGA somehow edged Ohio State in the "NIT", which of course is, well, whatever.  This was at times a decent UGA squad, certainly not great, but "OK", maybe they rely on 3s too much at times, I watched them rarely.  You'd think UGA should be more competitive at the sport.