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Anything pertaining to basketball: college, pro, HS, recruiting, TV coverage
Anything pertaining to basketball: college, pro, HS, recruiting, TV coverage
Morning report 2024-05-14
6 months 1 week ago - 6 months 1 week ago #32780
by HawkErrant
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
It's Tuesday - can't wait for Tuesday Afternoon! 
How many days until LATE NIGHT in The PHOG!?
and other dates of interest...*Estimate based on first Friday in October. Official announcement expected in July 2024.
Michael Swain (247Sports Phog.Net) reports on McCullar and Furphy's draft projections from multiple sources as the NBA Combine continues this week (Monday May 13 through Sunday May 19).
247Sports.com - Swain: Where Johnny Furphy, Kevin McCullar stand in NBA mock drafts heading into the combine
Briefly from the article:
McCullar: 29, 34, 39, 45
Furphy: 20, 22, 23, 27
Not listed in the article - NBA analyst John Hollinger from The Athletic reportedly has Furphy ranked #12 on his latest draft board. Hollinger has a good record of predicting who will be an NBA success — or not.
A JayhawkSlant fan noted a report from the NBA combine that McCullar will not be playing in any scrimmage games. Hopefully that means McCullar has been told his draft stock is high enough that he should not play (why risk further issues with his knee?) and not that his knee is still bothering him.
Meanwhile ThroughthePhog.com has a nice article about an NBA scout's take on Furphy.
But to be honest, there's not much new there.
What I really like is the long list of links at the end of the article with these titles...
• Top 6 all-time best free throw shooters in Kansas Jayhawks basketball history
• Top 10 all-time rebounders in Kansas Jayhawks basketball history
• Kansas Jayhawks basketball all-time head-to-head records in NCAA Tournament
• Forgotten box score series: Cole Aldrich’s historic triple-double for Kansas basketball
• Kansas basketball: 10 best Jayhawks point guards in the Bill Self era
• Kansas basketball: Longtime foes the Jayhawks have dominated the most (min. 100 games)
• Kansas basketball: Ranking the 10 greatest 3-point shooters in Jayhawks history
• Kansas basketball: Ranking each of the Jayhawks one and done players
• Kansas basketball has played, but never beaten, these teams
• Kansas basketball: Ranking the 10 most underappreciated Jayhawks of all-time
Sorry, you'll have to go to the article to follow the links.
Trying to save Dave some bandwidth here.
May you have a GREAT day!
ROCK CHALK!
How many days until LATE NIGHT in The PHOG!?
and other dates of interest...
DAYS DATE EVENT
2 Wed 2024-05-15 Days left in Hoops Spring Signing Period
16 Wed 2024-05-29 Days left to withdraw from NBA Draft
(10 days after the NBA Combine ends)
107 Thu 2024-08-29 Days until KUFB 2024
143 Fri 2024-10-04 Days until LATE NIGHT in The PHOG!*Michael Swain (247Sports Phog.Net) reports on McCullar and Furphy's draft projections from multiple sources as the NBA Combine continues this week (Monday May 13 through Sunday May 19).
247Sports.com - Swain: Where Johnny Furphy, Kevin McCullar stand in NBA mock drafts heading into the combine
Briefly from the article:
McCullar: 29, 34, 39, 45
Furphy: 20, 22, 23, 27
Not listed in the article - NBA analyst John Hollinger from The Athletic reportedly has Furphy ranked #12 on his latest draft board. Hollinger has a good record of predicting who will be an NBA success — or not.
A JayhawkSlant fan noted a report from the NBA combine that McCullar will not be playing in any scrimmage games. Hopefully that means McCullar has been told his draft stock is high enough that he should not play (why risk further issues with his knee?) and not that his knee is still bothering him.
Meanwhile ThroughthePhog.com has a nice article about an NBA scout's take on Furphy.
But to be honest, there's not much new there.
What I really like is the long list of links at the end of the article with these titles...
• Top 6 all-time best free throw shooters in Kansas Jayhawks basketball history
• Top 10 all-time rebounders in Kansas Jayhawks basketball history
• Kansas Jayhawks basketball all-time head-to-head records in NCAA Tournament
• Forgotten box score series: Cole Aldrich’s historic triple-double for Kansas basketball
• Kansas basketball: 10 best Jayhawks point guards in the Bill Self era
• Kansas basketball: Longtime foes the Jayhawks have dominated the most (min. 100 games)
• Kansas basketball: Ranking the 10 greatest 3-point shooters in Jayhawks history
• Kansas basketball: Ranking each of the Jayhawks one and done players
• Kansas basketball has played, but never beaten, these teams
• Kansas basketball: Ranking the 10 most underappreciated Jayhawks of all-time
Sorry, you'll have to go to the article to follow the links.
Trying to save Dave some bandwidth here.
May you have a GREAT day!
ROCK CHALK!
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
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6 months 1 week ago #32781
by HawkErrant
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
Addendum.
KU Women's hoops added a scorer (17.1 ppg) via the transfer portal.
KUSports.com - Greenstein: KU women’s basketball adds high-scoring transfer Webste
But she's not an efficient one.
With KU losing so many of its top players after last season, the need to rebuild this offseason is particularly keen.
HC Brandon Schneider* has said he was looking for 8 additions to the roster for next season, Webster is the 7th.
Still needed -- a woman in the middle.
Read on...
TEXT
The Kansas women’s basketball team added another key piece to its new-look 2024-25 roster Monday night, earning the commitment of a high-volume scorer from the Big West Conference.
Jordan Webster, a 5-foot-10 guard who played four seasons at UC Riverside, announced that she will join the Jayhawks next year.
Webster started 64 games for the Highlanders over the past two years. In 2023-24, she averaged 17.1 points to lead the Big West in scoring and added 5.4 rebounds per game, as part of a squad that made an unexpected run to the Women’s National Invitation Tournament after getting picked to finish 10th of 11 teams in its conference.
She also tallied 80 steals on the season — 2.5 per game — which was more than the previous two years of her career combined.
While her schedule did not feature many games against high-major foes, she scored 18 against UCLA and 20 against USC last season.
Webster was much less productive earlier in her career but started to come on strong in the closing weeks of her junior campaign, scoring in double digits in 10 straight games and averaging 16.4 points, a five-point improvement over the rest of the season.
Of note, she was not particularly efficient as the focal point of UCR’s offense. She is a career 30.3% shooter and 28.6% from the field.
KU will surround her with additional options, including star guard S’Mya Nichols and North Dakota State transfer Elle Evans, another double-digit scorer from a mid-major.
With Webster, Evans, Creighton transfer Brittany Harshaw and Wisconsin transfer Sania Copeland on board, the primary hole remaining for the Jayhawks now is in the post. Head coach Brandon Schneider previously suggested that the Jayhawks would look to add eight players total ahead of next season; Webster is the seventh.
*Did ya ever notice that the abbreviation "HCBS" works for both Self and Schneider?
KU Women's hoops added a scorer (17.1 ppg) via the transfer portal.
KUSports.com - Greenstein: KU women’s basketball adds high-scoring transfer Webste
But she's not an efficient one.
With KU losing so many of its top players after last season, the need to rebuild this offseason is particularly keen.
HC Brandon Schneider* has said he was looking for 8 additions to the roster for next season, Webster is the 7th.
Still needed -- a woman in the middle.
Read on...
TEXT
The Kansas women’s basketball team added another key piece to its new-look 2024-25 roster Monday night, earning the commitment of a high-volume scorer from the Big West Conference.
Jordan Webster, a 5-foot-10 guard who played four seasons at UC Riverside, announced that she will join the Jayhawks next year.
Webster started 64 games for the Highlanders over the past two years. In 2023-24, she averaged 17.1 points to lead the Big West in scoring and added 5.4 rebounds per game, as part of a squad that made an unexpected run to the Women’s National Invitation Tournament after getting picked to finish 10th of 11 teams in its conference.
She also tallied 80 steals on the season — 2.5 per game — which was more than the previous two years of her career combined.
While her schedule did not feature many games against high-major foes, she scored 18 against UCLA and 20 against USC last season.
Webster was much less productive earlier in her career but started to come on strong in the closing weeks of her junior campaign, scoring in double digits in 10 straight games and averaging 16.4 points, a five-point improvement over the rest of the season.
Of note, she was not particularly efficient as the focal point of UCR’s offense. She is a career 30.3% shooter and 28.6% from the field.
KU will surround her with additional options, including star guard S’Mya Nichols and North Dakota State transfer Elle Evans, another double-digit scorer from a mid-major.
With Webster, Evans, Creighton transfer Brittany Harshaw and Wisconsin transfer Sania Copeland on board, the primary hole remaining for the Jayhawks now is in the post. Head coach Brandon Schneider previously suggested that the Jayhawks would look to add eight players total ahead of next season; Webster is the seventh.
*Did ya ever notice that the abbreviation "HCBS" works for both Self and Schneider?
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
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