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The appeal on the loss of scholarship and recruiting limitations is still on the table. Maybe the fact that we take the more public penalty of sitting out the ACCT will encourage the NCAA to give us a break and quietly give us out scholly back and recruiting harness when Men's Hoops are not on...

That was Best & Forrest's Senior year (and Harpring and Maddox's Freshmen seasons). The team was 8-8 conference and 18-12 overall. Those numbers had always gotten us in during our 9 consecutive NCAAT years. I think had we not lost to UVA in the first round of the ACCT, then we would have...

Regarding the love of KenPom, I will cut and paste from the very first paragraphs of the KenPom page on their rating explanation (https://kenpom.com/blog/ratings-explanation/): "The first thing you should know about this system is that it is designed to be purely predictive. If you’re looking...

If withdrawing the appeal was clearly in the best interests of GT at this time, then the GTAA would surely have done it by now. It may be a simple matter of the GTAA giving every last second for the NCAA to come out with a decision one way or the other. There is no moratorium on the two sides...

To me this game is all about Moses Wright in the middle of that zone below the free throw line. If we make it a point of getting him the ball there, we have a chance. If we don't, we lose handily. When Wright gets the ball in the middle of the zone, if he turns and faces and gets shots up...

Thanks for the analysis, YlJacket. I don's see that our incoming Freshman class suggests moving to positionless basketball, either. But we are on a ton of long wings for 2021, so I don't know if long, rangy players will be the recruiting priority moving forward. That may allow some...

A few thoughts: Choosing the Princeton offense was really smart for year 1. The team had a miraculous roster of no shooting and no returning production. Again, the Princeton offense was chosen to create spacing to clear the paint for cutters since no one on the team could shoot the ball...

All true. One thing to consider is that the offense we are running now is even more dependent on Alvarado breaking down the D than the Princeton set. And Alvarado was hurt for a good stretch. A question is, would our present offense look any less dysfunctional without Alvarado?

Eight teams in the ACC have either 6 or 7 wins right now. 5th place up for grabs (so is 12th). We'll have to play really well to beat Syracuse, Pitt and Clemson. Miami (with 5 wins) has won two straight. Tall order, but my goal is to finish .500 in the ACC for the first time since 2007.

ESPN, my guess is the reason Banks started the season as the trigger man was that he showed some promise at the end of last season. He had a streak of games where he was much more steady and clear headed in terms of court awareness. Then this season, he has gone back to being an inconsistent...

I posted these thoughts in the Louisville game thread and a couple of fonts expressed interest. So, I'll paste a long Hive post as a separate topic in case folks want to discuss/critique it: Coach Pastner made an interesting remark in a recent presser that he decided to simply scrap the...

I agree on Sjolund. He could be a "Four-Out" forward in the Princeton offense. He came in a tweener that rendered him a defensive liability. He was too big and lacked the quickness to defend wings, but he wasn't strong enough and his game was too finesse to defend the 4. That kinda left him...

I read the NCAA report and while they did give a mild tongue lashing for allowing Bell the acess he had, they pretty much explicitly said that it was not cause for major sanctions. What I read that was the major sanctions were entirely because of the LaBarrie/Jack Cheetah fiasco and specially...

A couple of points about the Ron Bell situation: First of all, despite the sensational nature of the episode, it really didn't do a lot of harm to the program in the practical sense. Yes, it was embarrassing, but the GTAA hired out an independent investigation on Bell's allegations, the NCAA...

Pastner was clearly immature and naive (from a management perspective) to take on an ACC program and it showed in all the year two off the court stuff. But people have to let that stuff go. If we had had a better budget, we could have hired a more savvy manager instead of taking a risk on a...

The idea behind our offense under Pastner has been to create spacing to attack the rim off the drive because of the lack of natural shooters/scorers. The Princeton offense was a good choice because of Lammers. He was an effective trigger man because of his face-up ability, his passing ability...

I'm not sure I agree with this at all. I don't think he came into the job ready to be an ACC coach. And I don't think he is a guy that can take a program on his shoulders and dominate the ACC. On the other hand, He does appear good enough that if he has good support from his AD (staff budget)...

That was amazing! I was like, WTF? I guess the director was one of those "sports fans" that isn't really interested in the actual competition but more into the "human interest" aspects of sport. Nwora is the star so he must be on camera. And the camera might catch the human drama of a star...

GT contracted an independent investigation and they found no evidence of wrong doing by Pastner. The NCAA did an investigation and found no wrong doing by Pastner with regards to Bell. But your intuition is that there must have been wrong doing because it just doesn't "add up?" Intuition 1 -...

Way back in the day, I saw one other player smile like that on the court against Gt, it was Wayman Tisdale. I love to watch athletes that love to play. Pope could play for me any day.