2021-22 season news

[Xuperman]

Sorry for the late posting of the predictions. I was sitting around waiting for Noon, it dawned on me to check the NYC time...
You guys are on your 'spring forward-fall back' cycle, aka daylight savings time. Oops.

https://bluenotes2.com/in-the-paint-posts/
sorry bout that. git

Hey Git,
Aside from the expected home cookin' in your predictions, there are some other head scratchers for sure.

Allow me to contrast.

Villanova 15-5
UConn 14-6
Xavier 12-8
Butler 11-9
Seton Hall 11-9
Providence 11-9
St. Johns 11-9
Creighton 11-9
Georgetown7-13
Marquette 5-15
DePaul 2-18

POY- Gillespie

1st team ALL BE-
Watson
Champagnie
Scruggs
Thompson
Moore

2nd team ALL BE-
Kalk
Freemantle
Samuels
Lewis
Rhoden

DPOY- Posh Alexander

FOY- Mohammed

6TH MAN- Polley

Big East Tournament Champions- UConn

[Xuperman]

Not to mention, Ol' Git,
I love this board because of guys like you! Just the absolute best BIG EAST site on the net!

But Cmon' You did not mention the 2 Euro/Bluejays! RATI,....man....RATI!
Also, just a hunch, but watch OUT for Mason Miller to morph into McBuckets 2.0....get your popcorn.

[Novachap]

Sorry for the late posting of the predictions. I was sitting around waiting for Noon, it dawned on me to check the NYC time...
You guys are on your 'spring forward-fall back' cycle, aka daylight savings time. Oops.

https://bluenotes2.com/in-the-paint-posts/
sorry bout that. git

Hey Git,
Aside from the expected home cookin' in your predictions, there are some other head scratchers for sure.

Allow me to contrast.

Villanova 15-5
UConn 14-6
Xavier 12-8
Butler 11-9
Seton Hall 11-9
Providence 11-9
St. Johns 11-9
Creighton 11-9
Georgetown7-13
Marquette 5-15
DePaul 2-18

POY- Gillespie

1st team ALL BE-
Watson
Champagnie
Scruggs
Thompson
Moore

2nd team ALL BE-
Kalk
Freemantle
Samuels
Lewis
Rhoden

DPOY- Posh Alexander

FOY- Mohammed

6TH MAN- Polley

Big East Tournament Champions- UConn

Xup. That is some solid picks! Pretty close to my thoughts except for that very last pick for BET ( go figure).

I think we get 5 solid, possibly 6 in the dance

[Xuperman]

Well, all the 5th year seniors listed are pretty solid and safe. Some may raise an eyebrow with Thompson as a 1st teamer, but all things point to him giving max effort to make up for lost time. Also, listing Moore there may be somewhat unexpected but I am looking for him to go Full on Alpha this year. The guy has elite skills across the board.....All American good!

My "out on a limb" picks are Kalkbrenner, Lewis and Rhoden. Kalk possesses A very high IQ game. His .645 FG% was extremely impressive along with lack of turnovers and his offensive rebounding prowess. The FT% must improve and needs to look to assist more.

As far as Justin Lewis, with the massive exodus at MU he should see his minutes at 25-30....the guy is going to blow up IMO.

Rhoden is my long shot, I think Willard will hand him the keys but his 3pt % needs to get A LOT better.

Not much going on here, so it prompted me to offer up a response to Gtmo. However, this conference is simply loaded with talent, so compiling lists like this is unlikely to provide any high degree of accuracy. Other than Nova finishing at/near the top and DePaul's obvious challenges, everything else is a toss up.

[Novachap]

Well, all the 5th year seniors listed are pretty solid and safe. Some may raise an eyebrow with Thompson as a 1st teamer, but all things point to him giving max effort to make up for lost time. Also, listing Moore there may be somewhat unexpected but I am looking for him to go Full on Alpha this year. The guy has elite skills across the board.....All American good!

My "out on a limb" picks are Kalkbrenner, Lewis and Rhoden. Kalk possesses A very high IQ game. His .645 FG% was extremely impressive along with lack of turnovers and his offensive rebounding prowess. The FT% must improve and needs to look to assist more.

As far as Justin Lewis, with the massive exodus at MU he should see his minutes at 25-30....the guy is going to blow up IMO.

Rhoden is my long shot, I think Willard will hand him the keys but his 3pt % needs to get A LOT better.

Not much going on here, so it prompted me to offer up a response to Gtmo. However, this conference is simply loaded with talent, so compiling lists like this is unlikely to provide any high degree of accuracy. Other than Nova finishing at/near the top and DePaul's obvious challenges, everything else is a toss up.

Agreed, lots of talent this year.... BTW, really like X's roster construction this year. Scruggs will be huge. Put up or shut up time I would think for Steele. Guessing, top 3/4 and sweet 16 is what the faithful expect.

[Xudash]

Well, all the 5th year seniors listed are pretty solid and safe. Some may raise an eyebrow with Thompson as a 1st teamer, but all things point to him giving max effort to make up for lost time. Also, listing Moore there may be somewhat unexpected but I am looking for him to go Full on Alpha this year. The guy has elite skills across the board.....All American good!

My "out on a limb" picks are Kalkbrenner, Lewis and Rhoden. Kalk possesses A very high IQ game. His .645 FG% was extremely impressive along with lack of turnovers and his offensive rebounding prowess. The FT% must improve and needs to look to assist more.

As far as Justin Lewis, with the massive exodus at MU he should see his minutes at 25-30....the guy is going to blow up IMO.

Rhoden is my long shot, I think Willard will hand him the keys but his 3pt % needs to get A LOT better.

Not much going on here, so it prompted me to offer up a response to Gtmo. However, this conference is simply loaded with talent, so compiling lists like this is unlikely to provide any high degree of accuracy. Other than Nova finishing at/near the top and DePaul's obvious challenges, everything else is a toss up.

Agreed, lots of talent this year.... BTW, really like X's roster construction this year. Scruggs will be huge. Put up or shut up time I would think for Steele. Guessing, top 3/4 and sweet 16 is what the faithful expect.

Chap - - Hope this finds you well. I agree with you. The young man can recruit at a high level, but it's time to get back to the NCAAT and do well in it. Some fans will argue that every other coach we've had come through since Staak was able to find their footing in a short period of time and achieve success thereafter. That's fine and true, but they were doing it the A10, not the Big East.

And of all the damndest things, Chris Mack appears to have turned out to be some form of a traitor, in the sense that he was side glancing at Louisville while having a 1-Seed in the tournament, that he clearly didn't coach effectively. Beyond that, his recruiting performance left Travis Steele in the position of having to go to transfers very heavily in his first year.

Some people see it as making excuses. Others may look at it as reasonable obstacles that came about to get in the way of Travis Steele's progress since taking over the job. The roster he inherited, the key injuries that took place along the way, COVID, though shared by every program in its impact - all that has really muddied the water for me in terms of determining whether or not Travis is the horse to ride for the long term.

That brings us back to this year. On paper, Xavier looks rather loaded. It's now up to Travis to put the orchestra completely together and make some nice music, not end up sounding like Twisted Sister at the end of the season.

I will say this: if Travis is successful this year, then watch out, because I truly believe Xavier will have found its guy. He married very well into a prominent Cincinnati family with Xavier BoT connections. He lives in Hyde Park with his hot wife and son. I truly don't see him leaving Xavier if he gets things on the right path.

We shall see.

[Novachap]

Well, all the 5th year seniors listed are pretty solid and safe. Some may raise an eyebrow with Thompson as a 1st teamer, but all things point to him giving max effort to make up for lost time. Also, listing Moore there may be somewhat unexpected but I am looking for him to go Full on Alpha this year. The guy has elite skills across the board.....All American good!

My "out on a limb" picks are Kalkbrenner, Lewis and Rhoden. Kalk possesses A very high IQ game. His .645 FG% was extremely impressive along with lack of turnovers and his offensive rebounding prowess. The FT% must improve and needs to look to assist more.

As far as Justin Lewis, with the massive exodus at MU he should see his minutes at 25-30....the guy is going to blow up IMO.

Rhoden is my long shot, I think Willard will hand him the keys but his 3pt % needs to get A LOT better.

Not much going on here, so it prompted me to offer up a response to Gtmo. However, this conference is simply loaded with talent, so compiling lists like this is unlikely to provide any high degree of accuracy. Other than Nova finishing at/near the top and DePaul's obvious challenges, everything else is a toss up.

Agreed, lots of talent this year.... BTW, really like X's roster construction this year. Scruggs will be huge. Put up or shut up time I would think for Steele. Guessing, top 3/4 and sweet 16 is what the faithful expect.

Chap - - Hope this finds you well. I agree with you. The young man can recruit at a high level, but it's time to get back to the NCAAT and do well in it. Some fans will argue that every other coach we've had come through since Staak was able to find their footing in a short period of time and achieve success thereafter. That's fine and true, but they were doing it the A10, not the Big East.

And of all the damndest things, Chris Mack appears to have turned out to be some form of a traitor, in the sense that he was side glancing at Louisville while having a 1-Seed in the tournament, that he clearly didn't coach effectively. Beyond that, his recruiting performance left Travis Steele in the position of having to go to transfers very heavily in his first year.

Some people see it as making excuses. Others may look at it as reasonable obstacles that came about to get in the way of Travis Steele's progress since taking over the job. The roster he inherited, the key injuries that took place along the way, COVID, though shared by every program in its impact - all that has really muddied the water for me in terms of determining whether or not Travis is the horse to ride for the long term.

That brings us back to this year. On paper, Xavier looks rather loaded. It's now up to Travis to put the orchestra completely together and make some nice music, not end up sounding like Twisted Sister at the end of the season.

I will say this: if Travis is successful this year, then watch out, because I truly believe Xavier will have found its guy. He married very well into a prominent Cincinnati family with Xavier BoT connections. He lives in Hyde Park with his hot wife and son. I truly don't see him leaving Xavier if he gets things on the right path.

We shall see.

Hey Dash, doing well... thanks for asking. But, moved back to CT from MI just in time for a hurricane!

Really looking forward to this season. Going to be some fantastic matchups.

[Xudash]

Good for you! I lived in Fairfield and worked in Westport for a couple years a “few” moons ago and loved it.

I know what you know: you’ve made it back to the land of seriously good pizza and just a beautiful state overall.

And your back closer to Stew Leonard’s!

Hope you’re safe from the storm.

[Novachap]

Good for you! I lived in Fairfield and worked in Westport for a couple years a “few” moons ago and loved it.

I know what you know: you’ve made it back to the land of seriously good pizza and just a beautiful state overall.

And your back closer to Stew Leonard’s!

Hope you’re safe from the storm.

Hey Dash, all is well--wasn't bad at all in the Stamford / Greenwich area, thankfully. Grandkids now in the picture hence moving back.

on the basketball front... I hope my buys have gotten all the injuries out of their system now! From VUHOOPS:

Injury-filled summer
Villanova certainly had its struggles with injuries and COVID-19 last year, but the Wildcats’ misfortunes persisted well into the summer.

On the bright side for Villanova, almost everyone is back and cleared to resume basketball activities. However, there was a fairly long list of complications, injuries, and just overall bad luck.

Wright revealed that Caleb Daniels had remaining issues from his bout with COVID-19 that he struggled with. As a result, he missed most of the summer and wasn’t cleared until the very end of July.

Jermaine Samuels underwent successful surgery on his finger. It was originally reported that Samuels sustained a finger injury after the Wildcats’ time in Bubbleville. He ultimately played in 25 of 26 games last season. The surgery corrected a broken finger, and he was also out until the end of July.

Freshman guard Angelo Brizzi had complications with his adenoids and missed plenty of time. He ended up getting his tonsils removed.

To top things off, Justin Moore and Brandon Slater got into a car accident. Moore had a concussion from the incident, but both players are now okay.

Collin Gillespie and Dhamir Cosby-Roundtree continued with their rehab after their season-ending injuries.

“Everybody is 100%, everybody’s back, Collin included, but Dhamir is still progressing slowly,” Wright said. “Still not at 100%. Some of it being he’s been out so long and conditioning, and some of it still with his shin bone.”

Cosby-Roundtree is the only remaining question mark on Villanova’s now-cleared up injury list, and Wright plans on making a further evaluation on a timetable for a return once practice begins next month.

[sju88grad]

Louisville’s Chris Mack suspended without pay for first 6 games of the season. Shocking.