Ten minutes til tip. Would be a huge win without Jax. Let’s do this, boys.

Everyone will be after this dude hard

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Will be interesting to see if this starts a trend with other players in the league taking this role at their alma mater.


Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry has accepted a role with his alma mater Davidson College as an assistant general manager for the basketball programs, university officials told ESPN.

Curry becomes the first active player in U.S. major professional sports to take an administrative job with an NCAA team.

In his new role, Curry, who played three seasons at Davidson (2006-09), will provide guidance to the men's and women's teams based on his college and professional experience.

He'll work with general manager Austin Buntz, a former Under Armour global sports marketing team member. Curry first signed with Under Armour in 2013 and launched his own Curry Brand as a standalone venture with the company in 2020. He also signed a lifetime contract shoe deal in recent years.

As many NC...as many FF. Didn't run out on Kentucky... didn't come back to our most hated rival. Truth is truth people. I'm glad Cal beat his a$$

A friend of mine just told me he heard this. Luigi something. Anyone else hear about this?

Cal gonna Cal.

If you know ,., YOU KNOW

For people heading to the game, what restaurants/bars are you going to before the game. Go cas

To watch Ansley Almonor and Trent Noah hit back to back threes to put us up 13 with 8 minutes to go in the 2nd half tonight.

LETS FN GO. Cats are getting it done tonight

I’ve had some weird email conflict all year as in when I would login, I couldn’t post and instead got an error message that said something like, “email is already in use.” I didn’t want to deal with setting up a new email, registering that new email with Rivals, blah, blah, blah, but I finally got around to it. I have fully admitted in past posts that sometimes I’m serious with my posts and sometimes I post craziness (mostly due to constraints of physical health issues and being actually stir crazy). This is a post you can take as serious, but only as far as you want to believe me.

-My brother holds a high up position in nonprofit where he works directly with many of UK’s higher ups and has become somewhat of an acquaintance and friend of Pope. I’m not going to say who my brother is or who he works for because I didn’t ask his permission to post this. Anyway, he says the Hurley offer never happened. Mitch’s hiring priority hiring list was 1) Drew 2) Pope. Maybe there were other feelers out, but no other official offers or conversations. I don’t know what proof there has ever been exhibited to the contrary that Mitch did indeed make that absurdly large offer to Hurley, and maybe there was something as far as proof that I haven’t seen, but I kind of get tired of seeing the lore of a huge Hurley offer and being turned down by him as matter of fact on this board.

-As far as Big Z goes. Z did some volunteer work with my brother’s organization as part of getting eligibility. My brother described Z as essentially lazy or at least as not being proactive. Brother did say that he didn’t think charitable work really was much of a thing in Croatia and maybe that’s why Z navigated the situation the way that he did. My personal opinion after we have seen Z’s body of work the last two years is yea, he’s probably kinda lazy; highly talented, but not that motivated. I bring this up because of how often I see things like, “Cal doesn’t know how to use him.” And because some would still want him to come back here. I think Z’s as much his own worst enemy as anything and would have never worked on a Pope team.

Outside of those two things, I’m not going to claim to have insider information on much of anything else. I don’t know a thing about who’s being recruited seriously, what kind of money is being spent, who’s likely to come, anything like that. My brother and I don’t talk that much, don’t even live in the same state. I also think that really, really strong recruiting news is rare and that for the most part you have to have very close ties to a lot of people in the basketball world to truly know anything. Coaches aren’t going to just give away information, even to work friends, and what’s released or isn’t released is highly controlled. If I ever hear any other random tidbits I’ll pass them on.

Johnson and Jackson ran 4.50 and 4.51 forty yard dash. That's pretty impressive and will be difficult to replace.

While bench press isn't everything, Ox (13!), Rybka (20) and Deone (22) did not impress. Maybe Walker is still dealing with his back injury. But Ox and Rybka - piss poor. Might explain our DL performance last year somewhat. A DL who only benches 225 13 times shouldn't see the field much, imo. By comparison, Eli and Marques Cox both did 25 and JJ did 26.

Mincey did 20 bench reps and ran a 5.89 40. Good lord, I thought we had better athletes than that.

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May commit next week unlikely to take any visits

In the portal. Big, talented, strong, physical guard. 6-5, CG was only a sophomore last year. Would love to have this kid.
2 way player, averaged 13.5 ppg / 4 rpg / 3 apg / 2 steals.
Shot 38% from 3FG on 4.7 attempts per game
80% free throw shooter on 4.8 attempts.
Averaged 33 minutes per game his sophomore year this year.

Freshman year : 28 mpg / 9.7 ppg / 3.8 rpg / 2.5 apg / 1.4 steals per game.

Solid but consistent jump from freshman to sophomore year, if he makes another jump, All SEC is a definite possibility. Could he be the SEC player scheduled to have a Zoom meeting with UK ?

vs UK 14 points (on 5 shots / 2/3 from 3 / 8/8 ft) 4 rebounds / 3 assist / 1 steal / 1 block
Last 5 games :
Gonzaga - 15/2/4 2 steals
Oklahoma - 24/3/3 2 steals / 5/12 from 3.
Vandy - 15/2/1 3 steals / 1 block
Texas - 26/4/1 2 steals / 3/6 from 3.
SC - 16/8/4

Other notable games :
Marquette - 10/7/4 3 steals / 1 block
St. Johns - 15/4/2
Miss. State - 23/6/7
@ Texas A&M - 19/3/4
Missouri - 18/3/4 3 steals
@ Auburn - 18/3/4 3 steals
Florida - 21/3/3

As of right now there are three regions that will have an SEC team playing for a final four berth and Both Auburn and Ole Miss have a good shot to be playing for it as well. Auburn a bit better chance than Ole Miss, but still a good shot. Would be crazy if that were to happen.

I fully expect him to retire shortly after the 3rd loss to Kentucky this evening. He looks miserable on the bench and he said earlier this season he only came back to coach Ziegler. Could be wrong, but I think he is done. Izzo doing the same after the season would not shock me either.

UK 82
TN 76

What time Indiana plays tonight?

Just read per Justin Rowland that this young man has committed to UK. Shooting 41% from deep on 150ish attempts. 9 points per game. Not a bad backup piece that could develope. Ansley Almanor replacement was mentioned in the article. GBB

This game is awesome already

...with my survivor pool pick tonight. My options are UK, Michigan St or Ole Miss. I'm leaning Michigan State but have a feeling Ole Miss is going to keep rolling. I'm one of 12 left in a pool of almost 200 entries. Who should I pick?

There are a ton of what ifs going through my head right now about today. Part of me feels like we'll go off from deep and bury Illinois. At other times I worry that Butler will take a hit in just the right (wrong) way to his shoulder. I worry that Pope might feel pressure from Cal going to the Sweet Sixteen and that he needs to match that. On one hand I'm also content, if it makes any sense, that we will immediately be focused on the portal should the season end today. I've been trying to nap to whittle away the hours before game time.