https://twitter.com/VerbalCommits/status...9035227136

Not CAA related, but Williamsburg's native and formerly ODU Sr Xavier Green has entered the portal

https://twitter.com/jakelieberman2/statu...1828197382

Wow. Big blow to Hofstra and the conference as a whole. Another player of the year candidate departing the CAA.
https://twitter.com/VerbalCommits/status...0055515137

Mid majors losing their top players is certainly starting to look like the new normal

(07-23-2021 12:14 PM)mrjoolius Wrote:  Wow. Big blow to Hofstra and the conference as a whole. Another player of the year candidate departing the CAA.
https://twitter.com/VerbalCommits/status...0055515137

Mid majors losing their top players is certainly starting to look like the new normal

He was already gone. He said a couple months back he was done playing basketball. So the only difference now is that he decided he will continue playing, just not for Hofstra. It was already known he was done at Hofstra though.

(07-23-2021 02:19 PM)dan10 Wrote:  

(07-23-2021 12:14 PM)mrjoolius Wrote:  Wow. Big blow to Hofstra and the conference as a whole. Another player of the year candidate departing the CAA.
https://twitter.com/VerbalCommits/status...0055515137

Mid majors losing their top players is certainly starting to look like the new normal

He was already gone. He said a couple months back he was done playing basketball. So the only difference now is that he decided he will continue playing, just not for Hofstra. It was already known he was done at Hofstra though.

I wonder how many CAA teams actually have players returning for the 2021-22 season who were actually seniors during the 2020-21 season but got the extra year of eligibility because of Covid. Luke Loewe, for instance, was our only such player and he will be playing at Minnesota for his extra year.

Now that the current year's MBB rosters are pretty much set, some crazy stats are coming to light.

There are 350 colleges now playing Division I men's basketball.

Last year there were approx. 1,740 transfers. Only 12 schools, in the entire country, had NO transfers this year. The University of Richmond (who will have one of the largest rosters in the country in 2021-2022) and Delaware (the only CAA school not to have at least one transfer) were the two closest to us.

The Ivy League (Yale and Dartmouth) was the only league to have two schools with no transfers, so it hit every league across the country pretty hard.

With the passing of the "free year" transfer rule, don't look for the numbers to get any better next season.

Crazy times.

5 per team would be 1,750, so 1,740 is almost 5 per team.

A Hofstra fan wrote about the possibility of Hofstra returning only three players, but Jalen Ray, Kvonn Cramer, and Caleb Burgess combined for 50.0 percent of Hofstra's points, 37.6 percent of the rebounds, and 75.8 percent of the assists. It's not often for a team to return two point guards who averaged over 3 assists and over 1.5 assists per turnover, but Ray and Burgess did that. Cramer averaged 8.9 points and 6.7 rebounds while shooting .576, he shot two-pointers .706, and he averaged 0.8 blocks.

(07-25-2021 09:37 AM)EvanJ Wrote:  5 per team would be 1,750, so 1,740 is almost 5 per team.

Yeah, sounds a little high. That number is from Verbal Commits.

(07-25-2021 10:08 AM)billymac Wrote:  

(07-25-2021 09:37 AM)EvanJ Wrote:  5 per team would be 1,750, so 1,740 is almost 5 per team.

Yeah, sounds a little high. That number is from Verbal Commits.

That number is the number of kids that dipped their toes in the portal. Though probably not an overwhelming number, a portion of those returned to their current school.

(07-12-2021 04:57 PM)mrjoolius Wrote:  Not CAA related, but Williamsburg's native and formerly ODU Sr Xavier Green has entered the portal

Xavier is headed to Maryland

Transfers Coming to the CAA:
CofC: SO 5'10 Fah'mir Ali (Radford), SO 6'6 Nick Farrar (NC State), GRAD 6'4 Dalton Bolon (West Liberty), GRAD 6'6 John Meeks (Bucknell), GRAD 6'4 Dimitrius Underwood (UT-Dallas), JR 6'11 Charles Lampten (Dawson CC)
Delaware: JR 6'1 Jameer Nelson Jr. (GW), RS FR 6'7 Jyare Davis (Providence)
Drexel: RS SR 6’2 Tre Brown (Colorado St - Pueblo), GRAD 6'6 Melik Martin (Monmouth)
Elon: SR 6'5 Torrence Watson (Missouri), RS JR 6'11 Andrew Junkin (Mississippi St)
Hofstra: SO 6'6 Darlinstone Dubar (Iowa St), GRAD 5'10 Zach Cooks (NJIT), JR 6'3 Alejandro Vasquez (St Bonaventure), GRAD 6'8 Jarrod Simmons (Penn), JR 6'4 Aaron Estrada (Oregon), RS SR 6'9 Abayomi Iyiola (Arkansas)
JMU: GRAD 6'3 Charles Falden (Winthrop), RS SR 6'5 Takal Molson (Seton Hall), SO 6'4 Tyree Ihenacho (North Dakota), RS SR 6'7 Alonzo Shule (Texas St)
Towson: RS SR 6'4 Terry Nolan (Bradley), SR 6'3 Antonio Rizzuto (Albany), SR 6'5 Cam Holden (UT Martin), JR 6'9 Chase Paar (GW)
Northeastern: GRAD 6'8 Nikola Djogo (Notre Dame), JR 6'5 Joe Pridgen (UNCW), GRAD 6'5 Tyreek Scott-Grayson (UAB), SO 6'2 Glen McClintock (Air Force)
UNCW: SO 6'6 Trazarien White (Collin), GRAD 6'6 James Baker Jr. (Morehead St), GRAD 6'3 Jaylen Fornes (Nicholls St), RS SO 6'5 Alec Oglesby (Cleveland St), RS JR 6'9 Amari Kelly (Duquesne), JR 6'8 Khadim Samb (Garden City CC)
WM: GRAD 6'7 Brandon Carroll (Florida Southern)

Potential Transfers Leaving the CAA:
CofC: GRAD 6'1 Zep Jasper (Auburn), JR 6'5 DeAngelo Epps (Hampton), SO 6'7 Dontavius King (NCCU), GRAD 6'2 Brevin Galloway (Boston College), JR 6'2 Brenden Tucker, GRAD 6'8 Lorenzo Edwards, RS SR 6'9 Samba Ndiaye (USC Aiken), GRAD 6'4 Payton Willis (Minnesota), SO 6'1 D'Avian Houston (Longwood), RS FR 6'5 RJ Ogom (Fort Wayne), SR 6'7 Cam Copeland (Austin Peay)
Drexel: GRAD 6'10 Tadas Kararinas, JR 6'9 TJ Bickerstaff (Boston College)
Elon: SO 6'6 Brandon Harris (Three Rivers), SR 6'8 Federico Poser (turning pro), GRAD 6'7 Simon Wright (Maryland)
Hofstra: GRAD 6'9 Kevin Schutte (Incarnate Word), SO 6'5 Vukasin Masic (Maine), SO David Green 6'7 (Louisiana Tech), GRAD 6'5 Tareq Coburn (St Johns), RS SR 6'8 Isaac Kante
JMU: JR 6'3 Jayvis Harvey (Miami Dade), JR 6'6 TJ Taylor (Cal Poly), JR 6’6 Michael Christmas (Longwood), SR 6'10 Joel Mensah (Cal State San Marcos)
Northeastern: SO 6'6 J'Vonne Hadley (Indian Hills CC), JR 6'0 Tyson Walker (Michigan St)
Towson: SR 6'2 Jakigh Dottin, RS JR 6'6 Demetrius Mims
UNCW: SR 6'5 Brian Tolefree (Flagler), JR 6'7 Jake Boggs (USF), JR 6'6 Imajae Dodd, JR 6'5 Joe Pridgen (Northeastern), GRAD 6'7 John Bowen, SO 6'2 Ja'Juan Carr (Cape Fear CC), GRAD 6'5 Jay Estime
WM: GRAD 6'4 Luke Loewe (Minnesota)

(08-06-2021 09:06 PM)WillaMary08 Wrote:  Transfers Coming to the CAA:
CofC: SO 5'10 Fah'mir Ali (Radford), SO 6'6 Nick Farrar (NC State), GRAD 6'4 Dalton Bolon (West Liberty), GRAD 6'6 John Meeks (Bucknell), GRAD 6'4 Dimitrius Underwood (UT-Dallas), JR 6'11 Charles Lampten (Dawson CC)
Delaware: JR 6'1 Jameer Nelson Jr. (GW), RS FR 6'7 Jyare Davis (Providence)
Drexel: RS SR 6’2 Tre Brown (Colorado St - Pueblo), GRAD 6'6 Melik Martin (Monmouth)
Elon: SR 6'5 Torrence Watson (Missouri), RS JR 6'11 Andrew Junkin (Mississippi St)
Hofstra: SO 6'6 Darlinstone Dubar (Iowa St), GRAD 5'10 Zach Cooks (NJIT), JR 6'3 Alejandro Vasquez (St Bonaventure), GRAD 6'8 Jarrod Simmons (Penn), JR 6'4 Aaron Estrada (Oregon), RS SR 6'9 Abayomi Iyiola (Arkansas)
JMU: GRAD 6'3 Charles Falden (Winthrop), RS SR 6'5 Takal Molson (Seton Hall), SO 6'4 Tyree Ihenacho (North Dakota), RS SR 6'7 Alonzo Shule (Texas St)
Towson: RS SR 6'4 Terry Nolan (Bradley), SR 6'3 Antonio Rizzuto (Albany), SR 6'5 Cam Holden (UT Martin), JR 6'9 Chase Paar (GW)
Northeastern: GRAD 6'8 Nikola Djogo (Notre Dame), JR 6'5 Joe Pridgen (UNCW), GRAD 6'5 Tyreek Scott-Grayson (UAB), SO 6'2 Glen McClintock (Air Force)
UNCW: SO 6'6 Trazarien White (Collin), GRAD 6'6 James Baker Jr. (Morehead St), GRAD 6'3 Jaylen Fornes (Nicholls St), RS SO 6'5 Alec Oglesby (Cleveland St), RS JR 6'9 Amari Kelly (Duquesne), JR 6'8 Khadim Samb (Garden City CC)
WM: GRAD 6'7 Brandon Carroll (Florida Southern)

Potential Transfers Leaving the CAA:
CofC: GRAD 6'1 Zep Jasper (Auburn), JR 6'5 DeAngelo Epps (Hampton), SO 6'7 Dontavius King (NCCU), GRAD 6'2 Brevin Galloway (Boston College), JR 6'2 Brenden Tucker, GRAD 6'8 Lorenzo Edwards, RS SR 6'9 Samba Ndiaye (USC Aiken), GRAD 6'4 Payton Willis (Minnesota), SO 6'1 D'Avian Houston (Longwood), RS FR 6'5 RJ Ogom (Fort Wayne), SR 6'7 Cam Copeland (Austin Peay)
Drexel: GRAD 6'10 Tadas Kararinas, JR 6'9 TJ Bickerstaff (Boston College)
Elon: SO 6'6 Brandon Harris (Three Rivers), SR 6'8 Federico Poser (turning pro), GRAD 6'7 Simon Wright (Maryland)
Hofstra: GRAD 6'9 Kevin Schutte (Incarnate Word), SO 6'5 Vukasin Masic (Maine), SO David Green 6'7 (Louisiana Tech), GRAD 6'5 Tareq Coburn (St Johns), RS SR 6'8 Isaac Kante
JMU: JR 6'3 Jayvis Harvey (Miami Dade), JR 6'6 TJ Taylor (Cal Poly), JR 6’6 Michael Christmas (Longwood), SR 6'10 Joel Mensah (Cal State San Marcos)
Northeastern: SO 6'6 J'Vonne Hadley (Indian Hills CC), JR 6'0 Tyson Walker (Michigan St)
Towson: SR 6'2 Jakigh Dottin, RS JR 6'6 Demetrius Mims
UNCW: SR 6'5 Brian Tolefree (Flagler), JR 6'7 Jake Boggs (USF), JR 6'6 Imajae Dodd, JR 6'5 Joe Pridgen (Northeastern), GRAD 6'7 John Bowen, SO 6'2 Ja'Juan Carr (Cape Fear CC), GRAD 6'5 Jay Estime
WM: GRAD 6'4 Luke Loewe (Minnesota)

FYI, Jay Estime is staying at UNCW

(07-23-2021 12:14 PM)mrjoolius Wrote:  Wow. Big blow to Hofstra and the conference as a whole. Another player of the year candidate departing the CAA.
https://twitter.com/VerbalCommits/status...0055515137

Mid majors losing their top players is certainly starting to look like the new normal

Kante committed to LIU Brooklyn. I don't get that move, but who knows what was going on behind the scenes.

(08-09-2021 10:45 AM)mrjoolius Wrote:  

(07-23-2021 12:14 PM)mrjoolius Wrote:  Wow. Big blow to Hofstra and the conference as a whole. Another player of the year candidate departing the CAA.
https://twitter.com/VerbalCommits/status...0055515137

Mid majors losing their top players is certainly starting to look like the new normal

Kante committed to LIU Brooklyn. I don't get that move, but who knows what was going on behind the scenes.

He's from Brooklyn and LIU's hoops, baseball, and softball teams play their home games in Brooklyn (football, hockey and others play on Long Island).

Plus the hoop's head coach is Derek Kellogg, so maybe he recruited Kante when he was in HS.

(08-09-2021 11:24 AM)geewizNU Wrote:  

(08-09-2021 10:45 AM)mrjoolius Wrote:  

(07-23-2021 12:14 PM)mrjoolius Wrote:  Wow. Big blow to Hofstra and the conference as a whole. Another player of the year candidate departing the CAA.
https://twitter.com/VerbalCommits/status...0055515137

Mid majors losing their top players is certainly starting to look like the new normal

Kante committed to LIU Brooklyn. I don't get that move, but who knows what was going on behind the scenes.

He's from Brooklyn and LIU's hoops, baseball, and softball teams play their home games in Brooklyn (football, hockey and others play on Long Island).

Plus the hoop's head coach is Derek Kellogg, so maybe he recruited Kante when he was in HS.

Yeah, I get going home. I just figured a guy of his size and production would get some interest from P5s to round out their roster.

(08-09-2021 11:47 AM)mrjoolius Wrote:  

(08-09-2021 11:24 AM)geewizNU Wrote:  

(08-09-2021 10:45 AM)mrjoolius Wrote:  

(07-23-2021 12:14 PM)mrjoolius Wrote:  Wow. Big blow to Hofstra and the conference as a whole. Another player of the year candidate departing the CAA.
https://twitter.com/VerbalCommits/status...0055515137

Mid majors losing their top players is certainly starting to look like the new normal

Kante committed to LIU Brooklyn. I don't get that move, but who knows what was going on behind the scenes.

He's from Brooklyn and LIU's hoops, baseball, and softball teams play their home games in Brooklyn (football, hockey and others play on Long Island).

Plus the hoop's head coach is Derek Kellogg, so maybe he recruited Kante when he was in HS.

Yeah, I get going home. I just figured a guy of his size and production would get some interest from P5s to round out their roster.

I agree. And Hofstra is still on Long Island, it's not like he was halfway across the country. Probably helps us, but it is tough to see the CAA lose talent, especially to a low major.

(08-09-2021 12:20 PM)TDenverFan Wrote:  

(08-09-2021 11:47 AM)mrjoolius Wrote:  

(08-09-2021 11:24 AM)geewizNU Wrote:  

(08-09-2021 10:45 AM)mrjoolius Wrote:  

(07-23-2021 12:14 PM)mrjoolius Wrote:  Wow. Big blow to Hofstra and the conference as a whole. Another player of the year candidate departing the CAA.
https://twitter.com/VerbalCommits/status...0055515137

Mid majors losing their top players is certainly starting to look like the new normal

Kante committed to LIU Brooklyn. I don't get that move, but who knows what was going on behind the scenes.

He's from Brooklyn and LIU's hoops, baseball, and softball teams play their home games in Brooklyn (football, hockey and others play on Long Island).

Plus the hoop's head coach is Derek Kellogg, so maybe he recruited Kante when he was in HS.

Yeah, I get going home. I just figured a guy of his size and production would get some interest from P5s to round out their roster.

I agree. And Hofstra is still on Long Island, it's not like he was halfway across the country. Probably helps us, but it is tough to see the CAA lose talent, especially to a low major.

That's why I said perhaps there were issues behind the scenes. He was a CAA all conference player already playing near home. Dropping a level just doesn't make sense.

(08-09-2021 12:27 PM)mrjoolius Wrote:  

(08-09-2021 12:20 PM)TDenverFan Wrote:  

(08-09-2021 11:47 AM)mrjoolius Wrote:  

(08-09-2021 11:24 AM)geewizNU Wrote:  

(08-09-2021 10:45 AM)mrjoolius Wrote:  Kante committed to LIU Brooklyn. I don't get that move, but who knows what was going on behind the scenes.

He's from Brooklyn and LIU's hoops, baseball, and softball teams play their home games in Brooklyn (football, hockey and others play on Long Island).

Plus the hoop's head coach is Derek Kellogg, so maybe he recruited Kante when he was in HS.

Yeah, I get going home. I just figured a guy of his size and production would get some interest from P5s to round out their roster.

I agree. And Hofstra is still on Long Island, it's not like he was halfway across the country. Probably helps us, but it is tough to see the CAA lose talent, especially to a low major.

That's why I said perhaps there were issues behind the scenes. He was a CAA all conference player already playing near home. Dropping a level just doesn't make sense.

Keep in mind he quit basketball originally. He only recently decided to play again and jump into the portal. I have to imagine something family related convinced him to play at all and if he were going to play it would be for said family member.

(08-09-2021 12:30 PM)dan10 Wrote:  

(08-09-2021 12:27 PM)mrjoolius Wrote:  

(08-09-2021 12:20 PM)TDenverFan Wrote:  

(08-09-2021 11:47 AM)mrjoolius Wrote:  

(08-09-2021 11:24 AM)geewizNU Wrote:  He's from Brooklyn and LIU's hoops, baseball, and softball teams play their home games in Brooklyn (football, hockey and others play on Long Island).

Plus the hoop's head coach is Derek Kellogg, so maybe he recruited Kante when he was in HS.

Yeah, I get going home. I just figured a guy of his size and production would get some interest from P5s to round out their roster.

I agree. And Hofstra is still on Long Island, it's not like he was halfway across the country. Probably helps us, but it is tough to see the CAA lose talent, especially to a low major.

That's why I said perhaps there were issues behind the scenes. He was a CAA all conference player already playing near home. Dropping a level just doesn't make sense.

Keep in mind he quit basketball originally. He only recently decided to play again and jump into the portal. I have to imagine something family related convinced him to play at all and if he were going to play it would be for said family member.

Believe you're confusing Kante with Tareq Coburn, who supposedly stopped to focus on school, then transferred to St. John's?