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    NCAA tourney open thread

    They made a final four and won like 29 games this year lol. He’s not my favorite person but let’s not act like he can’t coach. Think he leads the big ten in conference wins over the last 6 years? He clearly does something right and not just “buying players” since we see many of the “most...
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    Story: Tre Singleton to the portal

    Nick isn’t sniffing the NBA lol. And his agent and he knew that before this year.
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    Story: Tre Singleton to the portal

    What’s sad is I know after Mart’s last game, someone said something like “Boo showed Nick how to stay and now Nick showed Singleton how to stay and that’s how you build culture”. The reality is, what Nick actually showed is that he likely left $1M or more on the table by not playing his last...
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    Story: Tre Singleton to the portal

    This isn’t a Collins problem. It’s a money issue that he can’t influence. His seat isn’t warmer, but the odds of him leaving to go to another school in the near future increase each time this happens. And it’s going to happen more and more now that NIL has grown very quickly each offseason.
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    Story: Tre Singleton to the portal

    I mean, in this market he’s worth that or more. If we can’t pay that, then he’s not gonna stay. There are dozens of teams who can and will pay that for his talent.
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    Where the Roster Stands

    Just to set expectations for next year… as I and others have said on here for all of last season: 1) Nobody is treating the rev share “cap” as a true cap 2) NU has little chance of competing with their current allocation of money. No clue what we spend, but based on last year’s roster it’s very...
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    Where the Roster Stands

    McCollum is great, but I don’t think he’s at Iowa for long. Historically they’ve not ever given basketball resources. I think he’ll be at a bigger job soon.
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    Where the Roster Stands

    https://nil-ncaa.com/ This isn’t as good or detailed as a paywalled Discord I subscribe to that’s run by a really good national college basketball guy, but it’s decent and matches pretty well with what I’ve seen elsewhere.
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    Where the Roster Stands

    The median of the conference was about $7M. Iowa spent about $4.5M and made the elite 8. Nobody else under $8M made the NCAAT.
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    NCAA tourney open thread

    Yeah it was their two star freshmen who really got it done. (Wagler and Mirkovic). Imagine that in the portal era. (Although they did have tons of portal recruits who were g important role players)
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    NCAA tourney open thread

    I’m not sure that’s entirely true. I think it’s a healthy mix for most these teams. The guys playing big minutes last night for IL were a mix of high school recruits and transfers, but most of those transfers seem to be guys in their second year at IL rather than one year rentals. AZ seems to...
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    NCAA tourney open thread

    True, but he got Ayo and Kofi back in the day when it was the old school recruiting. That was pre NIL, pre transfer portal. (At least when they committed.)
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    NCAA tourney open thread

    They’ve got a pro, tons of size at all positions, very skilled, and they’re well coached. Euro pipeline might be cut off now that it’s going to get very expensive to get those players. But they cashed in on it this year. Shocks me that Underwood has never won big ten COY. He’s won a ton of games...
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    Back to being noteworthy

    Butler is in the big east. Arguably a better conference than the ACC
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    Coaching Carousel 2026

    One relevant data point: Marquette tried this. Shaka admitted it didn’t work at all and they’re going to use the portal to supplement their roster going forward.
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