Don't you see Jackson playing more point than Reef?

26 D1 schools still have four or more open scholarships. Maryland Eastern Shore still has 11 (!) openings.

WE GOT KUANY!!!! Check his Twitter. Full team now with a great freshman battle sizing up between Kuany and Evans!

With both Kuany & Elliott...coach may be tempted to stick with a smaller lineup with no true in the paint big men. Searls may be a matchup guy where sometimes he is DNP and others he gets 20 mins.

I'd really like to see Evans/Elliott/Kuany get significant minutes but that is going to be tough to do. Lots of talent to try to keep happy, good problem to have!

I'm not seeing the logic of Kuany and Elliot having an impact on playing small ball again and limiting Searls minutes to matchups. Especially for a team that got pummeled on the boards a season ago. Wiz played 14mpg, Searls gets at least that.

TBD on how it shakes out between the three freshman, but all of our adds this offseason address our weaknesses from last year. Elliot is a true facilitator and Searls/Evans/Kuany provide size off the bench. It would absolutely asinine to attempt playing a smaller lineup again at any point next season. It didn't work for us.

I still have eligibility left, coach. Can easily work on my PhD while being a sneaky fast fundamentals guy. Will bring my lunch pale every day.

There are still lots of schools looking for quality bigs in the portal, including power conference schools. It's not uncommon to see something like a 6'10" guy who averaged 8/4 in the MAAC transfer into the Big East.

Good to not overdo it in a bidding war with someone who may or may not help and is only with us in the short term. It may work out that Kuany is better this year than any transfer big we could realistically land at this stage. Not to mention the upside on a longer timeline provided he stays.

I'm seeing that a lot as well. Also noticing some familiar names a year ago who had to settle for JUCO, finding much bigger opportunities than I would have thought this time around.

Proven size is valued like a QB/Edge in football. I like the bigs we added. I know we're not sure what to expect out of Evans/Kuany as freshman, but is it unrealistic for them to combine for Javan Simmons (Toledo) numbers (12ppg, 5rpg) off the bench?

Both had more and better offers than Simmons did. According to 247, Simmons only had Toledo and Miami.

You might be thinking of Kiir’s brother Kuany Kuany. Former VCU/Cal player. Kiir is an incoming freshman, although played prep ball.

Never.

OHIO lost one significant player from the starting lineup (Hunter to graduation). The team until late in the season was mediocre losing to Cleveland State, Youngstown State, Marshall, Austin Peay, BGSU and Western before righting the ship. (lost to others but I consider those teams superior to the already mentioned teams)

Why would the same line-up minus Hunter but a new guard be much better than last year? Some of the guys who saw significant minutes need to either improve significantly or lose minutes to newcomers that give the Bobcats more talent on the floor and a chance at winning the rebounding game each night.

If the new non-guard pieces are simply to improve the minutes Wiznitzer played than as fans we will see similar results as last season. ABJ returns but Miles had some big games and hopefully ABJ produces even better results than Miles but a Miles upgrade wouldn't have turned the losses to wins. Some, all of you think are locks will be losing minutes in the upcoming season or the team will have a repeat of 2023-24. The starting line-up needs increased SIZE vs last season.

There are no All MAC returnees on this team. All the positions should be wide open competitions with only Mitchell and Clayton as favorites.

1) all 13 scholarships are filled which leads to...
2) Assumed health and academic eligibility is an upgrade over only being able to dress eight or nine guys.
3) I hate to be this harsh, but we have cut lots of dead weight.
4) Each position has a two deep on paper.
5) This roster has the potential to have a lot of interesting combinations to fit whatever the game situation needs, as opposed to being stuck with only eight or nine guys.
6) Which would you rather have? Gabe Wiznitzer and IJ Ezuma OR Victor Searls, Ayden Evans, and a guy who looks like he could be Ndour 2.0?
7) Players grow. Hadaway is going to better. Sheldon is going to be better. EJ4 will likely return to form. Clayton will probably be even better.

Keep in mind, we also played the majority of the season with no AJ Brown and no (or severely limited) Elmore James. Hopefully, those two come back 100% this year. They are going to have a major impact if that happens.