Under 8 minutes, in fact.

That combo would have helped late in yesterday's game, IMO.

That gets called 10/10 times though. When a 7 footer races towards a wide open shooter at the top of the key and bumps him before he lands, its a foul. Horrible decision by Wiz to try to close out that hard. The one thing you can't do is foul in that situation.

I'll just say this....

- Welcome Back Jaylin. HUGE game.
- Hadaway first career double-double.
- Tough to win on the road in OT anywhere at any level.
- I dont know if it was a Boals plan or just Basheer Jihad playing badly - but the gameplan worked. Buddy couldn't hit water if he fell out of a boat. Hadaway is really come into his own. Exciting stuff.
- How we won a basketball game where we gave up NINETEEN OFFENSIVE REBOUNDS is absolutely insane.
- Clayton - again - led the team in 3 point attempts (1-7). At this point we're used to it, and he generally makes quite a few, but it just underlines how we have absolutely zero inside presence. Thank the lord for Hadaway figuring out how good he can be.
- The Wizard of Fouls had 5 in 15 mins. Just a tremendous rate at this point.

This Arkansas State game is basically a scrimmage at this point in the season. We don't need any more road games, but - pardon my coach speak - every game is a chance to get better. ESPN Analytics is showing 57% ASU chance of victory.

Wiz averages nearly NINE fouls per 100 possessions. The next closest is Sheldon with 6.9. AJB is the only person on the team who averages more than 6.

He turns the ball over 17% of the time per 100 possessions.

No matter how many Wiznitzer family members come in here and say HES TRYING HIS BEST will change his alarming pace of leading the team in nearly every negative category. It's wild.

Most Recent Top 10 Bobcat Hoops Mysteries
1. Bahamas Ezuma
2. Lunden McDay
3. B-Rod losing his shooting ability and mojo
4. Ivo losing his mojo
5. Jon Smith just quitting at the end of his senior season
6. Rio Adams
7. Kenny Belton
8. Giving up on developing guys like Nolan Foster and Ethan Jacobs (separate coaches)
9. Wadly Mompremier going for 12 and 12 in the season opening win over Dunk City in 2015 and never coming close to that output ever again.
10. Steven Coleman, wherefor art thou?

It looks like Foster's best games after he transferred to Marian College (NAIA?) were against Goshen, Taylor, and Simmons College off the bench. That sounds like below the level of Wiznitzer. After redshirting, Jacobs seems to have had a couple of solid years at Colgate vs pretty decent competition. Also looks like he had a cup of coffee in European pro ball.

Never leave your feet against a jump shooter.

That's what they say. If you do, he can drive right around you anyway.

Or you could give him a potential 4-point-play.

Siiiiiiiiiiiigh. I'll give you the top four but the rest are what they are.

From the rumors on this board, it was pretty clear the locker room tension between the guys who were left behind by Groce and Jim Christian was for lack of a better word, heated. You can probably guess why Jon Smith left. And he was having his best season as a Bobcat up to that point, so there had to be something in the locker room that made it so bad he wanted out.

There's no mystery behind Rio Adams. We recruited him and people got all giddy because he was coming from Kansas, but it was clear he wasn't going to work out here (probably due to grades) and Christian suggested he go the JC route. Which he did. Then he went to EKU and averaged a whopping 1.1 ppg in one season there. Seems pretty cut and dry to me. FWIW EKU was on a heater with transfers in that class hoping one would stick. They brought in guys from Kansas, Louisville and Butler.

As far as Ethan Jacobs - he was never going to see the floor with the players Groce had in the system combined with the guys who were being recruited. I'm glad he got to go elsewhere, but the Cats were on a different trajectory and timeline at the time. Looking back on it, Jacobs' ability to pick and pop actually probably fit the Saul Phillips system more than any other coach.

You could probably make that same argument for Nolan Foster. Think about when he left. I don't know the timing of everything, but we had BVP and Dwight on the roster. Dwight sits out the year because of injury. Boals brings in Jason Carter. We also had "bigs" in Sam Towns and AJ Clayton that year. Could we have used a guy like Nolan that year? Maybe. Probably. But who knows how much PT he would have gotten. I mean it's pretty telling what Boals thinks of you when he brought back Carter. Outside of DW3, I don't know that we'll ever see a true big man again. The game has evolved and most bigs we've had recently can also step out and shoot. I don't remember Nolan having that in his repertoire.

Kenny Belton's first game in college was the 2007-08 season. He didn't play again until 2011-12. I think it's pretty clear he wasn't a basketball player at this level. And again he's on that 2011-12 squad. Where's the PT coming from. If you want to ask why he was recruited in the first place I'll listen, but it's not really a "mystery."

Wadley battled Crohn's disease while he was here. When he actually could play and could go full out 100% he was great, but that disease is so hard to get a handle on. I imagine especially for an athlete of his size.

Stevie Fresh really thought that rap career would take off.

LOL. Mr. "I Cherry Pick" Stats back with more I see.

Who leads the Bobcats in FG percentage? Oh, whoops, it's Gabe.

Why you continue to show your complete lack of any class regarding "Wiznitzer family members" is rather mind boggling. You did the same thing regarding CJ Harris' family.

Have a good day.

Treg Setty laid it all out on this board what the Jim Christian experience was. And I've heard Christian actually really liked Jon. Guess that was one-sided.

Ethan Jacobs made a comment somewhere about the academics and general culture at Colgate compared to Ohio that contributed to his leaving.

Kenny Belton suffered an extreme back injury at Cincinnati and came to Ohio as a grad student and nearly 300 pounds. Helpful to have as a practice player, but was not considered to be a key piece to the program. He was giddy about scoring a couple baskets in garbage time against Marietta, so that was pretty much his basketball sendoff.

Stevie Fresh chose a "culture" over being a college student and basketball player. I heard some of his stuff. It was awful.

Other mysteries...

1) Jeremy Fears, Antonio Chatman, Marquis Horne, Alex Kellogg. What happened?
2) Supposed shadiness in recruiting Maurice Ndour??? And how in the world did Saul get him to stay?

Sorry, I call this fake news!

Why did DJ tank and not Reggie?

Akron pulled a coaching gem and had the quick and LONG Harney guard Coop everywhere and completely took DJ’s ability to do much on offense.game away.

Kellogg was a year above me. I talked to him one night at Crystal. He simply just didn’t love playing anymore.

Exactly, some just don't get that. Put McDay right there, they just lost the desire to put the time in and wanted to be Joe Student. More power to them.

FormerMember already answered this. The bonus Covid year from the NCAA was Spring 2020, Fall 2020 & Winter 2020-21. The Winter 19-20 season was almost complete and no extra year of eligibility was granted for it. Otherwise Jordan Dartis could have come back for a 5th year.

So Wiz has another year if he wants it. At the risk of giving FearLeon a heart attack...If people are questioning that 2nd year at Louisville as possibly a redshirt candidate, then the question would become does he have TWO years remaining.