I read on here he reaggravated his injury but was thinking the same. I was hopeful based on the WMU game he could be the spark off the bench we desperately needed (or even possibly replace McDay in the starting lineup).

It's no secret that right now our bench is putrid.

We MUST have 1 of the group of:
Miles Brown
Ben Roderick
Connor Murrell

And 1 of the group of:
Mason McMurray
Nolan Foster
Nate Springs

Be able to contribute a solid 15+ minutes a night each with decent counting stats on the order of 8-10 points, 5-6 rebounds and 4-5 assists combined.

Maybe part of that answer is Murrell if he can ever get/stay healthy.

From our freshmen class, McDay looks solid if unspectacular, Foster looks like a good one but like most big men may take a year or two to grow into his body/role to really contribute, Price is goneso, and that leaves Roderick and Brown...both of which I've been SEVERELY underwhelmed by.

The next time Roderick does something besides stand at the 3 point line and catch and shoot a 3 might be the first time. That can be his bread and butter but sometimes you gotta do something else. ANYTHING else.

Bench has to start to find ways to contribute.

Saw Roderick a couple of times in high school, where he was Ohio's Gatorade Player of the Year. Big step up from that to DI basketball. Could he be a left-handed, slightly taller, version of Jordan Dartis?

Never caught a high school game of Miles Brown but didn't he average around 33 ppg last year? Seeing him in limited action so far as a Bobcat, I've wondered how someone can average more than a point per minute in h.s. have such a below-average looking touch from behind the arc in college?

Hopefully this isn't an extended absence. If it is he probably won't qualify for the medical hardship exemption waiver since he played after the mid point of the season. He played in game 17 (assuming exhibition doesn't count) of our 31 game schedule. Add at least one MAC tourney game and we're getting close...win 1 tourney game and accept an invite to a post season tourney and he might have a case if those post season tournaments count.

When he was healthy and playing with confidence late last year he brought a nice spark off the bench. We could definitely use that. Somehow, it looks like he grew another inch this off-season.

Connor's only played 4 games this year. He didn't start playing until MAC play.

https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/sports/high-sc... /

That's correct, it's also correct that you can't play past the midseason point and get the medical hardship exemption. Game 17 was the team's 17th game of the year, nothing to do with his # of games. Of course you can appeal and put it in the NCAA's hands but that's far from a consistent process.