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Handicapping Lillard’s NBA Chances: How Have Prospects From Mid-Majors Fared in the Pros?

EJacoby — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 19:55:34 +0000

Looking at the upcoming NBA Draft’s projected lottery picks, most of the players represent the big boys around the nation – Duke, North Carolina, Kentucky, Kansas, Florida, Connecticut. But smack in the middle between guys that played in a Final Four is a kid from Weber State. Anybody who follows college hoops or draft scouting surely knows about Damian Lillard, but it’s still surprising to see a player ranked so highly who most fans have never seen play a minute of college basketball. Will Lillard, who is projected to go in the top 10 as the draft’s top point guard, [...]

RTC NBA Draft Profiles: Terrico White

rtmsf — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 20:21:06 +0000

Over the course of the next month until the NBA Draft on June 24, RTC will be rolling out comprehensive profiles of the 30-35 collegians we feel have the best chance to hear their names called by David Stern in the first round that night. There won’t be any particular order to the list, but you can scroll back through all the finished profiles by clicking here.

Player Name: Terrico White

School: Mississippi

Height/Weight: 6’5, 203

NBA Position: Shooting Guard

Projected Draft Range: Late First Round

Overview: Combo [...]

In 1-and-Done Era, Experience Wins Championships

rtmsf — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:52:01 +0000

(special h/t to Luke Winn for inspiring this analysis with his article here)

You may have heard in recent days that Kentucky’s John Calipari has been filling up on the tasty nougat that has risen to the top of the Class of 2010 high school basketball recruiting lists. Five-star prospect Brandon Knight followed an impressive chorus line of 1-and-done Calipari point guards (D. Rose, T. Evans, J. Wall) by committing to the Wildcats on Wednesday, and Doron Lamb, another five-star combo guard ranked in the top 25, committed today. Turkish stud Enes Kanter committed last week, and there are rumors that others, including versatile [...]

Morning Five: 12.16.09 Edition

rtmsf — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:10:36 +0000

Will Brandon Knight become the next Derrick Rose Tyreke Evans John Wall for John Calipari at Memphis Kentucky? One of the top players in the Class of 2010 has, according to Zagsblog, listed his final four schools: Kansas, Kentucky, UConn and Florida. He’ll sign in the spring, but you have to believe that with Wall leaving Lexington in April, the Wildcats would be very well situated for another one-and-done point guard prospect to enter the school. Arkansas can’t seem to get anything right lately. It’s a small violation, but the Hawgs self-reported a violation involving photo images of players in a [...]

RTC 09-10 Class Schedule: Kentucky Wildcats

zhayes9 — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 20:51:18 +0000

Ed. Note: for all of the posts in the RTC 09-10 Class Schedule series, click here.

Just a mere five months ago, the once proud and feared Kentucky basketball program was mired in a state of chaos. The Billy Gillispie era at the university turned out about as well as the Harriet Miers Supreme Court nomination. Mystifying losses at storied Rupp Arena to such powers as Gardner-Webb and VMI, puzzling interviews with ESPN’s Jeannine Edwards making the blog rounds and exposing Gillispie as a clown, point guards refusing to enter games, rumors of bar scenes [...]

2009 One-and-Dones: Was It Worth It?

rtmsf — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:08:21 +0000

It’s no secret that the high school Class of 2008 was one of the weakest in recent memory. Coming into the 2008-09 regular season, could you realistically point to any one player who would impact their team enough to become another Derrick Rose or a Michael Beasley (class of 2007), a Greg Oden or a Kevin Durant (class of 2006)? No way, right? The consensus #1 player, Brandon Jennings, high-tailed it to Europe when it became apparent he wasn’t going to become eligible to play college ball at Arizona, where he proceeded to burn up foreign nets at the [...]

Boom/Bust Cycle

rtmsf — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:06:06 +0000

It’s a little less than an hour before tonight’s NBA Draft, and this should have probably been done days ago, but we wanted to use our undeniable RTC expertise when it comes to projecting college hoops talent to the pros so we can say “told ya so” when the one undervalued player we said would be a star pans out (while the other ten we said would be don’t, but let’s not quibble). We’ll use Andy Katz’s final mock draft from this morning, and we’re only going to evaluate college players (because we’ve seen them play for at least [...]

04.21.09 Fast Breaks

rtmsf — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:27:59 +0000

There are only FIVE DAYS left to declare, kiddies! Get your early entry paperwork in NOW!!!

At least one report states that Duke’s Gerald Henderson will enter the draft. And we thought we already knew this (about Tyreke Evans). Xavier’s Derrick Brown, Georgia Tech’s Gani Lawal and Mr. Game Winner, Scottie Reynolds, will all test the waters. All three should be back in college next season. Steph Curry – still thinking. One dude who will not go pro this year is John Wall. Luke Winn dissects his recruitment, while Gary Parrish all but pushes him down the aisle to explore the opportunity for [...]

Official Word: “The Squid” to UK…

rtmsf — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 01:34:14 +0000

(h/t to L4B for Calipari’s new nickname… but, um, will it stick?)

John Calipari Headed to Lexington. Officially. What does this hire by Kentucky (at a reported $5M+ per year) do? It makes the Wildcat program nationally relevant again. Instantly. With a single stroke of the pen (still pending), every major recruit from 9th to 11th grade (and several in the 12th) who has visions of wearing a hideous suit to meet David Stern on Draft Day suddenly has Kentucky back on their radar screens. At the McD’s game practice today, Xavier Henry has already made it clear that [...]

Calipari to Kentucky

nvr1983 — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:16:51 +0000

After a weekend full of speculation about who would replace Billy Gillispie as the next head coach at Kentucky it looks like we finally have our answer in the form of John Calipari. Our sources had been mentioning Calipari as a potential replacement for Gillispie as early as a week ago, but that was obviously delayed by the fact that his Memphis team was still playing in the NCAA tournament. Fortunately, for the administration at Kentucky, even after last year’s title game collapse against Kansas, Calipari still didn’t think it was worthwhile having his team work on free [...]

Boom Goes the Dynamite: Regional Semifinals Day One

rtmsf — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 01:07:58 +0000

Hello everyone, it’s been a long four days since the last games ended on Sunday evening, but we’re back in earnest and ready for what should be a tremendous set of regional semifinals over the next two nights. Out of the top sixteen teams entering this Tournament, only two have been dismissed. The “upstarts” are Big 10 Tournament champion Purdue and a little school from the desert you might have heard from before, Arizona. We’ll be providing you with all the coverage as the weekend progresses… here’s tonight’s schedule:

7:07 pm. #5 Purdue vs. #1 Connecticut 7:27 pm. [...]

Boom Goes the Dynamite: NCAA Tournament Day One Edition

nvr1983 — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:10:17 +0000

IT’S. FINALLY. HERE.

If there’s one thing in life you can count on, it’s that every spring the Taxman will ask for his pittance and the NCAA Tournament will have you screaming at the top of your lungs with excitement. There is no more compelling annual event in all of sports. Every year, schools you’ve never heard of take on the ones you’re sick of hearing about and, for just a moment, a mere sliver of time, they stand as equals, where how well you play the game is all that [...]

NCAA Basketball 2009: The BCS Version

nvr1983 — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 05:15:51 +0000

With the release of the brackets on Sunday evening there has been quite a bit of controversy (Arizona over St. Mary’s being the predominant gripe) and there have been some interesting moments with Jay Bilas and Digger Phelps ganging up on Dick Vitale and almost bringing him to tears. However, it was nothing compared to the furor that we saw when the BCS released its final poll that determined the BCS bowl games and more importantly the national championship. We thought it would be a fun exercise to try to make a [...]

NCAA Preview: Memphis Tigers

rtmsf — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:33:38 +0000

Memphis (#2 seed, West, Kansas City pod)

vs. California State Northridge (#15) March 19th, 12:25 P.M.

Vegas Line: Memphis -19.5

Thanks to Vegas Watch for providing these graphs that measure the moving average of a team’s spread (moving avg.) over time vs. the spread for each individual game (indiv). If a team’s moving average is higher than zero, then Vegas currently has a higher opinion of them than Pomeroy, and vice versa.

General Profile

Location: Memphis, Tennessee Conference: Conference USA, won the conference tournament Coach: John Calipari, 251-68 at Memphis 08-09 Record: 28-3, 16-0 C-USA Last 12 Games: 12-0 Best [...]

QnD West Region Analysis

rtmsf — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 06:51:28 +0000

WEST REGION PREVIEW (by Ryan ZumMallen)

Favorite UConn, #1, 27-4

Should They Falter Memphis, #2, 31-3

Grossly Overseeded Washington, #4, 25-8 Grossly Underseeded Mississippi State, #13, 23-12

Sweet Sixteen Sleeper (#12 seed or lower) Mississippi State, #13, 23-12 Final Four Sleeper (#4 seed or lower) Purdue, #5, 25-9

Carmelo Anthony Award Tyreke Evans, 16.6 pts, 5.5 assts, 3.8 rebs

Stephen Curry Award Northern Iowa’s Adam Koch, 12.3 ppg, 5.2 rebs – relatively unknown player who can take his team a long way

Home Cooking #4 Washington – 148 miles, #11 Utah State – 293 miles, #1 UConn – 238 miles

Can’t Miss First Round Game #4 Washington vs. #13 Mississippi State, 3/19

Don’t Miss This One Either #6 [...]