OT: Marquette transfer PF Dawson Garcia commits to UNC
Garcia was one of the top transfers in the portal and picked UNC over Illinois and Arizona. He now improves UNC's already solid front court into one of the best in country. Armando Bacot, Brady Manek, and now Dawson Garcia will likely be a handful for us, but should be a good matchup with Dicksinon, Johns, and Diabate.
The side story here is that Illinois insiders have basically been telling their fans for the past week that they were the favorite for Garcia and that Kofi would come back and it looks like neither of those things are happening.
As a Marquette alum who watches most their games, I was never that impressed with Garcia.
7 foot freshman who average 13 / 7 / 1 on 48% / 36% / 78% don't grow on trees
Sad when our biggest rival has such bad luck.
Those Illini need to take a chill pill. Especially Angry Brad Underwood.
Yes, hate to see it.
I personally do not feel their backcourt stacks up to ours. And i expect Johns to improve more than anyone this year. I think he is going to be a stud this year.
The only guy i was a bit afraid of as far as frontcourt matchups was Kofi, and that is gone.
UNC's back court is certainly their biggest question mark. Caleb Love, their 5 star PG, was straight up bad as a freshman so we will see how he develops
Fuck UNC
^^^^THIS ^^^^^
Better than illinois. They already won the big 10 last year.
Illinois was B10 Counterfactual Extrapolation Champs.
As UNC is a future opponent, this is not OT.