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Unverified Voracity Goes To Hotels On The Road, Too
Brian • May 15, 2020 • 1:34pm

Content supplies are critically low. BTN had some Northwestern memories on deck a few days back. They were extremely Northwestern.

More on Eastern. Brendan Quinn has an article on a whirlwind couple of days in the portal:

According to a source, Eastern and Michigan coach Juwan Howard spoke on Wednesday night.

By Thursday morning, Eastern’s decision was made.

He confirms that Eastern is not immediately eligible, which may be for the best. A year off for Eastern to attend the Zavier Simpson School Of Adequate When Unguarded Shooting could make his year at Michigan more productive. Meanwhile the 2021-22 roster will lose Smith, Brooks, Livers, and maybe Wagner.

That team is likely to be very young, and if Howard is able to secure a big-timer next year Eastern fits more neatly next to a high-usage teammate. Purdue was able to paper over his offensive deficiencies when Carsen Edwards was around; not so much after Edwards left for the NBA. Edwards's ORTG against Tier A and B opponents (top 100 adjusted for location) dropped from 110 his sophomore year to 85 his junior year. There's a reasonably efficient low-usage offensive player in Eastern if he's in the right context. That is admittedly a narrow one.

In other transfer news, Michigan is not listed amongst the schools who have reached out to sit-out Georgetown transfer Mac McClung.

[After THE JUMP: Jacobi brain good?]

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World's Best/Only Hockey Recruiting Overview: The Distant Future
Brian • April 1, 2020 • 1:34pm

Finally! Finally writing about hockey recruits who won't arrive for multiple years is the most sensible thing to do! I knew my day would come! Previously: 2020 and 2021.

Now with fewer alarmingly young people

College hockey passed some legislation that prohibits early contact between players and programs, which is stupid for a couple reasons. One: CHL teams have no such restrictions. Two: these restrictions are all but unenforceable anyway. Instead of talking to the recruit you talk to his advisor, coach, or parents.

But since this legislation included a prohibition against commitments—which are made up things the NCAA does not regulate in any way—there's been a halt to super early commits. Publicly, anyway. It is a stone cold fact that NCAA programs are going to privately offer and accept commitments from guys who are about to get drafted by the CHL.

A guy like, say, Adam Fantilli isn't allowed to commit to a school until August because schools aren't technically allowed to offer (again, an offer is a made up thing the NCAA does not regulate) until August 1st before a player's junior year of high school. They implemented this rule in college basketball and exactly one guy followed it: John Beilein.

So far the dam has held in college hockey. Expect to see a blizzard of guys go off the board in August.

Future editions of Chris Hansen's Hockey Recruiting may have to wait until mid-August. The just-named NTDP U17 team has seven uncommitted guys on it, which is an unusual number. In the future it's going to be zero… publicly. Pointless window dressing.

Anyway.

[After THE JUMP: hurling!]

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Unverified Voracity Is A Basketball Rules Maniac
Brian • May 6, 2019 • 1:07pm

Coach twitter is interested. I cannot tell you how encouraging it is that multiple plays from Michigan's spring game have been interesting enough for the clip-it-and-describe-it wing of coaching twitter to post.

This did not happen that much the last couple years. James Light would post stuff about the run game; guys who aren't local didn't have much interest. And the things that have popped out of the spring clips have been plays on which guys are put in conflict while Michigan runs a tightly integrated set of plays that all look like each other.

A program milestone. Women's lacrosse made its first tournament ever as the #8 overall seed:

No. 8 seed Michigan earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament for the first postseason appearance in program history after going 15-3 overall, including a 4-2 mark in conference play. The Wolverines will play the winner of Jacksonville vs. Mercer on Friday, May 10 in Ann Arbor, Mich.

A time has not yet been established. How they got there.

[After THE JUMP: insane ways to change the NBA!]

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World's Best/Only Hockey Recruiting Overview: 2020 Part 2 And The Braces Brigade
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