OT - Top basketball recruit Andrew Wiggins to .... Kansas
Top prospect in all the continent picks Kansas. Speculation surrounded FSU and UK. This is a bit of a shocker.
better Kansas than Kentucky, imo.
If he had picked Kentucky my head would have exploded.
don't punch Mitch Mcgary in the nads
But who gets Bean?
I think Graff is secretly a Kansas booster
Does this make Mitch our Peter when he dominates Wiggins?
Why not? We already have Rackham. In maize(r), no less.
I didn't expect him to go to UK, becuase UK has already bought a nice roster. Wiggins was needed a lot more at KU than at UK. He has a chance to be the main option at KU; this could bring in even more money than UK boosters would pay him if it results in him being drafted a few spots higher next year.
It's a lot easier to be a top three pick when you are averaging over 20 points a game as the first option than it is if you are "one of the guys" on a team loaded with McDonald's All Americans.
The 2012 NBA Draft and it's four Kentucky first round draft picks disagree.
OMG if a program gets good talent, they are obviously paying players. I wouldn't trust anyone who has an overwhelming majority of their recruits from a list such as the ESPN 150.
In fairness, with Coach Cal I think there is something more to the suspicion than just "gets good players."
Heh.
Sparty'd
Good for him and Bill Self. He'll be well coached and fun to watch this year/beat in the Sweet 16.
Self beats Roy Williams once again. Not good if your are a UNC fan like myself.
Some people have multiple degrees.
Tell us how you root for North Carolina Football and Michigan Basketball (which isn't all that bad a deal right now, actually).
Disagree. I think your allegiences always like with your UG institution if you went to a school with as strong of a tradition in sports like a UNC, Michigan, Texas, USC, etc. It's one thing if you went to State Directional and then ended up at Michigan or a LAC/CUNY or something of that nature where sports aren't emphasized/non-existent and then root for your grad school.
I understand your point that people are more attached to their UG school, but are you saying that someone like myself who graduated from Michigan and attends UNC Law cannot root for UNC under the "Code of Fandom"? Someone can only root for one of the schools they attended? That seems silly unless you attended UM/OSU or AU/Alabama, etc.
I can see rooting for both schools in that case. But to pick and choose which teams from the two schools you root for ("Michigan in football, UNC in basketball") is kind of lame - it makes you sound like a front-runner. Indiana fans are notorious for this - many of them root for ND football over their own alma mater. I don't get it.
of that deal. I was something of a fan of Roy's, but he certainly doesn't have Dean Smith's gravitas. Of course, guys like Dean don't come along often. . .
cherish the memory of Dean Smith, his barrier-breaking tenure, and the veneration working people held for him in NC. Another time, indeed.
One with the Jordan shot, and one....I don't want to talk about it.
Smith has the 9th highest winning percentage of any men’s college basketball coach (77.6%). During his tenure as head coach of North Carolina, the team won two national titles and appeared in 11 Final Fours.
Roy's got a way to go.
He took his team to (I think) 13 straight Sweet Sixteens.Even Coach K hasn't done above 9 I don't think. (Though going ot like 6 of 7 Finals Fours was a run we'll never see again).
Also, not sure why its a big deal bc I like Michigan in one sport and not another. Most of us on here did not graduate from a D1 school. I graduated from
Slippery Rock so no I did not go to UM or UNC. Dont really see the big deal.
So you're a Michigan fan, and a college basketball fan, but not a Michigan basketball fan? That's just really weird to me.
in Tallahassee, where I live. Keep looking for a reason to buy season tickets. . .
Interesting to see if this sets a few dominoes in motion with other recruits/schools. Hopefully dominoes which brings some combo of Blueitt, Looney, Booker to Michigan.
Those guys are not in the same class. Wiggins was basically the last 2013 recruit.
I think this now makes for six commitments for Kansas for 2013 - 3 five-stars and 3 four-stars per Rivals, if I remember the rankings correctly. Not a bad haul for Kansas at all - they've jumped from having the 29th-ranked class (I believe that's what it was in 2011) to the #2 class in two years by Rivals rankings. Wiggins also had an offer from Ohio State apparently, although in reading through articles, there likely was not much danger he would have been a Buckeye.
sure if Wiggins showed a tiny bit of interest he would have an offer from here as well. In this case, like you mentioned offer does not mean a threat.
Same class, 2013. Parker was considered the #1 kid in the class for a while, but wasn't as impressive as advertised this year and Wiggins reclassified into 2013. Wiggins is now the consensus #1 recruit and sure-thing #1 draft pick next year, while Parker is a consensus top 5 guy.
but we'll see how many are left after the NBA draft in 2014 Wiggins is a one and done for sure.
in a good way. They're obviously overshadowed by Kentucky but still, they pulled in the numbers 1, 12, 25, 34, 29, and 76 guys in this class per rivals. They're going to be awfully good