Next Year

[panther-state]

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Evansville is graduating/transferring back to Thursday night. All is right with the world. Marty-Ball needs to end

[MernerAve]

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From Gary Parrish's Twitter:
Worth noting: Valpo’s Alec Peters can likely graduate this summer and transfer, sources told @CBSSports. Averaged 18.4 ppg and 8.5 rpg.

https://twitter.com/GaryParrishCBS/status/717021118230474752?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

Discuss!

[95UNIGRAD]

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Sounds like he would follow Drew to Vanderbilt. Too bad - would be nice to have more rebounding.

[MisterTwoForty]

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Next year will be a great year for UNI. With the strong returning players, great red shirts, and the talented freshmen we have coming in, nothing but great things to come. Even bigger plus to have two open scholarships also. Jeremy Morgan will be a star. Wyatt and Klint will come on strong. Bennett has developed and will continue to do so.

We have the best coach in the Valley and IMO, all of NCAA basketball. We'll be fine.

[Gboom23]

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I'm curious what everyone thinks for minutes distribution for next year with the recent additions. I think the general thought is that Tanner Lohaus will be the only freshman to redshirt. Ashton obviously isn't sitting, and it seems like Rhodes will be playing this year as well. That puts 12 guys in play for minutes. Here's my rough draft:

Starters
Morgan - 30
Lohaus - 25
Carlson - 25
Koch - 22
McCloud - 20

Bench
McDonnell - 15
Haldeman - 15
Ashton - 15
Dahl/Friedman - 13
Rhodes - 10
Brown - 10

I'm not convinced the Dahl/Friedman combo gets 13 minutes/game, as I expect us to play small with Carlson at the 5 sometimes.

[ubuntuCAT]

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I'm curious what everyone thinks for minutes distribution for next year with the recent additions. I think the general thought is that Tanner Lohaus will be the only freshman to redshirt. Ashton obviously isn't sitting, and it seems like Rhodes will be playing this year as well. That puts 12 guys in play for minutes. Here's my rough draft:

Starters
Morgan - 30
Lohaus - 25
Carlson - 25
Koch - 22
McCloud - 20

Bench
McDonnell - 15
Haldeman - 15
Ashton - 15
Dahl/Friedman - 13
Rhodes - 10
Brown - 10

I'm not convinced the Dahl/Friedman combo gets 13 minutes/game, as I expect us to play small with Carlson at the 5 sometimes.

I'd be pretty surprised if Morgan isn't playing 35 mins/game. Heck he was over 32mins/game this last season.

[Gboom23]

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I'd be pretty surprised if Morgan isn't playing 35 mins/game. Heck he was over 32mins/game this last season.

I understand where you're coming from. I think last year was an outlier as far as minutes per player, simply because we didn't have any other options. I was curious, so I checked who played the most minutes per game in the Ben Jacobson era. Here's the list of every player to average 32.0 minutes/game or more since the 06-07 season:

06-07
Brooks McKowen - 34.7

07-08
Jared Josten - 33.5 (had to play, as no other player was even close to a decent option at point guard this year)

12-13
Anthony James - 32.0
Marc Sonnen - 33.1

15-16
Wes Washpun - 34.5
Matt Bohannon - 35.1
Jeremy Morgan - 32.3

Foul trouble worries me with Morgan, but that didn't hurt in too many games last year. Notice there's no one on the list from 09-10 (highest was Ali with 30.3), another year when we were able to make hockey-like substitutions, like it appears we may be able to do this year.

[ubuntuCAT]

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I understand where you're coming from. I think last year was an outlier as far as minutes per player, simply because we didn't have any other options. I was curious, so I checked who played the most minutes per game in the Ben Jacobson era. Here's the list of every player to average 32.0 minutes/game or more since the 06-07 season:

06-07
Brooks McKowen - 34.7

07-08
Jared Josten - 33.5 (had to play, as no other player was even close to a decent option at point guard this year)

12-13
Anthony James - 32.0
Marc Sonnen - 33.1

15-16
Wes Washpun - 34.5
Matt Bohannon - 35.1
Jeremy Morgan - 32.3

Foul trouble worries me with Morgan, but that didn't hurt in too many games last year. Notice there's no one on the list from 09-10 (highest was Ali with 30.3), another year when we were able to make hockey-like substitutions, like it appears we may be able to do this year.

09-10 we essentially had 2 teams of starters to split minutes. I don't think we're going to be at that level next year.

I think we'll have a lot of players playing but any time Morgan isn't in it will be noticeable.

[BCPanther]

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Ah yes, 2007-08 where Jake won 18 games with smoke, mirrors, and chewing gum.

[CyCarp]

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I'm curious what everyone thinks for minutes distribution for next year with the recent additions. I think the general thought is that Tanner Lohaus will be the only freshman to redshirt. Ashton obviously isn't sitting, and it seems like Rhodes will be playing this year as well. That puts 12 guys in play for minutes. Here's my rough draft:

Starters
Morgan - 30
Lohaus - 25
Carlson - 25
Koch - 22
McCloud - 20

Bench
McDonnell - 15
Haldeman - 15
Ashton - 15
Dahl/Friedman - 13
Rhodes - 10
Brown - 10

I'm not convinced the Dahl/Friedman combo gets 13 minutes/game, as I expect us to play small with Carlson at the 5 sometimes.

I wrote down my guess for mintues after Ashton announced he was coming here, came up with...

McCloud - 20
Wyatt - 20
Morgan - 30
Carlson - 25
Koch - 20

Haldeman - 20
McDonnell - 15
Rhodes - 10
Ashton - 10
Brown - 10
Friedman - 5
Dahl - 5

This is what I originally wrote down, without thinking about the 200 total minutes, so it's 10 minutes short. If I was going to get it to 200, I'd probably split them between Wyatt, Ashton, and Brown, but any given night I could see just about any of these guys getting more minutes. It just depends who's hot. After last year it almost feels like we have too much depth going forward!

[OhNewby]

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Morgan - 30
Lohaus - 20
Carlson - 25
Koch - 22
McCloud - 20

Bench
McDonnell - 15
Haldeman - 18
Ashton - 15
Dahl - 15
Rhodes - 5
Friedman - 5
Brown - 10

A 12 person rotation seems unlikely, so maybe Brown redshirts, knowing he'll get some serious minutes once Morgan and Ashton are gone

[Panther100]

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I think too many turnovers, missed rebounds, and fouls sends this inexperienced team to 25-9 and a 1-2 seed in the NIT.

[UNIdad]

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A 12 person rotation seems unlikely, so maybe Brown redshirts, knowing he'll get some serious minutes once Morgan and Ashton are gone

I read this as "Brownshirts" and wondered what the heck that was . . . somebody who is only on the team because he brown-nosed the coaches?

[SteinPizza]

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I read this as "Brownshirts" and wondered what the heck that was . . . somebody who is only on the team because he brown-nosed the coaches?

Actually, the term brownshirts has a historical context, but it's not good.

You'd think the Kirkwood recruit would redshirt, especially if Ashton can play PG. but, I've read the opposite here.

[DownGoesKansas]

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Actually, the term brownshirts has a historical context, but it's not good.

You'd think the Kirkwood recruit would redshirt, especially if Ashton can play PG. but, I've read the opposite here.

I have no clue what will happen but here are my thoughts.

-I think Rhodes was brought it to have an experienced PG who can help bridge the gap. I really don't think he redshirts.
-I think Rhodes/Ashton give us room to let Brown redshirt as there likely isnt a lot of playing time for him this year. But I fully understand the idea that he didnt come here to redshirt etc. So who knows on that.