The league is fairly balanced this year, but not overly strong. Our win against Colorado, and Evansville’s one off win vs Kentucky are the only two P5 wins against nationally relevant teams, at least that I can think of. The MVC has to win more non-con...

Correct, it’s an official event. Alumni Assoc. if I remember correctly....

Without Googling it, what is the “Cliff of 2025”? Guessing it’s roughly the year that college age kids see a large drop in percentage of the population, thereby reducing the pool of potential enrollees?

I’ve heard similar fears...

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That’s correct....

He’s right. KCCI did do a feature on AJ a week or so ago. It was very well done, and very positive on AJ and the team as a whole....

Just to play devil’s advocate, Drake and a highly ranked A&M team are two different things. I’m high on this years’ team, and we have a nice nucleus coming back next year. However, criticism of the staff for past “stuff”, failing to capitalize...

Executing beyond their true ability? Devries seems to excel at that as a coach. Look at last years’ MVC tourney game. They gave us all we wanted with an ‘effed up roster with lots of missing players. This years’ Drake team is far better than...

Drake will have Robbins, DJ Wilkens, and Roman Penn for the next three years. We’ll have AJ and Phyfe. Several more hard fought games are in the future.

Hopefully that’s a trend line upwards that will continue, right? Maybe I have too many bad memories from earlier in the year, and last season, of guards getting the ball swiped, dribbling off a foot out of bounds, etc. My opinion is ball handling...

The other guy to be mindful of is Roman Penn, their point guard. He’s solid on both ends of the floor, and can score if needed. He’s another nice off season transfer pick up by DeVries.

I agree though. We win by 10-15 if we’re on...

From what I’ve read, his stock has dropped some this year due to not being as productive as hoped. He’s still listed as a top 10 recruit in Iowa for his class, but no longer #1. Several others are now ahead of him. I’m guessing Coleman’s info...

Is there a list of preferred walk ons? I’ve looked on the UNI site but coming up empty.

Guys with that kind of ceiling don’t just show up on campus, or appear out of a vacuum, especially at the FCS level. Give Nelson and that staff credit for ID’ing those players, and then developing them. Transfer or traditional recruit, doesn’t...

What do both of them have in common? Great foot work, and the instincts to know how to move with the ball close to the basket to get a good shot while using their body to keep the the defender away. We’ve had plenty of big guys here who never got...

Born has also been doing this in a really tough 3A conference. The level of competition he’s facing is as solid as you can get at that level of Iowa high school basketball....

I’ll be surprised if that happens. MSU has made rotation and lineup changes since we played, and had won 2 of 3. That’s a talented team, so if they get their act together they’ll be tough to beat, much less blowout....