Top 25 talk

[Greek Tragedy]

Not currently in the conversation, but certainly an oft-represented coach.  Big news for D3 hoops!

https://www.godiplomats.com/sports/m-baskbl/2019-20/releases/20191104v3nw9h?fbclid=IwAR1NJqLetv4FNj3kxTmWJN8U3H9JcJENhKsmDuJwusmBzTonNWyF2sbBdUM

Less than a week before the season starts? Ouch. Hope he told the players when practice started last month.

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Not currently in the conversation, but certainly an oft-represented coach.  Big news for D3 hoops!

https://www.godiplomats.com/sports/m-baskbl/2019-20/releases/20191104v3nw9h?fbclid=IwAR1NJqLetv4FNj3kxTmWJN8U3H9JcJENhKsmDuJwusmBzTonNWyF2sbBdUM

Less than a week before the season starts? Ouch. Hope he told the players when practice started last month.

There is a joke in here that I'm trying not to post. If you know the joke, you are snickering along with me. If not, pretend I didn't post.

Sorry for my disappearance ... I'll post a bit more later.

[Smitty Oom]

Not currently in the conversation, but certainly an oft-represented coach.  Big news for D3 hoops!

https://www.godiplomats.com/sports/m-baskbl/2019-20/releases/20191104v3nw9h?fbclid=IwAR1NJqLetv4FNj3kxTmWJN8U3H9JcJENhKsmDuJwusmBzTonNWyF2sbBdUM

Less than a week before the season starts? Ouch. Hope he told the players when practice started last month.

There is a joke in here that I'm trying not to post. If you know the joke, you are snickering along with me. If not, pretend I didn't post.

Sorry for my disappearance ... I'll post a bit more later.

Quite "diplomatic" of you not To post the joke...

[Titan Q]

Not currently in the conversation, but certainly an oft-represented coach.  Big news for D3 hoops!

https://www.godiplomats.com/sports/m-baskbl/2019-20/releases/20191104v3nw9h?fbclid=IwAR1NJqLetv4FNj3kxTmWJN8U3H9JcJENhKsmDuJwusmBzTonNWyF2sbBdUM

I know nothing about this situation.  But with the timing, is this a deal where Robinson is trying to make sure his top assistant has a full season to coach the team so he has an advantage when they hire?

Or is this truly that Robinson decided he just couldn't do it anymore, just days before the opener?

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

My guess, Titan ... combo of the two. Having talked to him last season (off air), I got the sense the coaching fire was not gone. He wanted to get back out there. I also sensed he didn't want to hurt the team not being at 100%. We all know he missed a few games the last two seasons, at least, with health issues. He didn't want to be back on the bench unless he could give it his all.

I felt he would be back, but I wasn't sure when he might hang it up. During the off-season, I could have argued he would retire any day while also countering that argument that 1,000 wins and a couple of more years was something he seriously wanted to accomplish.

I suspect he went into this year thinking he was ready to go and found he wasn't really 100%. I also think he knew that it was possible he wasn't going to be able to return and wanted to make sure he could dictate who took over - we know those types of coaches. I bet he knew that if he retired in April or June, the school would be forced to do a national search. He controls things more this way - we have seen that before.

However I think there was still a part of Glenn Robinson was ready to coach this season. If the idea was simply to position his assistant, he could have made this decision a month ago and they still would have made the same interim decision.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Not currently in the conversation, but certainly an oft-represented coach.  Big news for D3 hoops!

https://www.godiplomats.com/sports/m-baskbl/2019-20/releases/20191104v3nw9h?fbclid=IwAR1NJqLetv4FNj3kxTmWJN8U3H9JcJENhKsmDuJwusmBzTonNWyF2sbBdUM

I know nothing about this situation.  But with the timing, is this a deal where Robinson is trying to make sure his top assistant has a full season to coach the team so he has an advantage when they hire?

Or is this truly that Robinson decided he just couldn't do it anymore, just days before the opener?

Also, Nick has been the assistant there for seven or eight years now.  He's the lead recruiter and very involved in the day to day.  It'll be a very smooth transition.  He's also led the team during Glenn's absences recently - no reason to doubt about how the program will proceed.

[Smitty Oom]

https://utdcomets.com/sports/mens-basketball/stats/2019-2020/ut-arlington-exhibition-/boxscore/4709

I know we had talked about this before, as Dimitrius Underwood was not mentioned in the conference preseaon write-up but is listed in the UT-Dallas 2019-2020 roster, but he did not log a minute in the exhibition last night against UT-Arlington... based on his twitter, looks like he is still at school there, but something to monitor.

He was in d3hoops.com pre-season All-American Team (rightfully so), maybe they have word on this situation?

[Pat Coleman]

I don't know any more than the fact that he was listed as a returning player on the preseason questionnaire we sent to schools who were receiving Top 25 consideration.

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

I promised an update yesterday ...

Posted in the Hoopsville post up page:

The start of the #d3hoops season is days away. Many may be wondering when #Hoopsville will debut.

Hoopsville will be on the air for it's 17th season ... but it has become a question of when. Soon for sure.

More on the challenges we've been facing: http://bit.ly/2PSwDRV

[Gregory Sager]

I promised an update yesterday ...

Posted in the Hoopsville post up page:

The start of the #d3hoops season is days away. Many may be wondering when #Hoopsville will debut.

Hoopsville will be on the air for it's 17th season ... but it has become a question of when. Soon for sure.

More on the challenges we've been facing: http://bit.ly/2PSwDRV

Just remember to put your 10,000th post on the Best Attendance board under the General Basketball heading.

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Holy cow! I didn't realize I was that close! I have to be careful ... now. LOL

[bbfan44]

I'm looking at this years "Street & Smith's" page on Division 3 preview.  I'm wondering how much time and effort Chuck Mustovich of Basketball Times spends on this report.  His top ten doesn't look much like d3 hoops top ten. 

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

I'm looking at this years "Street & Smith's" page on Division 3 preview.  I'm wondering how much time and effort Chuck Mustovich of Basketball Times spends on this report.  His top ten doesn't look much like d3 hoops top ten.

See below ...

I did want to make a comment about Street and Smith. I finally had enough of their polls and DMed them on Twitter. They responded. And thanked me for my thoughts. It resulted in chatting with the head of the organization. Let's just say ... things will change, I suspect. I won't go into it now, but when I have coaches contacting me who are both in and out of the poll wondering what in the world is going on ... I think something has to be said. I think you will see a very different S&S preseason poll next year - they already made smart moves in football by having Keith McMillian of D3football.com (and the Washington Post) provide their preseason poll.

I will give S&S credit. I think they realized things had gone sideways with their smaller college coverage and were willing to be open to an "outsider's" point of view. They even admitted to me why they thought things had gone wrong. I look forward to the solution moving forward.

I can say with an update that a solution is in the mix. I look forward to seeing if it works out. And no, it isn't me. I am a little too busy to help them when they need it.

[Titan Q]

From Redlands:

Texas-Dallas 74
Redlands 71 (OT)

Redlands was up 3 with 5 seconds to play in regulation after 2 FTs.  They chose to not foul...UTD (Jalen Weber) hit a 3 at the buzzer to send to OT.

In OT Redlands seemed in control late but Weber hit 3 huge shots, including one to tie it, and one to win the game.

No Dimitrius Underwood (preseason 3rd Team All-American) in the boxscore for the Comets.

[ronk]

From Redlands:

Texas-Dallas 74
Redlands 71 (OT)

Redlands was up 3 with 5 seconds to play in regulation after 2 FTs.  They chose to not foul...UTD (Jalen Weber) hit a 3 at the buzzer to send to OT.

In OT Redlands seemed in control late but Weber hit 3 huge shots, including one to tie it, and one to win the game.

+1 for the foul vs defend side.   

No Dimitrius Underwood (preseason 3rd Team All-American) in the boxscore for the Comets.