My initial way too early thoughts:
*Lofty ranking for Clones at #2. Perhaps if we land Hadley and Kyle ( or equivalent talent), then, yes, top 10.

*Kentucky at #4?? No way if Calipari remains their coach.

*Ranking for other Big 12 teams (Houston, Kansas and Arizona) are way too low.

Actually this poll is definitely WAY TOO EARLY
until rosters are settled post portal.

Since the other threads seemed to have died (i.e. libs couldn't defend what they were arguing), let's see what's happened the last couple days:

- Biden has called for a cease fire from Israel, and withholding weapons from them, as Palestine/Hamas is still holding American hostages. Of course this is based on polls, and to appease the squad, far left wingers in Michigan, and idiot college protestors that say they may not vote for him.
- Blinken said he's for Ukraine joining NATO, which many think would cause WW3 with Russia. How could it not?
- John Kirby says they don't support an independent Taiwan, bending the knee to China again.

Libs, please tell me which of these you support. This should be good.

I thought maybe we could look at the MBB Roster as it is being Constructed. Much of this is guess work as there are still up to 3 positions to fill.

PG(1) - Lipsey, Gilbert, Jones
Wing/Shooting Guard(2/3) - Gilbert, Jones, Heise, Indrusaitus, Pierce
SF/PF(3/4) - Heise, Momcilovic, Watson
PF/P(4/5) - Jackson, Rock, Chatfield (Rumor only)

10 in the fold, 1 strong rumor, 2 open.

First, we can play and play well with the 10 already in the fold, imo, with 3 caveats. A) Either Indrusaitis or Pierce must be our Freshman "ready to play" this year. B) Rock has to be able to provide 12-15 minutes a game in Big 12 play. C) Jackson has to be a solid, productive 20-25 minutes per game.

If Momcilovic and Watson can make the kind of growth Lipsey had this year, it could be improved.

It will be interesting to see how the roster fills out.

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Pretty solid group this weekend, including some borderline four-star prospects from out of state.

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Helped win a game against the hawks for the first time in forever with his chain moving catch in kinnick.

Well, look who it is in ISU gear (with her brother.)

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Just spoke with Salt Lake City (Utah) West HS OL Vaea Ikakoula to recap a one-day unofficial visit from earlier this week and he tells me that he and his CB teammate Lava Vailahi will be in Ames the weekend of June 14-16 for their officials.

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Brandton Chatfield. Watch for it

Saw on the twitter machine that she is back in the portal and not surprising. Any chance Bill would give her a second chance, assuming she would even want it? We definitely have scholarships to give. I'm a little torn on this, while she turned her back on us, she was one of my favorites so really hope it works out well for her. Tough lessons to be learned.

A freshmen year Fritz numbers of 9 and 5 you would think could add some sort of value to the core group we have in place.

Every Spalding Arena Renegade, the official hoop of the Final Four, comes from one Spalding Equipment factory in a town of 4,150 people in Jefferson, Iowa.

Higgins was on 590am out of Omaha(WOW?) and talked about officiating in the tournaments. Should be on their website later today. I'll post the link if I remember to when it pops up. Mkae your own decision as he is a high level guy on guiding officials. His personal preferences on how to do it pop into the conversation too. Good job by the guys of asking the right questions. imo.

Pharrel Payne. 6'9" power forward. Averaged 10 points and 6 boards and seemed to really be coming on for the gophers. Maybe BRE and Gabe can steer him toward us

I read this earlier today-

“The WNBA is the hardest U.S. sports league to make, with a maximum of 144 roster spots available. Only 15 of the 36 players drafted last year made opening day rosters.”

Per free board somewhere else, we have in-homes/zooms with Wm Kyle from SDak, J'V Hadley (CuJos cousin from CO) and Nate Heise from UNI today or this week.

This type of stuff used to be a big deal as far as roster questions for the following season.

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The Final Fours are set, and no Big 12 or PAC 12 schools to be found. In fact, the Clarkettes represent the only school west of the Mississippi.

Two schools, UConn and NC State are in both.

The PAC 12 sent 5 teams to the WBB Sweet Sixteen, none of them made it through the week,

The “best MBB conference in the country” fizzled out one by one. As feared, they wore each other down during conference played.

At least we can now get rid of OUT.

I’m thinking of buying a cool UConn hat and finding a good bar to watch the game.

I can spend 2 minutes learning about the team other than Paige and I’ll be on the same level as most sqwauk fans knowledge beyond CC.

Could be fun.

CNN commentator just admitted the Fraud Trial was a sham (and she did not realize the error she made). Trumps fraud trial said that Mara Largo was worth only 18 M, and thus the Fraud. But the commentator said that when Trump needed to pay the 475M judgement, he could sell Mara Largo for at least 250 M to help pay off the judgement. SO what is it democrats , is Mara Largo worth 18 M like the Judge says or is it worth at least 250M ? Destroys the whole case and proves that the trial was completely rigged. I personally think the home is worth closer to 1B. It has 28 acres of land on the ocean and on the intercoastal waterway (very few properties like that), And 1 acre in that town sells for 200M with nothing on it. Mara Largo has 28 acres. NYT even admitted that it had a value in excess of 20M in 1980 when it was for sale. It cost almost 10 M to build in the 1920's. In the long run through appeals, Trump is going to win this case, and he has a great case to sue for selective prosecution, since the gov of New York said no one else needs to worry about getting prosecuted with this law, because they are only going to apply this law to Trump.

Embarrassed to live in the state I do:


I can only hope that some liberal who voted for this idiot has his/her kid beaten out in a sport by a transgender.

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Hearing these two are tops on CTJO & staff’s wish list. Obviously, the goal is to get them both in for visits, but sounds like Heise will likely be the first to step foot on campus and as soon as Monday.