Purdue Nets Caden Pierce

The Purdue Boilermakers hauled in Princeton forward Caden Pierce on Tuesday as a key initial option to help replace seniors Fletcher Loyer, Trey Kaufman Renn, and Braden Smith. Having not played since a full season ago, Pierce averaged a little more than 11 a game for the Ivy League club. 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

John Scheyer Officially Added To The Fading Coaches List

So in the past and this season as well I have spoken out those coaches who tend to underachieve in the NCAA Tournament on a yearly basis and I strongly fade them as much as I can. Such luminaries on this "tread carefully" lost include Rick Barnes of Tennessee, Jamie Dixon of TCU, Matt Painter of Purdue (although he has been better of late), and Shaka Smart after his VCU breakthrough. Tommy Lloyd was a prominent member as well but getting to the Final Four alleviates some of the attention. With all that said, Duke's John Scheyer is now stamped on this list after back-to-back gag jobs against Houston and UCONN the last two seasons. With the UCONN game going down as an all-time choke job, we simply can't trust him going forward. Making matters worse is how BOTH Cooper Flagg and Kon Kneuppel are dominating as NBA rookies which makes it even more insane how he didn't get last year's team to the title game. 
Read more

Stunning!

There are no words for that one. UCONN joins Illinois, Michigan, and Arizona in a Final Four that sees two 1's, a two, and a three and hopefully you had at least three of those. While I was all in on Michigan and Arizona as two of the by far strongest teams based on metrics, I faded Illinois due to their losing their first conference tournament game where now just 6 of the last 105 such teams reached the Final Four. So be it! As far as UCONN is concerned, they were easy to overlook in that brutal East Region but they did hit 11 of the 13 metrics I use for the Final Four qualification which was pretty solid. They only missed on having a losing ATS record and not winning either a regular season or conference tournament crown. Those two are probably the weakest of the 13 metrics so UCONN should have been right there with St. John's as an alternative to Duke. I should have given them more attention but they had the metrics to show they were legit. 
Read more

Get Ready For Transfer Portal Chaos....I Got It All Covered

 We are just about 48 hours until the lid is removed from the transfer portal and the chaos begins and hundreds of players move about college basketball. I will have it all covered here so stay tuned as I will be posting updates throughout the day Tuesday and beyond. Make sure you bookmark this site and keep coming back as things will be happening nonstop. 
Read more