(02-13-2020 07:24 PM)northcoastRocket Wrote:  

(02-13-2020 09:12 AM)H2Oville Rocket Wrote:  

(02-12-2020 10:18 PM)Dwight Wrote:  

(02-12-2020 06:34 PM)H2Oville Rocket Wrote:  Excited about these last two classes!

This year's freshman class has definitely contributed more than recent classes, but at this point it is not the best freshman class in the conference. Kent State's and Buffalo's freshmen have out-performed ours, and probably Ball State's have as well. Miami, Eastern Michigan, and Central Michigan only have one impact freshman a piece, but you could make an argument for taking any one of the three over our entire class. The conference has a lot of good freshmen this year.

It has been a good freshman class for the MAC but the one kid from Buffalo didn’t outperform much of anybody against us. I’d take Kent’s big post player, though. I suspect Ms. Lockett could be right up there if we played Buffalo’s style where one player gets 20 shots a game. The fact that four frosh are getting lots of minutes is encouraging. Plus our losses are replaceable.

I ran some numbers from the top scoring freshmen, using the MAC games only (to wash out OOC where players were still gaining their footing and had varying levels of competition.) There are 5 freshmen in the top 25 in scoring. Fair (UB), Davis (CMU), Blackford (KSU), Scott (MU) and Shumate (KSU). They all play significantly more minutes than Lockett, who is averaging 10.2 points in the MAC games. Davis plays 10 minutes per game more than Lockett, for example.

When you look at points per minute played, Lockett, Scott and Shumate are all essentially equal, and Davis and Blackford are only a touch better. Only Fair stands way ahead of the others, but as H2O has said she tosses up waaay more shots than anyone else, and is only shooting 33%.

The other interesting thing is that Lockett's points per game is 3.3 points higher in MAC play than OOC. Only Davis also saw that kind of rise. Fair is down 4 points per game. So, I think Lockett's scoring ability has been on par with most of those other players.

As for Wiard, she is 20th in assists per game, even with Santucci 3rd in the league and taking most of the PT at point. Also, she has a 2.3 A/T ratio, which should be 2nd in the MAC, but for some reason they don't list her in that category. She has enough assists to make the assist list, so I can only conclude she doesn't make the A/T list because she doesn't have enough turnovers yet.

(02-22-2020 08:49 AM)northcoastRocket Wrote:  Rockets have offered 2021 6'3 F Taylor Cullinan from Dallas, GA.

http://www.hudl.com/profile/10398109/Taylor-Cullinan

I am seeing offers from Austin Peay, East Tennessee St, Campbell, North Florida and Liberty, so no other MAC-level or higher offers so far. Highlights look to me like she's a bit of a project at this point, but can hit the three and handle the ball some.

(02-02-2020 12:48 PM)Dwight Wrote:  New 2021 offer - Arieonna Ware, a forward from Michigan.

https://twitter.com/ArieonnaWare?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

(02-22-2020 07:32 PM)northcoastRocket Wrote:  

(02-02-2020 12:48 PM)Dwight Wrote:  New 2021 offer - Arieonna Ware, a forward from Michigan.

https://twitter.com/ArieonnaWare?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Ware verballed to Toledo today.

5'11 forward from Battle Creek, MI. Had an offer from WMU, unsure how many other schools. From her twitter feed, had multiple triple-doubles (points, rebounds, steals) this season, and set a single game scoring record with 47 points, and then later broke it scoring 51.

http://www.hudl.com/profile/12266610/Arieonna-Ware

(02-22-2020 07:32 PM)northcoastRocket Wrote:  

(02-02-2020 12:48 PM)Dwight Wrote:  New 2021 offer - Arieonna Ware, a forward from Michigan.

https://twitter.com/ArieonnaWare?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Ware verballed to Toledo today.

5'11 forward from Battle Creek, MI. Had an offer from WMU, unsure how many other schools. From her twitter feed, had multiple triple-doubles (points, rebounds, steals) this season, and set a single game scoring record with 47 points, and then later broke it scoring 51.

http://www.hudl.com/profile/12266610/Arieonna-Ware

(02-23-2020 04:30 PM)Dwight Wrote:  Rockets coaches are busy on the recruiting trail. High school sophomore Allison Basye from Chillicothe, Ohio, was offered. She scored 41 points in a game this year.

Also, on Ware, I saw that, in addition to Western Michigan and Wayne State, she had offers from Oakland and Eastern Michigan.

https://twitter.com/allison_basye14?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

(02-23-2020 07:42 PM)H2Oville Rocket Wrote:  

(02-23-2020 04:30 PM)Dwight Wrote:  Rockets coaches are busy on the recruiting trail. High school sophomore Allison Basye from Chillicothe, Ohio, was offered. She scored 41 points in a game this year.

Also, on Ware, I saw that, in addition to Western Michigan and Wayne State, she had offers from Oakland and Eastern Michigan.

https://twitter.com/allison_basye14?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Better to lose her to Wayne State than Wright State. We’d never hear the end of it.

(02-25-2020 07:50 AM)Dwight Wrote:  https://asgrbasketball.com/mid-american-recruiting-2020-class-rankings/

Above is the link to a recruiting site's ranking of 2020 classes. Makira Cook, who has the highest ranking and is listed as going to Miami, is now committed to Dayton. She switched after the Miami coach left after last year. Mickayla Perdue is not yet listed among Toledo's players. I'm not sure how much value there is here, but I do think it is accurate that Bowling Green and Ball State each landed a promising recruit, and Ohio and Kent State have promising transfers from the Big 10.

(02-25-2020 08:58 AM)DetroitRocket Wrote:  

(02-25-2020 07:50 AM)Dwight Wrote:  https://asgrbasketball.com/mid-american-recruiting-2020-class-rankings/

Above is the link to a recruiting site's ranking of 2020 classes. Makira Cook, who has the highest ranking and is listed as going to Miami, is now committed to Dayton. She switched after the Miami coach left after last year. Mickayla Perdue is not yet listed among Toledo's players. I'm not sure how much value there is here, but I do think it is accurate that Bowling Green and Ball State each landed a promising recruit, and Ohio and Kent State have promising transfers from the Big 10.

That site doesn't think much of our class (It was last updated in October). I often complain about our recruiting with our advantages, but it really just comes down to the head coach. As an example, Kent and Akron have the worst arenas in the MAC, but have dominated men's basketball over the last 20 years. Maybe we should have taken the $30M spent on the Savage renovation and bought the best coaching staff available, if in fact that is the end game.

(03-08-2020 01:39 PM)northcoastRocket Wrote:  Rockets have offered 2020 5'7 PG Tanyuel Welch from Indianapolis North Central

Plays on the same club team as Khera Goss. Only other offer I can find quickly is Indiana State so far.

https://www.maxpreps.com/athlete/tanyuel-welch/XquzhA1JEemAy__L_vT5eg/default.htm

(03-08-2020 01:47 PM)Dwight Wrote:  

(03-08-2020 01:39 PM)northcoastRocket Wrote:  Rockets have offered 2020 5'7 PG Tanyuel Welch from Indianapolis North Central

Plays on the same club team as Khera Goss. Only other offer I can find quickly is Indiana State so far.

https://www.maxpreps.com/athlete/tanyuel-welch/XquzhA1JEemAy__L_vT5eg/default.htm

You meant 2022, not 2020, I think.