(09-15-2020 06:01 PM)pesik Wrote:  random aac basketball news from around the league

temple: temple assistant says no word yet on either waiver (khalif battle , ans saage tolbert), says battle is insanely athletic and a drastically better shooter that he showed at butler...thinks temple can make the ncaa tournament next season

ecu: AAC great tristen newton did a recent interview- noteables- he was supposed to be red-shirted, injury was the only reason he played...cincy was the hardest arena to play in, says its hard to breathe there
https://bustingbrackets.com/2020/09/12/e...candidate/

Cincy: international big Viktor Lakhin who wasnt a risk of not making it to UC in the US and with the team...coaches keep preaching of a big breakout year for Zach harvey..super hyping mike saunders saying he might be the biggest steal of the recruiting cycle

Houston: In recent podcast interviewer ask sampson how good our top 4 guards. sampson goes out of his way to say tramon mark is in that group..says tramon could be better than all of them after a few seasons..says dejon who was never a great shooter but passable as a soph , broke his hand last offseason and didnt return till the season had started and was not confident to shoot it without reps..say he should atleast return to passable with an offseason shooting

Yep - rave reviews for Mike Saunders so far. He's probably the most athletic lead guard in the conference the moment he steps on the court, but really needs to work on his jumpshot. It's great that UC has DeJulius and won't rely on Saunders but I think he fits right into Brannen's uptempo, 94 foot system.