Sounds like Roche already visited Rice, but a few P5 teams (Missouri, Kansas St, Pittsburgh) are also in pursuit. He'd be a perfect like-for-like replacement for Pierre. Wouldn't necessarily solve the imbalances we've seen offensively, but he+Evee+Olivari (assuming the latter two find their form) would probably be the best shooting group of guards in CUSA. But if we do land Roche, he'd have to be supplemented with a ball-dominant guard. 90% of Roche's shots last year were 3s. A perfect encapsulation of how he'd likely fare in Pera's system can be seen by comparing his performances against Pittsburgh and Duke. 8-14 (all 3s) against Pittsburgh for 27 points, 1-5 (all 3s) against Duke for 3 points. Replace Pittsburgh with Southern Miss and Duke with North Texas and you'd have his likely performances next year. If a team isn't disciplined defensively (e.g., Pittsburgh), Roche will find space to shoot. If a team is athletic/long and can defend a bit (e.g., Duke), he'll struggle to find separation. It's funny as I'm writing this I'm becoming less and less excited, not necessarily because of Roche as a player, just because he's not the guy who can solve our issues against the better teams in the conference. I really do wish Pera was only targeting slashers/attackers with the two remaining spots. You can't lose McBride, Hutchins, and Mullins, and then be content with Jones and maybe one transfer. It'd be close to malpractice with what the tape shows over the last 3-4 years.