Transfers & Grad Transfers

[Da Coach]

uh - oh - what's up at UW-Milwaukee?

all of a sudden everyone's bailing...a literal dumpster fire...
Their TOP THREE players, Jeremiah Bell, Brock Stull & Bryce Nze
all announcing they are leaving & transferring bringing the total to six, the players leaving since the end of the season (Bell, Stull, Nze, Dittmer, Haas, Johnson0
https://twitter.com/Todd_Rosiak/stat...86309399420928

UW-Milwaukee's top scorer last year, Jeremiah Bell (14.1 ppg) transferred to UAB

Now second-leading scorer grad-transfer Brock Stull (13.4) commits to Minnesota over Valparaiso.

3rd leading scorer Bryce Nze (10.3 ppg & 8.5 rpg), only a sophomore with 2 years of eligibility left, is still available.


BTW, a number of years ago, UW-Milwaukee athletics tried hard to drop the "UW" prefix, and get everyone to call them the Milwaukee Panthers.
When Bradley played them in the Feb, 2008 Bracket Buster game, we even had an obnoxious UW-Milwaukee fan register and come on Bradleyfans.com and threaten me for calling them UW-Milwaukee instead of "Milwaukee".
However, it never caught on completely with people outside of Milwaukee, especially since the school has retained the official name UW-Milwaukee-

http://uwm.edu/

Plus, even after the change, their own athletic website continued for many years to use the name UW-Milwaukee Panthers, and their website name remained uwmpanthers.com until a little over 3 years ago.-

http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=23444

They eventually scrubbed all the references to UW-Milwaukee from their athletic site, and then changed their website URL. Now for the last 3+ years, they have re-branded their team as the MKE Panthers and all those old links to their uwmpanthers.com website are defunct.-

http://mkepanthers.com/index.aspx

But there are still some parts of their school's website that use the old UW-Milwaukee Panthers name-

http://www.uwmilwaukeepantherarena.com/

[tornado]

I can't think of anything better to do with a scholarship for just one year

[BRADLEY FAN 49]

I had posted earlier that Shea was looking to transfer.
This young man could play for Bradley, he would definitely be Bradley's best 3 point threat.

[Da Coach]

Shea Feehan had a tremendous season at Eureka, graduated, and is now looking to transfer to a D1 school to play his final season.
He now has a scholarship offer from Bryant University (located in Smithfield, Rhode Island- member of the Northeast Conference).
Oakland, Evansville, High Point, and Delaware are all showing interest, too.

Grad-transfer Shea Feehan just got a scholarship offer from Evansville. I wonder if Bradley might be interested in an extraordinary shooter?

[PurpleAceFan]

Here's one I would love to see at Bradley...a surprise late transfer...

SEMO's best player Denzel Mahoney...averaging almost 20 ppg and has 3 years left to play..
we held him to only 17, but it took great games from Eli & Luuk to win that game

I really like his potential as well.

[tornado]

I know - he surely saw that guys like Evansville's Ryan Taylor (Northwestern) & Dru Smith (Missouri) did pretty well for themselves, and Denzel is every bit as valuable...
but his late decision means the market has narrowed for schools with scholarships open (Mizzou has none) - and we are one of them...

-the Albany transfer (Cremo) shopped around a little but this morning chose Villanova...
You aren't going to convince me he didn't kinda know they wanted him even before he left Albany...

btw - some kids make bad decisions regarding transfers...I don't think it's unfair to discuss it when some kid makes a terrible decision..
We had one a few years ago - Jeremy Fears - who transferred here from Ohio, then sat out a year then never played here...Jojo likewise is kind of a failed transfer...
ISU has had several - one from UTEP now and a couple years ago, a couple that came in with horrible drug problems and still have open felonies on the books in McLean Co.

[Da Coach]

I suspect Denzel Mahoney has already been hearing from some higher level schools who have convinced him to transfer.
He is from Central Florida, so I expect him to transfer to one of the bigger schools near there.

[tornado]

Here's one I would love to see at Bradley...a surprise late transfer...

SEMO's best player Denzel Mahoney...averaging almost 20 ppg and has 3 years left to play..
we held him to only 17, but it took great games from Eli & Luuk to win that game

[Da Coach]

Shea Feehan played for Eureka college last year averaged 30.6 ppg is a tough kid .
Graduated early is looking to transfer to get his Master's....

44% from 3
87% FT

Shea Feehan had a tremendous season at Eureka, graduated, and is now looking to transfer to a D1 school to play his final season.
He now has a scholarship offer from Bryant University (located in Smithfield, Rhode Island- member of the Northeast Conference).
Oakland, Evansville, High Point, and Delaware are all showing interest, too.

[Da Coach]

They do have decent guard depth, though they don't get much production from anyone other than Evans.
Here is their 2018-19 guard lineup (MVC scoring last season)-
Evans (13.2 ppg)
Clarance (3.5 ppg)
Hein (4.7 ppg)
Tinsley (6.7 ppg)
Williams (4.4 ppg)
Gassman (3.9 ppg)
Chastain (redshirt)
Copeland (redshirt).

But inside depth is questionable, IMO.
The only non-guards on their roster are Fayne, Yarbrough, Bruninga, Romine, and walkon Litwiller.
Fayne and Yarbrough are All-MVC candidates if they stay healthy, but beyond those two....Romine hasn't played a minute in 2 years (and he averaged only 0.9 ppg and 0.4 rpg in his time at UTEP), Bruninga doesn't really play like a big man (averaged less than 2 rebounds per game in MVC play), and Litwiller is a non-factor (only played a total of 9 minutes total over ISU's last 26 games).

[PurpleAceFan]

I guess neither of their recent transfer guys will be eligible til next year...

ISU will be subject to depth issues then next year- especially if they have any injuries to their big three...
since the two transfers will have to sit out, and many of their returning players have limited DI playing experience (Copeland, Chastain) or averaged 5 ppg or less (Williams, Bruninga, Hein, Gassman, Clarance) or are completely new and untested (Idowu, Jefferson and even Copeland)
Tinsley, who took a bunch of shots & 2nd most 3-pt attempts, still only averaged 6 ppg.
They were very good when their big three players were on and the other guys chipped in some contributions, but in other games like their losses here, at Valpo and UNI & to Charleston So., they basically had just 2 or 3 guys doing the scoring.

I actually expect ISU to have the best depth in the MVC. Time will certainly tell, but I sure wish UE had this problem. I know my friends who are ISU fans are pretty excited.

[tornado]

San Jose State transfer Jaycee Hillsman tells me he will visit Illinois State this weekend-...

I guess neither of their recent transfer guys will be eligible til next year...

ISU will be subject to depth issues then next year- especially if they have any injuries to their big three...
since the two transfers will have to sit out, and many of their returning players have limited DI playing experience (Copeland, Chastain) or averaged 5 ppg or less (Williams, Bruninga, Hein, Gassman, Clarance) or are completely new and untested (Idowu, Jefferson and even Copeland)
Tinsley, who took a bunch of shots & 2nd most 3-pt attempts, still only averaged 6 ppg.
They were very good when their big three players were on and the other guys chipped in some contributions, but in other games like their losses here, at Valpo and UNI & to Charleston So., they basically had just 2 or 3 guys doing the scoring.

[Da Coach]

He is a raw 7-footer, but could be a game-changer for a midmajor-level school. He averaged 2.1 blocks per game.
That would have lead the MVC in blocks last year, and he only played 10.7 minutes per game.
I wonder if we have anyone with a connection to Florida State.

[tornado]

one of Florida State's promising young players is leaving & transferring
7-0 Ike Obiagu only played 10 min per game but hit 58% from the field and got 2 blocks per game, 2.3 ppg, 2.6 rpg

https://twitter.com/Andrew__Slater/status/989989307732713472

[tornado]

Austin Reaves, who just announced he is leaving Wichita State, will visit Northern Iowa tomorrow (Wednesday 4/25).

a report today hints he might also visit Michigan & Indiana