2021 MVC commits-
Bradley- Connor Hickman, Mikey Howell, Terry Roberts, Maxime Ekono, Malevy Leons, Zek Montgomery
Drake- Connor Enright, Tucker DeVries, Ayo Akinwole
Evansville- Blake Sisley, Blaise Beauchamp, Troy Boynton, Antoine Smith, Jr., Preston Phillips
Illinois State- Mark Freeman, Julian Samuels, Kendall Lewis, Elijah Williams
Indiana State- Xavier Bledson, Cameron Henry, Simon Wilbar, Cameron Crawford, Quimari Peterson, Zach Hobbs, Dearon Tucker
Loyola- Ben Schwieger, Ty Johnson, Ryan Schwieger, Chris Knight, Will Smythe (w/o), Saint Thomas
Missouri State- Issac Haney, Donovan Clay, Jaylen Minnett
UNI- Michael Duax, Chase Courbat, Landon Wolf
SIU- Scottie Ebube, Troy D'Amico, Foster Wonders, Ben Coupet, Jr.
Valparaiso- Cameron Palesse , Darius DeAviero, Trey Woodyard, Keyondre Young, Kevion Taylor, Trev Anderson, Thomas Kithier, Joe Hedstrom, Preston Ruedinger
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Illinois State lands a new 2021 recruit- Ryan Schmitt, a 6'10" sophomore forward from Des Moines Area Community College, a Division II junior college in Boone, Iowa.
Schmitt averaged 11.8 ppg, 7.0 rpg for DMACC, which was 21-5 this past season.
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Good article in the Bloomington Pantagraph summarizing personnel changes on each MVC team-
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I know you just had a typo but you meant to say Indiana State picked up Tucker.Originally posted by Da Coach View PostOregon State just picked up another big man- Dearon Tucker, a 6'10", 240 pound sophomore forward transfer from Oregon State.
As a freshman in 2019-20, he averaged 0.6 ppg and 0.6 rpg. This past season, as a sophomore, he averaged 2.7 ppg and 1.7 rpg.
https://osubeavers.com/sports/mens-b...on-tucker/8124
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Indiana State just picked up another big man- Dearon Tucker, a 6'10", 240 pound sophomore forward transfer from Oregon State.
As a freshman in 2019-20, he averaged 0.6 ppg and 0.6 rpg. This past season, as a sophomore, he averaged 2.7 ppg and 1.7 rpg.
https://twitter.com/thatboy_tuck/sta...42772570673154
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Indiana State gets a commitment from Zach Hobbs, a 6'5" shooting guard from Des Moines Area Community College. He is originally from Mesa, AZ.
Stats- https://www.dmaccbears.com/sports/mb...obbs_zach_zir1
He averaged 12.3 ppg, 5.3 rpg, and he shot 44.1% from three at DMACC.
With Tyreke Key and Cooper Neese returning, Indiana State in the first year under new head coach Josh Schertz will be a guard heavy team.
Here is their 2021-22 roster, which includes a couple guard transfers from Schertz's previous school, Division II Lincoln Memorial University, as well as several new incoming freshman guards-
There are only 3 non-guards on their 2021-22 roster, and none of them have had any Division I experience-
6'10" incoming freshman recruit Nick Hittle
6'11" Division II transfer Simon Wilbar, who averaged 2.8 ppg last year at Lincoln Memorial University, and
6'7" junior Kailex Stephens, a former Division II player who redshirted last season at Indiana State after transferring inLeave a comment:
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Little Rock transfer Ben Coupet, Jr. commits to Southern Illinois.
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Missouri State lands a player off the transfer portal- Jaylen Minnett, a 6'1" senior guard from IUPUI announced his commitment to Missouri State today-
He was IUPUI's second-leading scorer averaging 16.4 ppg this past season.
Bio- https://iupuijags.com/sports/mens-ba...n-minnett/5444
Career stats- https://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...jaylen-minnett
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Illinois State picks up another commitment, this time from the transfer portal.
Kendall Lewis is a 6'7" sophomore forward who transferred from Appalachian State. He is originally from Georgia, and averaged 9.9 ppg and 4.1 rpg this past season at App. State.
Stats- https://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba.../kendall-lewis
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Illinois State gets a commitment from 6'3" point guard Julian Samuels. He played at Annawan (IL) High School, ut has spent the last year at Central Point Christian Prep in Kissimmee, FL. The article below suggests he will be a preferred walk-on.
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Valparaiso gets a commitment from 2021 walk-on 6'2" guard, Preston Ruedinger, from a small parochial high school, Lourdes Academy in Oshkosh. The school has fewer than 200 students.-
https://www.valpoathletics.com/mbask...tball-program/
The kid had several offers, mostly D2, but at least one D1 offer, and his stats were terrific. He played for a small school in Wisconsin, where he was an all-state first team selection. He lead his team to the Division 4 Wisconsin state championship by averaging 25.8 points, 6.9 rebounds, five assists and 2.5 steals per game in 2020-21. As a junior in 2020 he averaged 27.2 points per game. He shot 45% on threes in his high school, and finished with 2,349 career points.Leave a comment:
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2021 MVC commits-
Bradley- Connor Hickman, Mikey Howell, Terry Roberts, Maxime Ekono, Malevy Leons
Drake- Connor Enright, Tucker DeVries, Ayo Akinwole
Evansville- Blake Sisley, Blaise Beauchamp, Troy Boynton, Antoine Smith, Jr., Preston Phillips
Illinois State- Mark Freeman, Julian Samuels, Kendall Lewis
Indiana State- Xavier Bledson, Cameron Henry, Simon Wilbar, Cameron Crawford, Quimari Peterson, Zach Hobbs, Dearon Tucker
Loyola- Ben Schwieger, Ty Johnson, Ryan Schwieger, Chris Knight, Will Smythe (w/o), Saint Thomas
Missouri State- Issac Haney, Donovan Clay, Jaylen Minnett
UNI- Michael Duax, Chase Courbat, Landon Wolf
SIU- Scottie Ebube, Troy D'Amico, Foster Wonders, Ben Coupet, Jr.
Valparaiso- Cameron Palesse , Darius DeAviero, Trey Woodyard, Keyondre Young, Kevion Taylor, Trev Anderson, Thomas Kithier, Joe Hedstrom, Preston RuedingerLeave a comment:
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Illinois State finally gets a 2021 recruit. They have been the only MVC program for many months without a single recruit for the 2021 recruiting cycle. Dan Muller lands transfer Mark Freeman, a 5'10" sophomore point guard transferring to ISU from Tennessee State.
Tennessee State finished the 2020-21 season with an overall record of 4-19, 3-17, dead last in the Ohio Valley Conference, and RPI 332.
Freeman is originally from Memphis, and he did a year of prep school after graduating high school in 2018.
Bradley recruited him 4 years ago when he was a junior at Memphis Southwind HS. He initially committed to LIU-Brooklyn, before decommitting and heading to the prep school.
https://www.bradleyfans.com/forum/sp...d-from-memphis
After a year of prep school at The Skill Factory Prep, he landed at Tennessee State-
He averaged 6.5 ppg and 4.2 apg as a part-time starter his freshman year (2019-20).
This year (2020-21) he started 20 of 21 games and averaged a team-leading 17.1 ppg, 4.6 apg, and 3.7 turnovers/game. He shot 28.4% from three.
Stats- https://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...8/mark-freeman
This appears to be a "package deal". Illinois State head coach Dan Muller just lost one of his assistants (Brian Reese). To fill the vacancy, he just hired Rob Johnson, who was the head coach and program director for the prep and post-graduate program at The Skill Factory. He has no previous college coaching or recruiting experience.
Here is an article from the Bloomington Pantagraph about the new hire.
https://www.pantagraph.com/sports/co...5ad2f15a3.html
Maybe hiring the head of the prep school that Freeman attended prior to college helped get him to transfer to ISU?
ISU, which finished the 2020-21 season dead last in the MVC, still has several open scholarships, and lost their top player, D.J. Horne, as well as several other key players Keith Fisher, Abdou Ndiaye, and Dedric Boyd. Too bad Muller doesn't have a bunch more open assistant coach spots to offer for more package deals.
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Valparaiso lands a commitment from Joe Hedstrom, a 7'0", 245 pound redshirt-sophomore at Wisconsin.
Hedstrom is a class of 2018 recruit originally from Hopkins, Minnesota. He was rated as only a 2-star recruit and had a few mid-major offers. But then Wisconsin head coach Greg Gard offered him a preferred walk-on spot that included a scholarship that he would earn after redshirting his first year. He appeared in 6 games his redshirt-freshman season (2019-20) and averaged only 0.3 ppg and 0.3 rpg before suffering a season-ending knee injury and surgery. He came back as a red-shirt-sophomore this past season (2020-21) and played in only 9 games an average of 1.7 minutes per game. His stats were about the same as last season (0.4 ppg and 0.3 rpg). So he has been on scholarship the last 2 seasons, but has only played a cumulative total of 30 minutes of playing time in 13 games and scored a total of 2 baskets and 6 points in his 2 years at Wisconsin.
Here are his stats-
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...8/joe-hedstrom
He is the third Big Ten transfer to commit to Valparaiso-
Trev Anderson- https://www.bradleyfans.com/forum/sp...787#post497787
Thomas Kithier- https://www.bradleyfans.com/forum/sp...969#post497969
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Drake picks up a transfer- Ayo Akinwole, a 6'0" senior transfer from Nebraska-Omaha who Bradley had also had interest in before landing Mikey Howell, has committed to Drake.
He spent 4 seasons at UNO, and averaged 13.0 ppg his senior year, along with 2.9 apg, and he shot 45.6% from three.
Stats- https://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...8/ayo-akinwole
Bradley recruiting interest-
Seems like he will be mostly a backup to Drake's primary point guard Roman Penn.
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