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BU Recruit 2013-Deshawn Delaney

Jucojunction lists Bradley, UW-M, and Texas A&M as following Deshawn Delaney, and it still lists no offers.
One other juco recruiting site recently interviewed DeShawn and he said...

"..what schools are in the mix?
“...recruiting is going really good right now.
I am getting looks from Bradley, Mississippi State, West Virginia, Valpo,
Oregon and many more schools are showing interest in me.”

Rivals also notes that back in 2011 "Kent State" offered Delaney out of high school...
 
Deshawn Delaney chose New Mexico over Bradley. He was voted 1st team NJCAA All American, and some predicted he would be the Newcomer of the Year in the Mountain West Conference and make an impact immediately.
But he averaged only 11 minutes, 2 points and 3.5 rebounds per game off the bench in New Mexico's 2 preseason exhibition games against extremely weak opposition. In their first game against Alabama A&M, he came off the bench for 16 minutes and scored 4 points and had 5 rebounds.
 
Followup -
I was interested to see how DeShawn Delaney did at New Mexico after spurning Bradley...
remember - Delaney was one of the best juco players in the nation and a reliable scorer...

And - he was hyped as one of the only 2 or 3 players on the New Mexico squad who was a sure lock as a starter and an impact player...
he has only two years to play so he wanted playing time immediately.


Result -
he's not getting much playing time...
I think he'd have made a great player at the mid-major level - Theron Wilson, Andrew Warren, Desmar Jackson...

He comes off the bench, gets 10 mpg, mostly against the lesser competition, he averages 2.7 ppg & 2.3 rpg.
He's done little to think he will move up in the playing rotation so he's nowhere near having an impact.
 
tornado said:
Followup -
I was interested to see how DeShawn Delaney did at New Mexico after spurning Bradley...
remember - Delaney was one of the best juco players in the nation and a reliable scorer...

And - he was hyped as one of the only 2 or 3 players on the New Mexico squad who was a sure lock as a starter and an impact player...
he has only two years to play so he wanted playing time immediately.


Result -
he's not getting much playing time...
I think he'd have made a great player at the mid-major level - Theron Wilson, Andrew Warren, Desmar Jackson...

He comes off the bench, gets 10 mpg, mostly against the lesser competition, he averages 2.7 ppg & 2.3 rpg.
He's done little to think he will move up in the playing rotation so he's nowhere near having an impact.
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Good oops sorry I said that.Well maybe not
 
Not that former recruit DeShawn Delaney would have been any happier had he chosen Bradley - but things haven't turned out as well as he'd probably expected at New Mexicio

The Lobos have suddenly hit the skids...they have lost seven in a row and are 0-7 in the month of February - dropping to 6-10 in a weakened Mountain West - well out of the running -
Lineup changes are coming but looks like they won't be playing in the post-season this year
DeShawn will be at the Final Four however - he's been picked to compete in the Dunk Contest
http://www.abqjournal.com/547600/sports/lobos-to-tweak-something.html
 
DeShawn Delaney's college career came to a sad ending...
Just as they were headed into the Mountain West Tourney (which New Mexico has won the past three years), DeShawn broke a bone in his hand, and without him the New Mexico Lobos lost to AirForce - so their season is over...
Some rumbles have their head coach Craig Neal in trouble enough that he might get fired after a sudden downturn year - 15-16, 7-11 in MWC
..but he just got a big raise & extension last fall...

here's an odd twist to the story...

Delaney wanted to score one more basket on Senior Night vs. Wyoming, so they made a secret deal with opposing coach Larry Shyatt of Wyoming and the plan was to tip the ball and toss right to Delaney so he could score a gimme layup, then remove him from the game and then UNM would allow an unopposed basket on the other end as a rigged start to the game.

But the refs overheard the plan and put a stop to it and said they would not allow such a travesty of the game - so as soon as the ball was tipped, UNM called time out and removed Delaney who at least got to play on Senior Night.
btw- New Mexico won the game 52-49 in OT...
http://www.wyosports.net/university...cle_d90364e8-c557-11e4-a974-379c630d8e29.html
 
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