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Preseason summer exhibition games

Cairns Taipans (Australia) just beat Eastern Kentucky 77-75...
..UT-Chattanooga won all 3 of their games in the Bahamas - none of the US teams there have lost yet.

Pac-12 All Stars beat Jiangsu Dragons 85-63

UIC loses again in Canada to go 0-2, losing 64-49 to Carleton - ex-JL recruit Lance Whittaker goes 3-4, 8 pts

Ohio beats Laval (Canada) 78-72, ex- Saluki Treg Setty with 11 pts, 8 rebs for Ohio

Loyola Marymount wins 90-85 in OT against a Spanish pro team

Detroit 119 - Quest 74

Howard 82 - George Brown 36

George Mason 85 - Basquet Gandia (Spain) 61

Providence 131 - Nelson (Italy) 50

Northern Arizona 58 - Commonwealth Giants (Bahamas) 49

Tenn Tech goes to 3-0 in Dominican Republic beating a U18 team (high school age) 78-65

Of the 40 or so US D-I teams playing foreign exhibitions thus far (50 or so more games left to play), the overall record is 71-12 and nobody has lost in the Bahamas where the largest number of teams have gone.
 
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Miami 78 - Eurocolegio Casvi 68 - good test - close, within 4-8 pretty much the whole way

Kentucky 83 - Dominican Republic team 71 - UK had double digit lead the whole 2nd half but it was a lot closer than many thought - Kentucky was even outrebounded.
The best player on the Dominican team, Eloy Vargas, went to Kentucky but he was was never a starter

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North Carolina just lost in the Bahamas to the Providence Storm, 84-83!
This is the first loss by any team in the Bahamas this year, and this is the same opponent that Kentucky beat 115-63

other scores
Cincy 94 - PJ Stingers 64 (Bahamas)
Ohio 78 - Laval 72
Detroit 86 - Univ. of BC 78
Howard 74 - Univ. Toronto 62
 
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More -
Pac-12 All Stars 71 - Shanghai Sharks 68 ( Yao Ming is owner & President of the Shanghai Sharks)

Kentuckly trailed French team Chalon at half in the Bahamas - but comes back to edge them 77-74

UIC beats Toronto MADE (amateur team) 87-50 - high scoring transfer Jay Parker held scoreless

Cincy played an intrasquad scrimmage in the Bahamas as there was no opponent team avail.

St. Francis 75 - Catalan 59

Tennessee Tech with 69-67 loss to a Dominican All Star team - they are now 3-1 with one more left

The USA National U17 team won the World Title over Australia 99-92.
Isaac Humphries, a big man from Australia who will be at La Lumiere this fall was hampered by fouls and had just 8 pts/6 reb
Here's a roster of the USA U17 Team - LINK - no Illinois players on the team despite the talent level in Illinois' Class of 2015 (Jalen Brunson, Charles Matthews, etc..)

Michigan starts their tour in Italy with Max Bielfeldt sidelined..
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wow - here's a score that blows me away...
In Canada...
Carleton 55 - Memphis 29!!!

a 26 pt lead after the first two quarters!


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Carleton holds on to beat Memphis 86-76 - Memphis gave up too many good looks form the arc

North Carolina bounces back and picks up a win in Bahamas - UNC 109 - Bahamas All Stars 52
 
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given the regularity that Carleton beats NCAA D-I teams during exhibitions, I have to think they would play at a high mid-major level - maybe comparable to the upper level of CUSA, MVC, or possibly as good as the lower end of the BCS conferences if they were in D-I

There is one Canadian college that has applied for and been accepted into NCAA D-II - but they are not a strong team - so I wonder if that would be the ultimate plan for Carleton - although the motivation is decreased now with all the football schools separating themselves.
Simon Fraser Univ. - playing in a D-II conference went 3-15


Kentucky gets beat in the Bahamas - losing 63-62 to the Dominican team - so in their 6 games - three were quite close and they lost one
...all we've seen all week are articles by people drooling about how Kentucky was going to go UNDEFEATED this year!!
BTW - lots of people using the excuse that they played a lot of games in a 10-day span...but the Bahamian & Dominican teams likewise were often playing 2 and 3 games a day with rosters of only 8 & 9 guys - UK has a full roster....excuses, excuses...

UIC just beat York (Canada) 81-57

Michigan just beat Perugia in Spain - 99-60 - Max Bielfeldt dnp

Miami 77 - Albacete (Spain) 66

Ohio 98 - Brookwood 82 (Canada)

Loyola Marymount beat the Angolan National Team in Spain 80-63

George Mason 89 - CB Castelldefels 65 (Spain)

UAB is just arriving in Spain for their tour - ex-Bradley recruit Nick Norton is with the team

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late scores....
Memphis snaps back and beats Ottawa 104-89
Detroit 81 - Fraser 70
Northern Arizona goes 3-0 on Bahamas
 
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a few other exhibition scores
Memphis beat Ottawa late Sun night 104-89
then beat McGill 93-71 Monday
UIC beats Brock 71-57 to finish 3-2
La Tech beat Pyramid Foods in Bahamas 134-52
Detroit over Fraser Valley 81-70 then 88-78 over Trinity Western
George Mason goes 3-0 with a 72-68 win over Toulogest in Spain
UAB loses to Combinado de Madrid 84-80 - former Bradley recruit Nick Norton was 0-3 from the arc but had 6pts, 6 assists, and 5 steals!

wish there were some MVC teams playing so we could see more of what they have...and in fact of all the teams playing -
..only UIC & Memphis are future BU opponents...and objectively - neither of those teams really looked very impressive in their exhibitions...
UIC lost to 2 Canadian teams - Memphis has lost to one and been challenged pretty well by two others.
 
Michigan gets another blowout win in Italy - but this time one of their no-name centers, redshirt frosh Mark Donnal had an impressive game.
I know it's a weak exhibition opponent - but a 20 pt/11 reb performance by Donnal almost certainly catapults him well in front of Max Bielfeldt when the real playing time comes...

BTW - you might also reflect back to how much stock and hype our guys and our press put into the freshmen last year having a couple good performances against the woeful Bahamas competition --as we have seen...
using those exhibition opponents may be a little risky for accurate talent assessment....

Immediately after those Bahamas game last year Geno Ford declared..."This team has more talent than last year’s"..
we then proceeded to win only 12 games - so he was either wrong or were undercoached...
 
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Michigan gets another blowout win in Italy - but this time one of their no-name centers, redshirt frosh Mark Donnal had an impressive game.
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Mark Donnal was a 4* recruit on Rivals, Scout, and ESPN. Just because he redshirted last year, does not mean he is a "no-name center". Your point may stand on playing over Max, but don't belittle the kid!
 
I stand by my point - very few expected him to be starting at center in his very first collegiate game ever -
and even the Michigan press said things like ...
"...no one is going to mistake him for Dirk Nowitzki" and "There was a time when Mark Donnal couldn’t picture himself at a major-conference school, let alone a Big Ten powerhouse like Michigan"
 - LINK

... but if you did, then you & his mom were about the only one ;)
 
you nicely clip your quote fully out of context - as reading the entire article clearly indicates he was expected to
"slide" into the starting lineup somewhere way down the road, like maybe 2015-2016..

...your own link also says....
"Donnal......supposed to be thrown into the mix in 2015-16, not in 2014-15...
....is, and always was, the future of Michigan’s frontcourt."

and of course most newer articles know there's nobody else because of injury - thus the "sliding" into the starting lineup is quite a bit more out of necessity and lack of anyone else not in a walking boot or in rehab
either way - I will let you believe whatever you want as I decline to get into a gotcha nitpicking game
 
So the future of Michigan front court is a no-namer???? GOTCHA!!!


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tornado said:
I will let you believe whatever you want as I decline to get into a gotcha nitpicking game
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And this is about the funniest thing I've ever read from you! And that's saying a lot!:lol:
 
getting back to the topic of this thread....the preseason exhibition games.......

of all the D-I teams playing exhibitions so far - the US Division I teams have won 90%+ of them....of the 60 or so games played in the Bahamas - only TWO were won by the exhibition opponents...

BUT oddly of the only two future Bradley opponents - Memphis & UIC...had two of the worst records during the exhibition season and are among the only 4 I can find that lost multiple games....
those two teams combined for a particularly less-than-stellar 5-4 record....
One other way of looking at it ...
The 60 or so different teams playing abroad amassed roughly 15 losses between them - but our two future opponents logged FOUR of those losses, more than 1/4 of all the exhibition losses ...
 
Nacho said:
So the future of Michigan front court is a no-namer???? GOTCHA!!!


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And this is about the funniest thing I've ever read from you! And that's saying a lot!:lol:
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Watching the Illini-Michigan game... It kinda bears out what I said since last spring...Bielfeldt still might be their best big man but Beilein has already made up his mind he doesn't want to use Bielfeldt.
I had thought Illinois with Egwu would be perhaps the weakest Big Ten team in the paint but these Michigan big men are making Egwu look like an NBA player...

Michigan does have talent and they still may pull this one out with their guard play....but they have absolutely nothing in the paint and Illinois plays four small guards!

...if this is the future for Michigan they are in deep trouble when they do play someone with a decent low post player..
Donnal, btw, averages 5 ppg & 2 rpg - against the likes of Bucknell, Nicholls State, Coppin State, NJIT...
...but thus far he's totally scoreless against the four-guard Illinois defense.
He may get eaten alive vs. the Big Ten schedule.
 
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