Kinda tangential to this, but I think Ugo’s success with KY the latter part of his sophomore season has been a bit memory holed because of (1) Oakland (who was that shooter?), and (2) Jerome Tang.
He was the defensive stalwart starting center on a team with legit natty aspirations. I wonder if he thought about following Cal?
Jack Gohlke! Watched that game with a bunch of UK fans, it was absolutely miserable. Anyone who was surprised Cal left that offseason was clearly not around those psychos that night.
I think the Cal door might have closed a bit because Big Z was clearly going with him to be his starting center + I think K-State gave him a lot of money.
But yeah I regularly get texts from my partner’s Kentucky fan family about how unsurprising it is he’s been so good. They seemed to really believe in him in Lexington and are happy he’s succeeding.
I was bullish on him when we got him because of what I remembered of him from that last Cal UK team, he was capable of some things defensively that not many people are, even back then.
Onyenso had 5 blocks and 6 boards in 23 minutes in that madness game!
Onyenso : Kentucky fans :: Anthony Robinson : Virginia fans … except better
Update. Proud Hoki alumni
Singletary also retweeted this saying “it must be a VA thing”
Yeah, that’s kinda why I hesitated to turn this into a Hokie thing yesterday.
I suspect lots of former players are feeling more than ever a bit slighted by their alma maters, not so much because of what they think their fellow alums are getting (or not getting) but more because the current players are basically getting paid like pros.
These guys really haven’t figured out that VT doesn’t care about basketball?
Is UNC going to lose at Syracuse tomorrow? Veesaar is out again. UNC media is saying he is out for 2-4 weeks. What a tough break for them.
UNC -2.5. Wow.
I’ve got this bad feeling Wilson & Veesaar will be back just in time for the ACC tourney…and our quarterfinal matchup.
I hope they’re back and we play them and get revenge
Super annoying to hear all year about we beat Louisville without Mikel Brown Jr
I’m still doubtful Wilson returns. Projected to be a top 5 pick in the draft
I feel like a broken wrist is less of a thing you can really reinjure badly it’s not like an ACL. Plus he’s said publicly many times he’s coming back
FSU and Clemson on pace for a game in the 40s
Clemson better be careful or they are going to miss the tournament.
Clemson has Louisville, at UNC, and GT remaining regular season. I think beat GT and win their opening ACCT game (6-11 maybe?) and they’ll be in the Dance as a 7 or 8 seed. Upside obviously with a UL or UNC win or an ACCT semis appearance.
https://twitter.com/brendanrmarks/status/2025635966363300178?s=46
I’m sorry but eyes emoji-ing a propaganda tweet about a player for an award from a team you cover is extremely unprofessional. You work for the New York Times man.