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On 1/7/2021 at 6:45 PM, dgambill said:

Butler looks like they may have got them a nice piece in that Avance kid. He looked pretty good.

I don't think Avance has committed anywhere and it's D. J. Hughes who has committed to Butler.  

https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/high-school/2020/06/26/lawrence-north-2021-forward-d-j-hughes-commits-butler-basketball-recruiting/3268189001/

He tweeted this yesterday:  Blessed to say I’ll make my college decision on my birthday April 12th 2021. Grateful for this opportunity and looking forward to the next chapter after my high school career.

At this time, it looks like DePaul and Xavier are his only offers.

43 minutes ago, Lurker said:

Maxpreps shows them 2-0 with a 10 game schedule, if that's the right place.

Good find.  Odd they communicate info to MaxPreps but don't update their own site.  Oh well.

11 hours ago, dgambill said:

If it wasn’t for his injury I’d say going the prep route made a lot of sense. Almost guaranteed to have a season in case the public schools shut stuff down. So that could be a why.

 No idea what the virus situation is in Utah, but either Real Salt Lake is seriously deficient in maintaining its website or they currently do not have a basketball schedule.

https://rslacademy.org/schedule-2

Not D1 transfers but Keith Smart and Dean Garrett certainly weren't chopped liver.  

3 hours ago, cybergates said:

Anyone know about the fans situation for IHSAA basketball? Was planning to try and watch Braden as much as I could this season, but COVID...

I found this on ihsaa.org, but wasn't able to find anything specific to Westfield HS. Thought I'd see if anyone on HSN knew more.

Spectator Seating (Updated 10/19/20) Q. Will spectators be allowed to attend sporting events? (Spectators should always observe social distancing and mask/face covering requirements) A. Yes, but it will be at the discretion of the host school with guidance from local health officials and in accordance with the governor’s stage 5. Organizers of events with more than 500 people in attendance will be required to submit a plan to the local health department that outlines measures to mitigate COVID-19.

It's going to be all over the place.  Rochester (IN) high school has already announced no fans.  South Bend Community Schools guidelines for winter sports set a max attendance of 300.  No spectators for swim meets. Wrestling tickets presold, 2 per wrestler to participating schools.  Pep bands and cheerleaders perform at home basketball games only.

On 9/3/2020 at 9:10 PM, milehiiu said:

I may have missed it.  But does anyone know why he decommitted from Pitt ?

I can't answer your question but it bothers me that he'll be on his third high school this fall.  

1 minute ago, 5fouls said:

For years, I thought my wife was screaming 'Oh Fouls!' while we were in bed.

Turns out she was screaming "No Howls'

And, here I thought she liked my wolf call while we were in the throes of passion.  

For clarification was that wife #1, #2, #3, #4 or #5?  Inquiring minds want to know.

2 hours ago, IU Scott said:

  People will.make bad decisions when it comes to the well being if the masses.

And our elected officials won't necessarily make the same bad decisions???????????????????

Composer Quincy Jones

Sam Jones and K. C. Jones from the Boston Celtics glory days of the late 1950's to late 1960's.

1 hour ago, 5fouls said:

Define 'soon'.  Does that mean imminent, or possibly next Tuesday, or before the end of July?  Or, maybe, to your sources, 'soon' means by Thanksgiving.  I have to know.  

It means he's going to be an Oklahoma SOONer

If life is to get back to some sense of normalcy, we're going to see an increase in confirmed cases.  It's inevitable as restrictions are lifted.  I'm more concerned with hospitalization and death rates.  We cannot put the world under a bubble and isolate each separate country and then further subdivide the isolation within each country.  If it were even possible, to do so for an extended period of time would ultimately lead to a global economic collapse.

Brian Snow tweeted this earlier today regarding overreacting to confirmed cases being reported at colleges as football teams return to campus:  "I am confused. Are people surprised that NFL/MLB/college teams are having positive COVID tests, so it becomes front page news? Like, the hell did you think was going to happen? What alternate universe are we living in right now."

It seems that we've been throwing out offers, but if you're like me, you get caught up in hearing lots of names in connection with IU but there aren't really that many formal offers on the table.  If my math is correct, with the Camden offer, Archie has 9 outstanding offers but IMO, Max Christie, Franck Kepnang and Carter Whitt have all fallen off the IU radar leaving only 6 formal offers (make it 7 if everybody's convinced Mason Miller can come to IU if he wants to).  3 of the 6 are to players categorized as SF; 2 as SG and 1 PF (or 2 if you want to include Mason Miller).

Since the world came to a screeching halt in mid-March with COVID-19, Archie has extended 3 formal offers to '22 kids along with other names in that '22 class mentioned as being on the IU radar.

I think it's the number of names that we hear and see and leads to the impression we're throwing out lots of offers. 

@BGleas and @tdhoosier I do feel for you and what's happened to your lives.  And the same for @IU Scott who I sincerely hope is not getting hit especially hard with the virus.  I'm retired but I have 2 son-in-laws that have both experienced mandated pay reductions so I do know what you're going through.  An unbelievable period of time we're living in and the way we live is likely changed forever.  Everyone on HSN stay safe and stay healthy.

6 minutes ago, RoadToZion said:

I’m just pointing out that we are getting closer to NBA activities. Can’t hurt....

I really don't know what the answer is to my question.  Hope someone can provide the answer.

46 minutes ago, RoadToZion said:

Some NBA facilities are opening May 1st. 

But isn't it for current players only and doesn't allow for interaction with the kids who've entered their name into the draft?  

1 hour ago, milehiiu said:

The meat packing plant in Greeley, Colorado that was closed due the virus. And had four employees die.  Reopened on Friday ( yesterday ).

Will be interesting to see if they truly have it under control or you see a resurgence with its reopening.

6 minutes ago, milehiiu said:

Elective surgeries to start back up again, this coming Monday in Colorado.

Indiana as well which is music to my son-in-law's ears as he works for a company that manufactures orthopedic devices.

3 minutes ago, 5fouls said:

Impossible to know what is going on in Indiana.  7 deaths reported yesterday.  61 today.  Neither one of those accurately represent what happened the prior day.  I guess the people reporting numbers took the weekend off and threw them all into today's numbers.

And, to top it off, the state reported 431 new cases today but stated that number is bad because of a technology issue.

How can the state possibly make a sound decision on reopening when it can't even report accurate numbers on a consistent basis.

Definitely many reasons to question the reliability and validity of the data but this is what Dr. Box said yesterday so take it for what it's worth regarding the jump in reported deaths.

On Monday, Indiana State Health Commissioner Kristina Box said Indiana would start including presumptive positive case numbers in the daily report starting this week which may cause a spike in the state’s total death numbers.

Box provided the following explanation of presumptive positive case numbers:

“Later this week, we’ll be seeing some additional changes to our death counts because we’ll be including our presumptive positive cases in our death total. What this means is that a physician listed COVID-19 as the underlying cause of death for a patient, but there was no documented positive COVID-19 test for that individual. 

This will cause our death numbers to show an increase that’s higher than what we’ve typically seen. I want to make sure that everyone understands that these are not new deaths. Rather, we are capturing the deaths that have occurred really since this pandemic began.”

51 minutes ago, milehiiu said:

 But some non essential offices will be allowed to open. Personal services such as barber shops, beauty parlors, nail stores and dog groomers will be able to open up.

LMAO as my cousin (age in mid-70's) her only concerns are getting her hair done and her stupid poodle trimmed.

@milehiiu can you elaborate on what's going to happen in Colorado?  I have a distant cousin residing in Westminster and she said your governor is opening things back up next week but didn't provide any details as to the extent of the  re-opening.

1 hour ago, 5fouls said:

Our UPS guy must really like fruit.  My wife buys an abundance of strawberries, cherries, etc and a lot of whipped cream.  Won't let me touch it.  Says it's for the UPS driver.  Odd that I never seem to be home when he stops by though.  

Do I sense a user name change to 6 fouls?

1 hour ago, milehiiu said:

Despite the season ending injury, I see that CBS/247 currently has Jalen ranked #9 overall in the nation. Number four in the nation for his position. And number one overall in Indiana.

You are aware he also missed a number of games in the previous season because of a shoulder injury (I think that's what it was)?  Hard for me to accept that a kid who's missed more games than he's played in his last 2 high school seasons and couldn't demonstrate how he's recovered from a knee injury in an AAU season (if he could have even played) can still be that highly ranked.  Call me skeptical that these raters really are all that tuned in.  

Here's the clip Reacher posted above with a play-by-play.