Iup basketball

[IUPbigINDIANS]

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I like Team 1 to beat both teams to be honest. Better overall talent though the All-Edwards team would be tough.

I think you need to add some other names to an All-Edwards team such as Wes Layton and Ayubb Ali and maybe even Keenan Holmes. But maybe I'm just drawing a blank on some of them as I was not overly engaged in the early years of the Edwards regime as I was freshly out of college and rather busy with other things.

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I know the Edwards era very well. That would be my 7-man rotation. But, yes, the point guard is a tough call. You had DeWayne Anthony, Wes Layton, Aaron Faulkner, etc. Keenan Holmes also was the West POY as, if I recall correctly, a junior. Gary had some monsters under the basket. Remember Shatee Cooks? One player from that era who had tremendous upside was Badou Kane. Brian Brennan was another very strong player. Fannar was a wrecking ball, too. To bad he left for XMAS that last season and never came back.

I don't know how he found all those guys. Don't want to know, either. LOL. One year their first (8) guys were all D1 transfers. Whole rotation.

Those were physically-imposing teams. The 2002 team won the regional with literally 7 guys. I think by the NCAAs they were only dressing eight and seven played. That team could have beat the 2014-15 team in my opinion. They had 7 studs -- basically 7 starters.

In that hypothetical team, I'd have started:

Mims and Beckles under the basket, and Horton, Evans and Anthony at guard. Menifee and McIntosh off the bench. Sharing the ball may have been an issue. Evans was one of the great, big game, three-point shooters in school history. He was a legit 6'6" shooting guard. Mims had NBA talent and size -- and literally scared people. Beckles was that prototype D2 big man ... he was the Daddy Ugbede build but who could shoot from outside and play defense. He was mead dude, too.

[IUP CRIMSON HAWKS]

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Here's some off-season babble for the Flock of Joe ...

Pick which 'All-Lombardi' team wins (in honor of Joe each team will have 7 players):


Team 1

Darryl Web
Marcel Souberbielle
Anthony Glover Jr.
Brandon Norfleet
Mathis Keita
Shawn Dyer
Malik Miller


Team 2

Jacobo Diaz
Daddy Ugbebe
Julian Sanders
DeVante Chance
Ashton Smith
Josh Wiegand
Dante Lombardi


The winner gets the All-Edwards team:

Dennis Mims
Rodney Horton
Mike Beckles
DeWayne Anthony
Steve Menifee
Geoff Evans
Sly McIntosh

I like Team 1 to beat both teams to be honest. Better overall talent though the All-Edwards team would be tough.

I think you need to add some other names to an All-Edwards team such as Wes Layton and Ayubb Ali and maybe even Keenan Holmes. But maybe I'm just drawing a blank on some of them as I was not overly engaged in the early years of the Edwards regime as I was freshly out of college and rather busy with other things.

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[IUPTrackMan]

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Wiegand??? YUCK!!! I thought he was a subpar player!

[IUPbigINDIANS]

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Wiegand??? YUCK!!! I thought he was a subpar player!

I needed another big. Wasn't ready for Willem. Too soon. Lol.

[IUPalum]

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Wiegand??? YUCK!!! I thought he was a subpar player!

[IUPbigINDIANS]

Re: Iup basketball

Here's some off-season babble for the Flock of Joe ...

Pick which 'All-Lombardi' team wins (in honor of Joe each team will have 7 players):


Team 1

Darryl Web
Marcel Souberbielle
Anthony Glover Jr.
Brandon Norfleet
Mathis Keita
Shawn Dyer
Malik Miller


Team 2

Jacobo Diaz
Daddy Ugbebe
Julian Sanders
DeVante Chance
Ashton Smith
Josh Wiegand
Dante Lombardi


The winner gets the All-Edwards team:

Dennis Mims
Rodney Horton
Mike Beckles
DeWayne Anthony
Steve Menifee
Geoff Evans
Sly McIntosh

[IUPalum]

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Former IUP WBB coach Jeff Dow just landed his next gig as coach of Incarnate Word in San Antonio. Never heard of that one.

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I thought you paid attention to D1 basketball??? He's going to have a tough road there. Been a basement sweller for years.

[IUP CRIMSON HAWKS]

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Former IUP WBB coach Jeff Dow just landed his next gig as coach of Incarnate Word in San Antonio. Never heard of that one.

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[IUPalum]

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It would be three years.

Correct, redshirt soph like Armoni.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

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Any truth to rumors of the possibility of David Morris, Jr transferring from Tennessee State to IUP? I am told that he is friends with Miller and Foster.

For those who don't know, Morris is from Erie and his dad (David Sr.) was a fan favorite at GU in 1986-87 and 87-88, probably the best two-year stretch in program history. The possibility of an Erie kid whose father is was a GU star invading the Hammermill and pounding the crap out of us for two years just sounds wonderful.

It would be three years.

[boatcapt]

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That is a pretty good list there. It would be really exciting to have a conference like that. I'm kind of surprised that you did not mention Mercy on the heels of the success they had this year.

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The regular season would need to be exciting because there would be a good chance that the only team that would make the NCAA tourney would be the conference tourney winner!!!

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But for argument sake, I'd put Hurst in over Bowie and Charleston over SRU.

[IUP CRIMSON HAWKS]

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WL
Fairmont
ESU
Ship
Bowie
SRU
West Chester
ND Ohio
Concord

That is a pretty good list there. It would be really exciting to have a conference like that. I'm kind of surprised that you did not mention Mercy on the heels of the success they had this year.

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[Scrub]

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THAT would be a brutal schedule.

First to 13 wins is conference champ!

[IUPbigINDIANS]

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WL
Fairmont
ESU
Ship
Bowie
SRU
West Chester
ND Ohio
Concord

THAT would be a brutal schedule.

[IUP Extra Mile]

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I was just curious who our basketball roundtable would pick to be in a basketball conference with the IUP men if you could pick any teams in the general region/vicinity?

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WL
Fairmont
ESU
Ship
Bowie
SRU
West Chester
ND Ohio
Concord