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[IUPbigINDIANS]

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The interesting thing is that Dante's tweet has since been deleted. His tweet basically talked about getting injured again and his relationship with God. It didn't say what the injury was, how severe, or, if he was legitimately even injured at all. I know Dante is a religious kid, but I don't think that was just a moment of self-reflection. If it was, that tweet would still be up. If he wasn't injured in some capacity, nobody would have told him to take it down. That's why I believe there's some legitimacy here.

But hey, he could be ready for opening night, look great, and we might never know what actually happened. That's likely what will happen.

Getting any news out of that program is a lost cause. It's getting to the point I believe who is on the team (and available) when they come out to warm up. Until they have a uniform on ... on game night ... it's all a guess.

[IUPalum]

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The interesting thing is that Dante's tweet has since been deleted. His tweet basically talked about getting injured again and his relationship with God. It didn't say what the injury was, how severe, or, if he was legitimately even injured at all. I know Dante is a religious kid, but I don't think that was just a moment of self-reflection. If it was, that tweet would still be up. If he wasn't injured in some capacity, nobody would have told him to take it down. That's why I believe there's some legitimacy here.

But hey, he could be ready for opening night, look great, and we might never know what actually happened. That's likely what will happen.

I don't know what you're looking at but that tweet wasn't deleted. It's still there. I literally just pulled it up again for the third time!

[IUPbigINDIANS]

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The interesting thing is that Dante's tweet has since been deleted. His tweet basically talked about getting injured again and his relationship with God. It didn't say what the injury was, how severe, or, if he was legitimately even injured at all. I know Dante is a religious kid, but I don't think that was just a moment of self-reflection. If it was, that tweet would still be up. If he wasn't injured in some capacity, nobody would have told him to take it down. That's why I believe there's some legitimacy here.

But hey, he could be ready for opening night, look great, and we might never know what actually happened. That's likely what will happen.

I tend to agree that's not a random-type 'tweet' (or whatever you call it).

So, with that premise, you'd assume he could be out for a period of time or perhaps the season.

Just playing the 'what if' game here, but what would that do the roster?

Armoni obviously becomes the full-time PG. Him and Malik Miller, essentially, play 38 minutes (each) per game. Malik is their best defender but is also foul-prone, however, so that's a concern.

I don't know where the Ulrich redshirt stood. I assume once Keyes vanished that was off the table. The injury would likely push Humphries to some guard duties (at times). Dancsecs goes from likely redshirt to 10-12 minutes.

I guess we will learn a little more down at Rupp Arena in a couple days.

[IUP24]

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The interesting thing is that Dante's tweet has since been deleted. His tweet basically talked about getting injured again and his relationship with God. It didn't say what the injury was, how severe, or, if he was legitimately even injured at all. I know Dante is a religious kid, but I don't think that was just a moment of self-reflection. If it was, that tweet would still be up. If he wasn't injured in some capacity, nobody would have told him to take it down. That's why I believe there's some legitimacy here.

But hey, he could be ready for opening night, look great, and we might never know what actually happened. That's likely what will happen.

[IUPalum]

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All speculation at this point other than something on Twitter saying he was injured (again).

So, before the first game:

* Keyes DUI
* Morrow left or got released ... or whatever he's not here
* Dante injured


Fantastic start to the season.

Might be time for me to come out of retirement.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

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All speculation at this point other than something on Twitter saying he was injured (again).

So, before the first game:

* Keyes DUI
* Morrow left or got released ... or whatever he's not here
* Dante injured


Fantastic start to the season.

[Chuck Norris]

[IUPbigINDIANS]

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Cobo may be the first 6'9" point guard in D2 history.

[IUPalum]

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Somebody do some digging. Did Dante Lombardi get hurt? Again.

For you twitter folks, take a look at what he tweeted this evening.


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Looks like... I'll investigate.

[IUP24]

Somebody do some digging. Did Dante Lombardi get hurt? Again.

For you twitter folks, take a look at what he tweeted this evening.


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[IUPalum]

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Hopefully the first meeting will be a long time out -- likely the first game we have one scholarship guard dressed.

Hopefully the training staff has done their job!

[IUPbigINDIANS]

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Today's the day...happy first weekday* day of practice! (What time tomorrow is the Angry Mob meeting?)

Hopefully the first meeting will be a long time out -- likely the first game we have one scholarship guard dressed.

[hawks16]

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Today's the day...happy first weekday* day of practice! (What time tomorrow is the Angry Mob meeting?)

[boatcapt]

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That's not going to change. Bravado likes the big games. He deserves credit for always taking a brutal non-conference. But, like you said, it's only great when you win. These last couple years they've lost a bunch of these marquee games.

It's great for the fans. That opening weekend is fantastic. Tommy Bolte on opening night and Virginia State the next day. Joe's teams have a long history of shutting down stars. Malik Miller vs. Bolte is going to be an awesome match-up.

The odd part about the schedule is they knew they had the East Big 4 in crossover so they didn't need to play a beefed up non-conference schedule.

That said, they schedule:

Concord
Virginia State
Bowie State
U of Sciences
Le Moyne
(at) Fairmont State

Then, add West Chester and Shippensburg at home and road games at East Stroudsburg and Kutztown .... along with the West schedule.

By the last game of the regular season Joe may have the top Strength of Schedule in the country. Literally.


If anybody did a legit preseason Top 25 ... Concord, VSU, Bowie, Le Moyne and Fairmont would all be ranked.

Ive said for years that WLU played a "beefed up" in confrence schedule that included multiple games v nationally ranked teams like Fairmont, WJU and Concord! WLU didnt need to play a tough OOC schedule to get ready for post season play when they were playing at least 6 in conference wars against top ranked teams!

[IUPbigINDIANS]

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I'm actually more interested to the the defense with 3 bigs and 2 guards. Will they be fast enough to defend the length of the floor against fast athletic teams?

Gonna find out real fast.