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[IUPbigINDIANS]

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Yes. His younger brother.

[Bart]

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Interesting comments last week from Dustin Sleva ...

On Shippensburg being picked to finish fourth in the preseason:

"We knew we were better than that, ... it was really us being snubbed for not being recognized as a good basketball school," Sleva said. "IUP has a big, fancy gym and all this money, but they can have all that and we rode out with our five guys looking to use that chip on our shoulder and move forward as underdogs."

http://www.theslateonline.com/articl...-american-nods

Is there another Sleva that has committed to Ship?

[IUPbigINDIANS]

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Interesting comments last week from Dustin Sleva ...

On Shippensburg being picked to finish fourth in the preseason:

"We knew we were better than that, ... it was really us being snubbed for not being recognized as a good basketball school," Sleva said. "IUP has a big, fancy gym and all this money, but they can have all that and we rode out with our five guys looking to use that chip on our shoulder and move forward as underdogs."

http://www.theslateonline.com/articl...-american-nods

[IUPbigINDIANS]

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Randy Bell has committed to Lynn per VC.


That stinks.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

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Former Jeannette star point guard Julian Batts is transferring from LIU Brooklyn.


Call it a "hunch" (and hope) he's going to land in Jimmy Stewart-ville.

Many of us on here wanted him out of high school. He'd really be a perfect fit.

[Chuck Norris]

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Continuing to hear about nothing but guards ... and at best I'd call some of it second-hand information.

Joe somehow manages to keep recruiting news locked up tighter than the vaults at Fort Knox. In this age of kids having Twitter press briefings with every offer they receive ... I don't know how he does it.

The D2 transfer in the mix is confirmed still in the mix but not committed yet. He is a guard and averaged nearly 25 ppg this past season. He is not from the PSAC or MEC. He has multiple years eligibility remaining.

Glancing at the list of top scorers in D2 it seems only one guy fits all those criteria. Is his current school in the eastern part of the state?

[IUPbigINDIANS]

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Continuing to hear about nothing but guards ... and at best I'd call some of it second-hand information.

Joe somehow manages to keep recruiting news locked up tighter than the vaults at Fort Knox. In this age of kids having Twitter press briefings with every offer they receive ... I don't know how he does it.

The D2 transfer in the mix is confirmed still in the mix but not committed yet. He is a guard and averaged nearly 25 ppg this past season. He is not from the PSAC or MEC. He has multiple years eligibility remaining.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

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Some of you may remember Lamont Paris from his days as an IUP assistant ...


http://www.channel3000.com/sports/ba...oach/429368087

[ctrabs74]

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That would be fantastic but other than on this board I haven't heard anything 'newsworthy' on that subject. Well, besides Joe's strange post-game interview in January.

The D2 transfer I keep hearing about is not from the PSAC (or the MEC).

The current D1 transfer list is fast approaching 400 names and the D2 list is growing fast. It's quite a trend.

Unfortunately, that seems to be the direction college basketball is heading, particularly with both JUCO and grad-transfers.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

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IUP has offered Leechburg (PA) junior Mikayla Lovelace.

She's going to be tough to sign. IUP is her first offer but the the D1s are emerging quickly.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

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That would be fantastic but other than on this board I haven't heard anything 'newsworthy' on that subject. Well, besides Joe's strange post-game interview in January.

The D2 transfer I keep hearing about is not from the PSAC (or the MEC).

The current D1 transfer list is fast approaching 400 names and the D2 list is growing fast. It's quite a trend.

[IUPalum]

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Amir Hinton to IUP???

[IUPbigINDIANS]

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Things are pretty quiet on the IUP front. I'd assume the first recruiting news of any sort will start to leak around the mid-April signing date.

Jesse Huff appears to be the lone departure. Jeremiah Nkumsah's ACL recovery is on schedule. There are a few (incoming) transfer names I've heard but nothing concrete -- two guards in particular. There may be some news on one of them here very shortly. One is from D2 (and, no, not David Dennis) and the other is from a (high-level) mid-major. Both in the 6'4" to 6'5" range ... shooting guards.

Whomever the bigs are in this class will determine the outcome of next season. No chance they are getting past Ship/Sleva without a legit post player(s) import.

Side note on that front: Sleva's younger brother, no surprise, signed with Ship this week.

Other items:

* Mercyhurst has been all over the Maryland JUCO scene the past two weeks
* Clarion has a few in line from CCBC
* Rumors former Gannon PG Jimmy Berger will either be walking on at Akron or going D3
* Sounds like Trevor Blondin will return for Seton Hill next season

[Chuck Norris]

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A few years ago when Cal was going through the downtown sidewalk beating incident, I distinctly remember the iup president telling the media that iup didn't have any problems like that. That condescending attitude has flown back in his face in spades several times since his gloat.

But nobody involved in the shootings was currently a student so it's all good. Indiana residents just have to hunker down one weekend every March and try not to get shot while their property is vandalized and their yards are used as public toilets. That's not too much to ask in the name of "tradition", right?

[Feedoggie]

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A few years ago when Cal was going through the downtown sidewalk beating incident, I distinctly remember the iup president telling the media that iup didn't have any problems like that. That condescending attitude has flown back in his face in spades several times since his gloat.