Good summary.
We don’t have the equivalent of James on the Yale site to give us projections about the freshman, but I would hope that one or two of them will jump into the rotation, especially among the big men.
Still no assistant coaching hires.
Senior day will be lonely out there on the court: just Caden.
Any more word on Scott?
We are small at the guard
spot. He could help, especially if
Austin does not come back.
Scott entered the portal
Mike Brennan returns, replacing Bret MacConnell. Going with age and experience in the Associate Head Coach role:
Getting a younger former player for the junior assistant role would be nice. Allocco, TJ Bray, Kareem Maddox, Myles Stephens, Ian Hummer. I wonder if any of them are interested.
I like that Mitch changed it up here - says a lot.
I like the hire. He knows the school, the League and basketball.
And a nice man.
Glad to hear that he is a good guy.
And I’m sure he can coach.
But can he recruit??? Comments welcome.
He recruited pretty well at AU, which must be more challenging.
I watched his teams off and on via ESPN-U. I did not see a great deal of talent. Mostly he was in the middle to lower half of the league (not counting his first year with a team he inherited), although he did climb to second place toward the end of his stint. Only saw one or two stand-out recruits, but perhaps I didn’t look closely enough.
His best team played at a truly glacial pace, if memory serves. They played excellent defense and moved the ball a lot on offense–pretty prototypical version of “Princeton basketball.”
Of course the year on Cornell’s bench suggests that he’s adaptable on things like pace and style of play. And to be honest, Cornell’s half-court offense last year was a lot better looking than Princeton’s.
I just read that Scott transferred to Duke as a non-scholarship player.
On Reddit, they were calling him a body, and making a lot of negative comments about his play.
I think he would have been helpful on next year’s team. Oh well.
I agree he could have helped us, and hard to see him
playing much at Duke.
A strange career, but he seemed a good teammate.
I wish him well.
Agree about his AU style play.
Very much baffled by the arc of his career.
It is strange. Gotta wonder about the pressure he was under to go to Princeton - double legacy and all. To go to William and Mary then come back - only to leave for Duke. One would think you’d want to finish your senior year with your friends. The only thing that comes to mind is that he wants to get exposure to big time basketball for networking purposes?
This may be seem like a silly question, but a guy like Jack Scott is going to want a degree. Duke is a serious school - will they accept all his courses and give him a Duke degree on one year, or do you think Scott and Lee for that matter will come back and finish.
Not a silly question.
My guess is Scott will get his Duke degree and never return to Princeton. Duke is a good school, fine weather, and he will not need to write a thesis.
Lee is more complicated. I have read in other instances that as a senior he can enroll in minimal classes the first semester, and not attend any classes second semester, yet still be on the basketball team for the full season.
If he chose this route, he would not graduate, of course, but could always graduate from Princeton or any college of his choice by doing the required course work later in life.
Doesn’t Princeton have to re-admit him? I seem to recall that was the case with Gloger way back when.
Yes, but I believe no added credits for study at other institutions.
What a farce this has all become re “college sports” , x can take a few credits of phys ed at florida of which im sure they have many for athletes and then persue basketball professionally the second semester when many nba prospects drop out early. Hopefully he completes his Princeton degree eventually.
“Duke does not offer a preliminary credit evaluation to prospective transfer students.
We are unable to connect prospective applicants with an advisor to discuss credit transfer. However, there is a good chance that credits will transfer if coursework taken at the applicant’s current/previous accredited college is comparable to courses offered at Duke in areas such as natural science, math, world language, literature, social sciences and the arts.
Duke will grant credit for no more than two years of coursework completed elsewhere, regardless of the number of credits a student has previously earned. In order to earn a Duke degree, a transfer student must spend at least two years at Duke.
At least half the courses of all majors, minors, and certificates must be taken at Duke, although individual departments and programs offering majors may require that a greater proportion be taken at Duke”
My guess is that Princeton classes are pretty standard and that he’d get two years credit for this. Rules are different for athletes but I would guess that they would stick to this one. So, this would mean he’d have to pay his way for a fifth year to get his Duke degree or come back to Princeton for another year. Maybe he’d be a “graduate assistant” at Duke concurrent with his fifth year?