Guys we won't see in the 2011 NCAA Tourney -- AKA the dudes leaving school early

Agreed. Can't see a way any of those guys are sticking around. Bledsoe may be the only one who needs to, but he'd be crazy to come back given the latest draft projections.

 

Bledsoe was my favorite guy to watch on that team. Loved watching him.

 

Bledsoe could make some of the most mindnumbingly stupid plays, but he also could make some of the most mindnumbingly amazing plays. He's built like a truck, and I have no doubt he'll be successful at the next level. I enjoyed watching Wall because of the "what's he going to do next?" feeling, and because he always looked like he was having a hell of a time.

 

With the fourth best RPI in the conference. Obviously, you aren't familiar with the putridity of the West division of the Mid-American Conference and how the East's domination skews the records. Every year some shitty West division team wins 11 games in the conference and gets to Cleveland only to get lambasted by the nine or ten seed from the East.

That's how things roll in the MAC. Every team in the East is better than every team in the West.

But for more fodder to your argument of Ohio not being back in the tourney, Armon Bassett won't be back next year. He's going to play in Europe next season.

Steven Coleman didn't play the entire second half of the season. He'll be back next year to go alongside D.J. Cooper. Cooper has a great chance of being the most impactful player at Ohio since Gary Trent. Everybody else is back and John Groce has a Top 45 recruiting class coming in.

Things are far from bare in Athens. Ohio should expect to compete with Akron for the championship next season.

 

I also saw Daniel Orton on someone's 'big board' the other day. I really don't think he's a guy who needs to be one and done, but it seems like it might be possible.

If so, how big of a debacle is this for Kentucky.
You know you're losing Wall, Cousins and Patterson. It looks more likely that Bledsoe is gone with each passing day. And perhaps Orton also?
Yikes.

 

That would make every Kentucky fan I know blissfully happy.

 

How is Orton leaving making UK fans happy? He's got a ton of upside. He shoudl be a stud next year.

 

What difference does it make - Cal will just go find five more hired guns to bring in next year.

And two more names to add to the gone list -- Aldrich from Kansas and Seton Hall's nutcracker, Herb Pope.

 

He actually found three hired guns (Wall, Cousins and Bledsoe). Orton and Jon Hood were already signed.

 

Well now he has all five scholarships available dammit!!!

 

He'll have eight. Lost three seniors, Patterson graduated early. So if Wall, Cousins, Bledsoe and Orton leave, there will be eight new Cats next year.

Talk about can't tell the players without a program.

Doubt Orton will leave, wouldn't surprise me to see Bledsoe go.

Just hope Samardo Samuels doesn't do something stupid and declare for the draft, since he likely won't get drafted.

 

Can't you only give five at a time?