Okie State

[Mr Bread]

besides this game when exactly did they look all that good?

You mean aside from the time two weeks into the season when they beat the dogshit out of the #6 team in the country, the favorite to win the ACC?  If you mean other than that obviously minor win, they also pimp slapped Tennessee on Friday, although they did struggle against Akron.  Young team will be up and down, but NCSU is supposed to be better than anyone in the Big 12 so OSU's upside is pretty high it seems.

Akron might be decent.  They just crushed Penn State 85-60.  Granted Penn State is garbage, but that's still a pretty impressive performance over a high major (technically).

Plus: Zeke Marshall (Zips center) set a tournament record with 13 total blocks.  "It isn't the first time I've broke records and it won't be the last," Marshall said. "I don't understand why other people can't do it. It's that easy."  Double plus: Their head coach was Lebron's high school coach.  We're learning stuff!

yeah he coached lebron for his freshman and sophomore years, he had to coach high school because he got fired from Central Michigan for calling his assistant coach a n-word

You better check with Lebron on that one.  Pretty sure Lebron James loving him trumps any allegations of racist remarks in the eyes of people of all colors.  It's like born again or something. 

[MakeItRain]

It will be fun to see which Frank Martin recruiting failure will be more spectacular, Marcus Smart or Willie Cauley.

Probably Marcus, since we'll have to watch him dominate our faces a couple years before the NBA.

GTFO, if these were recruiting failures I guess Shabazz Muhammad was too.

Good one!  You can have Shabazz Muhammad, MIR.

I'm going with the quintessential Frank Martin player we were in on that chose to play for loserville Okie State and Travis Ford coming off our Elite 8 season.

So every coach in the nation, not named Calapari, has recruiting failures every year?  Maybe coaches should only target players that they absolutely know they will sign.  Recruiting classes full of Michael Orris'

[wabash909]

It will be fun to see which Frank Martin recruiting failure will be more spectacular, Marcus Smart or Willie Cauley.

Probably Marcus, since we'll have to watch him dominate our faces a couple years before the NBA.

GTFO, if these were recruiting failures I guess Shabazz Muhammad was too.

Good one!  You can have Shabazz Muhammad, MIR.

I'm going with the quintessential Frank Martin player we were in on that chose to play for loserville Okie State and Travis Ford coming off our Elite 8 season.

So every coach in the nation, not named Calapari, has recruiting failures every year?  Maybe coaches should only target players that they absolutely know they will sign.  Recruiting classes full of Michael Orris'

Maybe Frank could have simply parlayed some of the success on the court after an Elite 8 appearance on a kid that we were in on from the beginning and one of the first to offer a scholarship and was tailor-made for Frank's system, instead of losing out on that said player to a marginal, underachieving head coach at Oklahoma State.

No coach bats .1000 on the recruiting trail, but it is and was irritating to see the success on the court not translate over to high impact players in our backyard that would have contributed significantly to this program.