SCU Notes

DoubleDipper wrote:I have no doubt Coach Herb Sendek will find really good transfers to replace them, but it's still a big loss, IMO.

Yup, Florida Gulf Coast's Christian Carlyle transfers to SCU.  Although graduating, he could get two extra years due medical hardship waivers, and be a 5th year junior.

DoubleDipper wrote:SCU's top scorer, Josip Vrankic is expected to return for his senior season, but the Broncos or losing the exciting Tahj Eaddy who's transferring to USC, and second leading scorer sophomore guard, Trey Wertz, who's name is in the transfer portal..

Great move for Trey Wertz, he ended up at Notre Dame.

He'll have to sit a year, but he'll have two to play.

https://stockrisers.com/2020/04/11/breaking-notre-dame-has-landed-santa-clara-transfer-trey-wertz/

SCU playing WSU in Pullman. Only 23 points in first half, they are not hitting their shots like normal.

Wow.

In the second half they started chucking up 3’s to try and get back into it and so far are 1-12 from distance.

Not much better overall at 33%

And no trips to the line so far this half with 4 to go

Final 63-50

It wasn’t that close.

Some fodder for haters of the WCC.  SCU normally scores 78 ppg, only 50 against WSU.  Hitting almost 39% of 3Ps on the season, they hit 13% tonight.  Justice 0-5, Williams 1-5, Pipes 1-7.  And they were open shots, too.

Wish they'd shot like that in Las Vegas.

Keshawn Justice returns for a 5th year for the Broncos. He's already appeared in 111 games there. Averaged 13.0 ppg and 6.7 rpg this year.

DoubleDipper wrote:Looking at the Individual Honors for players and the All-WCC First Team, all the players with perhaps the exception for Williams from SCU, will be gone next season.

Or, maybe he too will be gone.

DoubleDipper wrote:

DoubleDipper wrote:Looking at the Individual Honors for players and the All-WCC First Team, all the players with perhaps the exception for Williams from SCU, will be gone next season.

Or, maybe he too will be gone.

According to this article, https://www.sbnation.com/nba-draft-combine-2022-winners-losers, Jalen Williams has moved himself to the first round and potentially a lottery pick position.

up7587 wrote:According to this article, https://www.sbnation.com/nba-draft-combine-2022-winners-losers, Jalen Williams has moved himself to the first round and potentially a lottery pick position.

Did you notice that Williams was playing on the Johnson team, as in former Pilots assistant Mitch Johnson, now a Spurs assistant?  

Mitch was an assistant for just one year on The Bluff, 2015-16, Rev's final year coaching at UP.

That was Mitch in the being interviewed in the videos while Williams was raising his draft status.

DoubleDipper wrote:

up7587 wrote:According to this article, https://www.sbnation.com/nba-draft-combine-2022-winners-losers, Jalen Williams has moved himself to the first round and potentially a lottery pick position.

Did you notice that Williams was playing on the Johnson team, as in former Pilots assistant Mitch Johnson, now a Spurs assistant?  

Mitch was an assistant for just one year on The Bluff, 2015-16, Rev's final year coaching at UP.

That was Mitch in the being interviewed in the videos while Williams was raising his draft status.

Missed that. When Rev hired him I thought he was too young and lacked experience.  Guess Rev saw his potential.

nba.com wrote:MITCH JOHNSON
Assistant Coach
Is in his first season on the Spurs bench … spent the past three seasons as an assistant coach for the Austin Spurs, San Antonio’s G League affiliate, where he helped guide the team to the 2018 G League Championship … prior to joining Austin, spent one season as an assistant at the University of Portland in 2016 … before his stint with Portland coached in the Nike Elite Youth Basketball League and served as a basketball coaching intern at Seattle University in 2011 … played collegiately at Stanford University and spent three seasons playing in the G League and overseas in Europe.

up7587 wrote:According to this article, https://www.sbnation.com/nba-draft-combine-2022-winners-losers, Jalen Williams has moved himself to the first round and potentially a lottery pick position.

Jon Rothstein@Jon Rothstein wrote:Source: Santa Clara's Jalen Williams is staying in the 2022 NBA Draft

What?  For at least $25million he's dropping out of college?  

DoubleDipper wrote:

up7587 wrote:According to this article, https://www.sbnation.com/nba-draft-combine-2022-winners-losers, Jalen Williams has moved himself to the first round and potentially a lottery pick position.

Jon Rothstein@Jon Rothstein wrote:Source: Santa Clara's Jalen Williams is staying in the 2022 NBA Draft

What?  For at least $25million he's dropping out of college?  

There's been discussion on the GU board about Timme losing money by going to the NBA as a 2nd or 3rd round pick rather than collecting all the NIL money he could get as the best college player.

up7587 wrote:There's been discussion on the GU board about Timme losing money by going to the NBA as a 2nd or 3rd round pick rather than collecting all the NIL money he could get as the best college player.  

https://www.pilotnation.net/t4762p150-gonzaga-notes   May 9th.

Jalen Williams ended up the #12 pick by OKC.

Some interesting photos for the SCU CC team.
https://twitter.com/TBGoPokes/status/1574076041865330691

up7587 wrote:Some interesting photos for the SCU CC team.
https://twitter.com/TBGoPokes/status/1574076041865330691

Face it, cross-country guys are like left-handed pitchers...often in outer orbit.  

Illinois transfer, WCC Newcomer of the Year, and Co-Player of the Year (with Drew Timme), Brandin Podziemski, has declared for the NBA Draft but will maintain his college eligibility while preparing and determining at what position he might go in the draft.

Crazy that he played one year at Illinois, where he appeared in about half the games, played 4.3 mpg, and scored 1.4 ppg. His 3P% there was 23.1%, then he shot 43.8% this year. I can't imagine SCU expected him to be the player he became.

Article on Bronco coach Herb Sendek. https://www.midmajormadness.com/2023/9/20/23881737/santa-clara-head-coach-herb-sendeks-relationships-spark-successes

Jaden Bediako played four years for the Broncos before transferring. He is a starter at Seton Hall currently playing in the NIT championship game,

up7587 wrote:Jaden Bediako played four years for the Broncos before transferring.  He is a starter at Seton Hall currently playing in the NIT championship game,

Bediako started, played 20 minutes and didn't score, but IMO it was one of the better games of the season as Seton Hall defeated Indiana St., 79-77.

Although the game was not always played at the highest level, it was a game that was hard fought and physical with the refs refraining from blowing their whistles at the rough fouls, doing so only when it was the ticky-tacky variety.  

Appropriately enough for the rough and tumble game, it was played in the rough and tumble 9,200 seat Hinkle Field House in Indianapolis, location of the 1986 film Hoosiers.

From Le Mans, France, Adama-Alpha Bal played two seasons at Arizona before transferring to SCU for the 2023-24 season, and he now has declared himself for the NBA draft while maintaining his eligibility (I think that still means he has not hired and agent, but who knows anymore) to return to SCU.

During his year as a starting Bronco, the 6-7/190 Bal led the team in scoring (14.4), free throw percentage (.821), and average minutes played (31.1).

In his two games against UP (a win and a loss) he scored 15 and 20 points.  During those same two games T-Rob scored 34 and 32 points.  

At 6-6/235, T-Rob's season averages were 35.6 minutes per game, .811 free throw percentage, and 16.9 points per game.

Just saying...

This is HUGE for Santa Clara, Carlos Stewart, a onetime Bronco before transferring to LSU, is now a two-time Bronco after committing to come back.

He was first Team All-WCC in 2022-23. 15.2 PPG. 40% from 3pt.

The 6’1” junior guard only appeared in 13 games at LSU this past season due to a knee injury and averaged 4.7 PPG.

If Bal comes back instead of going pro, SCU will be formidable next season.