Off-Season Player Updates

@VerbalCommits wrote:Portland G Malcolm Porter (RS JR) has entered the transfer portal. Grad transfer w/one year to play.

'It's like starting a riot:' Cheer club provides inclusive environment for supporting UP athletics

DoubleDipper wrote:Did you always kind of wonder who those young ladies in cheerleader outfits standing in the student section were?

Yeah, me too, and frankly I thought it was a little strange...and maybe it is, but they are now a club and having fun!

'It's like starting a riot:' Cheer club provides inclusive environment for supporting UP athletics

https://www.upbeacon.com/article/2020/03/university-of-portland-cheer-club-basketball

up7587 wrote:I hope they are given a place out of the stands.  Personally, I'd remove a section of courtside seats in front of the student section and put them there, to lead student cheers.

DoubleDipper wrote:And you'd be the volunteer coach they need?

@TravisBranham_ wrote:Source: Portland center Jacob Tryon has entered the transfer portal. Averaged 7.1 points, 5.3 rebounds and 1.3 assists in 23.8 minutes per game this season.

Dean Murdoch wrote:I guess Jacob will be a "sit one, play one" guy somewhere?

Dean Murdoch wrote:What's that, six scholarships open now? Good lord.

Dean Murdoch wrote:That is a heck of a good D2 player if he ends up there.

DoubleDipper wrote:Basketball doesn't seem so important when there is a world crisis...

OregonLive.com wrote:Within the past week, the Adams’ southside Chicago home has been on lockdown. Adams’ grandmother, 82, is in a hospital ICU unit on a ventilator, after testing positive for coronavirus. His father came down with a cough, and though he hasn’t been tested for COVID-19, he is quarantined in a room by himself. The rest of the family, who may have been exposed to the virus, are not allowed to go outside. They spend their day wearing masks and gloves and keeping their distance from one another.

“It’s like a movie around here,” Adams said.

Worse, Adams’ grandfather, Ralph Walker, died Sunday of heart failure. He lives about 10 minutes from the Adams’ home.

Dean Murdoch wrote:The article says "up to five scholarships available" but I believe 13 scholarships minus seven (six returners & Triplett) equal six current open slots? So either a math error on someone's part (maybe me) or there's a commit we don't yet know about.

The events of this past Sunday have tested the Adams’ family. As Chase’s mother screamed about her father being gone, his little sister also became distressed. Chase’s dad, Tony, who was previously isolated in his room after exhibiting a dry cough, came out to see what was happening. He was worried the news was about his mother in the hospital. When he heard Walker had died, he collapsed on the stairs as he found out the news.

The same day that Walker died, the Adams’ family received a call from the hospital about Juanita, with the doctors telling them that her organs were failing and that it was unlikely that she would make it through the night. But to the Adams’ family’s surprise, she made it through and is still battling as of Tuesday.

DoubleDipper wrote:Basketball doesn't seem so important when there is a world crisis...

DoubleDipper wrote:Chase's grandmother passed away this morning...

DoubleDipper wrote:The Pilots now have 5 open scholarships as Theo Akwuba has entered his name in the Transfer Portal...

Sorry to see him go...he's wonderful young man, who with the right coaching, will develop into a really good player, but he's got to do more than just dunks and blocks if he's to fully develop.