Big 12 Champions Again, Basketball Recruiting 23 Personnel

Intro
Favorite pitcher hype song (for John McMillon): Big Bad John, Jimmy Dean; not the greatest ending for ole Big Bad John, but cool nonetheless
Jimmy Dean from Plainview
“Best known for 1961 hit “Big Bad John”, his 1961 recitation song about a heroic miner. The song went on to become #1 on Billboard pop chart; sold over a million copies and was awarded a gold disc. Track peaked at #2 in the UK Singles Chart. Song won Dean the 1962 Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Recording”
Basketball
Chris Clarke transfer from Va Tech; 6’6 215lbs; rated #8 grad transfer for 2019
#62 recruit coming out of high school, lower than only Jahmius Ramsey and Khavon Moore
2017-2018 stats: 8.2 ppg, 6.3 rebounds, 98 assists, 31 steals
Sat out 2018-2019 season, dismissed from Va Tech after misdemeanor drug charge (roommate also charged with misdemeanor drug possession charge, but not suspended)
Career stats: 54% FG, 42.4% 3FG (low volume shooter, 14/33 in 2017-2018), 66.6% FT (draws a lot of contact, shot 94 FTs in 2017-2018, would have been 3rd highest on this year’s Tech team); 1.93 TO/g (Culver had 2.7/g this year, Mooney had 2.5), 2.6 assists/gm; 6.5 rebounds/gm (Culver led Tech with 6.4)
Called a “junkyard dog defender” by Rob Dauster of NBC Sports; was Va Tech’s best defender
Averaged giving up 98.7 points per 100 possessions; all of Tech’s starters averaged better, closest Tech starter would have been Moretti at 93.8


Tyreek Smith committed; 6’8 205lbs; Trinity Christian (Cedar Hill, TX)
4*, rated between 101st and 153rd overall in 2019 class
Played on same high school AAU team as 5* target RJ Hampton
Interior slasher, dunker, lane defender; not much of a jump shooter

Still have one scholarship available for 2019-2020 (Khalid Thomas decommitted)
Only 3 contributors from 2018-2019 season returning: Davide Moretti, Kyler Edwards, & Deshawn Corprew (5 total counting Kevin McCullar & Andre Savrasov)
Guards:
Moretti; Edwards, McCullar, Jahmius Ramsey, Clarence Nadolny

Forwards
Corprew, Savrasov, Terrance Shannon, TJ Holyfield, Chris Clarke, Tyreek Smith

Center
Russel Tchewa


Football
Anything?
Wells was at all 3 baseball games (headsetless); man among the people, incognito; he talked to me for 2 seconds about me keeping score and said “old school. I like it”. So now, I’ve arrived.
Baseball
Season Awards
Josh Jung, Co-Big 12 Player of the Year (49 GP, .333/.597/.471 (OPS 1.068), 186 ABs, 49 Rs, 62 hits (20 2B, 1 3B, 9 HR), 49 RBI
Shared with Baylor INF Davis Wendzel (40 GP, .385/.647/.500 (OPS 1.147), 159 ABs, 39 Rs, 60 hits (17 2B, 8 HR), 39 RBI
For comparison, Cam Warren; 51 GP, .354/.667/.448 (OPS 1.115) 189 ABs, 51 Rs, 67 hits (16 2B, 2 3Bs, 13 HRs) 65 RBI
https://kkam.com/why-does-the-big-12-love-co-award-winners-so-much/


 
G
avg
OB%
slg%
AB
R
H
2B
3b
HR
RBI
BB
SO
Wendzel
40
.385
.500
.647
156
36
60
17
0
8
39
27
32
Warren
51
.354
.448
.667
189
51
67
16
2
13
65
31
21
Jung
49
.333
.471
.597
186
49
62
20
1
9
49
46
34
 

All Big 12 First Team: Jung, Warren, Gabe Holt, Caleb Killian, Taylor Floyd
All Big 12 Second Team: Brian Klein, Dylan Neuse, Clayton Beeter
Honorable Mention: Braxton Fulford, Dane Haveman, John McMillon
All Freshman Team: Beeter, Micah Dallas, Cole Stillwell

Came into the weekend .5 game back from Baylor
Thursday, L 1-3 in 14
Friday, W 7-2
Saturday, W 8-4
Conference champions again!
Third time in 4 years, unshared this season

National Seed/Super Regional Host discussion h/t KP Dinger Derby
Texas Tech unshared conference champions of #2 RPI conference
Texas Tech, RPI #9, SoS #12, NonCon RPI #16, NonCon SoS #17
Louisville, RPI #7, SoS #27, NonCon RPI #21, NonCon SoS #119
Arkansas, RPI #6, SoS #11, NonCon RPI #43, NonCon SoS #158

Big 12 Tournament schedule
Your pod includes 1 seed Tech, 4 seed WVU, 5 seed Kansas, 8 seed Kansas State (other pod is 2 seed Baylor, 3 seed Okla St, 6 seed TCU, 7 seed Oklahoma; will only face a team from this pod in championship game)
Double Elimination