Big 12 B-Ball News 2024-25

[bearcatbret]

Bill Self Confirms the Big 12 Moving to 20 Conference Basketball Games in 2024-25 (heartlandcollegesports.com)

Bill Self on Big 12 Basketball: 'It's Going to Be a Monster of a League' (heartlandcollegesports.com)

[GoBearcats31]

Danny Manning joining Colorado's staff

[bearcatbret]

https://fanrecap.com/daniel-skilling...e-next-season/

[Lobot]

LJ Cryer will return to Houston for a final year

[GoBearcats31]

Way-too-early Big 12 power rankings after heated transfer portal arms race

https://247sports.com/longformarticl...tcu-231988676/

UC at #6

Projected starting lineup:

G Jizzle James
Wing Dan Skillings
Wing Simas Lukosius
F Dillon Mitchell
C Aziz Bandaogo
Top bench options: G Day Day Thomas, G Connor Hickman, Wing Tyler Betsey, G CJ Frederick, F/C Arrinten Page

The scoop: Oh, baby. Cincinnati is a major threat to crash the top tier of the Big 12 pecking order after a strong offseason. Wes Miller kept the poachers away from most of his top dawgs, and he went into the transfer portal and addressed some of the biggest needs.

Cincinnati needed more shooting and another creator. Bradley transfer Connor Hickman can do that. Cincinnati lost one of its best offensive rebounders (Viktor Lakhin who transferred to Clemson), but Texas transfer Dillon Mitchell should solve that problem. Arrinten Page from USC fills the frontcourt depth void that Cincinnati lost with Jamille Reynolds bouncing for South Florida and Ody Oguama graduating.

As a result, Cincinnati has a little bit of everything.

It has two point guards in Day Day Thomas and Jizzle James (a big breakout candidate). It has terrific size. It has high-level athleticism and loads of roster flexibility. Playing two non-shooters like Aziz Bandaogo and Mitchell together could be a bit clunky, but the athletic pop, rebounding and rim protection is very real. Miller could effortlessly slide Lukosius down to the 4 and insert Hickman to map the floor a bit better.

Cincinnati went just 7-10 in games decided by five or fewer points last year. If they can flip the script in some of those nip-and-tuck wars, the Bearcats can be a real Big 12 player in 2024-25.

[bearcatbret]

Ranking the 10 ten best transfers in the Big 12:
Big 12 basketball transfer portal rankings: The 10 best incoming newcomers for the 2024-25 season (247sports.com)

[GoBearcats31]

“ESPN Sources with @Draftexpress: Real Madrid’s Egor Demin — a projected 2025 NBA Draft lottery pick — has committed to BYU and coach Kevin Young for the 2024-‘25 season. Demin’s a highly skilled 6-9 Russian guard who’ll arrive as one of most talented recruits in program history.”

[Dr.kenneth noisewater]

Ranking the 10 ten best transfers in the Big 12:
Big 12 basketball transfer portal rankings: The 10 best incoming newcomers for the 2024-25 season (247sports.com)

Factor in the 20% bearcat bounce and that make Mitchell the 2nd or 3rd best.

[GoBearcats31]

“New Mexico transfer JT Toppin has committed to Texas Tech, he announced. Had entered the NBA draft, but is now headed to Lubbock. One of the best freshmen in the country last season, averaged 12.4 points, 9.1 rebounds and 1.9 blocks.”

[Lobot]

The other two Toppin brothers are in the NBA. This might be interesting to watch.

[GoBearcats31]

The other two Toppin brothers are in the NBA. This might be interesting to watch.

Don’t think they are related to JT

[Lobot]

Don’t think they are related to JT

I googled it and said they were. However, Google has been full of **** since they added the AI search option to it. Who knows.

[zykarious]

I googled it and said they were. However, Google has been full of **** since they added the AI search option to it. Who knows.

He's not related or at least they aren't siblings. His profile on New Mexico's site (https://golobos.com/roster/jadyn-toppin/) reads: Son of Naomi Toppin, Has three younger siblings.

Roni Toppin is the mother of the two in the NBA.

[Lobot]

He's not related or at least they aren't siblings. His profile on New Mexico's site (https://golobos.com/roster/jadyn-toppin/) reads: Son of Naomi Toppin, Has three younger siblings.

Roni Toppin is the mother of the two in the NBA.

Boo. Google can get wrecked.

[GoBearcats31]

Top 30 recruit Joson Shanon flips from Arizona to Arizona State