Id be happy with a class of castle, ball, Stewart, ross and brandon Williams but A class with 2/5 guys ranked in the top 100 is not a "masterpiece" and thats with the expectation we get Stewart and he gets a big bump. Dukes class this year with 3 guys in the top 5 is a masterpiece
Stewart and Williams are both top 100 players, the only reason they aren't already is not every site has updated their rankings
If UConn gets that class that will be amazing. Idgaf about what Dook does, they can get the burger boys and continue to have their rivalries ended like last year. Players who commit to Dook do get preferential treatment as well.
With that class you have potentially three very high efficiency scorers in Castle, Ball and Stewart. May not be a ratings masterpiece but could be a scoring masterpiece.
Also, none of those guys you mention were consensus top 5 guys. They’re all solid don’t get me wrong…but Flip and Lively were not ranked like that their entire recruitment. Committing to Dook adds to that rank, if either committed to UConn they’d have a Castle ranking
This is just not true. Lively was a top 40 recruit as a freshman, top 20 by June, top 5 in August and was ranked #1 before in early September before he committed to Duke in late September. Filipowski did get a boost from 30 up to top 5 after committing. Maybe it was a Duke boost, maybe it was because that summer was the first time kids had played in a year and a half due to Covid and recruiting services hadn't seen kids the whole time
What’s not true? None were top 5 guys until the end. Dook bump on both accounts. Lively was always a top 40-50 player, Flip wasn’t even ranked I don’t think then got into the top 50...when Dook got involved they both shot up the rankings..pretty sure Amari Bailey was top 5 since the rankings came out, somehow fell to 10th as I just looked, I’d bet that Bailey would be #1 if he was going to Dook.
I mean, love that you’re chugging the blue kool aid but if you’re not willing to exchange duke’s class for ours because the kids want to go to Duke - when it’s likely half our class with be gone if they had a commutable Duke offer - is borderline parody.
I'm saying Lively was top 5 before he committed to Duke when he rose to #1. Flip was top 50 most of the winter, rose to top 50-60 in the spring, then top 30 after his Duke commitment and kept going to top 5
Not to mention we had folks on this board calling the top 10 ranking for flip here before his massive jump
Oh my godddd, get over this “UConn vs. the World” nonsense. Please, it’s so juvenile.
It’ll be Mmk champ
I agree, we've won 4 national championships, act like you've been there!
Monster class for them.
Hey it’s like you don’t know us at all anymore. We’re still the website you fell in love with. Don’t try to change us.
They already signed 4* PF Xavier booker so looks like they promised to give Carr what he wants and play him on the wing. Izzo Making the same mistake he did with Miles Bridges.
Miles was 37.5% from 3. He’s wasn’t a non shooter like Coen
Same but I also don’t understand this take.
That team also had Ward @ center right? May have been partially just getting your best kids on the floor too
