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LGHL Carmen’s Crew advances with ease to set up a matchup with the Dayton alumni team
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Carmen’s Crew advances with ease to set up a matchup with the Dayton alumni team
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The Ohio State alumni team defeated Purple Hearts 93-58 in the first round behind a dominant second quarter
The No. 3 seeded Carmen’s Crew, the Ohio State alumni team, won its first game of the tournament this year, taking down the No. 6-seeded Purple Hearts 93-58
The Purple Hearts got off to a hot start, taking a 19-18 lead into the second quarter. From there, it was all Carmen’s Crew.
The Ohio State alumni team outscored Purple Hearts 27-4 in the second quarter and 26-18 in the third quarter to run away with the first-round win.
The Wesson brothers, Andre and Kaleb, led the way for Carmen’s Crew with 12 points each, while Desonta Bradford and Jamel Morris recorded 11 points each. Morris added five rebounds and four assists. Kaleb Wesson added seven rebounds and three assists.
12 players scored for Carmen’s Crew, including 43-year-old Jeff Gibbs, who drilled the game-winning three to hit the target score. Jared Sullinger made his long-awaited return to the court, recording nine points and six rebounds in 15 minutes.
Keyshawn Woods recorded eight points and Kyle Young recorded seven points.
The team shot 30-for-64 (46.9%) from the field and 10-for-29 (34.5%) from the three-point line. They were also 23-for-28 (82.1%) from the free-throw line.
Darius Adams led the way for Purple Hearts with 17 points, four rebounds, and three assists. D’Vauntes Smith recorded nine points, and Davon Haynes recorded eight points.
Now, Carmen’s Crew will move on to face the Dayton alumni team and host school for the Dayton Regional, Red Scare.
The No. 2 seeded Red Scare defeated the No. 7 seeded DaGuys STL 88-74 to advance to the second round.
Wes Clark, who won the 2022 TBT championship with Blue Collar U, recorded 16 points, along with Ryan Mikesell, to lead Red Scare. Mikesell added seven points, while Clark added five rebounds and six assists.
Darrell Davis recorded 13 points, and Scoochie Smith added 11 points, five rebounds, four assists, and three steals. Marcus Santos-Silva added 14 points, and Cleveland Melvin added nine points off the bench.
This is the seventh appearance by Carmen’s Crew in The Basketball Tournament, and they won the championship and one million dollar prize in 2019.
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justingolba via our friends at Land-Grant Holy Land
Visit their fantastic blog and read the full article (and so much more) here
The Ohio State alumni team defeated Purple Hearts 93-58 in the first round behind a dominant second quarter
The No. 3 seeded Carmen’s Crew, the Ohio State alumni team, won its first game of the tournament this year, taking down the No. 6-seeded Purple Hearts 93-58
The Purple Hearts got off to a hot start, taking a 19-18 lead into the second quarter. From there, it was all Carmen’s Crew.
The Ohio State alumni team outscored Purple Hearts 27-4 in the second quarter and 26-18 in the third quarter to run away with the first-round win.
The Wesson brothers, Andre and Kaleb, led the way for Carmen’s Crew with 12 points each, while Desonta Bradford and Jamel Morris recorded 11 points each. Morris added five rebounds and four assists. Kaleb Wesson added seven rebounds and three assists.
12 players scored for Carmen’s Crew, including 43-year-old Jeff Gibbs, who drilled the game-winning three to hit the target score. Jared Sullinger made his long-awaited return to the court, recording nine points and six rebounds in 15 minutes.
Keyshawn Woods recorded eight points and Kyle Young recorded seven points.
The team shot 30-for-64 (46.9%) from the field and 10-for-29 (34.5%) from the three-point line. They were also 23-for-28 (82.1%) from the free-throw line.
Darius Adams led the way for Purple Hearts with 17 points, four rebounds, and three assists. D’Vauntes Smith recorded nine points, and Davon Haynes recorded eight points.
Now, Carmen’s Crew will move on to face the Dayton alumni team and host school for the Dayton Regional, Red Scare.
The No. 2 seeded Red Scare defeated the No. 7 seeded DaGuys STL 88-74 to advance to the second round.
Wes Clark, who won the 2022 TBT championship with Blue Collar U, recorded 16 points, along with Ryan Mikesell, to lead Red Scare. Mikesell added seven points, while Clark added five rebounds and six assists.
Darrell Davis recorded 13 points, and Scoochie Smith added 11 points, five rebounds, four assists, and three steals. Marcus Santos-Silva added 14 points, and Cleveland Melvin added nine points off the bench.
This is the seventh appearance by Carmen’s Crew in The Basketball Tournament, and they won the championship and one million dollar prize in 2019.
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LGHL You’re Nuts: Other than OSU, what Big Ten team won the transfer portal?
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You’re Nuts: Other than OSU, what Big Ten team won the transfer portal?
Matt Tamanini via our friends at Land-Grant Holy Land
Visit their fantastic blog and read the full article (and so much more) here
Photo by Jonathan Ferrey/Getty Images
Your (almost) daily dose of good-natured, Ohio State banter.
From now until preseason camp starts in August, Land-Grant Holy Land will be writing articles around a different theme every week. This week is all about Ohio State’s opponents. From looking at the Big Ten Conference to individual opponents to specific players, we will bring it all to you. You can catch up on all of the Theme Week content here and all of our ”Behind Enemy Lines” articles here.
Everybody knows that one of the best parts of being a sports fan is debating and dissecting the most (and least) important questions in the sporting world with your friends. So, we’re bringing that to the pages of LGHL with our favorite head-to-head column: You’re Nuts.
In You’re Nuts, two LGHL staff members will take differing sides of one question and argue their opinions passionately. Then, in the end, it’s up to you to determine who’s right and who’s nuts.
Heading into Ryan Walters’ second season at the helm of Purdue, the Boilermakers needed to drastically make up some ground in terms of depth, coming off their disappointing 4-8 2023 season.
Walters faced an uphill battle, tasked with essentially rebuilding from the ground up.
We won’t know for certain until we start to see some football, but on paper, it seems he rose to the challenge. While it’s unlikely they’ll be playoff contenders this season, when we look at who used the transfer portal most effectively to plug major holes and level up their talent heading into the fall, the Boilermakers have to be part of the conversation.
With the addition of a trio of four-star recruits from Georgia in cornerback Nyland Green and wide receivers De’Nylon Morrissette and C.J. Smith, Purdue managed to add some star power to their arsenal.
Green in particular stands to be a huge playmaker for the Boilermakers. He’s the highest-ranked transfer the Boilermakers added to their roster this year and was the highest-ranked cornerback in the portal. While he never really became a star player at Georgia, he’ll likely be a huge defensive contributor for Purdue this fall, thanks to speed and stride that allow him to keep up with opposing wide receivers. His addition is particularly threatening given Walters’ success with coaching defensive backs.
Green is joined in the secondary by Kyndrich Breedlove out of Colorado, along with a pair of linebackers and a pair of defensive linemen.
Walters’ vision for the defense seems poised to take shape with some of these additions, as they add much-needed depth to the defensive side of the ball.
Even still, the offense is where most of the magic happened. At wide receiver, Morrissette and Smith are joined by Kam Brown (formerly of UCLA), rounding out the Boilermakers’ high-profile receiver additions in his final year of eligibility.
Running back Reggie Love III will replace his Illini Blue and Orange with Black and Gold. Boasting over 1000 rushing yards in his time at Illinois, Love III joins sophomore Devin Mockobee to give the Boilermakers a little more flexibility to run the ball.
Additionally, Purdue netted four offensive linemen from the portal who should bring a marked improvement in the position group.
Among many major concerns for Purdue in 2023 was the lack of protection for starting quarterback Hudson Card. The Boilermakers should see a marked improvement in this area in 2024, with the addition of four desperately needed offensive linemen, including Joey Tanona from Notre Dame.
Though the Boilermakers’ wide receiver Deion Burks departed via the portal himself, heading to Oklahoma, the offense made enough net gains that they should be able to hold their own, especially with Card returning at QB this season.
Do the portal additions make Purdue an Ohio State, Michigan, or Oregon-level team? No, of course not. But you can expect to see noticeable improvements on both sides of the ball compared to last season, something Walters desperately needs.
Purdue has a tough schedule—they’ll face Notre Dame in Week 2, with mid-season games against Ohio State, Oregon and Penn State. I don’t expect they’ll win any of those four marquee matchups (though you never know with Purdue—they are sometimes called the Spoilermakers for their ability to surprise teams that are caught looking ahead).
Sure, teams like Oregon added a lot of flash to their roster—but they were already a great team. The margin of growth from “great to a little bit greater” is smaller than what I think we’ll see at Purdue year-over-year. After a dismal 2023, eight wins are not out of the realm of possibility.
Eight wins this year could then set them up for other big transfer or recruiting gains in the future. This transfer class could be the key to Walters getting the chance to prove he can turn things around, and for that, it’s the strongest use of the portal by any of the Buckeyes’ opponents this year.
Like with yesterday’s article, I really wanted to go outside of the box. I wanted to have the same type of guts that Jami had by picking... Purdue?!?!?! But, if you’re asking me what Big Ten team other than the Buckeyes won in the transfer portal this offseason, it’s tough to look much further than the Oregon Ducks.
There is the obvious, big-name addition of quarterback Dillon Gabriel, but according to 247Sports, he was only the team’s fifth-ranked transfer pickup behind Texas A&M wide receiver Evan Stewart, UCLA quarterback Dante Moore, Washington cornerback Jabbar Muhammad, and Houston defensive lineman Jamaree Caldwell.
Overall, the Ducks had the second-rated 2024 transfer portal class in total points behind Ole Miss. In terms of average player rating, they were fourth with an average of 90.46; the Buckeyes were No. 1 at 92.86, but the Scarlet and Gray only added seven players to Oregon’s 14. Ohio State had three of the top 10 ranked transfer additions this season, while Oregon had two.
It also helps that in terms of players leaving Eugene, only two were ranked in the 90s; running back Dante Dowdell and Cole Martin — who ended up at Nebraska and Arizona State respectively — were both rated exactly at 90. So in terms of players coming in and going out, head coach Dan Lanning (and Phil Knight’s endlessly deep NIL pockets).
Lanning and the Nike co-founder are building an impressive roster in the Pacific Northwest, and that has certainly impacted the recruiting and transfer objectives of Ohio State. I think a lot of folks around Buckeye Nation would have loved for Gabriel to be in Columbus instead of Eugene.
But that success makes for an increasingly compelling rivalry between these two now conference foes.
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Matt Tamanini via our friends at Land-Grant Holy Land
Visit their fantastic blog and read the full article (and so much more) here
Photo by Jonathan Ferrey/Getty Images
Your (almost) daily dose of good-natured, Ohio State banter.
From now until preseason camp starts in August, Land-Grant Holy Land will be writing articles around a different theme every week. This week is all about Ohio State’s opponents. From looking at the Big Ten Conference to individual opponents to specific players, we will bring it all to you. You can catch up on all of the Theme Week content here and all of our ”Behind Enemy Lines” articles here.
Everybody knows that one of the best parts of being a sports fan is debating and dissecting the most (and least) important questions in the sporting world with your friends. So, we’re bringing that to the pages of LGHL with our favorite head-to-head column: You’re Nuts.
In You’re Nuts, two LGHL staff members will take differing sides of one question and argue their opinions passionately. Then, in the end, it’s up to you to determine who’s right and who’s nuts.
Today’s Question: Other than Ohio State, what Big Ten team won the transfer portal?
Jami’s Take: Purdue
Heading into Ryan Walters’ second season at the helm of Purdue, the Boilermakers needed to drastically make up some ground in terms of depth, coming off their disappointing 4-8 2023 season.
Walters faced an uphill battle, tasked with essentially rebuilding from the ground up.
We won’t know for certain until we start to see some football, but on paper, it seems he rose to the challenge. While it’s unlikely they’ll be playoff contenders this season, when we look at who used the transfer portal most effectively to plug major holes and level up their talent heading into the fall, the Boilermakers have to be part of the conversation.
With the addition of a trio of four-star recruits from Georgia in cornerback Nyland Green and wide receivers De’Nylon Morrissette and C.J. Smith, Purdue managed to add some star power to their arsenal.
Green in particular stands to be a huge playmaker for the Boilermakers. He’s the highest-ranked transfer the Boilermakers added to their roster this year and was the highest-ranked cornerback in the portal. While he never really became a star player at Georgia, he’ll likely be a huge defensive contributor for Purdue this fall, thanks to speed and stride that allow him to keep up with opposing wide receivers. His addition is particularly threatening given Walters’ success with coaching defensive backs.
Green is joined in the secondary by Kyndrich Breedlove out of Colorado, along with a pair of linebackers and a pair of defensive linemen.
Walters’ vision for the defense seems poised to take shape with some of these additions, as they add much-needed depth to the defensive side of the ball.
Even still, the offense is where most of the magic happened. At wide receiver, Morrissette and Smith are joined by Kam Brown (formerly of UCLA), rounding out the Boilermakers’ high-profile receiver additions in his final year of eligibility.
Running back Reggie Love III will replace his Illini Blue and Orange with Black and Gold. Boasting over 1000 rushing yards in his time at Illinois, Love III joins sophomore Devin Mockobee to give the Boilermakers a little more flexibility to run the ball.
Additionally, Purdue netted four offensive linemen from the portal who should bring a marked improvement in the position group.
Among many major concerns for Purdue in 2023 was the lack of protection for starting quarterback Hudson Card. The Boilermakers should see a marked improvement in this area in 2024, with the addition of four desperately needed offensive linemen, including Joey Tanona from Notre Dame.
Though the Boilermakers’ wide receiver Deion Burks departed via the portal himself, heading to Oklahoma, the offense made enough net gains that they should be able to hold their own, especially with Card returning at QB this season.
Do the portal additions make Purdue an Ohio State, Michigan, or Oregon-level team? No, of course not. But you can expect to see noticeable improvements on both sides of the ball compared to last season, something Walters desperately needs.
Purdue has a tough schedule—they’ll face Notre Dame in Week 2, with mid-season games against Ohio State, Oregon and Penn State. I don’t expect they’ll win any of those four marquee matchups (though you never know with Purdue—they are sometimes called the Spoilermakers for their ability to surprise teams that are caught looking ahead).
Sure, teams like Oregon added a lot of flash to their roster—but they were already a great team. The margin of growth from “great to a little bit greater” is smaller than what I think we’ll see at Purdue year-over-year. After a dismal 2023, eight wins are not out of the realm of possibility.
Eight wins this year could then set them up for other big transfer or recruiting gains in the future. This transfer class could be the key to Walters getting the chance to prove he can turn things around, and for that, it’s the strongest use of the portal by any of the Buckeyes’ opponents this year.
Matt’s Take: Oregon
Like with yesterday’s article, I really wanted to go outside of the box. I wanted to have the same type of guts that Jami had by picking... Purdue?!?!?! But, if you’re asking me what Big Ten team other than the Buckeyes won in the transfer portal this offseason, it’s tough to look much further than the Oregon Ducks.
There is the obvious, big-name addition of quarterback Dillon Gabriel, but according to 247Sports, he was only the team’s fifth-ranked transfer pickup behind Texas A&M wide receiver Evan Stewart, UCLA quarterback Dante Moore, Washington cornerback Jabbar Muhammad, and Houston defensive lineman Jamaree Caldwell.
Overall, the Ducks had the second-rated 2024 transfer portal class in total points behind Ole Miss. In terms of average player rating, they were fourth with an average of 90.46; the Buckeyes were No. 1 at 92.86, but the Scarlet and Gray only added seven players to Oregon’s 14. Ohio State had three of the top 10 ranked transfer additions this season, while Oregon had two.
It also helps that in terms of players leaving Eugene, only two were ranked in the 90s; running back Dante Dowdell and Cole Martin — who ended up at Nebraska and Arizona State respectively — were both rated exactly at 90. So in terms of players coming in and going out, head coach Dan Lanning (and Phil Knight’s endlessly deep NIL pockets).
Lanning and the Nike co-founder are building an impressive roster in the Pacific Northwest, and that has certainly impacted the recruiting and transfer objectives of Ohio State. I think a lot of folks around Buckeye Nation would have loved for Gabriel to be in Columbus instead of Eugene.
But that success makes for an increasingly compelling rivalry between these two now conference foes.
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