BU-Kingsville @ 8PM Friday, some interesting followups and more...

NOTE *** Bradley's game Friday does have an unusual start time --
so beware -- the game starts at 8PM...doors won't open until 7PM at the Civic Center..

I have heard a little rumor that Sammy is doing better and may play Friday!!



Here's a blog about Remy Abell signing with Bradley...
http://jodydemling.courier-journal.com/2010/11/abell-inks-with-bradley.html



Beware -- this is a pun...
But it looks like Bradley will be getting some BUTTS in the arena next year
http://twitter.com/#!/BradleyBravesWB/status/2428042706165761



Kentucky landed LOI's from four of the Top 20 ranked recruits yesterday -- another monster recruiting class.
But in reading a little about the #1 kid -- Anthony Davis, the kid that the Sun Times said had been offered $200,000 to play at Kentucky -- I ran across some info on another Anthony Davis...
Most people outside of a few die-hard UNI fans won't recall this guy...
but his name is also Anthony Davis and he was a Northern Iowa recruit and commit.

He is from the tiny Iowa town named Clarinda, IA, and Greg McDermott offered a scholarship to him when he simply showed up unannounced and never even known before that at a UNI summer camp when Davis was just a freshman in HS -- and Davis committed to UNI..immediately after getting the offer -- his only college offer of any kind at that time.

That was way, way back in 2004 .....
http://wcfcourier.com/sports/local/article_c457cd97-1d78-5c66-b352-b736eb774d36.html

So what ever happened??? Well... as happens, these early offers for kids who are not 5-Star kids like Jereme Richmond was...often fall short and Davis did...BIG TIME -- so much so that he's faded from memory even to a lot of UNI fans.
Davis didn't progress as he finished his final years of high school, and the offer ended up getting yanked and McDermott changed his mind and did not pursue Davis...
So the kid went to juco -- and his first year at Iowa Western he didn't get any playing time and he just up and quit.

Then he re-enrolled at Southwestern Iowa (not the one John Wilkins was at -- that's Southeastern Iowa). But -- Southwestern Iowa is a small juco with little real competition and still, he only averaged 4 ppg, 4 rpg, but was again gone by the end of the season...but made the roster at South Dakota State in 2008-2009..

then he redshirted the entire year and was on the roster for 2009-2010--
http://www.gojacks.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=15000&ATCLID=1568015

Then -- suddenly - again -- he was gone and not much on him since -- I have been told he developed an illness and was unable to play.
but unfortunately ...he never logged even one minute of play in his two seasons at South Dakota State...

His story reminds a little of Shang Ping who looked good at one point, then bounces around forever and yet never develops.......

btw -- speaking of which...where's Ping?? ..here's your answer...
Here's a followup on Shang Ping, who played at ICC, then Nebraska, then Emporia State.

He is now playing for the Beijing (China)
SHOUGANG BEIJING DUCKS -- in the same league as Patrick O'Bryant!
He is averaging 4 ppg, 3.5 rpg
http://www.asia-basket.com/team.asp?Cntry=China&Team=941&Page=3


Speaking of China -- the team that JUST SIGNED ex-Illini Shaun Pruitt -- has cut him loose..wonder what gives??
http://www.asia-basket.com/China/basketball.asp?NewsID=208307



Did you see the news of the death of Quintin Daily -- the ex-San Francisco player who died of heart disease? He was only 49, but many BU fans will recall him well.
he was the superstar on the University of San Francisco team that in 1981-1982 was the 31 ranked team in the nation. Bradley met them in the Rainbow Classic in Hawaii, December 27, 1981, and the rest is history.
Bradley outplayed them and had them beat until the refs decided to throw the game into USF's lap (87-82) by calling horrible calls and fouls on phantom plays that were so blatantly phony and crooked, that Dick Versace argued like no college coach has ever done -- and picked up numerous technicals while tossing ref Larry Yamashita's whistle into the crowd.
It was a legendary moment but it caused the beginning of a turnaround that saw the Braves finish the season on a high note winning the NIT in 1982.

Daily averaged 25.2 ppg that season and was drafted and played for the Chicago Bulls.
His career was tainted however, as in Feb. of 1982 a woman accused him of rape and he was never able to pursue his basketball career without everyone constantly thinking of that fact. it was a such an incident that even the entire USF basketball program was discontinued until the negative publicity wound down.

I sure is sad to read of him dying so young - just 49 years of age.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/bs-mob-sp-dailey-1110-20101109,0,2037143.story
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-quintin-dailey-20101110,0,2768668.story

Daily was drafted 1982 #7 overall in 1st round by Bulls,
David Thirdkill went 15th in the first round and Mitchell JJ Anderson went 13th in Rd 2



Dana Altman steals one from Illinois --
he grabbed a committment from Brehm Prep's Bruce Barron...
and he credits the excitement of being able to host the kids on campus and see a top flight football game and the #1 football squad in the nation!
http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/sports/25528846-41/oregon-altman-team-brown-football.csp

Speaking of Brehm...they lost last night in a game vs. a junior college team.
http://www.bnd.com/2010/11/11/1472187/blue-storm-squeak-out-win-over.html

And their best player last year James Siakam, who is now at Vanderbilt, has struggled a little in his first two opportunities to play in each of Vanderbilt's two exhibition games.
In the first exhibition vs. University of Southern Indiana, Siakam had just 2 pts, 2 rebs. In the 2nd exhibition, a much closer game against Alabama-Huntsville, Siakam went scoreless with a stat line of all zeros.
Considering all the hype about Brehm Prep over the past few years -- no player out of Brehm has yet to crack into D-I and have any impact, but there's still plenty of time.