2025 Portal Season

[GMU1983]

7th checkmark on twitter we just got another one - Allenback or the DSU kid?

 

[GMU1983]

Weren’t we recruiting Riley under KE?

 

[p8triotfan4life]

7th checkmark on twitter we just got another one - Allenback or the DSU kid?

Heard Allenbach visited NC State Monday...

 

[GMU1983]

Probably the DSU kid then

 

[Patriot8]

Weren’t we recruiting Riley under KE?

Briefly

 

[Jay2014]

Heard Allenbach visited NC State Monday...

Allenspach’s dad r/TD Tony’s meme. I think it’s him.

 

[psyclone]

Allenspach’s dad r/TD Tony’s meme. I think it’s him.

Pardon my ignorance...translation please. Thanks.

 

[JPgmuswim]

Judging by Tony’s tweet an hour ago I’m betting we got this kid.

https://x.com/gmurecruiting/status/1915119823836635257?s=46

 

[Jay2014]

Pardon my ignorance...translation please. Thanks.

Retweeted.

 

[psyclone]

Retweeted.

Ahh--thanks! I was just about to guess that.

 

[Patriotsince81]

I was curious to learn more about our new roster guys so I did some research. On paper 5 of our 6 new guys come from conferences ranked below the A10, in some cases well below. Will they step up and contribute or fall short? Only time will tell.

Did the staff get the guys they really wanted or because of NIL money did they have to settle?

NET Conference Rankings are below. I also wanted to learn who each player was recruited by coming out of high school and how the players were rated and ranked. The data from various sites didn't always match up but here's a brief summary.

NET Conference Rankings 24-25, player, and team NET:

BIG 10 2 - Jahari Long (10)
The A10 was ranked #6 or 7 depending on the source. GMU finished at 68.
MVC 9 - Nick Ellington (146)
Big South 14 - Kory Mincy (240)
CAA 15 - Masai Troutman (207)
MAC 17 - Jermahri Hill (276)
MAAC 20 - Dola Adebayo (236)

Recruiting/ratings out of high school:

Kory Mincy - 3 star
Recruited by - Presbyterian, Appalachian St., Mt. St Mary’s

Masai Troutman - 3 star
Recruited by - Florida, Georgetown, Northeastern, Indiana

Jahari Long - 3 star
Recruited by - Minnesota, Seton Hall

Jermahri Hill - 3 star
Recruited by - Va Tech, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Ball St.

Dola Adebayo - no rankings
No real record of recruiting so he went to Mount Saint Mary’s

Nick Ellington - no rankings
no offers
Started at Meridian Community College. He is using a 6th year of eligibility because of new rule granting an additional year to those who attended and competed at non-NCAA schools

What does all of this mean?

Who knows! I'm just trying to get a realistic view of the roster for next season so I can temper or raise my own expectations. It's all speculation at this point. I will make a bold prediction though. We will win between 0 and 31 games next year. In conference play we will finish with between 0 and 18 wins which will put us anywhere from first to last.

How's that for going out on a limb?

 

[Mason2005]

https://x.com/michalowskicbb/status/1915452373163512061?s=46&t=32p8RDdCHwpPxSl_BttvUw

 

[psyclone]

https://x.com/michalowskicbb/status/1915452373163512061?s=46&t=32p8RDdCHwpPxSl_BttvUw

Looks impressive--it would be nice if I understood how the "production gained/lost" was measured.

 

[psyclone]

I was curious to learn more about our new roster guys so I did some research. On paper 5 of our 6 new guys come from conferences ranked below the A10, in some cases well below. Will they step up and contribute or fall short? Only time will tell.

Did the staff get the guys they really wanted or because of NIL money did they have to settle?

NET Conference Rankings are below. I also wanted to learn who each player was recruited by coming out of high school and how the players were rated and ranked. The data from various sites didn't always match up but here's a brief summary.

NET Conference Rankings 24-25, player, and team NET:

BIG 10 2 - Jahari Long (10)
The A10 was ranked #6 or 7 depending on the source. GMU finished at 68.
MVC 9 - Nick Ellington (146)
Big South 14 - Kory Mincy (240)
CAA 15 - Masai Troutman (207)
MAC 17 - Jermahri Hill (276)
MAAC 20 - Dola Adebayo (236)

Recruiting/ratings out of high school:

Kory Mincy - 3 star
Recruited by - Presbyterian, Appalachian St., Mt. St Mary’s

Masai Troutman - 3 star
Recruited by - Florida, Georgetown, Northeastern, Indiana

Jahari Long - 3 star
Recruited by - Minnesota, Seton Hall

Jermahri Hill - 3 star
Recruited by - Va Tech, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Ball St.

Dola Adebayo - no rankings
No real record of recruiting so he went to Mount Saint Mary’s

Nick Ellington - no rankings
no offers
Started at Meridian Community College. He is using a 6th year of eligibility because of new rule granting an additional year to those who attended and competed at non-NCAA schools

What does all of this mean?

Who knows! I'm just trying to get a realistic view of the roster for next season so I can temper or raise my own expectations. It's all speculation at this point. I will make a bold prediction though. We will win between 0 and 31 games next year. In conference play we will finish with between 0 and 18 wins which will put us anywhere from first to last.

How's that for going out on a limb?

Thanks for the summary!

Granted that the incoming transfers this time around are pretty much coming from lower level conferences. But let's not lose sight of the fact that, only a few of our previous transfers (Maddux, Johnson, and Woody are the notable exceptions) played significant time for a team in a top 10 conference. Yet Tony got reasonable returns from the likes of:
--Amari Kelley CAA
--Jared Billips MAAC
--Brayden O'Connor America East
--Zach Anderson Atlantic Sun

Haynes and Hall were the scoring standouts for us but Hall played very little at UNLV/Mountain West and Jalen transferred out from VA Tech where he barely played and became an all conference player at E Tenn St/Southern.

Here's hoping we find a gem in this year's incoming transfers! And maybe more importantly, play as a cohesive unit.

 

[thebiasedannouncer]

Looks impressive--it would be nice if I understood how the "production gained/lost" was measured.

Part of it is, while we lost a lot of defense and minutes- apart from Haynes and Maddox (and at times it was just Haynes) not a lot of those guys were consistent offensive drivers/bucket getters. Our transfer pickups have in theory fixed that issue tremendously

 

[gmujim92]

Riley Allenspach to Mason. Big add for a roster that is really coming together very nicely.

 

[GMUgemini]

It’s true of a lot of transfers in the A10:

Jordan King: ETSU to Richmond
Melvin Council: Wagner to St. Bonaventure
Sebastian Thomas: dropped to Albany then back to URI
Enoch Cheeks: Robert Morris to Dayton
Robbie Avila and Isaiah Swope: Indiana State to SLU
Chance Moore: dropped to Missouri State before transferring to St. Bonaventure
Dusan Neskovic: Dartmouth to Richmond

This is just a sample from other schools who had players transfer up and were effective contributors (some of them all-conference).

 

[Jay2014]

And with that the rotation looks like it is really close to being set:

1) O’Connor (6’4)
2) Hill (6’5)
3) Long (6’5)
4) Adabayo (6’8)
5) Allenspach (6’11 - 250)

Rotation:
Mincy (6’1) (1) (KD Role)
Troutman (6’4) (2/3)(Billups role)
Ellington (6’7 - 235) (5)
Sivka (6’10) (4)

Reserves:
Kanga (6’8 - 215)
Booker (6’5)

Needs:
- Rotational 4 to complement/compete with Sivka. (I like Watson out of DSU for this role).
- Reserve PG.

 

[mbush]

Did Tony build a team that can always run 2 bigs without sacrificing spacing?

Guards:
- O'Connor-25-30 minutes (PG and Two Guard)
- Mincy- 25-30 minutes (PG)
- Trautman- 25-30 Minutes (two-guard)
- Long (backs up these guys and sometimes drops to the 3 depending on matchups)

SF (defends the team's best perimeter player):
- Hill- 30 minutes
- Booker- 10 minutes

Stretch Big
- Allenbach (20-25 minutes)
- Stas (15-20 minutes)

Post Big/Dunker spot
- Adabayo (20-25 minutes)
- Ellington (15-20 minutes)
- Kanga (Developmental time/foul trouble helper... could overtake Ellington as the season goes on)

 

[mkaufman1]

I’m not gonna lie, I prefer having a mix of guys coming down and coming up to the a10. I feel that’s the best way to compete. It’s not how this cycle has gone but championships aren’t won in April.

I like the guys brought in, but it’s definitely more like year 1 of Tony when we won’t know much to expect. The good news is that we’ve already seen Tony coach two years and can fully expect to have a team compete for a top 4 spot next year once again.