This is my last one for the offseason. Comments will close for this one on Oct 3. That's near enough to the start of pratice not to merit a separate "offseason" fanpost. So I'm handing the "talk thread" baton back to Yanik, or whoever is taking it up for the preseason and regular season.

This is the current offseason talk page. The previous one is here.

It's land-the-plane month in recruiting! Zol brought us this list of top targets (in order by visit date):

• Jaeden Mustaf – Sept 1 – 4⭐ – 6'6" (planning to announce Sept 14)
• Efeosa Oliogu – Sept 8 – 4⭐ in 2025, potential reclass to 24 – 6'6"
• Matthew Hodge – Sept 14 – 3⭐ – 6'8" (father was college roomies with Mike Jones)
• Khani Rooths – Sept 15 – 4⭐ – 6'7" (longshot)
• Boogie Fland – Sept 29 – 5⭐ 6'3" (longshot)
• Derik Queen – Oct 21 – 5⭐ – 6'10" (complete wildard)

Are there any more target players for 2024 not mentioned here?

If Queen isn't visting until Oct 21, then he's not announcing til after practice starts. That seems late to me. Interesting.

My wild-assed guess, based on nothing whatsoever, is that Willard signs 3 players for the class, unless he doesn't get a top PG like Fland. Then he's going to add a PG from somewhere. Probably portal I guess.

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Reminder, the early signing period for student-athletes enrolling in the 2023-24 year runs November 8 thru November 15. The regular signing period starts next April 17 (2024) and runs thru May 15. Official signing date info for all sports can be found here or here.

Mens' scholly chart for reference:
(Portal-incoming players have their old team shown in the "minutes" column)

Tentative roster breakdown into positions:
(ordered by class rather than any clue about depth chart)

Guards:   Young, Long, Chance*, Lamothe
Wings:   Batchelor, DHS, Kaiser
Forwards: Scott, Geronimo, Traoré
Centers:   Juju, CSR, Pierce

(*Chance is injured)

Let's tawk!