Bj Edwards

Could we see Villanova with, you know, maybe Luigi Suigo sets the league on fire and is awesome.

Like Oklahoma is not anywhere close to getting votes, but what if they have Duke Brennan and their other players, You know, BJ Edwards, another five and five guys that changes the equation.

Porter Moser's made deep runs with unexpected teams before.

Maybe he can do it again.

If you look at last year, SMU was the last team in the field.

They, of course, infamously now claim that BJ Edwards was healthy and available he obviously was not did not come close to playing against Miami of Ohio and the rest is history but SMU by the numbers last year was the right choice you know I examined it not just from a Winslow bubble but from strength of resume, wins against teams away from home.

All those things still matter.

I think if you break it down the way it was always broken down, and hopefully the committee and the future of the committee will continue to value these areas, is how did you do away from home? Who did you play? Where did you play? And how did you do? Every committee chairman has told us that, Steve, for 30 years.

It's been, he's had some guys hurt in the preseason, so he hasn't been able to see them all play together yet.

And eligibility has seesawed back and forth for Duke Brennan and B.J. Edwards.

Right now, Duke is eligible, and it looks like that's going to stick.

Right now, B.J. Edwards is not eligible, but they think they're going to be able to turn that around.

So it's a little hard to say.

But if you just look at talent, I think it's unquestionably the most talented team they've had.

This is a guy that averaged a double-double – at Villanova and everybody wanted.

He's a rebounding machine at 6'10".

Every third day something can change.

Oklahoma, who returned Xavier Brown at point guard and also a very good player in Darion Reed, added Pop Isaacs to the transfer portal, added then also two players, B.J. Edwards from SMU, and Duke Brennan from Villanova.

With those two players available, Brennan and Edwards, Oklahoma to me is a surefire NCAA tournament team and potentially a top 25 team.

But again, we continue to wait and see if these eligibility rulings will be held up throughout the course of time.

That right there is 12 SEC teams.

So make him go over screens, let Duke Brennan sit back and try to force mid-rangers, a la Creighton, a la Illinois, very much defense geared towards that.

uh but you gotta also be able to end possessions and i think some of the defensive rebound rate is like you're saying because of the scheme they they do extend their bigs a little bit while he's out on was out on the perimeter more often so it hurt the defensive rebounding but you need it from the personnel uh bj edwards also very important five and five guy here Because he's a great on-ball defender.

Look what happened to SMU without him last year.

They kind of collapsed.

Okay, last here in this group is Oklahoma.

Um, and this is kind of a hedge on Duke, on Duke Brennan and BJ Edwards being eligible.

Those are two really obviously important fifth-year guys who I think you can very easily picture them playing for a Porter Moser team, and, uh, making a huge difference for where people will see this team in the pre-season.

But, you know, I think even without them, it's just kind of we're down into like the territory in the SEC where like where this is like probably if Oklahoma is the 40th best team in the country again, that would not surprise anyone, because two years ago they were the 40th best team in the country and they went to the NCAA tournament, and last year they were the 41st best team in the country-

it feels like.

Yeah, where they can fall one way or the other way.

The most ironic part of this team is that the reason why they probably didn't make the tournament last year is because of BJ Edwards and SMU having the idea that BJ Edwards would be healthy for SMU to play in the NCAA tournament, and that keeps Oklahoma out of the tournament.

Now he's gonna be playing at Oklahoma, so, uh, a little connection there.

They're 2014 last year, pretty solid year.

But I think people are high on this team, but you lose Boopie Miller, you lose Jaron Pierre and BJ Edwards in your backcourt.

It's going to be hard to replace that.

Don't get me wrong.

Should be great.

Now, the two pieces are gonna be Duke Brennan and BJ Edwards, getting them, getting them eligible.

BJ Edwards was awesome last year at SMU, and Duke Brennan was really, really good at Villanova.

If they don't have either of these guys eligible, I don't think this is a tournament team.

Like, I think we're talking top f- 35 team to potentially like 80.

Like I think that is how important these two team-- two players are with, uh, with BJ Edwards, with, with Duke Brennan.

They bring in Yak Yak from Oregon State.

He's a seven-footer, big body, could potentially block some shots down low.

And Pop Isaac's played over 100 games.

BJ Edwards, who we hope goes in, has played over 100 games.

Um, Duke Brennan has played over 100 games.

Uh, Xavier Brown, Darian Reed now is in his third year in the SEC.

I feel like I've watched Pop Isaacs in, uh, in, in college ever since I was, you know, 17 years old, and I'm about to turn 25.

So, like, he's been around.

BJ Edwards has been around the block.

Like, like, these, these are some old dudes that Oklahoma has.

And we've mentioned, you know, the additions that, you know, we're still maybe looking at as with, with an asterisk right now.

You know, whether it is some of these guys like BJ Edwards, you know, Duke Brennan was a big one.

I still want to play the wait and see game.

They have Pop Isaacs, you know, Dayton Foresight, guys like that who are a little bit older and, and have some experience.