Recent content by Icky Mettle

Too bad. I always rooted for Wes. It looks like he may end up with a currently flailing mid-major. He did show that he can make such teams competitive in the mid-major ranks. But did hope to see him find success at a major program. Maybe he’ll get another shot one day. He’s still relatively young.

Now the story about Bam and State is coming back to me. State paid him and thought they had him. He took the money and went to Kentucky (which must have paid him more).

Ah, thanks. My memory failed me on that one. I definitely never felt like we were a player.

I remember him climbing up the recruiting rankings and a lot of people wanted Roy to get involved, but IIRC Roy never offered. All good though, as we won the national championship the one year he played in college and been beat his team along the way. We played him and Kentucky twice that year...

$3.59 this morning at the Circle K right by my house (Charlotte).

Bam scored 36 points with the clock stopped.

Too bad that statue looks nothing like them.

Seriously. Bam’s not remotely a big-time scorer by NBA standards, averaging 18.9 ppg this season and 16 ppg for his career. In 10 NBA seasons, he only once averaged over 20 ppg in a season (20.4). Never in my life would I have guessed he would put up the second highest scoring total in a game...

83! #2 all-time!

Now 77 with 3 minutes left! That’s #4 all-time after Wilt’s 100, Kobe’s 81, and Wilt’s 78.

Bam Adebayo with 71 points with 6+ minutes left.

When he took the Maryland job, he said he was going to build the UCLA of the east. He put together some great teams in the early- to mid-70s that never made it to the top. After that, Maryland mostly wallowed in mediocrity under him. I suspect the Len Bias incident and its aftermath essentially...

Well, there was the Nassir Little matter, where the shoe company folks who were paying players and steering them to certain schools were caught on the phone discussing that Little’s family wouldn’t take the money.

Oh yeah, totally forgot we played them in the ACCT last year. My bad. Never mind my previous post.