Michigan had several prospects on campus over the weekend for head coach Sherrone Moore’s News first recruiting weekend of his tenure.
A few number of top players made their way to town from the East Coast like New Rochelle (NY) Iona Prep 2025 four-star offensive lineman Rowan Byrne.
Michigan had several prospects on campus over the weekend for head coach Sherrone Moore’s first recruiting weekend of his tenure.
A few number of top players made their way to town from the East Coast like Princeton (NJ Hun School 2025 defensive lineman Kole Briehler.
Well, that was pretty darn awesome. Saturday’s jam-packed slate with three top-10 wars more than lived up to the hype. No. 3 North Carolina outlasted No. 7 Duke. No. 5 Tennessee went into Rupp Arena and sent No. 10 Kentucky packing. Eighth-ranked Kansas showed why it should never be a home underdog. It worked Houston for two hours and two minutes.
The three headliner games were fantastic, but Texas-TCU, Iowa State-Baylor and UConn-St. John’s were all elite in their own right. Indiana State star Robbie Avila came to play in a barnburner against Drake, and the Great Osobor-Jaedon LeDee brawl lived up to the hype.
Saturday was great. Sunday has another top-10 war on tap with Purdue and Wisconsin tangling for the top slot in the Big Ten.
Johnny Furphy’s 17 points and eight rebounds earned him Star of the Game from ESPN, but he wasn’t the best player on the floor.
That was KJ Adams Jr.
The do-it-all forward was tremendous in KU’s 78-65 throttling of Houston. Adams had 10 points, four rebounds, seven assists, one block, one steal and four turnovers in 36 minutes. What a performance. Two of the four turnovers weren’t even that bad. Both were open. Both would’ve been buckets. Hunter Dickinson would’ve had a dunk if he didn’t turn away at the last second to get in position for an offensive rebound and Parker Braun doesn’t have bunnies like his brother, or it would’ve been another dunk. Adams had seven dimes, but he could’ve had 10.
Adams’ sharp decision-making softened up Houston’s pressure, and when they tried to switch ball-screens, Adams pinned Emanuel Sharp on his hip and took him for a ride. Houston was constantly adjusting to KU which is far from the norm.
Adams was a huge reason why.
