Had 19 in a win against Michigan and 18 against Washington State on the road. Can't be all that bad. Small sample size, but im sure with the guys on his team, he wasnt asked to score too much. Looks like he's capable though.
People keep talking about Payne coming back. Thats not gonna happen. Texas, Texas A&M, or Oregon will throw him some good money in the next week or so.
Which is funny because if there were no scholarships anymore, most people would probably say "i dont need a ton of NIL money, but if anything just cover my schooling"
Yes we were blown out by Northwestern by 24. It never would've happened under the last 2 regimes? Pitino was 6-8 against Northwestern and got beat 3 times by 20 or more to Northwestern!
Hawkins wasnt the problem? 4 turnovers and 1-10 shooting. He was definately one of the problems. If we are going to win games we need him to score! He scored 13 against NW, 18 against Penn State, 16 against Rutgers, and 24 against Ohio State. The games we lose he generally doesn't do much. There...
With about 3 minutes to go in game, all starters except for payne, were shooting 17% between them. Some of hawkins 3's werent even close. At one point they were like 6 of 34.
Got to give Ben Johnson credit. These guys dont give up and play hard for Ben. I was gonna give it this year and if we finished last again, i was gonna say we definately need a change. The one thing that we needed to get rid of was the perception of gopher basketball. For the last 5 or 6 years...