OT: Canadians in the NCAA

Leolovinliberal · Post #1 » by **Leolovinliberal** » Tue Nov 9, 2010 7:52 am

Monday 10/08/10

Texas 83 Navy 52

Texas

Corey Joseph (Pickering, Ont.)

25 min. 2-7 fg, 0-3 3 point attempts, 1-2 fts, 4 rebs, 3 assists, 5 points

Tristan Thompson (Brampton, Ont.)

25 min. 4-10 fg, 4-10 fts ( :cry:

) 7 rebs, 1 assist, 1 block, 12 points

Illinois 79 Cal Irvine 65

UCI

Adam Folker (Markham, Ont.)

DNP

hops_88 · Post #2 » by **hops_88** » Tue Nov 9, 2010 12:51 pm

Does anyone have a link for the boxscores and schedules so that we can keep up with this stuff?

Please and thank you.

Post #3 » by **Yuri Vaultin** » Tue Nov 9, 2010 2:00 pm

Thanks Sonrise. I added this to the directory.

Consequence · Post #4 » by **Consequence** » Tue Nov 9, 2010 2:03 pm

hops_88 wrote:Does anyone have a link for the boxscores and schedules so that we can keep up with this stuff?

Please and thank you.

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/scoreboard

blueseeka · Post #5 » by **blueseeka** » Tue Nov 9, 2010 2:04 pm

thank you sonrise
great idea for a thread

JN · Post #6 » by JN » Tue Nov 9, 2010 2:46 pm

It will be pretty slow until Friday, when there are 135 Division 1 Games played,

gerrit4 · Post #7 » by **gerrit4** » Tue Nov 9, 2010 3:28 pm

Great idea for a thread. This could be a much better national team in a couple years.

Leolovinliberal · Post #8 » by **Leolovinliberal** » Tue Nov 9, 2010 3:32 pm

Oh, you're welcome guys. I ran the idea past the mods about a month ago and most of them were cool with it. This is kind of a fun thing for me, but everyone is more than welcome to pitch in. You guys will be shocked how many Canadians are playing D1 this year; if I had to guess, I'd say that 1 in 5 teams has at least 1 Canadian on their roster and several have multiple canucks, like my favorite team in the world Gonzaga, who has three, it would've been four, but Bol Kong forgot about the student part of student athlete. Anyway, there are no games tonight, but a few tomorrow and as someone else mentioned Friday will be nuts.

vi3t · Post #9 » by **vi3t** » Tue Nov 9, 2010 3:34 pm

Bol Kong is academically ineligible? thats disappointing to hear

JN · Post #10 » by JN » Tue Nov 9, 2010 3:43 pm

While watching the Pitt game last night, it was mentioned that Khem Birch has given a verbal commitment to Jamie Dixon. Pitt has been a very good program the last decade or so, but they usually do not get elite recruits coming in.

Post #11 » by **Rhettmatic** » Tue Nov 9, 2010 3:45 pm

Thanks for doing this sonrise, this is great.

I've included a link in Yuri's Forum Directory, so if any of you want to find this thread quickly, just refer to that thread.

Post #12 » by **Hassassin** » Tue Nov 9, 2010 3:47 pm

Good stuff Sonrise. Thanks for the update.

By my last count, there is 86 Canadian's playing D1 basketball this season.

Leolovinliberal · Post #13 » by **Leolovinliberal** » Tue Nov 9, 2010 3:50 pm

vi3t wrote:Bol Kong is academically ineligible? thats disappointing to hear

Worse; he got kicked out. last I heard was that he was at a juco in Edmonton, don't know the name of it, but it goes by some acronym.

Leolovinliberal · Post #14 » by **Leolovinliberal** » Tue Nov 9, 2010 3:53 pm

JN wrote:While watching the Pitt game last night, it was mentioned that Khem Birch has given a verbal commitment to Jamie Dixon. Pitt has been a very good program the last decade or so, but they usually do not get elite recruits coming in.

Birch is going to be a stud; he had several awesome games this summer playing for the junior national team, and one game he had 28 points, 20 rebounds and 8 blocks.

If he grows to about 6'10 and adds about 40 lbs to his frame, which he is very capable of, he very well may be the first Canadian to ever go #1 in the draft. He's got a motor that won't quite and the desire to keep getting better; he's the anti-Bargs. lol

Leolovinliberal · Post #15 » by **Leolovinliberal** » Tue Nov 9, 2010 3:57 pm

HA! wrote:Good stuff Sonrise. Thanks for the update.

By my last count, there is 86 Canadian's playing D1 basketball this season.

Well, you'd be the one to know, that's for sure. I'm actually surprised that it isn't more, like how many people knew that Cal Irvine has a kid from Markham, Ont? I guess when the coach did an in home visit with Adam Folkers parents he had to Meet The Folkers; thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week, try the prime rib and be sure to tip your waitress.

Garmfay · Post #16 » by **Garmfay** » Tue Nov 9, 2010 4:07 pm

Folker went to my High School so I follow him a bit..He's out 8 weeks with a broken hand, he was their starting centre this year...Sucks

JN · Post #17 » by JN » Tue Nov 9, 2010 4:13 pm

Sonrise wrote:
JN wrote:While watching the Pitt game last night, it was mentioned that Khem Birch has given a verbal commitment to Jamie Dixon. Pitt has been a very good program the last decade or so, but they usually do not get elite recruits coming in.

Birch is going to be a stud; he had several awesome games this summer playing for the junior national team, and one game he had 28 points, 20 rebounds and 8 blocks. If he grows to about 6'10 and adds about 40 lbs to his frame, which he is very capable of, he very well may be the first Canadian to ever go #1 in the draft. He's got a motor that won't quite and the desire to keep getting better; he's the anti-Bargs. lol

They said he was #3 in the 2012 class (not sure whose rankings they were using) so a high pick if he develops is well within the realm of possibilities.

Pitt seems to be an interesting pick. They do push systems and d, more then some elite teams.

Leolovinliberal · Post #18 » by **Leolovinliberal** » Tue Nov 9, 2010 4:34 pm

JN wrote:
Sonrise wrote:
JN wrote:While watching the Pitt game last night, it was mentioned that Khem Birch has given a verbal commitment to Jamie Dixon. Pitt has been a very good program the last decade or so, but they usually do not get elite recruits coming in.

Birch is going to be a stud; he had several awesome games this summer playing for the junior national team, and one game he had 28 points, 20 rebounds and 8 blocks. If he grows to about 6'10 and adds about 40 lbs to his frame, which he is very capable of, he very well may be the first Canadian to ever go #1 in the draft. He's got a motor that won't quite and the desire to keep getting better; he's the anti-Bargs. lol

They said he was #3 in the 2012 class (not sure whose rankings they were using) so a high pick if he develops is well within the realm of possibilities.

Pitt seems to be an interesting pick. They do push systems and d, more then some elite teams.

Canadian Dwight Howard; you heard it here first.

Post #19 » by **Nolan** » Tue Nov 9, 2010 4:35 pm

Sonrise wrote:
vi3t wrote:Bol Kong is academically ineligible? thats disappointing to hear

Worse; he got kicked out. last I heard was that he was at a juco in Edmonton, don't know the name of it, but it goes by some acronym.

He's playing at NAIT in the ACAC. Which is below the CIS.

Leolovinliberal · Post #20 » by **Leolovinliberal** » Tue Nov 9, 2010 5:14 pm

Nolan wrote:
Sonrise wrote:
vi3t wrote:Bol Kong is academically ineligible? thats disappointing to hear

Worse; he got kicked out. last I heard was that he was at a juco in Edmonton, don't know the name of it, but it goes by some acronym.

He's playing at NAIT in the ACAC. Which is below the CIS.

Yeah, that's it. CIS is for four years schools; NAIT is a two year, I believe