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Mad Ants roster has 5 familiar players
JUSTIN A. COHN | The Journal Gazette
They’ll spend this truncated season almost 1,100 miles from Memorial Coliseum, but the Mad Ants’ roster should have a somewhat familiar feel.
The roster of 12 players obtained by The Journal Gazette today has five who were with the team last season: Naz Mitrou-Long, Daxter Miles Jr., JaKeenan Gant, Amida Brimah and Brian Bowen II.
The Mad Ants also bolstered their roster with draft picks Oshae Brissett and Quincy McKnight.
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With a new calendar year on the horizon, it s finally time for our first in-season projection for the 2021 men s NCAA tournament bracket. And if you ve seen the latest AP rankings, it should come as no surprise that Gonzaga, Baylor, Kansas and Villanova are our four No. 1 seeds.
At this point in a most unusual season, projected seeding is still based primarily on preseason expectations as opposed to actual results from the first five weeks. After all, the first NCAA Evaluation Tool (NET) rankings won t come out until Jan. 4, and KenPom.com data still has a lot of preseason modeling baked into the numbers.
UConn falls to Creighton in overtime despite 40 points by James Bouknight
David Borges
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“This,” McDermott said to the UConn coach, “is a hell of a basketball game.”
Indeed, UConn’s return Big East Conference play for the first time in nearly eight years was worth the wait, highlighted by big plays and defensive stops on both sides, 13 lead changes after halftime and a sensational performance by UConn star James Bouknight.
Like UConn’s last Big East contest, this one went to overtime. Unlike that battle with Providence back in March, 2013, the Huskies came up short.
Despite 40 points from Bouknight, UConn squandered a four-point lead in the final 21 seconds of regulation and fell to ninth-ranked Creighton, 76-74 at Gampel Pavilion.
Brimah and Hammonds were on Exhibit 10 contracts and could resurface on the Fort Wayne Mad Ants, Indiana’s G League team, once they clear waivers.
Brimah, 26, was in Indiana’s training camp last season on an Exhibit 10 contract but suffered a torn right ACL that required surgery.
Brimah’s previous NBA experience includes an Exhibit 10 deal with the Spurs in 2018 and a Summer League stint with the Bulls in 2017. He played two G League seasons with the Austin Spurs and spent one season in Belgrade.
Hammonds is a rookie forward out of Georgia. He averaged 12.9 points and 7.4 rebounds in 32 games for the Bulldogs last season.