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03-25-2021, 02:00 PM
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Papa John.)
Here are the top five in terms of both points/game and minutes played/game for this year's UCSB men's BB team:
Jaquori McLaughlin: Transfer from Oregon State
Amadou Sow: High school recruit
Ajare Sanni: Transfer from University of the Pacific
Miles Norris: Transfer from City College of San Francisco, before that played for University of Oregon
Devearl Ramsey: Transfer from University of Nevada
Four transfers. Great for the Gauchos but I doubt it's a winning formula at Stanford.
And for reference, here are the top five scorers for Haase's 2015-16 team at UAB:
Robert Brown: Transfer from Virginia Tech
Chris Cokley: High school recruit
William Lee: High school recruit
Dirk Williams: High school recruit
Nick Norton: High school recruit
One transfer, albeit UAB's top scorer.
Joe Pasternack might be an improvement over Haase, but I don't think his method of building the Gauchos into the big dog in the Big West would work at Stanford. JP did work at Arizona prior to his UCSB employment, so at least he knows the conference. His brother-in-law is Roxy Bernstein, so like Haase he has a Cal connection.
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)