Intro

Favorite pitcher hype song (for John McMillon): Big Bad John, Jimmy Dean; not the greatest ending for ole Big Bad John, but cool nonetheless

• Jimmy Dean from Plainview
• “Best known for 1961 hit “Big Bad John”, his 1961 recitation song about a heroic miner. The song went on to become #1 on Billboard pop chart; sold over a million copies and was awarded a gold disc. Track peaked at #2 in the UK Singles Chart. Song won Dean the 1962 Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Recording”

Basketball

• Chris Clarke transfer from Va Tech; 6’6 215lbs; rated #8 grad transfer for 2019
  • #62 recruit coming out of high school, lower than only Jahmius Ramsey and Khavon Moore
  • 2017-2018 stats: 8.2 ppg, 6.3 rebounds, 98 assists, 31 steals
  • Sat out 2018-2019 season, dismissed from Va Tech after misdemeanor drug charge (roommate also charged with misdemeanor drug possession charge, but not suspended)
  • Career stats: 54% FG, 42.4% 3FG (low volume shooter, 14/33 in 2017-2018), 66.6% FT (draws a lot of contact, shot 94 FTs in 2017-2018, would have been 3rd highest on this year’s Tech team); 1.93 TO/g (Culver had 2.7/g this year, Mooney had 2.5), 2.6 assists/gm; 6.5 rebounds/gm (Culver led Tech with 6.4)
  • Called a “junkyard dog defender” by Rob Dauster of NBC Sports; was Va Tech’s best defender
    • Averaged giving up 98.7 points per 100 possessions; all of Tech’s starters averaged better, closest Tech starter would have been Moretti at 93.8
• Tyreek Smith committed; 6’8 205lbs; Trinity Christian (Cedar Hill, TX)
  • 4*, rated between 101st and 153rd overall in 2019 class
  • Played on same high school AAU team as 5* target RJ Hampton
  • Interior slasher, dunker, lane defender; not much of a jump shooter
• Still have one scholarship available for 2019-2020 (Khalid Thomas decommitted)
• Only 3 contributors from 2018-2019 season returning: Davide Moretti, Kyler Edwards, & Deshawn Corprew (5 total counting Kevin McCullar & Andre Savrasov)
  • Guards:
    • Moretti; Edwards, McCullar, Jahmius Ramsey, Clarence Nadolny
  • Forwards
    • Corprew, Savrasov, Terrance Shannon, TJ Holyfield, Chris Clarke, Tyreek Smith
  • Center
    • Russel Tchewa

Football

Anything?

• Wells was at all 3 baseball games (headsetless); man among the people, incognito; he talked to me for 2 seconds about me keeping score and said “old school. I like it”. So now, I’ve arrived.

Baseball

• Season Awards
  • Josh Jung, Co-Big 12 Player of the Year (49 GP, .333/.597/.471 (OPS 1.068), 186 ABs, 49 Rs, 62 hits (20 2B, 1 3B, 9 HR), 49 RBI
    • Shared with Baylor INF Davis Wendzel (40 GP, .385/.647/.500 (OPS 1.147), 159 ABs, 39 Rs, 60 hits (17 2B, 8 HR), 39 RBI
    • For comparison, Cam Warren; 51 GP, .354/.667/.448 (OPS 1.115) 189 ABs, 51 Rs, 67 hits (16 2B, 2 3Bs, 13 HRs) 65 RBI
    • https://kkam.com/why-does-the-big-12-love-co-award-winners-so-much/

	G	avg	OB%	slg%	AB	R	H	2B	3b	HR	RBI	BB	SO
Wendzel	40	.385	.500	.647	156	36	60	17	0	8	39	27	32
Warren	51	.354	.448	.667	189	51	67	16	2	13	65	31	21
Jung	49	.333	.471	.597	186	49	62	20	1	9	49	46	34

 

• • All Big 12 First Team: Jung, Warren, Gabe Holt, Caleb Killian, Taylor Floyd
  • All Big 12 Second Team: Brian Klein, Dylan Neuse, Clayton Beeter
  • Honorable Mention: Braxton Fulford, Dane Haveman, John McMillon
  • All Freshman Team: Beeter, Micah Dallas, Cole Stillwell
• Came into the weekend .5 game back from Baylor
• Thursday, L 1-3 in 14
• Friday, W 7-2
• Saturday, W 8-4
• Conference champions again!
  • Third time in 4 years, unshared this season
• National Seed/Super Regional Host discussion h/t KP Dinger Derby
  • Texas Tech unshared conference champions of #2 RPI conference
  • Texas Tech, RPI #9, SoS #12, NonCon RPI #16, NonCon SoS #17
  • Louisville, RPI #7, SoS #27, NonCon RPI #21, NonCon SoS #119
  • Arkansas, RPI #6, SoS #11, NonCon RPI #43, NonCon SoS #158
• Big 12 Tournament schedule
  • Your pod includes 1 seed Tech, 4 seed WVU, 5 seed Kansas, 8 seed Kansas State (other pod is 2 seed Baylor, 3 seed Okla St, 6 seed TCU, 7 seed Oklahoma; will only face a team from this pod in championship game)
  • Double Elimination format
  • Will face KSU first (Wed 1230), likely Griffin Hassall on the mound (4.25 ERA, 1.27 WHIP, 2-3 on the year on 13 appearances, 35K:24BB (1.45 K:BB ratio)
    • Pitched vs Tech 3/30, L for Hassall, 6 IP, 4H, 3R (1ER), 2BB, 2K
  • Likely to face WVU in second round (Thursday, 4p); or Kansas is they upset; WVU #2 pitcher is Jackson Wolf (4.75 ERA, 1.51 WHIP, 2-4 on the year with 14 appearances, 46K:26BB (1.77 K:BB ratio)
    • Pitched vs Tech 4/13, W for Wolf, 4.1 IP, 8H, 3R (3ER), 1BB, 3K

 

Questions

 

Going Yard

 

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