Locked On Jayhawks - Daily Podcast On Kansas Jayhawks Football & Basketball - Portal Waiting Game - New Transfer Targets Emerge for Kansas Jayhawks Amid Patient Offseason

Episode Date: April 28, 2025

Kansas Jayhawks Basketball: Offseason Moves and Transfer Portal TargetsAre the Kansas Jayhawks poised for a transformative offseason? With four scholarships to fill, the Jayhawks are eyeing potential ...transfer portal targets to bolster their roster, but time seems to be ticking with no moves made. Derek Johnson breaks down the strategic moves KU Basketball might make, focusing on adding a starter-level player, a backup big man, and a sharpshooter, and why the timeline is the way it is in what is becoming a patient offseason for Bill Self. Key figures like Darrion Williams from Texas Tech and Ahamad Bynum from UTEP and DePaul are discussed, alongside insights into KU Football's NFL draft results, including Devin Neal's selection by the New Orleans Saints and Bryce Cabeldue to the Seattle Seahawks. KU Baseball's recent sweep of Utah also takes the spotlight, showcasing their impressive standing in the Big 12.Will the Jayhawks' offseason strategy lead to a successful season? Tune in for exclusive insights and expert analysis.Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!Supply HouseJoin the Trade Master program today at SupplyHouse.com/TM and start ordering plumbing, HVAC, and electrical supplies with just a few clicks. Plus, use promo code SH5 for 5% off your first order. That’s SupplyHouse.com! Amazon Fire TV Stick 4kDid you know your Fire TV is also an Xbox? Turn any TV into your gaming and entertainment hub with Fire TV Stick 4K devices — no console required. Head to Amazon.com/firetvlockedon to get started. Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription and compatible controller required.Monarch MoneyTake control of your finances with Monarch Money. Use code LOCKEDONCOLLEGE at monarchmoney.com for 50% off your first year. GametimeDownload the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDONCOLLEGE for $20 off your first purchase. Terms apply. Download Gametime today. What time is it? Gametime.FanDuelRight now, new customers can get TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS in BONUS BETS when your first FIVE DOLLAR BET WINS! Download the app or head to FANDUEL.COM to get started. Bet with FanDuel—Official Partner of the NBA.FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN)

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Still a lot to do in the off season for KU basketball. What is next? What's the hold up here? Not a lot of moves lately for KU basketball and Bill Self. You are Locked on Jayhawks, your daily podcast on the Kansas Jayhawks, part of the Locked on Podcast Network, your team every day. What's going on? Derek Johnson here. This is Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day.
Starting point is 00:00:27 What's going on? Derek Johnson here. This is Locked On J-Hawks. Thanks for making it your first listen every day. Thank you to every dayers catching each and every episode of the show. We are free and available anywhere you get your podcast, including on our YouTube page where you can like and subscribe to the show and check out our bonus episode. We've been talking a lot. KU Football has made some big transfer portal additions to check that out too. But on today's episode, what's next in
Starting point is 00:00:48 this offseason still a good amount to do for Bill Self and Company for KU basketball. Also get into KU showing some interest in seems like these three guards who would really fit into being that shooter off the bench role for KU along some other transfer portal news and the latest news with KU football in the NFL Draft and KU baseball continuing to roll on on today's episode of the show, which is all brought to you by the Amazon Fire TV stick 4k turn any TV into your Xbox no matter
Starting point is 00:01:17 what color or no console needed at amazon.com slash fire TV locked on to learn more. Okay, So what is next for KU men's basketball? Because the off season to do list, it seems like it's kind of come to a little bit of a stop here. Right? You get a honey do list from your wife or girlfriend over the weekend or significant other. And then all of a sudden, you know, you're like, I'm halfway through it.
Starting point is 00:01:41 I need a break. You know, I want to watch the last couple of innings of this baseball game or something. And it's like, okay, then we'll finish it. You know, after that, we'll finish it the rest of the day. There's been a bit of a hiatus. Now, it obviously isn't, I don't think Bill South is kicking back
Starting point is 00:01:53 and just watching Royals games. I'm sure he's still making phone calls, making things happen and figuring stuff out, you know, just in the shadows, so to speak, right? But Kansas still has four scholarships left to fill at this point in time. No, I'm not worried that they're not going to fill them.
Starting point is 00:02:07 I do think it's interesting from a standpoint of like. From a money allocation thing, and I think this applies more for football. Are we going to see teams moving forward though just say hey, you know we don't really need 14 players, which is Kansas scholarships
Starting point is 00:02:21 amount this year. But most teams are gonna have 15 in football. Do we really need 105? Are they going to get to a point 14 players, which is Kansas scholarships amount this year, but most teams are gonna have 15 in football. Do we really need 105? Are they going to get to a point where they're just like, you know what, for KU football, we're gonna use 90. We're gonna use 85. For KU basketball, we're gonna only use 12 or 13.
Starting point is 00:02:36 And not having those two guys at the end of the roster, even though they're not gonna be eyes making very much from the NIL, like every penny matters, right? And it adds up and anywhere you can squeeze extra money. So I do find that interesting, like, they're not going to be eyes making very much from the NIL. Like every penny matters, right? And it adds up and anywhere you can squeeze extra money. So I do find that interesting. Like will they use off or I don't know that are we kind of curious to see,
Starting point is 00:02:52 but if I'm divvying out like how those four would likely be divvied out, I think one, obviously you're looking for one more like starter level addition. Obviously we've had a lot of conversations and talks about Darian Williams, the transfer from Texas Tech, we're gonna have a deep dive on a player coming on tomorrow's
Starting point is 00:03:09 episode that might make some sense, you know, whether it's a wing, whether it's a foreman, getting another starter level player, and it does seem like a wing has more so been the main target, I guess it depends how you view Darien Williams, makes sense for that player to be able to shoot the basketball because you're looking for more floor spacing and shooting around the current lineup that you have right now.
Starting point is 00:03:32 It also does make sense for it to be kind of a splash play, kind of one more really good player because right now the roster, I think it's pretty good. I do like that they've gone more for fit than anything. You look at Bartorvik, it hasn't ranked 10th for next year, right? Feels like you could use one more splash play, though you could use one more stud play route there, right. And that is, you know, possibly again, Darian Williams, what we have the opportunity to do there. So I
Starting point is 00:04:00 view that as being one of the scholarships. Backup Big Man is another one of those, right? I mean, you feel good about Flory, but also Flory gotten foul trouble at times early on last year. Usually, that's something big men get better at the longer you know, they're playing the longer they're staying in college or whatever level it is. So you think that'll be a little better this year. But even then, you know, how comfortable are you with Bryson tiller is the
Starting point is 00:04:23 backup five. I mean, Bryson tiller might be awesome. He's a former, you know, fringe five, four star recruit, whatever you want to call him, you could play the four and five, he might be really good for Kansas. But he's also coming off a injury where, you know, he came into Kansas a semester early red shirted. And the idea was get him acclimated with everything. Well, unfortunately, because the injury he didn't get to like practice with the team and everything.
Starting point is 00:04:45 So like, when is he gonna be cleared? When is he gonna be able to play with the team? And those sort of things. And then when he is back to play, is it gonna bother him at all? Is it gonna be a nagging injury, similar to what we've seen with guys like Shaquille Moore? Or is it gonna be something he's gonna totally move past
Starting point is 00:04:59 and be totally fine, right? He could totally be your backup five and that might work or it might take him a year to kind of shake the rust off of that possible injury. You don't entirely know. And so there's a lot of, I guess, questions because you don't really have anybody besides that. Like, to me, Calderon is more of a three, four wing.
Starting point is 00:05:19 Well, if a guy who played the four, then he would be the five, but I guess because of his wingspan and out of dire needs. And right now, if you're just looking at the depth chart, he would have to be your third string five. You need another five men who can come in and play minutes for, and that's the other thing. Like I don't think Flory is going to be playing 32 minutes a game like Hunter Dickinson was. It could be closer to 25 to 28 from his starting level play, right? So there are real minutes to have at that backup five position. And then also it's the question of like,
Starting point is 00:05:46 do you bring someone in who can play, you know, five, but also play a little bit of four next to Flory? Like, can they shoot a little bit there, right? And if, if going back to the number one on this list, the adding another splash player, if that doesn't work out and you end up having to add more of a role player, does it make sense to just invest in more of a true big
Starting point is 00:06:07 who can shoot it at least a little bit to play it for here for KU and then can fill in as a backup five and then like you switch it around. Instead of saying we're looking for a bench big and a splash play who can play the wing and shoot, you look for a splash big who'd be out there and then get a bench wing.
Starting point is 00:06:24 I don't think that'd be the ideal scenario But you do have to at least keep your options open in that scenario But yeah back a big man still important at this point in time a lot of guys have been going off the the board and we Just had our episode last week. Thank you Never dares if you already caught it talking about some of the targets we're gonna talk about in our second segment some of the guys That have already gone off the board since then so feels like that's kind of drying up a little bit But if KU is going the international route, looking to that market, you know,
Starting point is 00:06:47 there's a lot of guys we just don't know about, right? Then you're looking for somebody in that kind of diggy, quite Jaylen Coleman lands role, the guy who was kind of your eighth or ninth man. He's a fringe player is part of your rotation. If he's making shots that day, he's going to be part of your rotation and he's going to play real minutes. If he's not making shots,
Starting point is 00:07:06 he's not gonna get much playing time in the second half or anything like that, right? And some games it might be five minutes, some games it might be a DNP, other games it might be 25 minutes in a given game. We're gonna talk about some guards that it seems like Kansas is targeting for that role at this point in time in our second segment as well.
Starting point is 00:07:22 And then a developmental player for kind of the last scholarship there. At that point, your rotation would be set if you take care of one, two and three on that list, you don't need another player to come in and be ready to like obviously you want everybody to fight for minutes and compete because you want that level of competitiveness in your program. But you want somebody who has an understanding that yeah, you
Starting point is 00:07:43 might not hit the court this year, right? It might take you a year or two, but if you develop and you do practice hard and you do all these things, you could eventually work into that, but this year you're really going to have to show out if you want that to kind of be the case. And then I think from there, the offseason progression just comes developing the team, figuring out how it all fits and then kind of turning an eye to 2026 for the recruiting game with with looking, you know, trying to nail down Tyron Stokes and other guys in that class of 2026. But yeah, that's kind of where I look at right now. And so when you go back to what is
Starting point is 00:08:17 the timeline for all of this, you look at Darian Williams, and you look at the I mean, we're gonna have a deep dive on Tuesday's episode of RJ Lewis. And RJ Lewis transfer from St. John's, he's in the NBA draft process, same way Darian Williams is, right? And a lot of the guys you're looking at for that final splash play, so to speak, as a transfer portal edition,
Starting point is 00:08:37 might be going through the NBA draft process. And so that's gonna elongate the process here, if you're built South in Kansas to where, you know, we might not know. And because a lot of these other scholarship offers might come down to how much did you pay that splash play? Like, let's say you had 4 million left lying around. If you have to pay the big player
Starting point is 00:08:59 you're bringing in 2 million, right? That gives you more money to spend on a backup big. And then maybe the market of the guys that you're looking at is a little bit better versus if more money to spend on a backup big. And then maybe the market of the guys that you're looking at is a little bit better versus if you have to spend three million of that, you know, the backup big becomes a different conversation in what you can kind of bring in.
Starting point is 00:09:12 And so you almost wonder if it is a little bit beholden to that with the exception of I'm sure Kansas does have, you know, a certain number in mind of like, okay, we can fit this into the budget if they take this much. But if they want more than that, then we are gonna have to wait on what happens with this first guy. So it kind of makes things interesting and does make this feel like it is going to be a bit of a long game, bit of a waiting game for KU to kind of fill out the roster a little bit more. All right, who are some players they're showing portal interest in? Because there's some guards,
Starting point is 00:09:40 also some centers going off the board that we talked about from last week's episode. And also KU baseball continues to kill it NFL draft happen some Jayhawks saw their name called as well. We'll get to all those and more on locked on Jayhawks Today's episode of LOJ is brought to you by FanDuel Sportsbook and with the NBA playoffs here NHL playoffs here FanDuel has given new customers an Incredible way to get in on the action right now when you, FanDuel's given new customers an incredible way to get in on the action. Right now, when you join FanDuel
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Starting point is 00:11:03 but also K you've shown some interest in some guards we talked about in the number three on those All right, so some names flying off the board, but also KU showing some interest in some guards we talked about in the number three on those four scholarships, so to speak, in segment one about the Jalen Coleman Lance diggie court role, somebody who could come off the bench and shoot three story and on this year's team, that might actually be more important than in previous teams, because there are maybe some questions about what the three point shooting of this team will be. So maybe that role ends up being even bigger than in other teams, because there are maybe some questions about what the three point shooting of this team will be. So maybe that role ends up being even bigger than
Starting point is 00:11:28 in other years to what that role typically is. But point being, you're looking for somebody who can shoot threes. I mean, that it's a big part of it can shoot them at pretty good volume can shoot them at good efficiency is comfortable playing off ball. And you're also looking for somebody who I think would be content in that role, right? I mean, you can understand again, like you want these players to be competitive. You don't want the player to come in and be like, nah, I don't want to start. You don't want to come in and be like, nah, I
Starting point is 00:11:55 don't want to play that much. You want them to come in and try to fight for every minute possible. But you want them to be able to be content if that does end up being 10 minutes per game, right? You don't want them causing a ruckus in the locker room if that is the case. So Jarvis Moss is one of those guys that there's been some interest in. Kay, he was previously at Radford, Davidson, and Stanford before that.
Starting point is 00:12:14 He's a six-four shooting guard, 13 and a half points per game at Radford this past year. 37 and a half percent from three, six and a half attempts per game. Also 84% at the foul line. So a lot of three-point attempts per game. Also 84% at the foul line. So a lot of three point attempts per game. The effective field goal percentage, true shooting percentage solid for him as well.
Starting point is 00:12:30 The team was about eight points better offensively and about nine points better defensively when he was on the floor. So you like to see that six, four, 200, obviously he's got good size to be on the defensive end as well. Didn't turn it over much 71st percentile in turnover rate. He also was ranked high in 3.10, 79th percentile,
Starting point is 00:12:49 and then 69th percentile in 3.0 percentage. Didn't have a ton of steals or blocks, despite the fact that the odd-off numbers were really good on the defensive end of the floor. So that one would be interesting. John Buggs III, he is a transfer from East Tennessee State. Before that was at North Texas, UTSA, Hill College, which is a junior college, and then UMass.
Starting point is 00:13:09 So I believe this will be his final year because he had a couple of seasons where I think he can get a medical redshirt out of and then he's got the Juco year. But he's a 6-3 shooting guard, 11 points per game at ETSU last year, 41% from three on 6.4 attempts per game, solid effective field goal, solid true shooting percentage.
Starting point is 00:13:26 The team was about five points worse with him on the floor defensively, but this is a guy who low usage player. 38th percentage usage rates, going back to the idea, you know, you want them to be able to play without the ball and work that. Well, that works with bugs. 98th percentile turnover rate, right?
Starting point is 00:13:43 So he's not turning it over much. He's not causing problems. He's playing well off the ball. 89th percentile three-point attempt rate, 92nd percentile and three-point percentage. He also shot 47% on two deep threes per game. So this is a guy with serious range that can really stretch it out.
Starting point is 00:14:01 I would like that addition of bugs in terms of the offensive end. I think Moss not as good of a shooter as bugs, but probably gives you more on the defensive end. So that's kind of where you'd be at between those two. And then the most recent one is Ahmad Bynum. Apparently Bill Self recruited his like uncle. There's a story in the Kansas City Star, I think Mike Vernon mentioned it too, but a story in the Kansas City Star, talking to like him and his agent and stuff like that. This one concerns me a little bit more. So here, let me get into the numbers here.
Starting point is 00:14:34 So Bina was at UTEP before that was at Trinity Valley Community College and then before that was at DePaul. He's a 6'3 shooting guard. He'll be a technically a redshirt senior, but because of the Juco year, I think he'd be a redshirt junior. So 10.3 points per game doesn't really do much else. Only 1.7 rebounds point nine assists. He shot like below 40% on two point shots. But he did shoot 44% from three really, really good three point shooter 5.3 attempts per game. That's
Starting point is 00:14:59 basically the one thing he does out there, right? The team was six points better offensively, he's on the court, they were about four points worse defensively, it was on the court. They were about four points worse defensively when he was on the court. 20th percentile assist to turnover rate. So it doesn't do great there. He was 67th percentile in a Keam rate. So you like to see that.
Starting point is 00:15:13 82nd percentile, three-pointed temperate, 96th percentile in three-point percentage. And he was in the 40th percentile or lower in every shooting zone, except the two from three, where he was in the 84th percentile or better from both corner and above the break. So really good three point shooter.
Starting point is 00:15:28 Here's why, okay, so going back to the idea that you want somebody who's comfortable in the role. This was a quote in that Kansas City Star article from Rod Bynum, going to Kansas would be a great situation. It would be a great decision for me and coach Self. I can definitely help Kansas win more games. And I don't know, maybe I'm overthinking that a
Starting point is 00:15:45 little bit. Maybe it's just like, what do you want them to say? No, I'm not gonna have an impact on the floor. But I almost view that as like, I'm going to have a big impact and then winning games. And there's part of me that's sitting there like, that might not be the role for you. That might be a little upsetting. And here's where it comes into play. So if you if you like see stuff from fans of other schools when you add their, like Jayden Dawson's perfect example.
Starting point is 00:16:08 There were a lot of Loyola Chicago fans who were like, oh man, you guys are gonna love him. Like we love that he was dog, all these things, right? That's a good sign. And maybe it was more of a sign with like AJ Stor than we let on because there were a lot of Wisconsin fans that were kind of like, ah, you know, in the same way that Kansas fans,
Starting point is 00:16:24 when Jeff Grimes left to Wisconsin were like, oh my goodness, like, yeah, like thank you for taking him away. You know what I mean? Like sometimes it's not the be all end all, but sometimes you can really tell from a previous fan base. You talk to the DePaul fan base where he was at before, and I don't know that you'll get glowing reviews. And so he was at DePaul for two years, one he redshirted,
Starting point is 00:16:43 his second year he played 11 games. He was suspended indefinitely from the team. I think it was on January 4th of that season. Their head coach later said that like, he didn't go into what happened. So I don't entirely know what he did, but he was suspended for the rest of the season from January 4th on, and then ended up entering the transfer portal in middle March. I'm sure stemming from that, right? So what did he do? I don't entirely know, but he was suspended from the team. So he goes to the junior college
Starting point is 00:17:09 and then he goes to UTEP this past year. He gets suspended for the conference USA tournament from UTEP for a violation of team rules. And again, the coach didn't really go into what he did, just kind of a violation of team rules. So here you're talking about a guy where it's like, if you don't wanna shake the boat, you don't wanna rock the boat with the guy who's going to be your eighth or ninth man.
Starting point is 00:17:27 And you have a guy who's been suspended from his two previous Division one schools. I don't know that I'm totally a board on that, but I don't know. I've liked the way that this staff is so far in the portal gone all about fit. And so like if you're going for all talent, then sure, this makes sense, but that hasn't been your play so far. Now, does that allow you because you've been fit so far that you can afford like one move like this? Maybe.
Starting point is 00:17:54 But I just like if you're comparing it to Jarvis Moss or John Buggs the third, and again, you know, money and other stuff comes into this. But yeah, I think I'd be going for those two ahead of him for sure. Other portal news, by the way, these are a lot of players that we've mentioned in the past, maybe connected with KU or just targets in general. Terrence Arseneau is going to NC State. Noah Collier to LaSalle, we mentioned him in the back of big conversation. Christian Coleman to Oklahoma State, really good springy foreman mentioned him in the
Starting point is 00:18:24 big conversation. Noah Ammenhauser, that same big backup, big DeFleury episode, 72 big men from coastal Carolina. He's going to Oregon State. Joel Larmo training from UC Riverside is to Nevada. And then Emma Juru, the really athletic big from George Mason I liked, is going to East Carolina. And then the last big one was Nada Awusu Enane, a guy who visited KU earlier, committed SMU, exited out of SMU re entered into the portal, he's gonna end up going to Grand Canyon. So any scuttlebutt there with Kansas is no longer thing, he'll be a lope. So a lot of centers moving off the board, Kansas might really have to go that international route. Let's
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Starting point is 00:20:30 Download Game Time today, last minute tickets, lowest price, guaranteed. All right, thank you for joining us on this episode of Locked on Jayhawks. So it was a fun weekend for KU Athletics. Could have been even more fun with the NFL draft. Let's start there. Devin Neal goes in the sixth round of the Saints. I felt like one where he could have gone in the third to fifth round.
Starting point is 00:20:52 The sixth feels a little low for me, but I think the Saints got a good one. And I think a good spot for Devin Neal. Obviously Alvin Kamara is in front of you, but Kamara is starting to get a little older from the running back position. And Kendrick Miller hasn't done anything to lock down a spot for them.
Starting point is 00:21:08 So I'm just not gonna count out Devon Neal. That dude, I think he's gonna be a pro for a long time. Bryce Cabledo is a six round pick of the Seahawks. They announced him as a guard. Really cool just his progression. He goes from being somebody who was thrown into the fire too early as a true freshman offense lineman in the COVID year for Kansas
Starting point is 00:21:25 with the last miles team. And he just progressed and what's the light pole, you know, coaching staff got in, he just really took off. So cool to see him go in the sixth round. I would have thought the first lineman taken for KU would have been Logan Brown. He ends up going undrafted, quickly signs with the Minnesota Vikings.
Starting point is 00:21:41 Kobe Bryant, I thought he would have been drafted too. I think disrespect there, he goes to the Falcons undrafted. I think that a lot of these guys are going to have chances to make the rosters. I'm gonna expect Colby Bryant to make the roster like I'm being completely honest. Melo Dotson same thing to the Raiders. A couple of KU receivers Quentin Skinner goes to the New York Jets and Luke Grimm goes to the Chargers. Then Jeremy Robinson,
Starting point is 00:22:05 he'll be with Austin Booker with the Bears. JB Brown goes to the Broncos. And then the Chiefs got in on the action with a couple of guys, Marvin Grant, which I'll be interested to see if the Chiefs use him as a safety or a linebacker or what. And then this is my favorite one, Jared Casey. Jared Casey goes to the Chiefs.
Starting point is 00:22:24 They announced him as a fullback. And I. Jared Casey goes to the Chiefs. They announced him as a fullback and I think he was all big 12 fullback. He was kind of using his H back by KU and he was best used that way with Andy Kotelnicki more so I think than with Jeff Grimes. Chiefs don't really have a fullback. I know they had Carson Steele on the roster. He's more of a running back than he is a fullback. Maybe he can make the roster. I think it'd be really cool if Jared Casey would. And I don't know, I'd probably get myself a Jared Casey Chiefs jersey, if we're being completely honest.
Starting point is 00:22:48 Also some KU baseball updates here. A sweep for KU baseball over the Utes of Utah. They beat them 2-0, 12 to five, and 12 to 11, the final game. A grand slam puts them in front late, and then they're able to close the door at the end. So overall, that puts them now at 35 and 10 on the season. They're now 15 and six in Big 12 play,
Starting point is 00:23:08 which is currently in second place. They're only behind West Virginia, who's 16 and three. So that would put them, what, two games behind West Virginia. And then they're a game ahead of Arizona State. They're a game ahead of TCU. They're two games ahead of Arizona. So it's tight among the top at the Big 12, but it's been a heck of a play so far for
Starting point is 00:23:26 KU baseball and the schedule gets very interesting from here. So on Tuesday night, KU is hosting Missouri. That'll be at six o'clock on Tuesday. That'll be a fun one. And certainly the student section and the, you know, fans that have been really filling out Hoagland so far, they're going to make a raucous environment against Missouri. And then they're back at home for a three game set next weekend, Cincinnati. Then they're at Missouri for a midweek game the following week. Then BYU that following weekend.
Starting point is 00:23:53 And they finish up, mentioned West Virginia's in first and the Big 12. Well, they finish up at West Virginia in Morgantown. So if things keep trending the way they are, could that one, you know, determine who wins the big 12 kids obviously still with a lot of work to be done before you can have that conversation but they're doing the work right now and it looks pretty cool into it. So that'll do it for this episode of Lockdown Jhawks. You can find our show anywhere you get your podcast, including on our YouTube page. Don't forget to check out our bonus episodes where we broke down KU football's two newest transfer board.
Starting point is 00:24:23 I guess three newest transfer portal commits right here with LOJ. See you next time for some more transfer portal talk, KU basketball, KU football, anything KU related right here with Lockdown Jayhawks.

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