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A stud at the University of Dayton, Holmes improved by the season with the Flyers. In his underclassmen years, he was primarily a two-way paint presence with excellent efficiency and a nose for the basketball. As a junior, he extended his range to the three-point line, knocking down 38.6% of his tries and still keeping his dominance on the block. There’s a reason he was a consensus All-American and Atlantic 10 Player of the Year. “These guys have had a lot of success at different levels doing that, where there's coaching staffs who have relied on these people to win games,” Adelman said. “I actually think the hardest part of that is when you get people back, and now what you've ingrained in someone, what their role is on a really good team -- a winning team, a team that has a chance to do some really special things -- now it's, 'Hey, get back to what you were doing before.' And not, 'Get back in your lane,' but it is that way a little bit. But I'm actually excited for it. I want to see some of these guys have the opportunity to make plays, do some things.”
Gary Woelfel: Maksym “Max” Shulga, a native of Ukraine, told me he’ll be heading to Milwaukee after the NBA draft combine for a workout with the Bucks. Shulga, a combo guard from Virginia Commonwealth, was the Atlantic 10 Player of the Year last season.
The ensuing years brought Correia success in both sobriety and strength training. He linked up with Kolek, and during their six summers together, the cerebral point guard emerged as Rhode Island’s High School Player of the Year, the Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Year with George Mason and the Big East Player of the Year with Marquette.
Michael Scotto: DaRon Holmes, an All-American and the Atlantic 10 Conference Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year, has received a green room invite for the 2024 NBA Draft, league sources told @hoopshype. pic.twitter.com/di31upx8PW
If Bronny James decides to return to college and transfer elsewhere, Duquesne is expected to be among his prominent considerations, sources said. Duquesne's new coach, Dru Joyce, was a high school teammate of LeBron's and is a longtime James family friend. Joyce was promoted to head coach after Keith Dambrot retired following an Atlantic 10 championship and a run to the NCAA tournament. Dambrot was the high school coach of James and Joyce at St. Vincent-St. Mary in Akron, Ohio.
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Dayton center DaRon Holmes should be on the shortlist of any breakout player projection in college basketball. A 6-foot-10 big man, Holmes had a monster freshman season that saw him make the All-Defense team in the Atlantic 10, win Atlantic 10 Freshman of the Year and earn second-team All-Atlantic 10 honors. Dayton coach Anthony Grant couldn’t have expected all of that so quickly, but it’s not a surprise that the twitchy big man out of Goodyear, Ariz., made an early impact. He was the highest-rated recruit to ever commit to Dayton back in 2020, a direct result of the Flyers’ success the previous year.
Adrian Wojnarowski: St. Bonaventure’s Jalen Adaway — an All-Atlantic 10 guard — has agreed on an Exhibit 10 deal with the San Antonio Spurs, sources tell ESPN.
After claiming the Atlantic 10 tournament championship and an impressive NCAA tournament first-round win against the Iowa Hawkeyes, Richmond Spiders’ Tyler Burton has announced he will be declaring for the 2022 NBA draft.
The coaching staff felt Toppin was hurt more than many rookies by not having a summer league before his rookie year because he played in the smaller Atlantic 10 Conference against schools such as Fordham. “I’m definitely looking forward to summer league to get an opportunity to showcase what I’ve been working on,’’ said Toppin, who shot just 30.6 percent from 3-point range. “Me and Quick and everyone else playing, we are going to do great.’’
Jon Rothstein: Saint Louis' Hasahn French tells me that he will withdraw from the 2020 NBA Draft and return to school next season. Averaged 12.4 PPG and 10.4 RPG last year. Significant Atlantic 10 news.
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The Atlanta Hawks Basketball Club has signed guard C.J. Anderson, it was announced today. Last season, as a senior at University of Massachusetts, Anderson played in 32 games (28 starts), averaging 10.6 points, 5.2 assists and 5.0 rebounds in 35.2 minutes (.414 FG%, .400 3FG%, .813 FT%), ranking fourth in the Atlantic-10 Conference in assists.
Michael Wallace: Grizzlies are signing Atlantic-10 Defensive POY Yuta Watanabe to two-year, 2-Way contract. Watanabe is a 6-9 forward from George Washington who played with Nets in Vegas Summer League. To make room for Watanabe, Grizzlies releasing swingman Myke Henry, who missed summer league.
