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What will the rotation be for your team on MVC opening day? Everyone's bench is awesome in the preseason so I'm asking you to limit it to your starting 5 plus one guard and one big off the bench.

WSU:

PG - Fred VanVleet, 6-0, 205 sr
SG - Ron Baker, 6-4, 225 sr
SF - Zach Brown, 6-6, 210 so
PF - Evan Wessel, 6-4, 220 sr
C - Anton Grady, 6-8, 230 sr

G - Conner Frankamp, 6-1, 195 so
F - Shaq Morris, 6-7, 260 so

I love me some EW but if Shaq or Tom Bush can't crack the starting lineup by Valley time we can stop right now the dream of going back to the FF because it will be just that, a dream. Baker and VanVleet are as good as we've ever seen but you need size somewhere along the way. They can and likely will carry the team a lot of the way, but they can't do it all.

2livewu wrote:I love me some EW but if Shaq or Tom Bush can't crack the starting lineup by Valley time we can stop right now the dream of going back to the FF because it will be just that, a dream. Baker and VanVleet are as good as we've ever seen but you need size somewhere along the way. They can and likely will carry the team a lot of the way, but they can't do it all.

I hear you, and honestly I hate that line up. I would much rather see:

FVV
RB
ZB
AG
SM

With Evan off the bench at the 3.

BEARS

Dequon Miller 5'10
Kevin Baker 6'2 / Austin Ruder 6'3
Chris Kendrix 6'5
Camyn Boone 6'6/ Robin Thompson 6'6
Jordan Martin 6'8

BEARZ77 wrote:BEARS

Dequon Miller 5'10
Kevin Baker 6'2 / Austin Ruder 6'3
Chris Kendrix 6'5
Camyn Boone 6'6/ Robin Thompson 6'6
Jordan Martin 6'8

Is McCullough expected to be back for MVC play?

Wufan wrote:

BEARZ77 wrote:BEARS

Dequon Miller 5'10
Kevin Baker 6'2 / Austin Ruder 6'3
Chris Kendrix 6'5
Camyn Boone 6'6/ Robin Thompson 6'6
Jordan Martin 6'8

Is McCullough expected to be back for MVC play?

Possibly, but I don't know that he would play ahead of Martin anyway. Martin is a wide body with excellent footwork and low post moves, but a below the rim guy for the most part. It's impossible to tell with Lusk in regards to who plays and in what combinations. D. Williams is out right now to, and his and Ruder's roles could be very different if the jucos Miller and Baker perform well. The two players I think are going to be certainties are Kendrix and Boone. I think Boone is vastly underrated when you look at his stats for a 1st year juco on a chaotic team, and Kendrix looks to be the guy for the Bears the next 2-3 seasons. Don't know if they can overcome the coaching enough to have the Bears very far up the MVC rung though.

My guess for Loyola:

G - Doyle 6'4 185, Jr
G - Earl Peterson 6'3 180, Sr
G - Turk, 6'4 195 Sr
F - Montel James 6'7 220, Sr
F - Maurice Kirby 6'9 240, So (newcomer)

First off the bench:

G - Ben Richardson 6'3 185, So
F - Donte Ingram 6'6 215, So

Complete guess here for Drake, as I could see a lot of possible combinations

1-- Graham Woodward, 6'0" soph (transfer from Penn St)
2-- Reed Timmer, 6'1" soph
3-- Kale Abrahamson, 6'8 Jr (transfer from Northwestern)
4-- Casey Schlatter, 6'10" Fr
5-- Jacob Enevold Jensen, 7'0" Jr

Top 2 off the bench

Dominik Olejniczak, 7'0" Fr
Ore Arogundade 6'3" Soph or Billy Wampler 6'6" Fr

DUBulldog wrote:Complete guess here for Drake, as I could see a lot of possible combinations

1-- Graham Woodward, 6'0" soph (transfer from Penn St)
2-- Reed Timmer, 6'1" soph
3-- Kale Abrahamson, 6'8 Jr (transfer from Northwestern)
4-- Casey Schlatter, 6'10" Fr
5-- Jacob Enevold Jensen, 7'0" Jr

Top 2 off the bench

Dominik Olejniczak, 7'0" Fr
Ore Arogundade 6'3" Soph or Billy Wampler 6'6" Fr

I'm interested to see Drakes development this year. A mid-pack finish would set them up well for success the next two years.