![]() The problem is that none of the five were particularly efficient as freshmen. 6’5” Femi Odukale (6.6 ppg/2.2 apg), 6’9” John Hugley (5.1 ppg/4.3 rpg), 6’7” William Jeffress (2.4 ppg/2.2 rpg), 6’8” Noah Collier (0.8 ppg/1.3 rpg), and 6’10” Max Amadasun (0.5 ppg/0.8 rpg) at least give Pitt something resembling a young core. Well, at the very least, Pitt’s five-man 2020 recruiting class, which looked promising at the time (ranked 30th nationally by 247 Sports), returns intact. Also out is 6’8” Karim Coulibaly (5.2 ppg/3.9 rpg/no relation to Darius), who transferred to St. So it’s been a while since a player like Champagnie would be more than even-money to return to school, but it’s hard to build a program if your good players are bailing for other schools. The team’s second-leading scorer, Au’Diese Toney (14.4 ppg/5.9 rpg), transferred to Arkansas, while Xavier Johnson (14.2 ppg/5.7 apg) is now at Indiana. Justin Champagnie (18.0 ppg/11.1 rpg) left for the NBA and is now on a two-way contract with the Toronto Raptors. Who’s GoneĪnd unfortunately for Pitt, their top three scorers are gone. And then he got the Pitt job in 2018.Īnyway, Capel’s 40-48 in three years at Pitt so clearly he learned a lot from Mike Krzyzewski. But then, he went to spend a few years as a Duke assistant, which is like the basketball version of the Nick Saban School For Coaches Who Can’t Coach Good, except that it’s only open to Duke grads. A decade or so ago, Capel was the head coach at Oklahoma for five years, where he put up a 96-69 record - but only 43-51 when he didn’t have Blake Griffin on the team - and also got the Sooners in deep shit with the NCAA. Jeff Capel, the guy who I definitely did not want when the Vanderbilt job came open when Kevin Stallings left for Pitt, ironically replaced Stallings at Pitt. “Coach still expects the same thing.Last year: 10-12 (6-10 ACC), 97th in KenPom Head Coach “I don’t think it changed expectations,” Hugley said. Players understand the situation, but refuse to make excuses.
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