Big Red’s Reads: George Fant Speaks, Basketball Recruiting & Potential CUSA Changes
Happy Tuesday Hilltopper Fans, We apologize for the low amount content on the site lately, we strive to consistently put out content week…
Happy Tuesday Hilltopper Fans, We apologize for the low amount content on the site lately, we strive to consistently put out content week after week as we have since 2017. With that in mind, we thought we'd update you on the WKU’s related content on the internet. Here’s what you may have missed over the past few days:
WKU continued the Beyond the Hill podcast series with George Fant as he discussed his move to New York, his time at WKU, his relationship with his wife Chastity Gooch-Fant, and more.
Fant also spoke to the Jets team site about the move and why he feels he’s only going to get better in New York.
The Chicago Tribune discussed how another ProTopper Joel Iyiegbuniwe has special gratitude for his mom during National Nurses Week.
Lucky Jackson somehow still hasn’t been signed as an undrafted free agent. Here’s how the snub has motivated him
WKU Basketball has reached out to East Tennessee State transfer Bo Hodges. Hodges averaged 12.7 points, 5.8 rebounds and 2.5 assists for the Buccaneers.
WKU’s top remaining target Frank Anselem discussed his finalists and what they all bring to the table.
Camron Justice has found an agent to help start his professional career
The NCAA is set to update the formula for the NET Rankings that it uses to evaluate tournament resumes.
Here’s a good reaction from Three Man Weave of what it means
Joe Lunardi has updated his bracket with the anticipated impacts of the new formula and has WKU as a 12 seed in the Midwest region.
Former WKU & current Old Dominion athletic director Wood Selig has some interesting comments about Coronavirus’s impact on Conference USA in the Virginia Pilot including the possibility of ODU sitting out 20–21. Let’s hope those comments are overblown.
Todd Stewart commented on the budget challenges facing WKU in CollegeAD.
Selection Sunday for Softball would have been last weekend. Softball America projects that WKU Softball would have made the Lexington region along with UK & EKU. Just another painful reminder of what we lost during these unprecedented times.
WKU Softball did get a commitment from Georgetown (Kentucky)’s Leilani Valencia. She joins her sister Princess on the Hilltoppers team.
WKU Tennis also got some good news as Radford transfer Alexis Cramer has decided to come to Bowling Green.
WKU Football is one of the betting favorites heading into 2020
ESPN’s Bill Connelly has been previewing each team ahead of the 2020 season on twitter. Yesterday was FAU and he showed what SP+ thinks about WKU’s chances against the defending Conference USA champs.
Redshirt Freshman Punter/Kicker Webb Bates has entered the transfer portal. Not a huge surprise with him being blocked by both John Haggerty and Cory Munson.
WKU Football has offered a junior college quarterback and a North Carolina senior receiver yesterday
We’re now up to 127 full games in our Men’s Basketball Archive.
WKU historian David Lee examines how the University and President Cherry handled the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic showing the severity of the disease compared to today.
Bowling Green lost a valuable member of the local food scene as White Squirrel Brewery is closing its doors after 5 years due to Covid-19.
They will be missed and there is now a giant void in the local beer scene.
I hope everyone is hanging in there during these strange times. If you come across anything WKU related, please share it with us on Twitter or Facebook.