Plowden Back! Washington in Portal, along with 33 other MAC players

Some personnel news out of the MBB program...one good piece and one less good.  

The good news is that Daeqwon Plowden has decided to return for his "extra" season.  This is good news is that BG will now not be losing its top 3 scorers, but 2 of its first 3.  (That's assuming Diggs doesn't come back, which I have heard nothing about).

Plowden has been a 2nd and 3rd team All-MAC player and it's great to have him back in the fold.

Jacob Washington, meanwhile, has entered the portal.  Washington was a JUCO transfer who played one year at BG.  He was playing double-digit minutes pretty much every game until the second Toledo game, when he hit a streak of 21 minutes total over the season's last 6 meaningful games.  (He did play some against Stetson with the injuries.)

BG finished the season with 11 scholarship players (the one left empty intentionally and Ziegler's spot).  You can do the match...Turner, Washington, Matiss and Diggs not back, for example) leaves BG with 6 open scholarships and only one FR signed and one transfer coming in, and his eligibility subject to waiver.  So, 4 open and that's if no one else leaves.  Though maybe someone else stays.  There have been some reports online of us offering some transfers.  It seems like that's an increasingly necessary option.

Jacob Washington F/C In Portal

Justin Turner G Leaving

Josiah Fulcher G

Caleb Fields G

Kaden Metheny G

Cam Young G/F

Trey Diggs G/F   Was in Senior night

Chandler Turner G/F

Matiss Kulackovskis F Potential career-ending injury

Daeqwon Plowden G/F 6-6

Dylan Swingle C 6-10

Literally, as I wrote this the news came out that Marreon Jackson (MAC Player of Year) was entering the portal.  This are currently 1,008 players in the portal, according to verbalcommits.com.  34 players from the MAC are listed as being in the portal.  Most of them were getting no PT, but you have Jermaine Marshall (broke BG's heart), 2nd-team All-MAC El-Amin, BSU's 3rd leading scorer Jarron Coleman, 3rd team all-MAC Michael Nuga, Ty Groce, EMU leading scorer, Bryce McBride, EMU 2nd leading scorer, Titus Wright, WMU 3rd leading scorer and Boyer-Richard, WMU 4th leading scorer.

Jermaine Marshall, Akron

Camron Reece, Akron

Ishmael El-Amin, Ball State

Jarron Coleman, Ball State

Ra'Shad Weekly-McDaniels, CMU

DeSchon Winston, CMU

PJ Mitchell, CMU

Miles Gibson, EMU

Ty Groce, EMU

Bryce McBride, EMU

Evan Bainbridge, KSU

Kallin Bennett, KSU (To Morehouse)

James Jordan, KSU

Michael Nuga, KSU

Tekorian Smith, KSU (to Troy)

Josh Brewer, Miami

Keenon Cole, NIU 

Daniel Fillipone, NIU

Chanse Robinson, UB

Patrick Emilien, WMU to St. Francis

Chase Barrs, WMU

William Boyer-Richard, WMU

Rafael Cruz, WMU

Kawinise Williams, WMU

Titus Wright, WMU

Marreon Jackson, UT

Charles Jones, UT

Jonathan Kornugum, UT

Luke Maranka, UT

Matti Acunza, UT

Mason McMurray, Ohio

Rifen Miguel, Ohio

Incoming

Sincere Carry, Kent from Duquesne

Maceo Jack, Buffalo from GW

Markeese Hastings, WMU from Butler

Lamar Norman, WMU from Duquesne

Chris James, EMU from College of Sourthern Idaho