Falcons pick up transfer from ODU

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— Joe Reece (@JosephEReece) April 30, 2021

BG added another transfer to its MBB program.  This one is Joe Reece who is transferring from Old Dominion University in Virginia.

He is 6'8" and 200 pounds, and I would expect him to play the Jacob Washington role on the team.  He played two years at ODU and will have two seasons at BG.  

He played sparingly in his first year, but played and started 22 games last year.  He scored 7.8 PPG and had 5.1 RPG in 25 minutes.  He made 53% of his 2FG attempts and only 26% from 3FG, while attempting about 2 a game.  That 2FG shooting is pretty good.

So, to review, here is how the roster looks now.  This totals 14 players.  As will become the norm, there will be a lot of question marks, especially as BG has chosen to go for transfers from players "moving up" from smaller programs as opposed to "moving down" from P5 programs.

 2 Josiah Fulcher G  

3 Caleb Fields G

5 Kaden Metheny G

10 Cam Young G/F

11 Trey Diggs G/F

13 Chandler Turner G/F

21 Matiss Kulackovskis F

25 Daeqwon Plowden G/F

35 Dylan Swingle C

Samari Curtis (needs waiver)

Brenton Mills (eligible, So)

Myron Gordon (Grad Transfer Eligible)

Ubong Etim, F (early signee)

Joe Reece, F (eligible, two years left)

Diggs returning to BG

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BREAKING: Captain @tdiggs7 has announced that he will use his extra year of eligibility & remain a Falcon in 2021-22. Diggs has scored over 1,000 collegiate points & has made 109 triples in 2 seasons at BGSU.#AyZiggy // #DowntownDiggs🎯 pic.twitter.com/3G1uKydyzX

— BGSU Basketball (@BGSUMHoops) April 14, 2021

So here's good news for the men's basketball team.  Trey Diggs will use his bonus COVID here at BG.  The 6th Man of the Year in the MAC will return to the Falcons, meaning that only ("only") Justin Turner from last year's team is returning.

It's a new era of basketball, but I'm proud to see us hanging onto our best players when they have the option to go.

So here's how things look now...this is 13, counting Matiss. 

Scholarship Players

2 Josiah Fulcher G

3 Caleb Fields G

5 Kaden Metheny G

10 Cam Young G/F

11 Trey Diggs G/F

13 Chandler Turner G/F

21 Matiss Kulackovskis F

25 Daeqwon Plowden G/F

35 Dylan Swingle C

Samari Curtis (needs waiver)

Brenton Mills (eligible, So)

Myron Gordon (Grad Transfer Eligible)

Ubong Etim, F (early signee) 

Falcons Add P5 Transfer at WR

Former-Washington WR Austin Osborne has transferred to Bowling Green. Green was a Four-Star recruit in 2018. #CFF #CollegeFootball #TransferPortal #NSD21 #AyZiggy #ToTheMoon pic.twitter.com/NECcKpVJ2t

— CFFInsiders (@InsiderCff) April 15, 2021

More football transfer news... this one at a big-time position of need.

The name is Austin Osborne, a WR transfer from Washington.  In HS, he was a four-star recruit.  For whatever they are worth, recruiting rankings would have him higher than any other player who came to BG out of HS.  We have had one or two very highly ranked transfers...WRs, too...and didn't see much, so hopefully this is the one who breaks the mold.

He had a large number of P5 offers.

He went to Mission Viejo HS in California, where he would have been a teammate of Matt McDonald's.  

Osborne did not produce much at UW.  He redshirted and then played in four games as a R-FR and one as a sophomore.  He has one career catch for a loss of 2 yards.  Here's a story about the program looking for him the highly anticipated recruit to break through.

He was all-Academic in the Pac 12 and here says he is a grad transfer with 3 years of eligibility remaining.

So here's a classic opportunity to see if a change of scenery can reignite a young man's career.  We certainly need WR help and he will get a shot.

Welcome to the Falcons, Ausin.

Falcon MBB nets additional transfer

Excited to be taking the next step in this journey and trusting God along the way. pic.twitter.com/9V5K1L8Jhp

— Brenton Mills (@bmills_3) April 12, 2021

BG has picked up its third transfer here in the off-season.  This young man is named Brenton Mills, which prior to now I would have thought to be

a)  An artisanal grain millaniery

b) A post-war convention under which the world's economy is managed.

Apparently not.

He's a transfer from Binghampton.  He's a 6'3" from Texas who played two seasons at Binghampton.  (Binghampton is the alma mater of Tony Kornheiser).

He was twice all-district in HS and his team won the state title.  At Binghampton, he made the all-rookie team in America East.

He started every game but one for the Bearcats and scored 9.7 PPG as a FR he scored 13.5 PPG as a SO, leading the team.  More than half his FGAs were from 3FG and he made 40% and 41% from 3FG. He was #6 from 3FG in the conference.  That scoring total is a little better than it looks because Binghampton played at a glacial pace and didn't generate a lot of possessions.

Welcome to the Falcons, Brenton.

So here's how things look now...this is 13, if Diggs and Matiss come back.  (Note this is updated to include Etim, who I neglected to list)

Scholarship Players

2 Josiah Fulcher G

3 Caleb Fields G

5 Kaden Metheny G

10 Cam Young G/F

11 Trey Diggs G/F  (Has option to return)

13 Chandler Turner G/F

21 Matiss Kulackovskis F

25 Daeqwon Plowden G/F

35 Dylan Swingle C

Samari Curtis (needs waiver)

Brenton Mills (eligible, So)

Myron Gordon (Grad Transfer Eligible)

Ubong Etim, F (early signee)

Falcon MBB picks up new D1 Transfer

I am blessed to announce that I will be taking advantage of my extra year of eligibility, and pursuing my master’s degree at Bowling Green State University 🟠🟤 pic.twitter.com/BPVgqCLrMx

— Myron Gordon (@ThaRealOMG5) April 12, 2021

BG MBB picked up its second D1 transfer, this one a D1 transfer who will be eligible next year.  His name is Myron Gordon.  Gordon is a 6'3" G from New Jersey who played at Samford.  

Prior to coming to Samford he was a JUCO player who scored 23 a game.  Last year at Samford he led the team with 15PPG scoring coming mostly off the bench and playing 25 minutes a game.  He shot 47% overall and 32% from 3FG.

He only played in 10 games and did not play after January 14.  He did score 29 against Georgia when Samford nearly upset UGA in Bulldog-on-Bulldog action.

He is among six Samford players in the portal.  Jermaine Marshall, breaker of Falcon hears in the MAC tourney, is actually heading TO Samford.

Also, I saw that Nelly Cummings is in the portal, leaving Colgate.

There are just shy of 1,300 players in the portal right now.

Portal beat goes on in football

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— KholbeColeman-Abrams (@Kholbes_Life) April 8, 2021

Not the good kind of beat.  Kholbe Coleman-Abrams is now in the portal.  He was a 2017 Jinks recruit who played four years--counting last year--for BG.  He made 27 starts for BG and was third-team All-MAC twice.

Best of luck to Kholbe where ever he lands. 

In other news, BG had to end spring practice early due to COVID issues.  The Falcons had made it through the winter without issues, but a couple of programs have been impacted recently.