mbb 2025 Recruiting - 2025

[Eli]

Updated per VC as of 3/4/23:

UAlbany Men's Roster 2025-2026					
					
Name			Position	Height	Weight	Year	Status
Jonathan Beagle		PF		6'9"	220	Jr.	Returning
Jack Margoupis		SF		6'8"	-	So.	Returning
Cornelius Robinson	SF		6'8"	220	So.	Returning
Marcus Jackson		SG		6'3"	180	Jr.	Returning
Zane Adnan		PG		6'2"	-	So.	Returning
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Possible Signings		Position	Height	Weight	Year	Status
Mekhi Ragland			PF		6'8"	-	Fr.	Offered
Jack Bailey			SF		6'9"	-	Fr.	Offered
Cooper Flagg			SG		6'7"	-	Fr.	Offered
Mason Blackwood			SG		6'7"	200	Fr.	Offered
Juan Guerrero Hernandez, Jr.	SG		6'4"	-	Fr.	Offered
Si Mayben			PG		5'10"	155	Fr.	Offered
Omari Moore			PG		6'3"	-	Fr.	Offered
					
Possible Departures	Reason				
					
					
					
					
Departures		Reason				
Japannah Kellogg III	Graduated				
Tairi Ketner		Graduated				
Justin Neely		Graduated				
Aaron Reddish		Graduated				
Ny'Mire Little		Graduated				
Malik Edmead		Graduated				
Will Amica		Graduated				

 

[Eli]

Updated per VC as of 4/25/23:

UAlbany Men's Roster 2025-2026					
					
Name			Position	Height	Weight	Year	Status
Jonathan Beagle		PF		6'9"	220	Sr.	Returning
Jack Margoupis		SF		6'8"	-	Jr.	Returning
Cornelius Robinson	SF		6'8"	220	Jr.	Returning
Marcus Jackson		SG		6'3"	180	Sr.	Returning
Amar'e Marshall		SG		6'4"	207	Sr.	Returning
Zane Adnan		PG		6'2"	-	Jr.	Returning
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Possible Signings		Position	Height	Weight	Year	Status
Mekhi Ragland			PF		6'8"	-	Fr.	Offered
Jack Bailey			SF		6'9"	-	Fr.	Offered
Cooper Flagg			SG		6'7"	-	Fr.	Offered
Mason Blackwood			SG		6'7"	200	Fr.	Offered
Juan Guerrero Hernandez, Jr.	SG		6'4"	-	Fr.	Offered
Si Mayben			PG		5'10"	155	Fr.	Offered
Omari Moore			PG		6'3"	-	Fr.	Offered
					
Possible Departures	Reason				
					
					
					
					
Departures		Reason					
Tairi Ketner		Graduated				
Justin Neely		Graduated				
Aaron Reddish		Graduated				
Ny'Mire Little		Graduated				
Sebastian Thomas	Graduated				
Will Amica		Graduated	

 

[Eli]

Is Si Mayben Tiki Mayben's brother? I see he's from Troy. Doesn't seem to have the same unibrow that Tiki had, but it's pretty close. Tiki was Anthony Davis before Anthon Davis.

[UAalum72]

9 hours ago, Eli said:

Is Si Mayben Tiki Mayben's brother? I see he's from Troy. Doesn't seem to have the same unibrow that Tiki had, but it's pretty close. Tiki was Anthony Davis before Anthon Davis.

Hai'si Mayben is Tiki's son. 

[Eli]

4 minutes ago, UAalum72 said:

Hai'si Mayben is Tiki's son. 

That makes more sense considering Tiki's age (same year as me). Doh! 

[Eli]

UAlbany Men's Roster 2025-2026					
					
Name				Position	Height	Weight	Year	Status
Jonathan Beagle			PF		6'9"	220	Sr.	Returning
Jack Margoupis			SF		6'8"	-	Jr.	Returning
Marcus Jackson			SG		6'3"	180	Sr.	Returning
Amar'e Marshall			SG		6'4"	207	Sr.	Returning
Zane Adnan			PG		6'2"	-	So.	Returning
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Possible Signings		Position	Height	Weight	Year	Status
Mekhi Ragland			PF		6'8"	-	Fr.	Offered
Cooper Flagg			SF		6'7"	-	Fr.	Offered
Jack Bailey			SF		6'9"	-	Fr.	Offered
Mason Blackwood			SG		6'7"	200	Fr.	Offered
Juan Guerrero Hernandez, Jr.	SG		6'4"	-	Fr.	Offered
Si Mayben			PG		5'10"	155	Fr.	Offered
Keyshaun Tillery		PG		6'1"	-	Fr.	Offered
Preston Edmead			PG		5'10"	150	Fr.	Offered
Omari Moore			PG		6'3"	-	Fr.	Offered
Darius Lopes			PG		6'3"		Fr.	Offered
					
Possible Departures	Reason				
					
					
					
					
Departures		Reason				
Justin Neely		Graduated				
Aaron Reddish		Graduated				
Muneer Newton		Graduated				
Ny'Mire Little		Graduated				
Gianmarco Arletti	Graduated				
Sebastian Thomas	Graduated				
Will Amica		Graduated		

@Dane Pound, can we pin this thread?

[cwdickens]

While this Times Union article references NCAA Football, one would be foolish not to think that the Power 5 MBB programs have a staff member assigned to identify and monitor potential portal candidates and their stats.  For mid-majors, the assault on their rosters will continue. 

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

 

Schools building personnel departments

 

By Ralph D. Russo Associated Press

The NCAA transfer portal is basically just a list of names, with athletes sorted by sport along with school names and some contact information.

Not even a position is given for the hundreds of players who go in and out.

“It kind of just leaves you blank,” said AK Mogulla, director of player personnel for football at Auburn, which has added more than a half dozen transfers, including former Michigan State quarterback Payton Thorne, in the last month.

Scouting the portal and recruiting transfers is now a vital part of building a program and it moves fast. To sift through a mountain of names, athletic departments have NFL-style personnel departments that have turned to data and statistics provided by online analytics companies.

With so much information available, programs are not just evaluating who is in the portal. While scouting their opponents and opponents of opponents, personnel staffers are on the lookout for players who might someday transfer — just in case.

“The big (progams) now are much more proactive with their approach to scouring other teams’ rosters for competitive advantages — or for potentially recruiting them out,” said Drew Borland, the founder of SportSource Analytics.

He said SSA provides data packages and online tools to more than 85 Division I schools assessing thousands of players. The UCReport is another service schools use and so is Tracking Football.

Mogulla, who worked for three NFL teams before shifting to college football in 2020 with Georgia Tech, followed new Tigers head coach Hugh Freeze to Auburn.

Like most schools, Auburn has one staff member whose primary duty is monitoring portal activity, Mogulla said. Even before the transfer periods start, personnel staffers are tracking news reports and social media chatter looking for clues about which players will be on the move.

Recruiting players before their names are in the portal violates NCAA rules against tampering.