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Grantland: The Canadian College Basketball Dynasty you've never heard of

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It might not surprise you to learn that the best college basketball team in Canada plays its home games before crowds of about 500 people, in a gym almost as nice as the one at your nearest suburban high school, on a campus filled with students who don’t much care how or when their team plays. Nor might you be surprised to learn they warm up to Drake, that their concession stand is a Tim Hortons, or that their sports information director is a part-time hockey coach who readily admits, “I really don’t know much about basketball.”

But here’s what might come as a surprise: The Carleton University Ravens are good. Not just “good for a Canadian school,” but really, legitimately good. They have a point guard who would start for most any team in America and a big man who drop-steps more beautifully than most players dunk. They scored 95 in an exhibition win over Wisconsin, 10 more points than any team has scored on the Badgers all year.1 They hung with Cincinnati on its home floor, beat TCU and Towson by 26 apiece, and they took Syracuse to overtime, playing the Orange tougher than most of the ACC.


https://grantland.com/features/carl...a-syracuse-tyler-ennis-kansas-andrew-wiggins/

Brilliant feature. A highly, highly recommended read. The starting PG Phillip Scrubb has been rumoured to be the first player drafted out of the CIS (Canadian NCAA) into the NBA since 1994.
 
Hahaha I saw this earlier but not gonna read it.

DUDE. I swear. Been seein more Canadann stuff and meeting more Candann people in the last few months than in my whole life combined! The hosers in y'alls marketing department deserve a raise.

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Hahaha I saw this earlier but not gonna read it.

DUDE. I swear. Been seein more Canadann stuff and meeting more Candann people in the last few months than in my whole life combined! The hosers in y'alls marketing department deserve a raise.

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edit: *insert link of 'DJ Khaled - We Takin' Over' here*
 
Still, he says, if NCAA opportunities continue to arise, “I’ll never not talk to someone. But it would take a lot for me to go down there. To leave my city, to take my family, to leave my team, to leave everything I like about the Canadian system.” He and his wife have settled on a number. Four years at $500,000 a year or five years at $400,000 a year. “With that,” he says, “I could look my players in the eyes and tell them I have to do this for my family. But it’s not going to happen. No school is giving a contract of more than three years to a new coach, even though you need at least four years to build your program.”


There are about 100 D-1 programs that should take that shot. Any risk is mitigated by the fact that he could start a Canadian pipeline to your school.
 
I'd take Scrubb with a late 2nd pick w/o thinking twice. I wonder if Peeks knows if anyone has spoken about him. The article mentions GMs calling up his coach a bunch. He shoots a high clip from 3, from the field, and from the FT line.
 
There are about 100 D-1 programs that should take that shot. Any risk is mitigated by the fact that he could start a Canadian pipeline to your school.

There was talk in the media here that if Dwayne Casey was fired from the Raptors, that they would consider hiring Coach Smart.
 
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