Missouri basketball receives commitment from Ball State transfer
Missouri coach Cuonzo Martin picked up another transfer this week when the Tigers landed Ball State point guard transfer Jarron Coleman.
In a week when former Mizzou player Mark Smith transferred to Kansas State, the Tigers landed Kansas State transfer DaJuan Gordon. On Saturday, Coleman announced his commitment to Martin’s program, which became the third transfer addition this offseason after Amari Davis, who played for Green Bay.
Coleman immediately fills a need for the Tigers at primary point guard following Xavier Pinson’s transfer and Dru Smith’s departure. Coleman should step right into that role with Davis and Gordon expected to play more off the ball.
Coleman as a sophomore averaged to 13.8 points, 5.2 rebounds and 3.2 assists in 13 games. He missed Ball State’s first 10 games with an injury and did not make his debut until January 16th. Ball State went 4-6 without him in the lineup, PowerMizzou reported.
As a freshman, Coleman was named the MAC Freshman of the Year, and played in all 31 games and made 25 starts. He started the final 23 games of the season at point guard.
Among returning players, Mizzou has only 25 made 3-pointers returning to next year’s team. Coleman is a career 37.3 percent 3-point shooter, including 42.5 percent last year on 5.6 attempts per game.
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— Boog 💂🏽♂️ (@jarron_coleman) April 3, 2021
Nice get! Keep it up. Let’s get some athletic guys like the Yves Pons of the world
Seems like we may have filled one serious need but we have t the other. No more than Wilmore played and with all the departures we need a standout at 4 or 5 position badly. Wilmore showed great skill in HS and if he can tranever that to the college level successfully we’re set but it hasn’t hapopened yet.
Yeah, need a big and a ball handler from the portal yet.
Bowling Green was 10-13 in the MAC last year.
Sorry Ball State was 10-13 in the MAC last year
After seeing what we’re missing out on and what cm us settling for I’m terribly dusappoInted in what seems like a lack of effort on the coaching staff to recruit. As far as I’m concerned one step backwards for Mizzou is two steps toward a new regime. After all as far as basketball goals we belong near the top in this league.
zou, I have to agree with you. You would think cm would have his act together by this time. He can’t seem to recruit quality players and if just doesn’t look like were getting anywhere him.
All talk and no coaching. Recruits that can’t see this are not smart enough to be coached either. I hope he can prove me wrong before he gets sent packing but every time I hear him say something, I’m scratching my head and it’s not because he’s on a higher basketball level.
After seeing what we’re missing out on and what cm us settling for I’m terribly dusappoInted in what seems like a lack of effort on the coaching staff to recruit. As far as I’m concerned one step backwards for Mizzou is two steps toward a new regime. After all as far as basketball goals we belong near the top in this league. That’s our history we may not be the best but we’re among them or we should be. We should have more success in basketball than we’ve had to had in football and I don’t think we have. I’m getting terribly impatient with both Sports
Kim Anderson buried this program. We may never recover. CM isn’t doing well either. I thought we had a chance to do something special this season but there was a collapse at the end. Not encouraging.
Can’t agree with you about Kim Anderson burying anything. Martin is at the end of his 4th year and his record is no better this year than it was in his 1st year at Missouri. That’s four years of recruiting and teaching and he is still the same as the Anderson roster he inherited. Martin isn’t as good a coach as Anderson, he just talks a lot louder and more often.
Basketball, overall is collapsing. The structure of it. I wouldn’t be surprised if the job of GM isn’t split off from the coach in the next 5 years.
MIZ…….
…..FKU
Let’s take a poll around the Kansas City region of the nation and ask the question, “how do you feel about having Bill Self and KU basketball as neighbors?”. Because at least for a 100 mile radius around Manhattan, Kansas even people from Kansas are going to spit on you. 75% of the Kansas City Metropolitan area are going to first think about the FBI listening to KU telephone calls! People in Wichita and Fort Hays are going to say “Lawrence where?” “? of Arabia?”. My personal vote is not to play anymore football or basketball or anything else with KU. Even if they were nice people, there just wouldn’t be any entertainment value in atmosphere. Norm Stewart’s idea of never spending a penny in Kansas wasn’t fair to all the great people on the Kansas side of the border, but not spending money around Lawrence is pretty close to the bullseye of good living. In pure financial terms, nobody can buy KU for what they think it’s worth, then sell it for what it’s really worth, and stay out of bankruptcy.
ZOU