National Signing Day

joshuca · **Posted:** Wed Apr 15, 2009 8:27 am

Well today is the day...

joshuca · **Posted:** Wed Apr 15, 2009 9:31 am

[url=http://www.thecabin.net/stories/041509/spo_0415090025.shtml]Appetizers with touches of basketball and charity
[/url]

The University of Central Arkansas Bears are expected to sign at least two basketball players today, both junior college guards, but the UCA coaches are also working hard on big men.

Brooks Taylor, a junior college transfer who tied Mitch Rueter as the second-leading scorer with an 11.7 average, has left the team according to a mutual agreement between him and Chappell.

Marcus Pillow, the Bears' leading scorer with an 11.8 average and the career 3-point leader, has informed the coaching staff of his desire to transfer to Arkansas Tech.

Nothing is definite yet about Pillow. UCA coaches are recruiting guards, and they're targeting a couple whom they think can be of immediate help and Southland Confernce quality.

UCAMonkey · **Posted:** Wed Apr 15, 2009 3:50 pm

Wow!!!!

UCAMonkey · **Posted:** Wed Apr 15, 2009 9:01 pm

Ryan Daniels of Olney (Ill.) Central Community College and Chris Poellnitz of Iowa Western Community College will join the Bears in the fall.

http://www.ucasports.com/sport.asp?acti ... ticle=3085

joshuca · **Posted:** Wed Apr 15, 2009 10:26 pm

Quote:

Daniels is a 6-foot, 175-pound guard originally from Albuquerque, N.M. who averaged 10.7 points and 5 assists last year at Olney. His team went 20-10 last season. He was at Drake two years ago when the Bulldogs won the Missouri Valley Conference championship and made the NCAA Tournament.

Poellnitz, rated the No. 25 juco player in the nation by ESPN heading into last season, is a 6-3, 200-pound guard who averaged 15.7 points and shot 54 percent from the field and 39 percent from three-point range as a freshman at Iowa Western. He was named second-team All-Region. He battled injuries as a sophomore and played in only 15 games last season.

Sounds like a couple of good pick-ups for the Bears...let's hope they can get something done!

UCAMonkey · **Posted:** Wed Apr 15, 2009 11:47 pm

joshuca wrote:

Quote:

Daniels is a 6-foot, 175-pound guard originally from Albuquerque, N.M. who averaged 10.7 points and 5 assists last year at Olney. His team went 20-10 last season. He was at Drake two years ago when the Bulldogs won the Missouri Valley Conference championship and made the NCAA Tournament.

Poellnitz, rated the No. 25 juco player in the nation by ESPN heading into last season, is a 6-3, 200-pound guard who averaged 15.7 points and shot 54 percent from the field and 39 percent from three-point range as a freshman at Iowa Western. He was named second-team All-Region. He battled injuries as a sophomore and played in only 15 games last season.

Sounds like a couple of good pick-ups for the Bears...let's hope they can get something done!

They are gambling on Poellnitz. Let's hope he can stay healthy.

Honey Bear · **Posted:** Wed Apr 15, 2009 11:56 pm

Quote:

They are gambling on Poellnitz

.

That's kinda what I was thinking too Monkey. Taking a big risk with a two year player with a recent injury. Hopefully he will be a 100% by the start of next season.

treyuca · **Posted:** Thu Apr 16, 2009 10:18 am

Quote:

Ryan Daniels (Albuquerque, N.M.)

After transferring from Drake University, Daniels had a terrific season for the Blue Knights, averaging 10.6 points and a team-high 4.7 assists per game.

OCC’s floor general shot 40 percent from the field (90-of-226), 45 percent from long range (62-of-137) and 78 percent from the foul line (110-of-141).

“Our point-guard play was erratic before Ryan got here,” Burris said. “He brought toughness every day and was our glue guy. Ryan took care of the basketball and often times guarded the other team’s best player.”

Daniels is also drawing interest from several four-year schools.

LINK

COMPLETE 08-09 STATS

treyuca · **Posted:** Thu Apr 16, 2009 10:33 am

Chris Poellnitz

Played sparingly in 14 games his sophomore season do to a broken foot.
Averaged 15.6 points per game as a freshman at IWCC.

Quote:

Biography:
Committed to Appalachian State while at Patterson Prep in North Carolina but needed to improve his academic situation ... his high school career included stops at Scott HS, St. John's Jesuit HS, Maumee Country Valley Day HS and Libbey HS, all in Toledo. ... both junior and senior seasons at Patterson

Article published June 25, 2008
Poellnitz commits to UT for 2009-10

Quote:

At 6-foot-3, Poellnitz considers himself a "scoring point guard." He shot 54 percent from the field last year, including 39 percent on 3-pointers.

treyuca · **Posted:** Thu Apr 16, 2009 10:48 am

The Patterson School is one of the best programs in the country.
They were #2 in the nation when Poellnitz was there.

One site I found says that he was a 3-star on Rivals and 1-star on Scout.
ESPN had him as the #68 PG in 2007.

Beary Manilow · **Posted:** Thu Apr 16, 2009 10:35 pm

At our level, if you can get a guy like Poellintz you take that risk every time.

I'd rather have a guy like that who, if healthy, seems to be the type who could make a big impact instead of taking a guy with no injury history who might be just healthy and talented enough to sit on the bench and not contribute jack squat for four years.

The No. 25 JUCO player in the country typically ain't coming to a 10-19 transitional team unless there's some factor that kept bigger fish from biting. In this case it was that he fell off a lot of teams' radar because he was out with a broken foot or whatever.

Without having seen the guy play and going strictly off what's been written about him, I'd say this is a steal for us. I like the way the backcourt shapes up if he and Pouncy are both healthy. Of course, that's a good sized if. But at least it's something to look forward to.

BearsFan52 · **Joined:** Tue Aug 19, 2008 10:45 pm **Posts:** 2575

I still think a healthy Pouncy last season would have swung 4-5 games .....add these new guys to the returnees and have them all healthy and you have some great foundation pieces for a pretty good team......hate to see Pillow leave and not get his senior season in.....

treyuca · **Posted:** Fri Apr 17, 2009 8:43 am

We didn't get any taller with these two though. We have a HUGE hole to fill in the middle.

joshuca · **Posted:** Fri Apr 17, 2009 9:45 am

treyuca wrote:

We didn't get any taller with these two though. We have a HUGE hole to fill in the middle.

I noticed that as well. On the current roster we don't have any players that are officially listed as Centers, and our tallest players are only 6'8" (Chris Henson and Chris Brown).

UCABEARS75 · **Posted:** Fri Apr 17, 2009 10:22 am

joshuca wrote:

treyuca wrote:

We didn't get any taller with these two though. We have a HUGE hole to fill in the middle.

I noticed that as well. On the current roster we don't have any players that are officially listed as Centers, and our tallest players are only 6'8" (Chris Henson and Chris Brown).

Big men are hard to find. To get one that can walk and chew gum at the same time is difficult to do at the mid-major level, in particular a transitional mid-major.

UCAFANS.COM | GO UCA BEARS!

National Signing Day

Who is online