On The Horizon

Jim Squire

The list of NCAA Division I women's basketball players from Wisconsin high schools--Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

The in-state players
Leading the charge in terms of volume of players is this season’s UW-Green Bay squad. Head coach Kevin Borseth has filled his roster with 12 in-state players.
The key returner among the group is Sydney Levy (Appleton North), who began her career with UW-Milwaukee. Meghan Pingel (Lakeside Lutheran) leads the Phoenix in scoring early in the season.
Hailey Oskey (Seymour), Cassie Schiltz (Luxemburg-Casco), Caelan Givens (Chippewa Falls), Callie Genke (Freedom), Kendall Renard (Preble), Jasmine Kondrakiewicz (Pius XI), Bailey Butler (Black Hawk), Maddy Schreiber (Kimberly), Julia Hartwig (Janesville Parker) and Brooklyn Blackburn (Wauwatosa East) round out the dozen Phoenix from Wisconsin.
Sydney Staver (Mineral Point) is second on UW-Milwaukee in scoring to lead a group of seven in-state players.
Grace Crowley (Homestead), Anna Lutz (Marshall), Emma Wittmershaus (Bangor), Macy McGlone (Hortonville), Jada Donaldson (Beaver Dam) and Angie Cera (Mukwonago) round out the group.
The rest of the list
Cleveland State: Julia Hintz, New Berlin Eisenhower
Illinois-Chicago: Bailey Lutes, Cuba City
IUPUI: Anna Mortag, Brookfield Central; Morgan Allen, Hortonville; Natalie Andersen, Mukwonago
Northern Kentucky: Paige Hodgson, Beaver Dam
Youngstown State: Chelsea Olson, Westby; Lexi Wagner, Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau; Jen Wendler, Owen-Withee

Cleveland State Men's Basketball Set To Host Penn State Behrend--csuvikings.prestosports.com

Former Kaukauna basketball star Donovan Ivory has found a home at UW-Green Bay--Green Bay Press Gazette
Green Bay Prepares to Host UW-Superior--greenbayphoenix.com

IUPUI tops D-III Spalding 61-41 for first win of the season--WTHR

2022 NBA Mock Draft 3.0: Post-Thanksgiving look at early standouts including Jaden Ivey, Kendall Brown and more--The Athletic

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Indiana Pacers

Patrick Baldwin, Milwaukee
W/F
19
6-9

Notes
• The next guy worth noting is Milwaukee’s Patrick Baldwin Jr., who played in arguably the most important game of his season from a scouting perspective on Nov. 18 against Florida. It was reported that 39 NBA scouts were in attendance from 22 different teams. To say the game was a disaster would be an understatement, although most of that was not Baldwin’s fault. Florida is one of the best defensive teams in college basketball, filled with a group of elite pressure guards, a terrific, switchable forward defender in Anthony Duruji and a high-level rim protector in Colin Castleton. Milwaukee’s guards could almost barely cross half court to get into sets.

Baldwin is more of an off-ball scorer in that he’s a high-level shooter and cutter who creates best out of advantage situations when he has to put the ball on the floor. But when the guards can’t even come close to collapsing the defense and forcing help by beating the man in front of them, those advantages off potential heavy closeouts and miscommunications don’t exist. That led to Milwaukee running some early sets for Baldwin that led to poor contested shot opportunities off the catch. At around the 16:45 mark of the first half, he finally got a mismatch on the block against smaller guard Tyree Appleby and executed a little left shoulder spin into a right floater out of a post-up. Late in the first half, he had a nice midrange pull-up jumper out of a dribble-handoff that will be applicable to a set he’ll run in the NBA. Those positive moments on offense were few and far between, though. Duruji and others did a great job making his life tough any time he touched the ball. Defensively in the first half, Baldwin did have a few nice instinctive, reactive moments where he got deflections onto balls and had a couple of positive weakside rim rotations — something that will be critical for him as a floor-spacing four in the NBA. His best moment came at the end of the first half, where he made a strong read to get a steal and go coast-to-coast as time expired for an impressive behind-the-back gather into a lay-in.

That play brought the score back within 11 at halftime, but Florida turned on the intensity to start the second half and completely manhandled the Panthers. The Gators went on a 32-4 run to start the half, and it completely demoralized Milwaukee, including Baldwin, who seemed to check out mentally with about 16 minutes remaining. His effort level dropped. The defining play of his game, unfortunately, came with about 13 minutes left when he decided to pull up as opposed to trying to get back in transition defense following yet another live-ball turnover by one of Milwaukee’s guards.

Baldwin didn’t even have to bust his ass to try to break up this play. If he ran at normal speed, he’d have been in a position to contest. Hell, even if he just didn’t pull up, he would have been able to get in the way and at least make the shot slightly more difficult. With an arena full of NBA scouts watching your every move, it was a pure WTF moment. I’m not someone who loves to showcase just the lowlights of a guy’s game, but when you see people writing that evaluators question Baldwin’s competitiveness, this is the kind of play they’re talking about.