CINCINNATI - Xavier head coach Sean Miller announced today that he has received four signed National Letters of Intent from prep players that will be Musketeers beginning in the 2008-09 season. The four players added during this signing period are: Kenny Frease, a 7-0 and 265-pound center from Massillon (Ohio) Perry High School . . .
Frease was listed as No. 40 on the ESPN 150, No. 41 by Rivals.com, and No. 45 by Dave Telep of Scout.com.
Kenny has come to play down the senior stretch, and we wouldn't be in the NCAA without him. Anyone that thinks differently is a fool. Have fun with the Frease bashing Muddy. I won't go down to your level. I am rooting hard for my Dayton Flyers in the NIT. I think that Dayton is uniquely positioned for a NIT run. They have far more experience than anyone else in the field.
Hey what was Frease's line in the Xavier/Dayton game? Don't remember? 17 and 7! :gunner:
How about in the NCAA tournament this week?
Frease wasn't rated that high for his awesome fundamentals. Those top 40 ratings are based on body measurements. The sooner we all admit that...
Frease wasn't the main reason X lost. As heard on the broadcast, their rushed three point shots with plenty of time left was "just bad basketball," then the Xavier offensive rebounding almost bailed them out. I blame the highly touted guards, not Frease. Frease was incidental to the losing, and he couldn't do enough to erase Xavier's guards deficit. But he wasn't a primary component of the loss. He's not the guy who gave up 5 of 6 from three early on, which is what put the Bonnies way ahead (did Bonnies miss all their three pointers after halftime??)
When the highest-rated player on your team (Kenny Frease, who also happens to be a senior) gets out-scored by 19 points and out-rebounded by 10 boards by his counterpart (Andrew Nicholson) in the Conference Championship Game, he's over-rated, which was what I posted above.
Frease has been and continues to be a huge disappointment. He has some good games but far too many bad ones. He has played on some great XU teams and gotten to the NCAA's every year at XU. UD fans can make fun of him all day long. XU is the team once again in the NCAA's while UD watches and XU and Kenny have owned UD over the last 4 years.
Relevance? Season is over and both are Dancing while your boyz languish in the Not Invited. Who cares? It's the postseason. Getting your team in the Dance is all that matters. Do we care if so and so scored one more point than so and so? Hell no. IT'S OVER! Move on. Kenny scored over a 1000 points in his career and made two huge FT's against the team we had to beat - SLU. Hopefully, this is the last KF rant. Give it up!
New Day.
Hey muddy, X is in the NCAA tourney. what is Dayton in? oh right. whats that tourney called? actually what was the last time UD did good enough to make the tourney? been a few years right? Sucks to suck
Frease certainly proved to be over-rated and a disappointment. I haven't heard anyone from Xavier say otherwise. But he wasn't even matched up with Nicholson.
He was 19/14 against Richmond, 18/12 against Charlotte and 17/7 against Dayton, all games we had to have down the stretch. Who else was going to get those #'s for X? Yes, he is inconsistent.
Kenny has played well down the stretch. At least two of the games that X had to have they simply would not have won without him.
Speaking of overrating high schoolers, which would be more overrated--Frease's Rivals rating or the Columbus Northland team that couldn't even make it out of the districts without losing to a 13-9 team? Tough call.
Muddy Waters;6785225
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Kenny Frease was seriously over-rated as high school senior said:
Couldn't happen to a better young man. The big man is bringing it strong. Players get remembered for games like tonight, and Kenny is dancing in his third Sweet 16, and we wouldn't be here without him.
Seems to me Kenny Frease has an NCAA track record that is pretty enviable - although he admittedly does not have any NIT championships. 'Course, he's never played in the NIT either - Slacker.
admittedly did not follow him that much, basically just our games against X. He just did not seem to improve significantly. He will be earning a good living, which is nice to see from our former A10 players.
Pretty dead on Steve" if he would have made the same strides sr.summer he made jr. Summer he could have been all A10. Just wasn't the hardest worker ever, and never became as physically imposing as he could have been. Lot of natural skill and talent.
Not a sign of a bad kid, just never invested like a Raymond, Love, or Holloway.
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