Arizona offers 7ft 250lb JC Center Emmanuel Ugboh

[WILD]

Arizona Wildcats have offered junior college big man Emmanuel Ugboh.

Listed at 6-foot-11, 242 pounds, Ugboh attends Iowa Western Community College where he has started the last two seasons.

The Nigerian averaged 12.0 points, 9.6 rebounds and 1.5 blocks in just 18.8 minutes this season, while shooting 65 percent from the field and 54 percent from the charity stripe.

https://twitter.com/Coach_MNewman/status/1109186944590888961

More below on Ugboh below
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.azdesertswarm.com/platform/amp/basketball/2019/3/22/18277995/emmanuel-ugboh-arizona-basketball-recruiting-2019-offers-commits-center&ved=2ahUKEwi-48SiiJfhAhWMBjQIHfxvBAcQFjAAegQIBBAB&usg=AOvVaw3hyLliBv6brBIPtBSMPKuN&ampcf=1&cshid=1553303035867


Emmanuel's Highlights

[mvpreed2]

I am not sure I have seen a 2019 offer come out so late in the process for a JUCO prospect.
This tells me either (1) Miller is leaving no stone unturned, or (2) he is swinging and missing on a lot of prospects and is getting desperate.

[TJ74]

I quite frankly am more concerned about the coaching staff.  Our present staff is severely lacking in quality.  I wish that Miller would spend as much time looking for coaches who will add to our ability to play better with more creativity and flexible defense than looking around the US for JUCO and other transfers.  Without a solid coaching staff, one that Miller will listen to, we can only be so good and quite frankly not good enough to get to the promise land of the FF.

[BDFC]

Is this guy D1 ready? Dominating at the juco level is a different animal. Possibly a red shirt year like KA, learn the system, get in D1 shape, then get ready to contribute. Maybe I'm missing something, but this patch work recruiting with grad transfers and late looks at juco guys is a bit bothersome. Why not develop h.s talent to fill these yearly voids?

[Little George]

We have a couple future bigs. I don't think the staff thinks they are ready to fill the roll. Jeter is not aggressive or durable.  We need a big  to fill a void.

[Teamgame]

I quite frankly am more concerned about the coaching staff.  Our present staff is severely lacking in quality.  I wish that Miller would spend as much time looking for coaches who will add to our ability to play better with more creativity and flexible defense than looking around the US for JUCO and other transfers.  Without a solid coaching staff, one that Miller will listen to, we can only be so good and quite frankly not good enough to get to the promise land of the FF.

This is exactly how I feel about the current staff. Good coaches are hard to find and we need some more experienced assistant coaches.

[UAlum]

Is this guy D1 ready? Dominating at the juco level is a different animal. Possibly a red shirt year like KA, learn the system, get in D1 shape, then get ready to contribute. Maybe I'm missing something, but this patch work recruiting with grad transfers and late looks at juco guys is a bit bothersome. Why not develop h.s talent to fill these yearly voids?

I don't really see the problem with this type of recruiting. You go hard after the elite HS prospects, and then where there is a 5-10 minute void in the rotation you look at the transfers to fill that.

This one is even a bit different in that he is elligible immediately AND has 2 years of ellibility. My problem with grad transfers is that for the player it is often their last-ditch effort to prove themselves with one last year of elligibility. When they come, they expect to play a big role.
For our roster next year, all we really are lacking is another 6'10 guy to come in a play like 5-10 minutes per game to help out Jeter/Lee/Nnaji/Gettings and mayyyybe a guy like Ugboh fits that now instead of Koloko? idk

[Bkatt]

On Juco Recruiting.com, he is ranked #37 on the 2019 Junior College Basketball Top 100 Rankings

https://www.jucorecruiting.com/2019-juco-basketball-top-100-rankings

[UAlum]

On Juco Recruiting.com, he is ranked #37 on the 2019 Junior College Basketball Top 100 Rankings

https://www.jucorecruiting.com/2019-juco-basketball-top-100-rankings

And top rated Center

[2020champs]

His JuCo coach said the minutes are off, interesting, still has pretty impressive stats
https://twitter.com/Coach_MNewman/status/1109263159846678528