Very, very tough news for Oklahoma State basketball as the NCAA hammered the program with a three year probation and a ban from next season’s post season tournament. All of this in relation to the Lamont Evans scandal while he was at the school steering players towards certain agents in lieu of bribes.
I would think this will send a chill towards the Kansas Jayhawks and Bill Self who have also been investigated in this scandal.
Cade Cunningham would have been the most ballyhooed recruit to ever play at Oklahoma State. Gerald Green back in the Eddie Sutton days signed with the school, but never played in Stillwater and was drafted in the first round round by the Boston Celtics.
What are Cade’s options?
His brother was just hired as an assistant at O State under Mike Boynton so I guess he could stay at O State for one season and not play in the NCAA Tournament.
He could now sign with Kentucky who was second on his list of schools.
He could go straight to the G League or he could play over seas for a season and then be a lottery pick in the NBA.
Cade was only going to play one season of college ball even before the sanctions as many see him as the possible No. 1 pick in the draft after this basketball season.
Just a another very tough blow at Oklahoma State in the post Eddie Sutton years. Cade Cunningham was ostensibly going to be Mike Boynton’s breaking out party as a DI coach coach in a Power 5 conference. Instead–another negative as the post Eddie Sutton era now in its fifteenth year has but one NCAA tournament win and its fourth coach.
I actually like Boynton. I think he’s a sharp dude and a solid coach. But I think what this shows is hard it is to draw elite black players to a place like Stillwater, Oklahoma without a national marquee coach like Eddie Sutton in place.
Best of luck for Cade Cunningham as he makes his decision on where to play next season. Good luck to Mike Boynton as well. I’d love to see him coach at another school where could have more at his disposal as far as talent on the roster. The guy can coach. Maybe an elite mid-major would be the right landing spot for Mike Boynton.