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Trabs Files: National Storylines 2015-16 - City of Basketball Love

Matt Trabold ( @TrabsMatt ). --. This season’s men’s college basketball action will grace the eyes of fans starting tomorrow night. Whether it be from the exploits of returning players, junior college transfers, Division I swaps, guys coming off a redshirt season or freshmen, this season will again certainly be full of exciting moments. ) What impact will prized recruits still awaiting eligibility rulings from the NCAA have on their respective teams. Over the last couple of days, arguably the two best Class of 2015 point guard recruits out of the Chicago area finally received the news from the NCAA on whether or not they could play in games for their new teams in what they had planned to be... Unfortunately for them, Marcus LoVett, Jr. of St. John’s was ruled a partial qualifier that can only practice with the Red Storm while Luwane Pipkins of Massachusetts was ruled a non-qualifier altogether who can’t even help out his team or gain... Not every player in this predicament is as lucky as the likes of Kentucky’s Skal Labissière , Purdue’s Caleb Swanigan and Marquette’s Haanif Cheatham in terms of hearing one way or the other before a season begins. Texas A&M's Tonny Trocha-Morelos didn’t have his answer from the NCAA until after Billy Kennedy ’s side had played the first three games of last season, and some recruits are in a similar boat this year. The most high-profile member of this group of recruits yet to be informed of their NCAA eligibility decision for the season that begins today is a top-ten one in his class in 6-9 Cheick Diallo of Kansas. Bill Self’ s front line features a player that has been such a staple over the past few years that men’s college basketball fans frequently joke that he’s been a Jayhawk for the better part of a decade now in Perry Ellis , another five-star... Like UC-Irvine junior Mamadou Ndiaye , this native of Senegal is surprisingly nimble at 7-6 and would go a long way to thrusting the Golden Knights back into the national relevance they enjoyed in the 2010-2011 campaign that featured appearances... The program that could be maligned the most this season by these rulings though is St. John’s. While high-profile Italian import Federico Mussini can help ease the backcourt loss of LoVett, Jr. , the intention was for four-star big man Kassoum Yakwe to be thoroughly counted on to attempt to fill the hole left up front by Chris Obekpa ’s... Also, one of Bruce Pearl ’s early recruiting victories at Auburn to go along with top-two junior college swap T. J. Dunans and multi-faceted Providence and NC State graduate transfer Tyler Harris was four-star small forward Danjel Purifoy , but he... ) How will squads attempt to recover from major injuries to important players that happened shortly before this season gets underway. A men’s college basketball mind would be hard-pressed to find a year in recent memory where there were this many big-name players from coast to coast going down with injury for extended periods of time – if not the entire season – inside just a... The most high-profile player that has this ill-fated distinction is also one that is supposed to be back on the court during the 2015-2016 campaign, unlike many of his counterparts in this predicament.