Don't know if this was shared out here--I think it was, but just in case. Panzo and Brown are part of Team Canada U23 team in the Globl Jam in Canada next week. It's a 4-team round-robin event with Canada, US, Germany and Africa. I believe Kentucky is representing the US at the event. More details from Iona, including the schedule for the 4 games they'll play:
The next question y'all got is can we watch. The answer is yes, but it's tricky. The streaming service for the games is only for Canadian residents, so you have to use a VPN to stream them (unless some deal has been worked out to "unlock" this beforehand). So, you guys will remember I missed the NCAA game in Albany because I was in Aruba--and Aruba doesn't get TNT network, which aired our game, so I had to use a VPN to watch it on my laptop. So, it's a bit of a pain, but it's doable.
Minor good news: CBS Sports Network is picking up all the Kentucky games, which means we can watch their game against Canada on the network. However, of course, that's the one game that will be shown on tape delay, at midnight on CBS Sports.
Stay tuned, perhaps we'll get good news and a US-based streaming service will pick up the feeds at least.
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Great information from Guy, was really hoping to see Panzo play. 1st roster I saw for their training camp listed 18 players. Guessing they cut the roster down?
Interesting games from Global Jam site:
7/12..Canada vs Africa..8pm
7/13..Canada vs Kentucky..8pm..per Guy on TV at midnight
7/15..Africa (NJJ) vs Kentucky..130pm
7/15..Canada vs Germany..8pm
7/16..Bronze medal game..130pm
7/16..Gold medal game..8pm
Brown will play in 4 games, hopefully Canada faces Kentucky in the medal round games so we get to view 2 games
Update: I'm seeing "official" rosters for this event now, and Panzo isn't on it. Brown still is. Trying to find out more.
Apparently when Iona made the announcement, no player had actually made the roster... they, along with 16 other players were part of a U23 training camp to pick\k the final roster and the others would be alternates in the even of injuries.
Callum Baker (Fairleigh Dickinson, Flagler College, University of Toronto) - 6'2" PG - 3.8 pts and 1 red. first team All-Canada selection in high school. Enoch Boakye (Arizona State, Fresno State) - ★★★★★- 6'10" C - 0.7 pts and 0.7 rebounds. Joel Brown (Cal-Berkeley, Iona) Jaden Campbell (Florida Southwestern JC, Samford)- 6'5" SG - 10.2 pts. 2.9 red. Markus Harding (Eastern Florida, Central Michigan) - 6'10" C - 9.3 pts and 4 red. Thomas Kennedy (Windsor)- 6'9" PF - 20.3 pts, 13.8 reb. Elijah Mahi (West Valley) - 6'7" SG- JUCO - 17.5 pts 6.5 rbs. Marko Maletic (Laramie County CC, Long Island University) - 6'6" SG - Averaged 15.9 pts, 3.1 reb. Liam McChesney (Utah State, Illinois State, High Point)★★★ -6'10" PF/C - Armani Mighty (Boston College) - ★★★ - 6'10" C - Nana Owusu-Anane (Brown)- ★★★ - 6'8" PF Adam Paige (Alberta) - 6'8" PF - 13.4 points and 6.6 rebounds. Wheza Panzo (Stetson, Iona) Addison Patterson (Nevada, Salt Lake CC, Tallahassee CC, Northwestern State) ★★★★- 6'6" SF - Aaron Rhooms(Ryerson, Toronto Metropolitan)- 6'6" SG/SF- Averaged 18.5 pts, 7.5 rebounds Jahmyl Telfort (Northeastern, Butler)-★★★ 6'7" SF - Averaged 16.4 pts, 4.5 rebounds Kellen Tynes (Montana State, Maine) - N/R - 6'3" PG - Led the NCAA in steals. America East Conference defensive player of the year. Averaged 14.3 pts, 4.6 reb 3.8 act. Aiden Warnholtz (Carleton) - 6'2" CG first team All-Canadian. Averaged 24.3 points a game, while shooting 59.1% from the field and 53.3% from the 3 point arc as well as 7.3 assists a game and 5.3 rebounds a game.
Looks like Panzo had lots of competition at his position. One name of interest is Marko Maletic, transfer from LIU, who I thought for sure Iona would have recruited. Still in the transfer portal after receiving lots of interest
Joel Brown in action tonight. I won't get to watch because I'm making an airport run to pick up the wife and daughter. Whoever does watch, you're obligated to provide us with a full report LOL
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Something to keep an eye on. Appears the 1st game of Global Jam, a women's game, is being streamed on YouTube. Hopefully the men's game will be on YouTube as well
Oh well, all of the other games today are on the Canadian network sportsnet. I have no idea how VPN works. Will post stats and updates if I see any
It's not too bad. You sign up for a free trial (or at worst, pay for a month) for one of the VPN services--the best one for Canada appears to be NordVPN. You might have to download something, but really the idea is that this would set you up with a Canadian IP address, and through them you can then watch SportsNet. When I was in Aruba in March, I had to do the opposite--I needed a VPN to give me a US-based IP address so that I can stream CBS sports or TNT or whatever the heck I watched Pitino's halftime bailout on.
If Brown's minutes/stats are good tonight, I may do this for tomorrow night and I can walk folks through it better.
Super noted he's used VPN services before as well, though not sure if he's planning on doing it here.
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