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meganeck
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A month or so ago, WIU lost an assistant coach as Chuck Ruffing left to take an assistant's job at Iowa State. I've seen nothing officially as to who his replacement will be but in the staff directory, it lists Lorenzo Watkins as an assistant coach, I'm assuming this is the same Lorenzo Watkins that was the head coach at Southeastern CC (IA), who resigned from that position in June. If true seems like a big addition to the basketball program.
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Yes, that's exactly who that is and a great hire by Coach Boudreau.
 
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Great hire. A great basketball mind and even better person. Boudreau was Watkins' assistant at Indian Hills in the early 2000's
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College basketball: Lorenzo Watkins finds landing spot at Western Illinois - https://www.mississippivalleypublishing ... 41ec8.html
 
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I wonder what the over/under date is for posting a roster for the upcoming season?   Chad is slower than Coach Mo and that is slow.  BTW, Coach Mo has moved on to Old Dominion from BC.
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sealhall74 wrote: Thu Sep 17, 2026 8:52 am I wonder what the over/under date is for posting a roster for the upcoming season?   Chad is slower than Coach Mo and that is slow.  BTW, Coach Mo has moved on to Old Dominion from BC.

 
No doubt!!  I mean they want us to buy season tickets to a team nobody knows lol..from the pics on X ive been able to piece together about 9-10 of the guys on the roster but looks to me like we are missing one, maybe two that verbal commits had as committed and a couple that I have no idea who they are..
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sealhall74 wrote: Thu Sep 17, 2026 8:52 am I wonder what the over/under date is for posting a roster for the upcoming season?   Chad is slower than Coach Mo and that is slow.  BTW, Coach Mo has moved on to Old Dominion from BC.

 
Man Mo really moves around.
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I came in here today because I couldnt find a roster. Pretty annoying to have to play internet detective. 
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Looks like the roster was updated last night: https://goleathernecks.com/sports/mens- ... all/roster
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ST_Lawson wrote: Wed Sep 23, 2026 8:07 am Looks like the roster was updated last night: https://goleathernecks.com/sports/mens- ... all/roster

 
Baker's dozen with 3 returnees.  No bios avail for the new guys.  I have been doing a lot of automated stat scraping on the internet this week for FBS P4 football stats.  The damn NCAA put me in edgesuite jail so I cant use their site anymore.  I will see what I can scrape up on these new guys.  
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