- Matt Cox
Note: Predicted conference standings may not line up exactly with our Top 40 rankings; this is because Top 40 were ranked via consensus voting, while individual conference ranks are up to the specific writer.
***As of 9/12, Milik Yarbrough was suspended indefinitely from all team activities, but Dan Muller said he would be allowed to participate in the team’s first official practice on 9/25
Player of the Year: Clayton Custer, R Sr., Loyola Chicago
Coach of the Year: Barry Hinson, Southern Illinois
Newcomer of the Year: Aher Uguak, R So., Loyola Chicago
Freshman of the Year: AJ Green, Northern Iowa
1. Loyola Chicago
Key Returners: Clayton Custer, Marques Townes, Cam Krutwig, Lucas Williamson
Key Losses: Aundre Jackson, Donte Ingram, Ben Richardson
Key Newcomers: Aher Uguak (New Mexico transfer), Isaiah Bujdoso, Cooper Kaifes, Franklin Agunanne, Will Acock
Outlook: The Ramblers’ 2017-18 magic carpet ride needs no synopsis. Porter Moser’s squad first got our attention when they stunned a ranked Florida team in Gainesville early in the season, but proved to be far from a fluke when conference play revved up - for the record, I’m ignoring that four game skid over the Holiday Break when Clayton Custer was MIA. Once at full strength and firing on all cylinders, Loyola just ran circles around the Valley, winning 13 of their final 14 conference tilts and cruised to a regular season title uncontested. And after holding serve as the 1-seed at ‘Arch Madness’ in St. Louis, Loyola’s soaring confidence entering the NCAA tournament propelled them to wins over Miami, Tennessee, Nevada and Kansas State – three of those teams can be found ranked in our preseason top-10 rankings – before ultimately running out of gas against Michigan.
When the Ramblers took off last season, Moser had pretty much cut down the primary rotation to 7 guys. Clayton Custer (offensive engine) and Cam Krutwig (ferocious force in the paint) formed a potent inside-out punch, but what made the Ramblers so tough was their versatility at the 2, 3 and 4 positions on both ends of the floor. While Custer and Krutwig were the memorable names, Aundre Jackson, Donte Ingram and Ben Richardson were invaluable pieces to the puzzle and truly made this team tick.
With Jackson, Ingram and Richardson all gone, the spotlight now shifts to Marques Townes (the 3rd returning starter, along with Custer and Krutwig) and Lucas Williamson (1st or 2nd guy off-the-bench last season). Williamson seems like the natural full-time replacement to Richardson in the starting lineup as the primary off-guard next to Custer. In many ways, Williamson is a carbon copy of Richardson as a ‘3 and D’ guy on the wing, but will need to expand his all-around offensive game as a driver and distributor to fully fill Richardson’s shoes.
Townes, on the other hand, may have a rockier transition adjusting to life without his wing mates Jackson and Ingram, given how poetically this trio played together last year. In a continuous spectrum of “guard” to “forward”, Townes would fall right in-between Jackson and Ingram as a well-balanced, dual-threat driver and shooter. The former Fairleigh Dickinson transfer should see a significant bump in his production as he likely becomes the 3rd offensive option behind Custer and Krutwig (though, you could argue it’s closer to 2A and 2B with Krutwig and Townes, respectively).
Outside of Bruno Skokna, a likely 6th man candidate this year, the rest of the rotation will be filled by some unfamiliar faces. In a few interviews this offseason, Moser has hinted that a couple of the freshmen might get some meaningful burn this year, but New Mexico transfer Aher Uguak’s – cousin of NBA standout Luol Deng – is who Moser is placing his chips on to have the biggest impact. If this quote from Moser turns out to be even directionally correct, the Ramblers may have stumbled upon the secret sauce to replace the versatility of Ingram:
"Aher is ultra-athletic, long and skilled, and will be an inside-outside mismatch like Donte Ingram," Moser said. "He possesses a 6-foot, 11-inch wingspan and I love his versatility both offensively and defensively.”
Bottom Line: Moser clearly found something special in the way the ‘Blers lineup intertwined last year. This is precisely why he needs Uguak to step in right away and fill the void left behind by Ingram as a multi-positional, inside-out offensive threat who can hold his own defensively against bigger forwards. If Uguak can plug that hole - a 6’11 wingspan should help - a top-5 of Custer, Williamson, Townes, Uguak and Krutwig will actually look quite similar to what Loyola was working with down the stretch last year. That’s putting a big ‘ol burden on Williamson and Uguak, but their playing styles bear a striking resemblance to their predecessors (Williamson to Richardson; Uguak to Ingram). If they can mesh seamlessly into the perpetual drive, kick and cut motion offense that tore through the tournament last March, Loyola is destined for a 2nd straight trip to the Big Dance.
2. Illinois State
Key Returners: Milik Yarbrough, Keyshawn Evans, Phil Fayne
Key Losses: Madison Williams, Daouda Ndiaye
Key Newcomers: Zach Copeland, Josh Jefferson, Matt Chastain, Rey Idowu
Outlook: When the NCAA Selection Committee snubbed the Redbirds of an at-large berth two years ago, Dan Muller knew something had to change. Despite racking up 28 wins, which included a marquee victory over perennial league power Wichita State, Illinois State was on the outside looking in when the final bracket was announced on the CBS Selection Show.
Most pundits who agreed with the Selection Committee’s decision to omit the Redbirds cited a middling strength of schedule as the reason for exclusion. Muller responded by juicing up ISU’s non-conference slate – thanks to some savvy social media maneuvering – in preparation for yet another go at an at-large bid:
While that ‘call for action’ went for the most part unanswered, Muller did a fantastic job patching together a respectable non-conference schedule that should give the Redbirds plenty of cracks to prove to the Selection Committee they are worthy of at-large consideration. And with everyone of relevance back from last year, anticipation is sky-high in Bloomington-Normal…
Every Illinois State scouting report is littered with the name Milik Yarbrough – and for good reason. While his statistical production speaks for itself, the box score alone doesn’t paint a full picture of what a unique weapon he really is. You can count on one hand the number of 6’6 point forwards in college basketball who can slash and create as effectively as Yarbrough. Keyshawn Evans deserves a ton of credit for how willingly he adapted his game to mesh with Yarbrough. In a ‘Yarbrough-less’ world, Evans would be the clear-cut offensive table-setter – in this reality, Evans is cast as a supporting combo guard who can play effectively with and without the ball.
With two ball dominant playmakers in Evans and Yarbough, the need for complementary scoring and outside shooting becomes amplified – this is where William Tinsley and Zach Copeland come in. Tinsley has a similar DNA as some other long, athletic wings who have come before him at Illy State (DeVaughn Akoon-Purcell, MiKyle McIntosh and DJ Clayton come to mind), but his offensive value needs to catch up this season. He’s a streaky shooter with deep range, but 31% shooting on a high-volume put a dent in ISU’s overall team efficiency last year. Copeland enters the program with a reputation as a plus long-range shooter himself – he’ll surely be a net upgrade offensively over defensive specialist Madison Williams at the 2-guard spot. Consistent floor spacing may also be aided by stretch forward Taylor Bruninga, who will likely see his minutes rise at both the 4 and the 5. Given how many 3s the Redbirds jacked up last season, Tinsley, Copeland and Bruninga must knock down shots at a high rate to raise the offensive ceiling this year.
What makes the Redbirds so tough to prepare for, especially for non-conference foes unfamiliar with Muller’s coaching tendencies, is their creativity on the defensive end. Muller will mix in a straight-up man-to-man with a zone look that’s hard to describe succinctly – if you had to slap a label on it, it would fall under the “2-3” category, but it’s far from the traditional, bland 2-3 zone many other teams around the country play. Per Synergy, ISU played zone on 40% of all possessions last year, so MVC opponents must be well-versed in how this defensive scheme works. Much like Scott Drew’s zone at Baylor, Muller floods the floor with above-average to elite length at the wing and forward spots, which makes routine passes a major headache for opposing guards.
The differentiating characteristic of the zone is how active and extended the back two guys are. When the first pass is made to wing, one of these two will come up hard to the ball while one of the top two point players slides down to shade the high-post.
This unorthodox player movement is what’s so confounding for many teams who see it for the first time. Phil Fayne, a premier athlete and lockdown defender, is a rare breed with his ability to cover significant ground and protect the rim as the defensive centerpiece. He’s also a budding star on the offensive end, armed with a vast array of interior post moves.
However, once you get past Fayne on the frontcourt depth chart, the options at Muller’s disposal fade quickly. The departure of 7-footer Daouda Ndiaye guts the Redbirds of some much needed shot-blocking and glass cleaning, two areas where ISU regressed last season. The loss of McIntosh, Deontae Hawkins and Tony Wills prior to last season removed three foundational pieces from that stout 2016-17 ISU defense which ranked 19th nationally.
While there are valid parallels between that team and this year’s group – most notably the year-to-year roster continuity (minimal offseason turnover) and extensive perimeter length – the 2018-19 roster appears to be lacking the staunch defensive identity that made that 2016-17 team so special. Muller will have to find a remedy to fix some the defensive rebounding woes, which may have had something to do with the lack of physicality and girth up front - Fayne was essentially a ‘one-man-band’ in the middle last year.
Bottom Line: Loyola has gotten its fair share of offseason ink – and deservedly so – after their magical run to the Final 4 last March. But when you compare the Redbirds and Ramblers projected lineups for 2018-19 side-by-side, there’s a negligible amount of separation.
Putting the aforementioned defensive nitpicks aside, it really all comes down to Yarbrough. He’s the undisputed fulcrum of the Redbirds’ offense, but “efficient” has never been an adjective used to describe Yarbrough’s game – his ‘bi-polar’ decision-making and broken jump-shot don’t help in this regard.
Yarbrough’s talent and versatility are off-the-charts, especially when compared to MVC-caliber competition. The question is can he wipe away the reputational scars that have led many to question is leadership ability and effort level consistency – if he can, Illinois State should stay neck-and-neck with the Ramblers all year long in the MVC regular season title race.
3. Southern Illinois
Key Returners: Kavion Pippen, Armon Fletcher, Sean Lloyd Jr., Aaron Cook, Marcus Bartley, Thik Bol
Key Losses: Tyler Smithpeters
Key Newcomers: Darius Beane, Amadou Fall, Sam Shafer, David Swedura, Sekou Dembele
Outlook: Let me start with this: I am a proud card-carrying member of the Barry Hinson fan club. Dating back to my younger years as an annual attendee of Arch Madness in St. Louis – of course, always sitting with my parents in the Missouri State alumni section – I was drawn to Hinson’s unwavering level of intensity. This demeanor shines through in the effort his players give on every possession, particularly on the defensive side of the ball.
Since coming to Carbondale in 2012, Hinson’s teams have been typically undersized, even by MVC standards. He’s counteracted the lack of an imposing inside presence by constructing shell-like defenses that emphasize shutting down any and all dribble penetration. And with Hinson often leaning on quicker, more perimeter-oriented lineups, the Salukis have been consistently effective at generating steals that feed easy transition scoring opportunities going the other way.
Well, guess what – that paradigm may be undergoing a makeover as we turn the page to 2019. Hinson will be equipped with two interior shot-blocking savants in 6’10 Kavion Pippen (nephew of NBA-legend and defensive stalwart Scottie Pippen) and long, bouncy 6’8 Thik Bol, who missed the entire 2017-18 campaign. Bol has had to undergo multiple surgeries to repair a torn meniscus in his knee, but all evidence indicates he’ll be ready to go for the season opener. If Hinson can get both of these guys in the lineup together for a large chunk of the season, it will do wonders for an interior defense that was ravished inside last year.
With Pippen and Bol protecting the paint, the Salukis may sport one of the best defensive units in the MVC with an already formidable defensive core established on the perimeter. Sean Lloyd received all-defensive team honors last year, Aaron Cook ranked 3rd in the league in steals and SIU’s returning leading scorer, Armon Fletcher, is an under-appreciated defender in his own right. Marcus Bartley, a fixture in the starting lineup last season, is the fourth and final member of the 4-guard lineup Hinson trotted out so frequently last season. With how much this group of guards loves to penetrate, the loss of sharpshooting Tyler Smithpeters may hinder the real estate available for driving lanes, but all four of the returners are decent enough 3-point shooters to keep their respective defenders tightly connected.
Bottom Line: Hinson has an interesting dilemma facing him this offseason – one that most coaches would welcome (‘1st world problems’ as some would call them). Does he stick with the small-ball, 4-guard lineup with Cook, Lloyd, Fletcher and Bartley surrounding either Pippen or Bol inside? Or does that the fact that the Salukis surrendered a league worst 55% field goal percentage inside the arc last year cause him to experiment with playing Bol and Pippen together. The latter would almost certainly extinguish the rim protection deficiencies, but it also might hinder the offensive firepower on the other end. Neither Bol or Pippen can confidently shoot beyond 12-15 feet, which may cause a jog jam in the lane.
Hinson is in an envious position with all five of his starters back in action for 2019, which doesn’t even account for the reinsertion of Bol or valuable bench pieces Rudy Stradnieks and Eric McGill. The Salukis are a near lock to finish in the upper-half of the conference standings, and could give the Ramblers and Redbirds a run for their money at the top of the MVC totem pole.
4. Northern Iowa
Key Returners: Tywhon Pickford, Isaiah Brown, Wyatt Lohaus, Spencer Haldeman, Austin Phyfe
Key Losses: Bennett Koch, Klint Carlson, Juwan McCloud, Tanner Lohaus
Key Newcomers: AJ Green, Trae Berhow (Pepperdine transfer), Shandon ‘Biggie’ Goldman
Outlook: As one of the longstanding pillars of the Missouri Valley Conference, Northern Iowa’s skid over the past two seasons is a microcosm of the league’s overall decline in recent years. While Loyola’s rise to glory last March may have temporarily silenced the MVC naysayers, the league desperately needs UNI to return to prominence to remain competitive with some of the other top mid-major conferences across the country.
A hot start out of the gate perhaps placed irrational expectations on the Panthers’ ceiling last season after knocking off SMU, NC State, UNLV and UT Arlington in the non-conference portion of the schedule. Despite being battled tested in preparation for a grueling MVC slate, UNI returned from Christmas break flat and dug themselves a nightmarish 0-5 hole in the league standings. Ben Jacobsen did manage to somewhat weather the storm and the Panthers battled back to 7-11 overall, but still fell far short of the inflated expectations caused by the high profile wins earlier in the year.
Inexperience was an obvious contributor to the unpredictable ‘ebbs and flows’ last season, but the youth movement now seems primed to push UNI back to its familiar spot atop the MVC standings. Jacobsen welcomes his highest ranked recruit ever to Cedar Falls as AJ Green – a fringe top-100 prospect – is set to run the offense from Day 1. Thanks to some diligent reporting this summer by the Des Moines register, we need not speculate how Jacobsen may integrate his shiny new toy into the offense – an offense that has been downright ugly over the past two years:
“He’s coming in here to help us have the best year that we can have, and to see if we can’t get back into contention for a championship and get back to the NCAA Tournament and win games in the NCAA Tournament. So from our standpoint as I look at our team, we want him to have the ball in his hands. He’s going to play the point, and there will be times when he’s off the ball as well because he shoots it well enough. You can move him around and put him in different spots.”
The departures of Juwan McCloud and Tanner Lohaus clears the stage for what should be a dynamic perimeter core, led by Green at the point, another 3-point sharpshooter in Wyatt Lohaus and two rangy athletes on the wings in Tywhon Pickford and Isaiah Brown. With Klint Carlson – a prototypical power forward who played exclusively at the 4 last year – now gone, Jacobsen may shift his primary rotation to a smaller, more perimeter-oriented lineup featuring Green, Lohaus, Pickford, Brown and likely Austin Phyfe at the 5. Brown is long enough at 6’7 to hold his own against opposing 4s, but he’s somewhat fragile at a lanky 180 pounds – luckily, the more compact Pickford at 6’4 205 can help pick up the slack on the boards after posting the 3rd highest defensive rebounding rate in the MVC last year. Spencer Haldeman also returns as a steady reserve in the backcourt, who can red hot from downtown in a hurry, and Pepperdine transfer Trae Berhow (recently ruled eligible) knocked down 39% of his trey balls last year as a freshman.
Stylistically, there’s no surprises when it comes to a Ben Jacobsen coached basketball team. Offensively, the Panthers are averse to pushing the pace in transition as Jacobsen loves to work the ball side-to-side with patience in the half-court. Defensively, it’s all about building a wall around the lane and positioning all five defenders to corral opposing misses…
Bottom Line: …which brings me to a lingering concern I have with this roster. While awareness and positioning (and obviously effort) are critical factors in being an effective rebounding team, there are still major holes on the interior. Phyfe is the only returner who played somewhat meaningful minutes last season standing taller than 6’8 and even he was far from a dominant rebounder. Again, the length of Brown and Pickford should help alleviate some of those personnel gaps, and Berhow was a productive rebounder in the WCC last year, but Jacobsen may need big things right away from Shandon ‘Biggie’ Goldman. At 6’10, Goldman did good work cleaning the glass at Panola College in Texas, but his primary value is on the other end with his smooth shooting stroke from distance.
Overall, there’s a ton to like about this collection of guards and wings, but the overall roster makeup is fundamentally different than what we’re used to seeing in a typical Northern Iowa squad. The Panthers should work their way back into the upper-half of the league standings, but the void of a quality interior presence gives me pause about projecting UNI any higher than 4th.
Key Returners: Darrell Brown, Elijah Childs, Dwayne Lautier-Ogunleye, Koch Bar, Jayden Hodgson, Nate Kennell, Luke van Bree
Key Losses: Donte Thomas
Key Newcomers: Armon Brummet, Ja’Shon Henry, Ari Boya
Outlook: In just three seasons, Brian Wardle has dragged Bradley out of the Valley’s basement into a team on the brink of competing for a league title. When Wardle first arrived in Peoria, he completely blew up the roster and restocked it with a whole new cast of characters – Bradley ranked 350th in kenpom.com’s ‘Minutes Continuity’ statistic Wardle’s first year in 2015-16. Since then, the Braves have taken enormous strides in each of the past two seasons as BU’s ‘Golden Generation’ has matured from young prospects to cerebral, grizzled veterans. For the exception of rising sophomore Elijah Childs, the core rotation – which will likely go 7-8 deep – will be composed of six upperclassmen, all of whom were critical components to last year’s squad.
Wardle’s reputation as a defensive guru precedes him. From a personnel perspective, tenacious wing defenders are always a key ingredient in his defensive recipe. Donte Thomas was the epitome of this prototype last year – his departure will sting, but the aforementioned Childs is essentially a clone of Thomas at 6’7 225 pounds with the label ‘breakout candidate’ written all over him. Defensively, the versatile Childs will often serve as the rim protecting stop gate on the back-end, but can slide down the lineup to guard opposing 4s and 3s whenever behemoth 7-footer Koch Bar checks in at the 5.
With Childs and Bar holding down the fortress inside, Dwayne Lautier-Ogunleye will reassume his role as a shutdown perimeter stopper. As a member of the MVC’s All-Defensive team last season, Lautier-Ogunleye has proven to be one of the premier lockdown defenders in the league - he and Jayden Hodgson (another 6’4 sturdy, athletic defender) will draw 1-v-1 assignments with the best offensive weapons around the league.
And now, we interrupt this preview to bring you a mini crash course on the Missouri Valley Conference (sorry, but this is a mandatory prerequisite before reading the rest of this preview).
Over the past four seasons, no league in America has been more allergic to scoring points than the MVC. Since 2015, the Valley has ranked 28th, 32nd, 27th and 30th out of 32 conferences in overall offensive efficiency, as defined by points per possession (per kenpom.com). Some of this stems from the astute defensive coaching minds who excel at game devising game plans to stymie opposing offenses. But this may also be a byproduct of a sheer lack of top-flight offensive skill coming through the talent pipeline in recent years. This combination is often what makes this league an eyesore to watch at times.
This also explains how Bradley’s unappealing 184th nationally ranked offense (for the entire season) somehow graded out as the 2nd best offense in the conference.
Setting that macro trend aside, the Braves offense should remain on an upward trajectory as Lautier-Ogunleye continues to blossom into a more complete offensive threat, coupled with the emergence of sharpshooting wing Nate Kennell and dynamo point guard Darrell Brown. Lautier-Ogunleye is an invaluable asset as a supporting combo guard next to Brown, who, despite his game breaking quickness, struggles to finish against length inside (Brown converted just 36% of a whopping 259 2-point attempts last year). Lautier-Ogunleye also doubles as a lead ball handler and is fully capable of running the offense whenever Brown takes a breather.
One of the few holes in Lautier-Ogunleye’s game – long range shooting – is precisely what Kennell brings to the table. Before Kennell joined the program two years ago, the Braves were a bunch of blindfolded brick layers, converting an embarrassing 28% of their 3s back in 2015-16. Kennell’s insertion into the primary rotation has boosted BU from one of the worst 3-point shooting teams in America to a respectable one, as evidenced by a slightly above average team 3PT FG% of 35% over the past two seasons. Outside of Kennell and the aforementioned Brown, no one attempted more than 64 threes last season, which makes Kennell and stretch forward Luke van Bree’s combined shooting precision a treasured resource for the BU offense.
After playing pretty much everyone with a beating pulse on the roster two years ago, Wardle significantly cut back on his bench usage last season - though, there are still some good options for Wardle to turn to if needed. A prime example is Antoine Pittman, who redshirted last season after being a fixture in the starting lineup two years ago. The Braves also welcome three new freshman to the mix (Armon Brummet, Ja’Shon Henry, Ari Boya), but it remains to be seen what part they’ll play on a veteran-laden roster.
Bottom Line: Wardle’s rebuilding project in Peoria has progressed at a rapid pace and the Braves now look one year away from being surefire MVC title contenders. It’s hard to see BU leapfrogging the talent and experience Loyola, Illinois State and Southern Illinois have coming back this season, but I wouldn’t rule out the possibility of the Braves crashing the top-3 party as a best case scenario.
6. Indiana State
Key Returners: Jordan Barnes, Tyreke Key
Key Losses: Brenton Scott, Qiydar Davis, Brandon Murphy
Key Newcomers: Cooper Neese (Butler transfer), Christian Williams (Iowa transfer), Allante Holston (North Texas transfer), Blake Brinkmeyer, De’Avion Washington
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Outlook: The fighting Larry Birds were one of seven teams in the Valley separated by just four games in the final MVC standings last year. An 8-10 league record slotted the Sycamores right smack in the middle of the shuffle at 6th place, which culminated in a forgettable ‘one-and-done’ showing in the MVC championship in St. Louis.
Last season’s near .500 showing in conference exemplifies the broader Greg Lansing era in Terre Haute. Now kicking off his 9th season at the helm, Lansing has been the epitome of ‘average’ as he currently holds a 73-71 Valley record to his name. There are some minor rumblings that Lansing’s coaching chair may be getting a little toasty with the fanbase slowly becoming fatigued with the recurring mediocrity – although, that demolition of Indiana in Assembly Hall last year should earn him a free pass for at least one more season, right?
Looking ahead to the 2019 season, Lansing has a unique roster situation in which one – and potentially two – of his better players will not be eligible until 2nd semester. Right when conference action is set to heat up, the Sycamores will welcome Cooper Neese and Christian Williams, two high-major caliber guards, to the rotation. While I might be overestimating how quickly they’ll be integrated upon their return, here’s what I know for sure: Neese was one of four finalists for Indiana’s Mr. Basketball award coming out of high-school and ranks 7th on the all-time ISHAA scoring list – in case you’ve been trapped in a cave all your life, the Hoosier state is a well-oiled assembly line that consistently churns out high-level talent. Neese was originally pegged to play for Butler before deciding to transfer prior to the 2016-17 season kicked off (coinciding with Chris Holtmann accepting the Ohio State job) and he should feast against slightly watered down competition in the MVC.
Williams also comes in with Power-6 conference pedigree after beginning his collegiate career at Iowa two years ago. Hawkeye head coach Fran McCaffery clearly saw potential in the 6’5 point guard early on as he awarded him a spot in the starting rotation to start the season. Williams would go on to start the next five games before ultimately having his slot in the starting-5 seized by Jordan Bohannon. Naturally, Williams opted to take his talents down a notch in competition, a path that ultimately lead him to Indiana State.
Until those two reinforcements join the squad, Lansing will be strapped for depth at the guard spot. With Brenton Scott graduating, ISU will be the Jordan Barnes show for the first two months of the season, starring Jordan as himself, and his trusty up-and-coming sidekick Tyreke Key in the backcourt. Last season, the Sycamores relied heavily on Barnes and Brenton Scott to score, shoot, handle and pass – other than grab their own rebound, you name it, Barnes and Scott did it. Key was a serviceable 3rd scoring option last year and North Texas transfer Allante Holston should eat up some minutes on the perimeter, but Lansing will need a mega-leap from the rising sophomore to keep the offense afloat until Neese and Williams are eligible.
Last season, Brandon Murphy and Emondre Rickman were two of the more physically imposing big men in the league. The 270 pound Murphy was far and away the more skilled of the two, and his departure will create more chances for the big-bodied Rickman to prove himself, along with Devin Thomas and Bronson Kessinger in the frontcourt. Rickman is an absolute eraser at the rim, but Thomas and Kessinger are arguably more polished on the other end (though neither were that efficient last year, even in limited action).
Bottom Line: The Valley has always been one of the slower, more methodically paced leagues in the country, but Lansing ‘zigs’ while the rest of his competition ‘zags’. He’s one of the few coaches in the MVC who looks to push the pace offensively and Barnes is the perfect catalyst to ignite the fast break. Losing a bonafide scorer like Scott seems like a tough pill to swallow, but the advanced stats indicate his high-volume, low-efficiency tendencies may have actually been a liability last season. If Neese and / or Williams bloom into legitimate 2nd and 3rd scoring options, and the incumbent guards (Key and Clayton Hughes) continue to develop, this could wind up being one of the most potent offenses in the Valley with Barnes at the point of attack.
Key Returners: Bakari Evelyn, Joe Burton, Markus Golder
Key Losses: Tevonn Walker, Max Joseph, Joe Burton
Key Newcomers: Ryan Fazekas (Providence transfer), Deion Lavender (UAB transfer), Langston Stalling, Daniel Sackey, Javon Freeman-Liberty
Outlook: On the surface, Valpo’s inaugural MVC season appeared like somewhat of a disappointment. When it was all said and done, the Crusaders found themselves looking up at the other nine teams in the MVC standings. It was a tough spot for a young team having to step in and replace Wichita State – the league’s brightest beacon of light for the past decade – after the Shockers bolted for the AAC . But those who tracked the Valley closely last season would tell you Valpo was far from a punching bag.
Despite the loss of Tevonn Walker, a terrific two-way player, Matt Lottich has plenty of bullets left in the chamber to climb up the league standings in 2019. Lottich will lean on a junior-heavy core lineup, headlined by two returning starters, Bakari Evelyn and Derrik Smits, ‘super-sub’ Markus Golder and newcomer Ryan Fazekas, a Providence transfer with high-major talent. Walker’s absence means Evelyn likely becomes the lead creator for the Crusaders, who should be oozing with confidence after a scintillating sophomore campaign. He’s as steady of a lead guard as you’ll find in the Valley and he’ll be in charge of spearheading Lottich’s motion-heavy offense, which typically manifests in a balanced scoring attack.
Lottich has an abundance of depth in the front court, including a pair of inverse forwards in Fazekas and Mileek McMillan at the 4, along with a pair of twin towers in Smith and Jaume Sorolla at the 5. He also has a budding star in 6’6 multi-positional wing / forward hybrid Golder, who proved he can check both guards and forwards last season with his length and bounce. It’s worth noting that McMillan started every conference game but one, so it’s likely he could retain his familiar spot in the opening lineup over Golder or Fazekas.
With all other positional boxes checked, the only real gap is at the other guard spot. This will have to be filled collectively by incumbents Micah Bradford and John Kiser or one of a few newcomers that could emerge. While three freshmen rise could certainly rise to occasion (Langston Stalling, Daniel Sackey, Javon Freeman-Liberty), I’m betting on UAB transfer Deion Lavender to turn some heads and shore up that last spot in the rotation.
Lavender’s long and windy road of a collegiate career makes it difficult to foresee how Lottich will use him this season. During his tenure at SIU and UAB most recently, he struggled to find his identity as his game-to-game minutes constantly fluctuated due to a lack of consistency. At his peak, Lavender has the chops to be a reliable 2nd ball handler and offensive facilitator, which could be a tailor-made fit next to the scoring-minded Evelyn in the backcourt.
Bottom Line: Per kenpom.com’s overall adjusted efficiency rankings, only 15 spots separated the Valley’s 2nd place team (Southern Illinois) from Valpo at the bottom of the barrel. This miniscule margin is indicative of a league that was ridden with parity last season, which leads me to believe a major shakeup in the conference standings is coming in 2019. While Illinois State, Loyola and SIU-C will likely duke it out at the top of leaderboard for the outright conference crown, Valpo should be right in the thick of that next tier down, along with a handful of other squads that should NOT slept on.
8. Missouri State
Key Returners: Jarred Dixon, Obediah Church, Ryan Kreklow
Key Losses: Alize Johnson, JT Miller, Jarrid Rhodes
Key Newcomers: Jared Ridder (Xavier transfer), Keandre Cook (JUCO)
Outlook: It’s not a coincidence that the bottom-3 teams in our projected final standings also happen to be in the midst of a transitionary period to 1styear head coaches. In Springfield, MO Paul Lusk is out and Dana Ford – a charismatic rising star amongst the D1 coaching ranks – is officially in after a successful 4-year stint as the head honcho at Tennessee State. Ford may not be a household name at the national level, but those around the Valley appreciate how well he knows the league. Despite just turning 34 years old this summer, Ford has already studied under two of the conference’s sharpest basketball minds – Greg Marshall in 2011-12 and Dan Muller in 2012-13 and 2013-14 – before getting his crack as the leading man at Tenny State.
While Ford’s vision for resurrecting the program extends far beyond the 2018-19 season, his immediate challenge will be replacing Alize Johnson, MSU’s first NBA-draft pick in over 30 years. At 6’9 with a silky-smooth handle, confident shooting stroke (though, he went ice cold last year) and never-ending pursuit of the glass, Alize’s talent and versatility made him a unicorn in the Valley.
MVC All-Defensive team force Obediah Church is back to patrol the paint as the primary rim-protector. Church will bring a calming presence to the interior, but the defensive rotations and positioning engraved in him under Lusk will likely undergo a seismic shift under the new boss.
There are two defining characteristics about Ford’s strategic blueprint on defense: 1) Walling off the lane at all costs 2) Disrupting passing lanes to generate steals (a complete 180 from Lusk’s approach). These two traits don’t typically go hand-in-hand, but Ford’s innovative defensive scheme(s) make it possible. During his time at Tennessee State, the Tigers consistently produced one of the highest defensive steal rates in the country, but remained disciplined enough to recover back and close off open driving lanes to the rim.
But, with any defensive blueprint, tradeoffs must be made. Ford’s emphasis on generating turnovers and limiting penetration often leaves uncontested shooters scattered around the arc. Thus, if you’re going to exploit a Ford-coached defense, getting hot from distance is your best bet. Teams in the Ohio Valley took full advantage of this ‘soft spot’ in Ford’s defense as Tennessee State surrendered the 2nd most 3s in the country last year.
What’s interesting is that when Ford opts to change defenses, those aforementioned two principles don’t change. He will primarily play straight-up man-to-man, but also mixes in some extended full-court pressure along with a trapping zone. Per this clip below, this unpredictable zone allows his guards to sit back and anticipate both point-to-wing and crosscourt passes:
While the defensive structure may look discombobulated on the surface, it truly is ‘organized chaos’ and something that Ford has been preaching for many years.
Ok, enough with the ‘Xs and Os’ – let’s cover the ‘Jimmys and Joes’…
While Lusk’s 7-year tenure was exceptionally average by most Bears’ fans standards – far below the bar set by his predecessors – he was an effective recruiter on the JUCO circuit (Dequon Miller, Jarrid Rhodes and Alize Johnson are three recent examples). Dana Ford is no stranger to the JUCO talent pool and dipped into that well this offseason to snag the #76th rated JUCO prospect in Keandre Cook, who should pan out to be a serviceable off-the-bench asset.
Ford has three solid contributors coming back from last season with Church and a pair of off-guards in sharpshooter Ryan Kreklow – who needs to wipe last year’s shooting slump from his memory - and effortless scorer Jarred Dixon. To fill the remaining voids at point guard and on the wing, Ford gets a timely injection of high-major transfer talent in Josh Webster from Texas Tech and Jared Ridder from Xavier. Webster barely saw the floor for a loaded Red Raiders team last year, but should certainly get an opportunity to make a name for himself in the Valley, especially for a roster in desperate need of some backcourt leadership.
Ridder is the real reason Bears’ fans should be giddy, as he enters Springfield with an unprecedented amount of buzz. A former high school standout at nearby Kickapoo, Ridder was the top-rated Missouri prospect entering college when he initially took his talents to Xavier. You don’t need to take my word for it. Just listen to Alize Johnson rave about how high Ridder’s ceiling could be:
"Jared Ridder is a pro," Johnson said in a phone interview on Tuesday. "He'll be in this same position. There's no doubt in my mind."
Bottom Line: Keep in mind that two more of Ford’s big splashes on the recruiting trail, Tulio da Silva and Josh Hall, won’t suit up until next season, both of whom are high-major caliber transfers and near locks to crack the starting lineup when they become eligible. These acquisitions, combined with Ridder and the new wave of underclassmen, should form a sound foundation for Ford to build upon for the 2019-20 campaign and beyond.
Narrowing our focus to this year’s prognosis, the Bears certainly have the chops to sneak up on some people in the Valley. Kreklow, Dixon and Church all bring invaluable Valley experience and are well-qualified to play effective supporting roles – the question is can Ridder ascend to ‘alpha-dog’ status in his first full collegiate season, which will allow the rest of pieces to fall in place.
Key Returners: Nick McGlynn
Key Losses: Reed Timmer, De’Antae McMurray, Graham Woodward, CJ Rivers, Ore Arogundale
Key Newcomers: Nick Norton (UAB grad transfer), Brady Ellingson (Iowa grad transfer), Tremell Murphy (JUCO)
Outlook: Let’s just get the bad out of the way to start. Drake loses four starters and arguably five of their top-6 players, along with head coach and program turnaround mastermind, Niko Medved. Medved’s coaching brilliance should not be glossed over. Not only did he lead the Bulldogs to a 3rdplace finish in the MVC – far ahead of where most pundits predicted – but his 4-year transformation of Furman basketball from 2014 – 2017 was the work of a mad genius.
Losing a savant on the sidelines like Medved, especially after just one season, surely stung the Drake basketball faithful, but the athletic department appears to have pinpointed a viable replacement in former Creighton assistant Darian DeVries. As many first year coaches encounter, DeVries will inherit a bare bones roster that was depleted by the graduation of a deep senior class, combined with the exodus of three outbound transfers.
To restore the talent cupboard, DeVries got busy on the transfer market where he found two solid grad transfers in Nick Norton and Brady Ellingson. The collective backcourt IQ of Norton and Ellingson is off-the-charts and their advanced basketball minds will help ease the transition to a new system under DeVries, which he described in an offseason interview with the Des Moines register:
“We want to play fast and be explosive in transition and have some skill to go with that. So as we were going out, that’s kind of what we were looking for, from a talent standpoint.”
This should not come as a surprise given the brand of basketball DeVries’ was groomed in under Greg McDermott at Creighton. Norton and Ellingson, along with the veteran returner Noah Thomas, should be drooling over the freedom DeVries will give them out in the open floor, as well as the green light to gun from distance.
Other than Thomas, versatile forward Nick McGlynn is the only consistent contributor from last season that opted to stick around through the coaching transition. McGlynn is the total package at the forward spot and will be the Bulldogs’ linchpin on both ends of the floor. His advanced skill level allows him to score all over the floor, whether it be a face-up midrange jumper or off an intermediate drive to the bucket. He’s also hyperactive on the glass on both ends and was the only source of rim protection for last year’s guard-oriented lineup under Medved.
DeVries is hoping two twins from perennial JUCO powerhouse Florida Southwestern (Tremell and Anthony Murphy) will help inject some much needed length and size this year. While Norton and Ellingson are proven Division 1 commodities, a pair of highly respected talent evaluators Mike Gribanov and Jackson Hoy are RAVING about the upside of Tremell, who chose Drake over some marquee suitors in Oregon and Xavier. I fully expect to regret not including him on my All-Newcomer team, but his pure counting stats could be limited by McGlynn likely remaining the #1 option offensively.
Bottom Line: There’s a myriad of other newcomers that could jump off the page this season, almost all of whom should mesh well into the style of ball DeVries wants to play. Similar to Missouri State, Drake will heavily rely on some experienced transfers to sustain competitiveness with so much production walking out the door this summer. Much like what transpired last season, only a handful of games will likely separate the 4th and 9th place teams in the final standings in 2019. Medved made all the difference in those tight contests last year, so we’ll see if DeVries can match the in-game brilliance of his predecessor.
Key Returners: KJ Riley, Noah Frederking, Dainius Chatkevicius
Key Losses: Ryan Taylor, Dru Smith, Blake Simmons
Key Newcomers: Shea Feehan (Eureka College grad transfer)
Outlook: Ahhh, the 3rd and final episode in our ‘Coaching Swap’ series (Missouri State and Drake were the first two teams) brings us to the Purple Aces of Evansville. The decade-long Marty Simmons era comes to a wrap and a new era will unfold under the direction of NBA-journeymen Walter McCarty.
Other than a 3-year gig as a Louisville assistant studying under Rick Pitino, McCarty’s basketball experience as both a player and as a coach are heavily rooted in the NBA. His windy road has taken him to the Knicks, Celtics, Suns, Pacers and then back again to the Celtics as an assistant before ultimately returning to his hometown of Evansville.
I could try and extrapolate what type of style McCarty intends to play, but his quote from a local newspaper, Courier & Press, sums it up:
“We’re going to let it fly,” McCarty said. “The quickest way to get yourself out of the game is not shooting when you’re open”
The article goes on to further state that McCarty is even more focused on ramping up the Aces offense to be transition-oriented – this will be a far cry from the snail’s pace, motion-drive half-court style of offense preached under Simmons. It’s rare that you find a coach ‘open up the komono’ and reveal so explicitly how his team intends to play, but perhaps this should come as no surprise given his NBA-heavy background.
Unfortunately, as we scan the projected 2019 lineup, I can’t seem to find any Jayson Tatums or Terry Roziers on the returning roster. With a flood of departures this summer in the form of both graduates and transfers, the leftover incumbents don’t offer a ton of upside for McCarty’s first season, nor do they seem to integrate well with McCarty’s preferred style of offense. KJ Riley and Noah Frederking will return on the wing after decent, yet forgettable, seasons in supporting roles last year. While Riley is a disruptive defender and a precise passer, neither he or Frederking are proven long range shooters. Dainius Chatkevicius is the other returner worth mentioning, who posted excellent per possession rebounding and block stats last year – the question is can he maintain that effectiveness inside with a major bump in minutes and exposure.
Of the new crop of talent now entering the fold, Shea Feehan is the one who should turn some heads this year. I’m not saying Feehan, a grad transfer from DIII Eureka College, will be the 2nd coming of Derrick White (the former Colorado standout who went from D3 to fringe lottery pick in just one year), but given how dominant he was at his prior destination, something tells me he’ll transition to the step up in competition without skipping a beat. His numbers at Eureka were straight-up redonkulous – Feehan poured in 31 PPG while shooting 54% from the floor, including a white-hot 44% from the land of plenty. With the gaping holes left by Ryan Taylor and Dru Smith in the backcourt, there are a ton of shots left on the table and Feehan is the type of gunner who shouldn’t hesitate to gobble those up.
Highly touted freshman DeAndre Williams could also emerge as a mismatch nightmare on the wing, as described by his former coach at Nation Wide Academy in Oklahoma, Kenneth Roy:
“He’s a stretch 4 who is eventually going to end up being a 3, but that kid can pass the heck out of the ball,” said Kenneth Roy, who is also the athletic director at NWA. “He’s got ability that hasn’t been tapped into and that’s what Walt loves the most about that young man. I think in a couple of years, you guys are going to be really enthralled with DeAndre’s ability.”
Bottom Line: McCarty spent 5-years in the Celtics organization, two of which were under the oversight of the President Brad Stevens. McCarty should bring with him many of the offensive quick-hitter plays that the Celtics so routinely carved up opposing defenses with, as well as some of the defensive pressure schemes from his time with Pitino at Louisville. The bottom-line is that this appears to be a home-run hire for the Aces long-term, but year 1 will likely go down as the forgotten, throw away year for McCarty’s legacy.


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Taking a moment to learn about menopause and andropause.
From our birth until our death, our surroundings shift through various seasons, and our bodies follow suit. Menopause, and her male counterpart, andropause, wait around the corner for each and every middle-aged woman and man.
“Often, when a woman begins to go through the menopausal transition, she will notice many changes in her body and emotions,” says Dr. Laura Grant, owner of the Women’s Wellness Center. “In severe cases, this can be overwhelming.”
Grant explains that it’s not uncommon for a woman to think she is losing her mind because of the relatively rapid onset of mood swings, brain fog, hot flashes, and insomnia. “This is no small matter for a modern woman,” says Grant. “She may be managing a career, as well as a family, which may also include caring for aging parents by this time of life.”
Kim Stewart, a mentor and student ministry leader at Christian Fellowship Church, was 43 years old when she first noticed the symptoms of menopause, which, she admits, felt “a little too early to start.”
“The first changes I began experiencing were increased hot flashes, migraines, and fatigue,” says Stewart. “By age 46, I had stopped having menstrual cycles and began struggling with anxiety and brain fog.”
When her symptoms seemed to worsen, it became difficult for her to find emotional and physical energy for activities that she had previously looked forward to. “I began having anxiety traveling and driving long distances — two things I had always enjoyed,” she says. “For quite some time, I told myself, ‘Just press through.’”
Defining the Transition
“Menopause is diagnosed after a woman experiences 12 months without a menstrual period with no other obvious causes,” says Ryan Woodman, DO, assistant professor of endocrinology and metabolism at MU School of Medicine. According to Dr. Woodman, menopause can occur in the 40s or 50s, but the average age of menopause in the United States is 51.
“During menopause, a woman’s ovaries stop producing eggs, which results in low levels of estrogen production and high levels of follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), the main hormone that stimulates production of a woman’s eggs,” says Woodman. “The transition into menopause is known as ‘perimenopause’ and is characterized by irregular menstrual cycles and fluctuating estrogen levels, and it can be associated with many symptoms, such as hot flashes.”
Grant notes that while the term “menopause” simply refers to a woman’s final menstrual period, most significantly, it marks the point in time that her ovaries no longer produce the sex hormones estrogen and progesterone. The third sex hormone, testosterone, also becomes markedly diminished by this stage of life. “This ‘hormone plummet’ does not happen all at once but rather over a few years’ time,” she says. Dr. Grant goes on to explain that if a woman has functioning ovaries removed surgically, at any age, she will experience immediate loss of the ovarian sex hormones and is prone to having all of the symptoms and health consequences of natural menopause.
“Menopause is no small matter for a modern woman. She may be managing a career, as well as a family, which may also include caring for aging parents by this time of life.”
The symptoms related to menopause (or, more specifically, symptoms related to diminished sex hormones) may range from non-existent to severe and commonly include the following: hot flashes, night sweats, insomnia, brain fog, mood instability (crying or irritability), reduced sex drive, and vaginal dryness causing pain with intimacy. It is also not unusual to have bladder dysfunction — the leaking of urine related to hormonal depletion.
“Aside from the uncomfortable symptoms, there are also long-term health consequences of hormonal loss,” says Grant. “And since a woman is expected to live a few decades after menopause, this is concerning.”
Grant reports that whether or not a woman has any of these symptoms, studies have shown that estrogen depletion, in particular, contributes to risk of heart disease, osteoporosis, dementia, and metabolic changes that can lead to diabetes.
Woodman adds that fluctuations in estrogen can cause weight gain, thinning hair, and dry skin. However, “As a woman’s hormone levels start to stabilize, many symptoms will decrease,” observes Woodman. “And in some cases, completely resolve.”
Andropause and Its Symptoms
Andropause, male menopause, or the more tongue-in-check term “manopause,” refer to the gradual decline of testosterone in men as they age.
“Testosterone levels in men generally peak by age 30 and slowly decline every year thereafter,” says Woodman. “This contrasts with women undergoing menopause, whose estrogen levels plummet over a much shorter period of time.”
Grant notes that “by age 50ish” a man’s testosterone production will be about half the amount he produced at his peak. Woodman emphasizes that it is important to rule out other causes for low testosterone in men before contributing these changes to age. Conditions associated with low testosterone may also include testicular injury or infection, radiation, chemotherapy, medications (e.g., opiates), kidney disease, Type 2 diabetes, HIV/AIDS, or genetic conditions.
“The symptoms of andropause are often referred to as ‘low testosterone syndrome,’” says Woodman. “The most recognizable symptoms of low testosterone include changes in sexual function, decreased libido, erectile dysfunction, hot flashes, infertility, sleep disturbances, decreased muscle mass and increased body fat, mood changes, breast enlargement, decreased body hair, and osteoporosis.”
“As women, we need the support of one another. Explore all your options for caring for your mind, body, and spirit, and do what is best for you.”
Modalities, Medications, and Treatment Options
Woodman relays that menopause and andropause, generally speaking, require no medical treatments. Instead, treatment is usually focused on relieving the associated symptoms and focusing on preventing or managing chronic conditions.
“The most important thing that can be done to ease the symptoms of menopause and andropause is to maintain a healthy lifestyle,” says Dr. Woodman. “In general, we recommend healthy lifestyle choices, including smoking cessation, diet and weight management, quality sleep, stress management, a yearly mammogram, and exercise. Also, both aerobic exercise for cardiovascular health and weight training exercise to help with bone health.”
For Stewart, it was a combination of various lifestyle changes and hormone therapy that proved to be her saving grace. “Nutrition and exercise have helped tremendously,” she says. “It became apparent that I couldn’t just press through and experience a healthy quality of life for myself and my family,” says Stewart. “I made changes to my diet, began attending strength conditioning classes, and sought the help of a physician to explore my options medically.”
For women with significant daily symptoms, Woodman lists potential common treatments such as hormone replacement therapy, vaginal estrogen, low dose antidepressants, and, in some cases, behavioral therapy.
Grant explains that in an effort to avoid hormone treatment, several different prescription medications (such as antidepressants, other psychoactive medications, or drugs to reduce the bone loss that leads to osteoporosis) may be prescribed for various symptoms.
“These types of medications may or may not be effective in alleviating all the symptoms and health concerns related to hormone loss,” says Grant. “And they are often associated with side effects or risks. The body will recognize the sex hormones and will respond accordingly, whereas the other drugs are simply a way to chemically combat the problem, as if treating a disease.” Grant emphasizes that menopause is not a disease, but rather a natural phase of life that can often be characterized by diminished well-being due to deterioration of bodily systems that were previously supported by a full complement of sex hormones.
According to Grant, if a woman has significant symptoms of hormone deficiency, nothing can take the place of hormones to alleviate her discomforts. “Herbal remedies may dampen symptoms for a while in isolated cases,” she says. “However, studies have shown they are not good long-term solutions for most symptomatic women.”
According to Woodman, some of the complementary and alternative medicines known to help manage the symptoms of menopause include plant estrogens, black cohosh and other botanical supplements, yoga, acupuncture, relaxation therapies, and hypnotherapy. He says that these treatments “do not have strong scientific evidence to support their use, but they are currently being studied.”
Grant explains that many of the tissues in a woman’s body contain receptors for hormones, including the particularly studied and notable hormone estrogen. When hormone receptors are empty because of diminished hormone levels and a woman is having symptoms, Grant believes the most effective solution is to replenish her body with hormones, which she believes is the most natural solution of all.
“Ideally, hormone therapy should be identical to the hormone molecules made by the human body, and these are available in a number of different formulations,” says Grant. “Estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone can be administered easily to control symptoms and reduce risk of adverse health consequences related to hormone deficiency.”
However, not every woman will need any of these three sex hormones, and Grant advises that the hormone treatment should be individualized with attention to each woman’s symptoms and health history. “For men with symptoms of hypoandrogenism (andropause), testosterone replenishment is the answer,” says Grant. “This can be administered as a gel, intramuscular injection, skin patch, or as pellets implanted beneath the skin.”
Dr. Woodman agrees that once the diagnosis of low-testosterone is confirmed with symptoms, then the mainstay of treatment is testosterone replacement therapy. He notes the aforementioned methods listed by Dr. Grant, adding that “The best option is based on patient preference, tolerance, and cost.”
Resources and Reaching Out
“There are many resources to help with education and counseling on these life changes,” says Woodman. “Most importantly, share your experience with others to help them understand what you’re going through.”
Stewart advises that reaching out to others is key and that women should not be ashamed of this season in their lives. “I’ve had so many conversations with women who are on the other side of menopause and who have shared that they silently walked through menopause alone,” she says. “As women, we need the support of one another. Explore all your options for caring for your mind, body, and spirit, and do what is best for you.”
However, as Grant warns, there are many sources of misinformation in the media, on the web, and in the average person’s social and familial circles. Not every primary care physician may be well-informed or interested in discussing the complexities of hormone therapy.
“If a person believes they are beginning to have symptoms of menopause or andropause, they should seek out a physician who is knowledgeable about hormone replenishment,” says Grant. “Those practitioners who are up-to-date and interested in hormone health are able and willing to spend the time it takes to explain what is happening within the person’s body and to provide full education about safe choices for hormonal replenishment.”
Regarding women in particular, Dr. Grant says that “often, the last person a woman looks out for is herself.” She encourages midlife women (and men) to pay close attention to their bodies’ signaling and to seek professional help as soon as symptoms arise.
If you are wishing to support someone going through menopause or andropause, Stewart recommends reading up on the effects of the condition to start gaining a better understanding.
“Often the woman or man experiencing this feels very out of control with her or his own body,” she says. “A loved one who is well-informed can be more empathetic and supportive. Show compassion and don’t judge. Be a safe place of support for your loved one in whatever path they have chosen.”

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Depending on who you ask eggs (yolks) are either a healthy powerhouse of nutrients or they’re a Satan’s heart attack recipe. Either way they’re delicious, inexpensive, and convenient.
In this book I clear up health myths and facts about eggs and their delicious cholesterol filled yolks, provide a couple recipes, and tell you why you should include them into your regular diet.
It’s becoming more and more well known that consuming cholesterol isn’t the leading cause to high levels of cholesterol. In this book you’ll discover new insights in the medical and athletic world of factors that cause high cholesterol and how your body produces vital hormones (testosterone) through the consumption of cholesterol.
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A mother’s Christmas wish – and the grand prize that comes with it – sets off a fierce competition between her sons.
Cast: Mercy Johnson, Kunle Remi, Efa Iwara, Ade Laoye, Abayomi Alvin, Rachael Oniga, Lateef Adedimeji, Linda Osifo
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text: Liquid crystal (LC) is an amazing class of electro-optic media; its applications span from visible to infrared, millimeter wave, and terahertz regions. In the visible and short-wavelength infrared (SWIR) regions, most LCs are highly transparent. However, to extend the electro-optic application of LCs into MWIR and LWIR, several key technical challenges have to be overcome: (1) low absorption loss, (2) high birefringence, (3) low operation voltage, and (4) fast response time. In the MWIR and LWIR regions, several fundamental molecular vibration bands and overtones exist, which contribute to high absorption loss. The absorbed light turns to heat and then alters the birefringence locally, which in turns causes spatially non-uniform phase modulation. To suppress the optical loss, several approaches have been investigated: (1) Employing thin cell gap by choosing a high birefringence LC mixture; (2) Shifting the absorption bands outside the spectral region of interest by deuteration, fluorination, or chlorination; (3) Reducing the overtone absorption by using a short alkyl chain. In this paper, we report some recently developed chlorinated LC compounds and mixtures with low absorption loss in the SWIR and MWIR regions. To achieve fast response time, we demonstrated a polymer network liquid crystal with 2π phase change at MWIR and response time less than 5 ms. Approaches to extend such a liquid crystal spatial light modulator to long-wavelength infrared will be discussed.

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In February, the winter chill is still in the air, and every place from the deserts of Rajasthan to the Mughal architecture of North India seems inviting. Add Valentine’s Day (14 February) to the mix, and you’ve got yourself all the right reasons to plan a vacation. There’s also ample to make you fall a little more in love with India this month, from the Kodaikanal’s deep forests to new year celebrations in Sikkim. Here are the 10 best places you can visit:
The best places to travel in India this February
Agra, Uttar Pradesh
There couldn’t be a better time to experience the splendour of the Taj. The cool weather and the clement sun allow you to spend hours admiring its beauty during the day. And if you plan a night visit, you can catch the moonlight romancing the fine marble work in the quiet of the night. When in Agra, also catch a glimpse of lesser-known monuments such as Kanch Mahal, Sikandra Fort and Fatehpur Sikri.

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A third and final defendant in a January fight outside a St. Charles bar that resulted in felony hate crime charges pleaded guilty Friday to a lesser misdemeanor charge.
Susan V. Patton, 32, of the 6N200 block of Woodlawn Road, St. Charles, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor battery and was sentenced to 24 months of probation. She also will have to wear an alcohol-detecting monitor for 100 days, said Chris Nelson, spokesman for the Kane County State's Attorney's Office.
Judge Susan Clancy Boles accepted the plea in which prosecutors dismissed charges of a hate crime and aggravated battery in a public place, a felony that carried anywhere between probation and seven years in prison.
Patton and two other men were charged with felonies after a Jan. 6 dispute in a bar in the 2000 block of Lincoln Highway (Route 38) near closing time spilled out into the parking lot. Patton was accused of throwing a drink in a woman's face before the trio, according to police and court documents, punched two men while yelling anti-gay slurs.
Two other men, who also were from St. Charles, pleaded guilty to reduced charges.
Christopher M. Miner, 31, of the 100 block of North 15th Street, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor battery and got a year of probation. He also served 63 days in jail because he could not post bond.
Stephan C. Bolt, 31, of the 4N0-99 block of East Mary Lane, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor battery and was fined $2,000.

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You guys have dissed me for running old videos, but here’s one I’m reasonably confident you haven’t seen–if only because it was done a few years ago by my buddy John G., who often posts here on TR under the name Skeletor. Between the G.I. Joe stop-motion action, the holiday theme and the fact it’s John’s birthday today, it seemed like the right moment to share it with y’all. You should know it was made a few years ago, so I doubt there’s anything you could say about the MS Paint special effects that he hasn’t already concluded on his own–but I say any video which features Cobra Commander screaming, “TELL ME WHERE THE CHRISSST CHILD ISSS!” is worthy of viewing.
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.


Gold Star releasing ‘Uppers and Downers,’ touring (stream “Baby Face”)
LA-via-Austria musician Marlon Rabenreither used to lead The Sister Ruby Band under the pseudonym Johnny Ruby, before starting to make music as Gold Star, and he's set to release his third Gold Star album, Uppers and Downers, on September 7 via Autumn Tone Records (pre-order). He recorded the album at LA's historic Valentine Studios (where The Beach Boys, Frank Zappa, and others recorded) with producer Nicolas Jodoin, who also worked on Gold Star's 2012 debut. The album features Tame Impala and Arctic Monkeys collaborator Cameron Avery (on "This Is The Year"), Black Lips members Cole Alexander and Zumi Rosow (on "Chinatown"), and others. We're premiering the song "Baby Face," which Marlon made with current White Fence (and former Thee Oh Sees) drummer Nick Murray, and The Last Shadow Puppets/Mini Mansions bassist Zach Dawes. Here's what Marlon tells us about it:
"Baby Face" began by stacking two different drum loops on top of each other, after that I started messing around with adding Wurlitzer and the idea for the song started coming together. Once we started cutting the track in the studio, we had Nick Murray (The Growlers, White Fence, Thee Oh Sees) attempt to replicate these samples onto tape. The strings are from a Mellotron, like the samples used on “Strawberry Fields Forever.” The track also features contributions from Zach Dawes (Last Shadow Puppets, Mini Mansions).
The song has a very '70s singer/songwriter pop rock vibe, or for a more modern comparison, fans of Foxygen or Whitney or Father John Misty may want to take note. Listen, along with two other tracks from the LP, below.
Gold Star also has upcoming shows, including one in San Francisco this month with his longtime pal (and frequent tourmate) Phoebe Bridgers, and one in Brooklyn on October 24 at Baby's All Right (tickets). He also has upcoming UK/EU dates, including Pitchfork Avant-Garde in Paris. All dates are listed below.
Gold Star -- 2018 Tour Dates
7/18 - San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall (w/Phoebe Bridgers)
8/05 - County Waterford, IE @ All Together Now Festival
9/13 - Los Angeles, CA @ Highland Park Ebell (Record release show)
10/24 - Brooklyn, NY @ Baby’s All Right
10/29 - London, UK @ The Waiting Room
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You could make a (film geek) party game out of guessing director Justin Simien's influences, but his vision seems to spring directly from what's up…
It has been one of the great honors of my life to be a friend of Muhammad Ali. We met first when I was chosen to accompany him on a good-will tour to Pakistan. For a time I traveled many places with him, on book tours and personal appearances. I spent the night in his home in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago at least 50 times, because Ali was not the kind of man to let you stay in a hotel.
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An appreciation of "1941" and interview with Bob Gale.
A review of Paul Thomas Anderson's "Inherent Vice" from the 2014 New York Film Festival.
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I have seen quite a few dogs recently who are not living up to their potential. They are loved by their people and well cared for, but they need more. This is usually when well meaning people in the animal industry say “oh, your dog needs a job.”
You are totally right! Fido does need a job!
Why did they say this?
Some dogs just figure out life with humans with minimal interference from us. These are the dogs that were seemingly born with all the skills to be an amazing dog. This is the dog that makes you feel like an amazing dog trainer, and you have no idea why your friends are struggling with their puppies, yours was so easy. (HA! Wait until your next puppy my friend!)
Usually, your dog “needs a job” because he has figured out how to unlock the trashcan, refrigerator, bathroom cabinet, and had a great time going through your stuff. These are the dogs who are barking their fool head off at anything that moves, breathes, or thinks. These dogs are typically not having all their needs met beyond the minimal basics of food and water. The “need a job” folks are on the right track when they look at what your dog was bred to do, but usually off in their recommendations.
What the heck does that look like!?
Do I need to buy sheep for my border collie, or a boat for my Newfoundland? Please don’t. I mean, not unless you have a desire to own sheep or the financial means to buy a boat, then knock yourself out! But your dog doesn’t need these things.
When we look at your dogs behavior wellness to create your training plan, we look at 4 big areas of their life. Exercise, Enrichment, Diet, and Communication. These are the areas that need to be fulfilled for your dog to live their best life, and you to not pull your hair out. Take a look at what your dog was bred to do and match up to the things you think your dog will enjoy. Herding breeds need lots of information, hounds love to sniff, livestock guardian dogs need to walk.
When this affects your dogs well being
Some dogs, like our high drive, herding and bitey breeds (border collies, shepherds, mastiffs) need more information about life and what is expected of them in order to succeed living with humans. Typically these dog begin to fill in the gaps in their learning with undesirable behaviors. While some dogs can fill in the space with something that is just mildly annoying, other dogs are going to go the most embarrassing behavior possible.
Slacking on that loose leash walking, enter barky lungy behaviors.
Did not give your dog clear rules for people coming in the house, they might decide people are not welcome through the door.
These are examples of a stressed out dog who is not coping with their life very well. They do need you to make sure you are giving them all the information they need in order to be successful in your life. Food is the fastest way to tell your dog they are doing something correctly. A well timed piece of chicken can communicate to your dog that you are in control of the situation, and they can trust you to give them information to stay safe. Don’t wait until your dog is doing something wrong, reward the things they are doing correctly. This is the communication piece of the wellness puzzle, and the one I work with the most often. Everyone feels better when they have the information they need to be successful.
I am going to unpack this concept a bit more in the next few blog posts. On the facebook page, tell us one time you have been told your dog needs a job.

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5 lesser-known but interesting facts about Tesla
In the automotive world, Tesla has truly pushed the envelope and made the pipe dream of driving an all-electric car come true. Since its inception in 2003, Tesla has come a long way to make its once rare and out-of-reach cars more affordable and accessible to the public. Today, we bring some lesser-known but interesting facts about the company.
Many believe Tesla is billionaire Elon Musk's brainchild. However, the fact is that the company was founded by Eric Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning in 2003. In February 2004, Musk led the Series A funding round, joining Tesla's board of directors as its chairperson and later became the CEO. And if you didn't know already, the company's name is a tribute to inventor Nikola Tesla.
Tesla's Roadster is "the quickest car in the world, with record-setting acceleration, range, and performance." The four-seater all-electric model can accelerate from 0-100kmph in just 1.9 seconds. It also offers a top speed of over 400kmph and a stunning range of 965km on a single charge. The second-generation Tesla Roadster is set to be launched next year.
Tesla's Model S is one of the most decorated cars. It holds the titles of the lowest drag coefficient and the largest panoramic sunroof in any production car. But not many know that National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's roof crush resistance testing machine actually broke but it couldn't crush the Model S under it. Yes, it is built like a tank.
Modern-day cars pack a bunch of connectivity features including support for smartphone integration, dedicated SIM cards, wireless charging, and more. But which car do you think has the biggest infotainment system? Well, it's the Tesla Model S. The popular four-seater sedan sports a massive 17-inch touch screen panel which acts as your single control panel for driving, navigation, music, and everything else you need.
In 2019, Tesla introduced a dog mode on its cars that allows you to set a cabin temperature to keep your dog comfortable while you are away. In this mode, the infotainment screen also broadcasts a message to passersby, letting them know that the pet is safe. Notably, the feature includes both cooling and heating modes.


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Excellent news on a technologies that could revolutionize geothermal energy produced waves at the American Geophysical Union meeting last week. Any individual who understands that the world’s hunger for energy will push our planet beyond the point of no return without technological solutions will welcome the thought of CO2 plume geothermal power or CPG.
The reason enhanced geothermal wells have to be deep is that the thermal efficiency (and hence the profitability) of geothermal generation is especially sensitive to the temperature of the water brought to the surface. That temperature demands to be 150ºC or additional to create steam effective sufficient to drive electrical turbines. Away from areas exactly where tectonic plates abut, the temperature of the underlying rocks increases by roughly 25º-30ºC per kilometre (23º-26ºF per 1,000 feet) of depth. This means that to get water hot enough to raise steam, you have to drill down a number of kilometres.
For creating nations, it is this sector in which there is the most potential for improvement as space and water heating form important parts of the energy spending budget in several parts of the planet. (In industrialized countries, 35-40 % of total principal energy consumption is utilized in buildings.) However, potential in this sector has remained largely untapped. Apart from China, creating nations have, as yet, shown incredibly limited interest in the installation of GHPs.
We have been spending some winter months in recent years in a smaller village on the North coast of the Yucatán Peninsula. When we first arrived it was a not atypical coastal town with dirt streets and thatched or tin roofs. It is safe inside one of Mexico’s biggest nature preserves , and it is right here since the village pre-existed the reserve, so it was allowed to remain as long as it behaved, and then even when it didn’t. Development has been very cruel to this area in current years, has produced it socially, economically and ecologically additional fragile, and has set it up for a huge fall in the not incredibly distant future.
Outdoors of the seasonal variations, the geothermal gradient of temperatures through the crust is 25-30 °C (77-86 °F) per kilometer of depth in most of the planet. The conductive heat flux averages .1 MW/km2. These values are considerably greater close to tectonic plate boundaries where the crust is thinner. They may be further augmented by fluid circulation, either through magma conduits , hot springs , hydrothermal circulation or a mixture of these.

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Yet I had decades of purity and I was in despair and pain all the time because I yearned for love
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Yet I had decades of purity and I was in despair and pain all the time because I yearned for love. I fell in love with one unobtainable woman after another and died of a broken heart a million times, until I fell in love with one unobtainable woman and she fell in love with me back. The despair and pain are a thing of the past, I cannot even remember what they feel like, and I yearn for the purity of the cold air and the icy mountains. So let us mix the two. It is good to be separated from the one you love. I was unhappy as soon as I set off for Brussels and Berlin, but I was yearning for my love, and I could not wait to see her again. This was a good feeling, I need to travel more and feel this more. Rather than being with her all the time and yearning for freedom. I always want the opposite of what I have got. From one pole to the other, this is always the movement of my life, of my soul, of my heart, of my libido. This oscillating is what keeps my mechanism in motion and producing electricity. If this movement is stopped I become clogged up and I stagnate and start to rot in my own juices. For cleanliness and health, I need to be allowed to swing from the loving bosom of —–, to the most rampant purifying pornography and prostitution. I must allow myself this, and I must institute it. If she will allow it, then all for the good, if she will not allow it then I cannot blame her. Today we are together buying ferns. I must start my one day trips to Vienna and Berlin and Munich as soon as possible. I do not have the money. I have no money in my bank. I have no spending money but I have to go.


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Dodge Grand Caravan News
We went a little crazy last week, diving into the toxic waters of Triumph Stag ownership, but you'd probably manage to find a handful of people who thought the Stag was quasi-cool. Where's the guilt? So, this week we'll be returning to Detroit and a vehicle that's both completely ridiculous and so comprehensively uncool that you'd be able to travel through several time zones without finding a single self-proclaimed car freak who would admit to the slightest admiration for it. I speak, of course, of the Dodge Caravan and Plymouth Voyager minivans, which were available for two years with both...
2011 Dodge Grand Caravan R/T Live Photos: 2011 Chicago Auto Show
The Man Van is even manlier today with the unveiling of the Dodge Grand Caravan R/T. Dodge says it delivers the performance-sedan handling with minivan utility. Rated at 283 horsepower from its 3.6-liter Pentastar V-6 engine, it certainly has the grunt it needs to get the job done. A...Nelson Ireson
Dodge Debuts Owner Apps On Android, Blackberry, And iPhone
Smartphones have moved one step closer to controlling our lives: Dodge recently announced that it has launched owner's manual apps on the Android, Blackberry, and iPhone platforms. The apps offer a range of features that supplement and enhance the existing hard-copy manuals and DVDs that come with...Richard Read
Dodge Ramps Up The Halloween Hype On Syfy
Chrysler's marketing team has had some hits and some misses over the past year. For a while, Olivier Francois & Co. ran nothing but quirky branding campaigns, featuring the likes of Mikhail Gorbachev and Nelson Mandela cruising in Chrysler vehicles. That made dealers confused and mad, but...Richard Read


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Lovely, large antique French Napoleon III era green opaline glass “egg” shaped casket, a chatelaine style etui with ornate reticulated gilt ormolu top & bottom finial style fittings, ruby or cranberry glass bead base dangle and fine condition! One of three old French ‘egg’ caskets that we’re adding today, each with its own unique style (and a flaw or two). This one in opaque green opaline glass with a satin exterior, glossy interior and jewel like appearance. Wonderful decorative accents all, even with the age related flaw or two. We have a nice collection of antique French opaline pieces so, be sure to browse some while you’re with us. Thanks!
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Uproar over plans to cut bus services
BRIDPORT residents are up in arms about proposed cuts in the town’s bus services.
Dorset County Council is consulting on cuts which include the loss of the Saturday services on several routes.
People in Jessop Avenue are mounting a campaign to keep the 44 running on Saturdays and have started a petition.
Dora Christopher from Bradpole is spearheading the campaign with the support of the King Charles Residents Association.
They argue the loss will have a significant and damaging impact on their community.
Mrs Christopher said: “Many of us don’t have cars and rely on the bus. Going in to Bridport to shop and meet friends on a Saturday can be the highlight of our week.
“Many of us also have family who are only free to meet up with us on a Saturday as they work during the week. And it’s a really busy bus too.
I don’t know when they counted the passengers as it’s nearly always more than 10 on a Saturday.”
Bob Driscoll of Western Area Transport Action Group WATAG, is also supporting her campaign.
He said: “This flies in the teeth of Dorset County Council’s Local Transport Plan which is aimed at encouraging more people to use public transport.
“As a proposal it’s not green, it’s not fair and will lead to greater social isolation. “I hope people will protest by writing to the county council, but they have to do it by Tuesday September 24.”
Letters should be sent to Dorset Passenger Transport, Dorset County Council, County Hall, Dorchester, DT1 1XJ, or there are surveys on dorsetforyou.com/bussurvey Bridport Library has agreed to help people who don’t have home computers to fill in their comments on the survey form.
The 44 bus route takes in Jessopp Avenue, East Street, South Street, Coopers Drive, Valley Road, North Hill Way, Hollow Way, Maple Gardens, South Lawns, Pasture Way and Howard Road. Dorset county councillor Ronald Coatsworth said: “I do support their campaign but they have to have at least 20 people on the bus.
“There is some question about the accuracy of the system of counting the numbers.
“If people can prove that the bus has more, then the county council will certainly listen to them.
“The whole purpose of the exercise is to have another check how things really are.”


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With the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) treating successful cyber attacks by "Operation Payback" as criminal offenses, a new level of ambiguity is being introduced into the enforcement of cyber crime laws.
The FBI was treating efforts by "Anonymous" and "4chan" as an "unauthorized and knowing transmission of code or commands resulting in intentional damage to a protected computer system," according to a search warrant affidavit published online Thursday.
Not all distributed denial of service (DDoS) efforts are a crime. This is especially true when systems within the networks staging the attack are placed there voluntarily by their users, with thousands of willing individuals simply flooding a server by asking it to do what it's designed for: loading pages.
Botnets of this nature have been compared to cyber "sit-ins": a computer-age echo of civil rights-era protests.
However, a newly discovered software exploit in peer-to-peer file sharing networks could allow a single individual, instead of many, the ability to bring down massive Internet operations by marshaling hundreds of thousands of other systems through "BitTorrent" trickery.
On "BitTorrent" networks, swarms of users all share portions of a single file, trading tiny pieces between their computers until each individual client has the complete download.
Millions of people engage in these networks every day, sharing everything from the perfectly legal to the legally ambiguous. Massive quantities of copyrighted material trade hands between users of "BitTorrent" networks regularly, but not much can be done to shut them down since many torrent files do not require a centralized tracker or host.
It is within these tracker-less torrent files that a major attack can be staged, according to a recent chat held by the Chaos Communications Congress, an annual conference of hackers now in its 27th year.
With a tracker-less torrent and a single "malicious node," "anyone with a moderate bandwidth connection can induce DDoS attacks with the BitTorrent cloud," the lecture page summarized.
A Chaos Congress presenter under the name "Astro" demonstrated how that entire network's bandwidth can quickly become marshaled to attack a single domain.
"For example, one could tell tens of thousands of users that an HD version of Inception is available at an address that really is the web server of a corporation," technology publication Gigaom noted. "All of these users would immediately try to download the file under that address, bombarding the server with requests and possibly taking it down in the process."
And it's not just a single deceptive torrent file that can lead such an attack: according to TorrentFreak, this new method can utilize existing torrents already sharing information by hundreds of thousands of people.
The exploit would appear to be a new innovation in the formation of what are known as "botnets," or computers with malicious software that are at least partially under the control of a remote operator, in many cases a cyber criminal who uses the distributed computer power for nefarious purposes.
The largest botnet on the Internet was said to be "Rustock," according to an intelligence report released earlier this month by online security firm Symantec Hosted Services. "Rustock" was responsible for over 44 billion spam emails every day, they said.
Utilization of such technology to attack the web operations of companies like MasterCard Worldwide or PayPal -- both of which, among others, were brought down earlier this month by "Operation Payback" for their refusal to do business with secrets outlet WikiLeaks -- would likely be classified a serious crime.
The FBI has already raided a Dallas-based hosting company and copied the contents of two hard drives in connections with attacks on PayPal, and a 16-year-old Dutch teen was arrested for allegedly running a chat room connected to "Anonymous." It is reasonable to expect more raids soon.
Given the tactics of "Anonymous," answering each official escalation against WikiLeaks with increasingly larger attacks, it may be only a matter of time before torrents are used to attack a major bank or even the US government.
While the latest round of DDoS attacks on high-profile corporate entities is certainly notable for their sporadic success at bringing major operations down for brief periods, the latest development in DDoS may pose an even greater problem for small organizations dealing with human rights or issues of political controversy.
Amid the rise of the Internet's "hypergiants" -- the massive Internet service providers (ISPs) and network operators at the core of Earth's global communications platform -- smaller media organizations and human rights groups have found themselves on the network's outer fringes, and frequently the targets of devastating cyber-attacks.
Network security know-how is often unavailable to these organizations due to the gravity of better paying jobs at major firms. That's created an unbalance on the Internet, with just 30 firms soaking up over 30 percent of the Internet's total bandwidth, according to a recent Harvard University study (PDF) carried out by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society.
Researchers found that between August 2009 and September 2010, a collection of just 280 sites run by human rights organizations were hit with 140 different distributed DDoS attacks. There were likely many others that went unnoticed.
The torrent exploit would appear to be a double-edged sword for so-called "hacktivists" who might view it as a new weapon for "Operation Payback." While this may mean the next wave of DDoS against the opponents of WikiLeaks will potentially be much larger than the DDoS attacks of December 2010, the same tactics could also be used against groups that promote valuable human rights causes.