Coaching Legacy of James Frizzell (CH 2K8)

[superjames1992]

2029 NCAA TOURNAMENT RESULTS - FINAL FOUR

SEMIFINALS SCORES
#3 Texas 81, #4 Virginia 65
#2 North Carolina 82, #2 Texas A&M 60

CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
#2 North Carolina 94, #3 Texas A&M 86

Congratulations to the North Carolina Tar Heels (30-6), who are your 2029 National Champions!!!

[superjames1992]

2029 POST-SEASON AWARDS

National Awards

National Champions - North Carolina Tar Heels (30-6, 12-4 ACC)
NIT Champions - Washington Huskies (25-12, 8-10 Pac-10)
National Coach of the Year - Anthony Grant (North Carolina)
National Player of the Year - Russ Opacic (Massachusetts)
Mid-Major Player of the Year - Wade Boboltz (Loyola Maramount)
National Defensive Player of the Year - O.J. Palmer (West Virginia)
Big Man of the Year - Russ Opacic (Massachusetts)
National Freshman of the Year - Dominik Kinloch (Iowa)

Big East Awards

Big East Regular Season Champions - West Virginia Mountaineers (34-2, 16-2 Big East)
Big East Tournament Champions - Connecticut Huskies (29-7, 15-3 Big East)
Big East Coach of the Year - James Frizzell (West Virginia)
Big East Player of the Year - Wilbur See (Notre Dame)
Big East Freshman of the Year - Frederic Montgomery (Villanova)

West Virginia 2028-2029 Recap

Record - 34-2 (16-2 Big East)
Big East Regular Season Champions
Hawaiian Invitational Tournament Champions
National Defensive Player of the Year - O.J. Palmer
Big East Coach of the Year - James Frizzell
First Team All-Conference - O.J. Palmer
Freshman All-Conference - Armondo Whelchel

Starters
PG #20 Waitari Trammell 5'11 191 (Richmond, VA) 90 overall SR
SG #3 Fred Joiner 6'4 201 (Staten Island, NY) 84 overall SO
SF #34 Deno Woodards 6'7 225 (St. Paul, MN) 86 overall JR
PF #55 Nile Stevenson 6'11 258 (Sioux Falls, SD) 86 overall JR
C #43 O.J. Palmer 7'0 283 (Philadelphia, PA) 82 overall SO

Bench
SG #23 R.J. Peterson 6'2 199 (Virginia Beach, VA) 88 overall SR
SG #22 Predrag Gabler 6'6 216 (El Paso, TX) 80 overall FR
SG #14 Matt Blanchard 6'3 194 (San Francisco, CA) 78 overall FR
SF #24 Armondo Whelchel 6'8 218 (Brooklyn, NY) 85 overall FR
PF #11 Ethan Augustin 6'8 214 (Rancho Cucamonga, CA) 81 overall FR
PF #32 Happy Olson 7'1 245 (New Britain, CT) 81 overall SO
C #51 Daniel Cox 6'10 257 (Australia) 80 overall SO

Reserves
PF #53 Sambra Coly 6'10 230 (Senegal) 75 overall JR
C #50 Kason Warzynski 6'11 238 (Chicago, IL) 72 overall SR

Coaches
James Frizzell: A+ overall (22nd year)
Brad Huse: B overall (10th year)
Jarrett Felton: B overall (10th year)

Individual Statistics:

Player                 GP  PT/G  R/G  A/G  S/G  B/G   M/G    FG%   3P%   FT%
Nile Stevenson         36  15.0  6.9  1.1  1.4  1.4  27.0   .534  .436  .835
O.J. Palmer            36  11.7  8.4  1.8  1.6  1.3  27.9   .524   ---  .818
Fred Joiner            36  10.0  2.7  2.1  1.8  0.2  28.1   .449  .312  .831
Deno Woodards          36   9.9  3.5  1.8  1.3  0.3  22.6   .431  .388  .771
Waitari Trammell       36   9.7  2.1  4.6  2.4  0.0  27.7   .406  .372  .926
Armondo Whelchel       36   7.2  2.4  1.1  0.8  0.3  16.2   .466  .307  .926
Predrag Gabler         36   6.1  1.9  0.9  1.1  0.3  17.1   .420  .380  .750
Ethan Augustin         36   5.8  3.9  0.6  0.7  0.4  17.1   .518  .500  .692
R.J. Peterson          32   3.3  1.1  0.8  0.6  0.0   8.9   .382  .432  1.00
Happy Olson            25   3.0  2.2  0.5  0.4  0.4   6.7   .632   ---  .631
Daniel Cox             16   2.3  1.7  0.4  0.0  0.2   4.9   .520   ---  1.00
Matt Blanchard         18   1.6  0.7  0.3  0.4  0.0   5.9   .333  .347  .000

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TOTAL                      82.1 35.4 15.4 12.0  4.7         .473  .372  .824
OPPONENTS                  63.8 26.7 14.7  9.5  2.0         .411  .328  .752

Coaching Statistics:

Coaching Record:
 
Season     School         Record     NCAA Tournament Results
2007-2008  Princeton       18-11     N/A
2008-2009  Princeton       21-9      First Round (#12 Seed)
2009-2010  Princeton       25-9      Sweet Sixteen (#9 Seed)
2010-2011  Princeton       22-8      First Round (#8 Seed)
2011-2012  Princeton       26-6      Second Round (#8 Seed)
2012-2013  Princeton       32-5      Final Four (#3 Seed)
2013-2014  Princeton       25-7      First Round (#12 Seed)
2014-2015  Princeton       31-4      Second Round (#3 Seed)
2015-2016  Princeton       31-5      Elite Eight (#3 Seed)
2016-2017  San Francisco   20-15     First Round (#12 Seed)
2017-2018  San Francisco   33-6      Final Four (#3 Seed)
2018-2019  San Francisco   35-5      Championship Game (#3 Seed)
2019-2020  West Virginia   24-12     Sweet Sixteen (#6 Seed)
2020-2021  West Virginia   29-9      National Champions (#5 Seed)
2021-2022  West Virginia   28-8      Second Round (#2 Seed)
2022-2023  West Virginia   25-11     Elite Eight (#7 Seed)
2023-2024  West Virginia   24-11     Second Round (#5 Seed)
2024-2025  West Virginia   29-13     Elite Eight (#6 Seed)
2025-2026  West Virginia   35-3      Final Four (#1 Seed)
2026-2027  West Virginia   32-7      Final Four (#1 Seed)
2027-2028  West Virginia   36-2      National Champions (#1 Seed)
2028-2029  West Virginia   32-4      Sweet Sixteen (#1 Seed)
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22 years                  613-170

NCAA Tournament Record: 52-19
NIT Record: 0-0
Ivy League Conference Record: 114-12
WCC Conference Record: 30-12
Big East Conference Record: 120-49


Ratings
Offense: A+
Defense: A+
Teaching: A+
Scouting: C+
Charisma: A+
Discipline: A
Overall: A+


Achievements
Regular Season Championships: 14
Conference Tournament Championships: 6
NCAA Tournaments: 21
NCAA Sweet Sixteens: 13
NCAA Elite Eights: 10
NCAA Final Fours: 7
NCAA Championships: 2
Preseason #1 Rankings: 0
20 Win Seasons: 21
30 Win Seasons: 9
Conference Coach of the Year: 17
National Coach of the Year: 2
All-Conference Players: 59
All-American Players: 10
National Players of the Year: 0
Pro Draftees: 11


Goals Reached
Sign a Four Star Recruit
Sign a Five Star Recruit
Sign a Five Star Recruit in Season
Sign a World Recruit
Sign a High School All-American
Sign the Mr. Basketball From Your State
Assemble a Top 20 Recruiting Class
Go an Entire Season With No Unhappy Players
Have a Player Chosen Freshman All-Conference
Have a Player Chosen All-Conference
Coach a Conference Player of the Year
Coach an NCAA All-American
Have a Player Chosen in the Pro Draft
Have an Underclassman Chosen in the Pro Draft
Coach a Team to a Winning Record
Coach a Team to 10 Wins
Coach a Team to 20 Wins
Win a Non-Conference Tournament
Upset the #1-Ranked Team
Coach a Team into the Top 25
Coach a Team to the #1 Ranking
Coach a Team to a Conference Championship
Coach a Team to an NCAA Tournament Bid
Coach a Team to the Sweet Sixteen
Coach a Team to the Final Four
Coach a Team to the NCAA Championship
Coach a Team to a #1 Seed in the NCAA Tournament
Be Chosen Conference Coach of the Year
Be Chosen NCAA Coach of the Year
Get Hired by a Larger Conference Team
Get Hired by a Power Conference Team
Get 5,000 Legacy Points in One Season
Get 200,000 Legacy Points in Your Career
Accumulate 200 Career Wins
Accumulate 500 Career Wins

Goals Not Yet Reached
Sign the Top Recruit in a Recruiting Class
Coach a Player of the Year Award Winner
Coach a 2K Sports Award Winner
Get a Lifetime Contract With Any Team
Accumulate 800 Career Wins
Accumulate 900 Career Wins

Goals Reached
Sign a Four Star Recruit
Sign a Five Star Recruit
Sign a Five Star Recruit in Season
Sign a World Recruit
Sign a High School All-American
Sign the Mr. Basketball From Your State
Assemble a Top 20 Recruiting Class
Assemble the Top Recruiting Class
Go an Entire Season With No Unhappy Players
Have a Player Chosen Freshman All-Conference
Have a Player Chosen All-Conference
Coach a Conference Player of the Year
Coach an NCAA All-American
Have a Player Chosen in the Pro Draft
Have an Underclassman Chosen in the Pro Draft
Coach a Team to a Winning Record
Coach a Team to 10 Wins
Coach a Team to 20 Wins
Win a Non-Conference Tournament
Upset the #1-Ranked Team
Coach a Team into the Top 25
Coach a Team to the #1 Ranking
Coach a Team to a Conference Championship
Coach a Team to an NCAA Tournament Bid
Coach a Team to the Sweet Sixteen
Coach a Team to the Final Four
Coach a Team to the NCAA Championship
Coach a Team to a #1 Seed in the NCAA Tournament
Be Chosen Conference Coach of the Year
Be Chosen NCAA Coach of the Year
Get Hired by a Larger Conference Team
Get Hired by a Power Conference Team
Get 5,000 Legacy Points in One Season
Get 200,000 Legacy Points in Your Career
Accumulate 200 Career Wins
Accumulate 500 Career Wins

Goals Not Yet Reached
Sign the Top Recruit in a Recruiting Class
Coach a Player of the Year Award Winner
Coach a 2K Sports Award Winner
Get a Lifetime Contract With Any Team
Accumulate 800 Career Wins
Accumulate 900 Career Wins

Players Leaving:

PG #20 Waitari Trammell 5'11 190 (Richmond, VA) 90 OVR SR - Entered Draft

Waitari Trammell       GP  PT/G  R/G  A/G  S/G  B/G   M/G    FG%   3P%   FT%
2028-2029              36   9.7  2.1  4.6  2.4  0.0  27.7   .406  .372  .926
2027-2028              38  10.5  2.2  4.4  2.1  0.0  25.7   .443  .409  .953
2026-2027              39   4.2  1.3  2.4  1.2  0.0  12.5   .400  .314  .950
2025-2026              38   4.1  0.9  2.1  1.2  0.0  11.3   .424  .365  .872
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TOTAL                 151   7.1  1.6  3.4  1.7  0.0  19.2   .420  .377  .930

SG #23 R.J. Peterson 6'2 199 (Virginia Beach, VA) 88 OVR SR - Graduated

R.J. Peterson          GP  PT/G  R/G  A/G  S/G  B/G   M/G    FG%   3P%   FT%
2028-2029              32   3.3  1.1  0.8  0.6  0.0   8.9   .382  .432  1.00
2027-2028              37   5.3  1.0  0.5  0.7  0.2  14.1   .369  .357  .923
2026-2027              39   4.1  0.7  0.4  0.7  0.1   9.8   .414  .371  .800
2025-2026              36   3.9  0.7  0.4  0.4  0.0   7.7   .419  .464  .700
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TOTAL                 144   4.2  0.9  0.5  0.6  0.0  10.2   .394  .397  .853

C #50 Kason Warzynski 6'11 238 (Chicago, IL) 72 OVR SR - Graduated

Kason Warzynski        GP  PT/G  R/G  A/G  S/G  B/G   M/G    FG%   3P%   FT%
2028-2029              NO STATISTICS ACCUMULATED
2027-2028              NO STATISTICS ACCUMULATED
2026-2027              NO STATISTICS ACCUMULATED
2025-2026              NO STATISTICS ACCUMULATED
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TOTAL                  NO STATISTICS ACCUMULATED

[OliDegu2008]

I know you lost to Kentucky but how awesome is this game? You never know what is going to happen from one game to the next, just like in actual life!

[DARKxKNIGHTx2013]

It's good that you have the Defensive Player of the Year returning and he put up decent points. What kind of offense do you run? 82 PPG is crazy! And the defense really came through allowing only 63. Talk about efficiency!

[Deuce2223]

I am curious if you go all in after the #1 player in the country or do you pretty much just stick to recruiting your region? Seems like with your resume and past success in the NCAA tournament even west coast guy's should have West Virginia on their Top-5 or at least Top-10.

I am also confused how is the National Defensive Player of the Year not a 2k Sports Award winner? What does it take to get it.

In all my years of playing this game and even with multiple National Title's in a row, I can't remember ever having earned that attribute or the National POY.


Oh more question's. Has NC State ever came up in the coaching carousel and would you ever consider leaving WVU for it? How many more years do you see yourself staying at WVU (800 wins or 900?) and do you think you will leave for a struggling power conference team or maybe go back and build up a non-traditional mid-major into a power program?

[gsutiger]

Quote: Originally Posted by superjames1992

Good deal! You are welcome to start up a legacy, too, and add to the collective fun! .

i picked up the game over the weekend..never played but after reading this i had to go get a copy..I would love to do one i just dont have the time needed to put into it..im starting at grambling..will only move to another Louisiana school La Tech or UL Lafayette then hopefully the dream job of landing LSU when its all said and done

[whughes]

Final Four with no 1# seeds? That's different. Who do you plan on having replace Trammel with him being the only true point guard on the roster? Going to convert a SG or is there a stud freshman coming in that you're going to throw right into the starting rotation?

[superjames1992]

Quote: Originally Posted by OliDegu2008

I know you lost to Kentucky but how awesome is this game? You never know what is going to happen from one game to the next, just like in actual life!

Yeah, you just never know. You can have a really dominant team, but when it's not your night, it's not your night.

Quote: Originally Posted by DARKxKNIGHTx2013

It's good that you have the Defensive Player of the Year returning and he put up decent points. What kind of offense do you run? 82 PPG is crazy! And the defense really came through allowing only 63. Talk about efficiency!

Yeah, Palmer was surprisingly effective this year (the guy nearly has Shaq-size at 7-foot, 290 lbs.). I was kind of iffy moving him into the starting lineup, but it went about as well as I could have hoped for. He arguably played better than Nile Stevenson, who was supposed to be my "star".

I use the Princeton playbook, though I tend to run it pretty fast. I've also changed some sliders recently in order to try to slow down the pace some as some of the scores were getting out of hand. You might have noticed that the conference tournament and NCAA tournament games were a bit lower-scoring and that will be what I roll with going forward into next season.

Side note: Updated sliders/house rules have been posted in the first post. One thing I will add that I have been doing, but have not mentioned before is that I only play as one player on defense and do not switch mid-possession. I alternate position with each position. Thus, one possession #1, I will play as PG, then possession #2 as SG, possession #3 as SF, possession #4 as PF, possession #5 as C, possession #6 as PG, etc....

I also moved the CPU's drive tendency back up to 100 so they were a little more aggressive driving to the hoop (they might have been a little passive at 60).

Quote: Originally Posted by Deuce2223

I am curious if you go all in after the #1 player in the country or do you pretty much just stick to recruiting your region? Seems like with your resume and past success in the NCAA tournament even west coast guy's should have West Virginia on their Top-5 or at least Top-10.

I usually go for the highest-rated guys that have me in their top 3 or 5. I have never actually gone after the #1 player of the country until this year. Unfortunately, after having the early lead, I was edged out. He was a shooting guard and I think the glut of players I have at SG is probably what swayed him away. Not to worry, though; it's a decent class for what scholarships I had available.

I will recruit from everywhere. I don't have any house rules there nor do I think I really need to (I've only hauled in the #1 class once and I think it is realistic that a team with my team's success would roll in consistent top 10-20 classes each season). It wasn't until recently that I really started to consistently roll in 5* recruits.

Quote: Originally Posted by Deuce2223

I am also confused how is the National Defensive Player of the Year not a 2k Sports Award winner? What does it take to get it. In all my years of playing this game and even with multiple National Title's in a row, I can't remember ever having earned that attribute or the National POY.

I think the 2K Sports Award is basically just a different version of the National POY. I have noticed that it is almost always rewarded to a PF or C in the game and usually he averages 20+ PPG and 10+ RPG. That's going to be tough for me to get. I don't think I've ever had a player average over 18 PPG in a season, even with some of my higher-scoring teams. I tend to spread the ball around a lot and it's not as if I have one player that is clearly better than the rest (Nile Stevenson was probably my best player this past season, but it's not like he was clearly better).

Quote: Originally Posted by Deuce2223

Oh more question's. Has NC State ever came up in the coaching carousel and would you ever consider leaving WVU for it? How many more years do you see yourself staying at WVU (800 wins or 900?) and do you think you will leave for a struggling power conference team or maybe go back and build up a non-traditional mid-major into a power program?

NC State opened up maybe 3-5 seasons ago, IIRC (Sidney Lowe retired... hahaha). I gave some thought to it, but ultimately didn't leave. I think if I were to leave now, I would go to a mid-major school. I actually gave some thought to taking the Manhattan job this coming offseason as it was open (always liked the Jaspers since I played with them a lot in ESPN College Hoops 2K4), but I ultimately passed on it (though, if you guys really wanted me to, I could take it as I was really split on the decision as it were).

I very well may leave sometime, but it's really hard to say. I have given some thought to maybe taking the UNC Greensboro job if it ever opens up (where I eventually graduated with my B.S. and am currently in the M.A. Econ program), but I'm just not sure if I would go back down to a small-conference team or not.

NOTE: BTW, I am still working on catching up with your legacy. I'll be there soon!

Quote: Originally Posted by gsutiger

i picked up the game over the weekend..never played but after reading this i had to go get a copy..I would love to do one i just dont have the time needed to put into it..im starting at grambling..will only move to another Louisiana school La Tech or UL Lafayette then hopefully the dream job of landing LSU when its all said and done

Well, you can always put in as much time as needed. My updates were pretty short early on, too. I don't think one should put in more time than they want to as it only results in burn-out when you try to keep up with the ones that use heavy photo-editing, etc. (I commend those that do, but I just don't have the stomach for spending that much time on it, personally. ). That being said, enjoy the game, regardless.

It might take a little getting used to if you have played NBA 2K14 or whatever (and I have), but I don't find the transition too hard.

Quote: Originally Posted by whughes

Final Four with no 1# seeds? That's different. Who do you plan on having replace Trammel with him being the only true point guard on the roster? Going to convert a SG or is there a stud freshman coming in that you're going to throw right into the starting rotation?

Joiner is technically a PG even though I started him at SG this year, so he will likely get the starting job unless the PG I am bringing in is really, really good. Gabler will probably get the nod at starting SG.