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Duke’s Lanham Adds 12 Freshmen for the 2024-25 Campaign

DURHAM, N.C. — Duke wrestling head coach Glen Lanham announced Friday the addition of 12 incoming freshmen for the 2024-25 campaign.  
“This is our biggest class since I have been here at Duke,” said Lanham.  “It is a well-decorated class with a variety of weights and we are excited to have them joining our program.  We felt like we needed get more depth in our weight classes, so we went out and recruited hard and brought in some really good guys.  We are excited about what they are able to do.  They have been busy this summer training, going to Fargo and national duals.  I am super excited with the class coming in and I am looking forward to coaching them.” 
In one of the largest classes in Lanham’s tenure with the Blue Devils, the class includes student-athletes from eight different states. Joining the Duke family will be Ben Beckett, Ryan Beirne, Evan Coles, Dash Hort, John King, Noah Kochman, Vincent Lee, Owen McGrory, Eli Murray, Dylan Ross, Riley Rowan and Luke Williams. 
“We have a young group with the graduation of a lot of seniority,” … more at … https://goduke.com/news/2024/7/19/wrestling-lanham-adds-12-freshmen-for-the-2024-25-campaign.aspx

July 23, 2024 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Bryant Stats Dig: Was 2024 PA’s Junior men’s freestyle team the best ever, or not?

Fargo, North Dakota – It’s no secret how much I love this tournament. Having served a number of roles here over the past 26 years – yes, 26 years – the “when was the last time” question was frequent. That prompted me to research and build a database of the past All-Americans over a decade ago. This is one of the few times of the year where that data and information is alive. Even now, I’m still finding tweaks in the data and correcting misattributed states that were either input incorrectly or copied wrong. As I said, the information is always alive.
So when PA Power Wrestling’s Jim Beach approached me at media table on Wednesday night prior to the finals of the 2024 U.S. Marine Corps Junior and 16U Nationals, he suspected the Junior men’s freestyle performance by Team Pennsylvania was going to be close to record-setting.
Close? Absolutely. Record-breaking? Depends on how you want to frame it.
While Pennsylvania’s 19 All-Americans wasn’t the most by a state in Junior men’s freestyle history, its point total was with 278 points. It sparked a historical dive to search for what have been the most impressive Junior men’s freestyle team performances of the past 53 years. Upon diving in, it’ll be one that’s sure to add more fuel to the fire amongst the coaches and fans when the argument comes up about which state is the best.
So to do this properly, we have to analyze the current team scoring system, which takes the United World Wrestling scoring method, with a few alterations since USA Wrestling doesn’t do a double bronze and double fifth.
Champions get 25 points, runners-up get 20. Then the scoring goes 15 for third, 12 for fourth, 9 for fifth, 7 for sixth, 5 for seventh and 2 points for eighth. This scoring system started in 2021. Prior, it was an 8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 point allocation. There’s no limit on how many entries a state can score per weight.
Unlike the NCAA championships, where team scoring was adjusted multiple times to account for the advent of the technical fall, changing the amount of advancement points and later placement points, USA Wrestling’s scoring system is only placement, so you can apply a current scoring method – or a past one – to the same batch of results to get a fair comparison. All team scoring “in Fargo” was unofficial prior to 2006. Any and all team championships citied all-time do include unofficial championships won “by math.” … more at … https://www.themat.com/news/2024/july/18/bryant-stats-dig-was-2024-pa-s-junior-men-s-freestyle-team-the-best-ever-nor-not-

July 23, 2024 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment