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Post by rgs318 on May 4, 2024 14:30:00 GMT -5
Well, they won't call her "grandpa" like they did RJ at UCONN.
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Post by sader1970 on May 4, 2024 19:16:30 GMT -5
I have it on good authority that Callie plans to go to grad school back home in Toronto. Not sure if that means basketball or not.
Since no announcement, not sure where Cara will be landing but apparently her plans are to play a grad year at a school closer to home.
No idea about Janelle.
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Post by longsuffering on May 5, 2024 19:14:42 GMT -5
Janelle might be attending a rigorous science or medical graduate program. I think players can take six years to play five seasons including their Covid year. So I think players like Janelle could take next year to get acclimated to a mukti-year graduate program and then play basketball the next year, but not sure.
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Post by hcnj on May 5, 2024 22:21:17 GMT -5
Don’t know what to say as the open ok for me Have them now A 6’4” who scores in the post and at the 3- very impressive Highlight reel- even though the competition was shorter and not strong, she showed fine skills: Shooting form was solid with text book follow through. Pretty good quick release Runs the court, good hands on the catch. Finishes with either hand. Keeps rebounds high, away from defenders. The skills are there. Obviously needs weight for D1 play. you're a much better skills evaluator than me but your comment about a quick release was the first thing i noted. A lot of potential and not reluctant to play around the basket.
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Post by bfoley82 on May 5, 2024 23:33:23 GMT -5
Thanks. I guess Bronagh does have what a power conference is looking for, just like Avery did. Unlike Wisconsin when Avery joined, Villanova has a winning team. Although they lost a close one 50-48 to Marquette in the Big East Tournament first round, they made it to the championship game of the WBIT, playing five post season games against three P-6 teams and two A-10 teams. Bronagh brings experience in two post season games to join the Nova returnees with five. The Wildcats will be a good team to follow next year with a chance to do quite well. I wonder if Bronagh will start like Avery or be a solid rotation contributor and veteran leader like RJ Evans was during his season at UConn? Villanova's top player Lucy Olsen has transferred to Iowa. They will have to replace her 23.3 PPG. The next leading scorer for the Wildcats scored 8.3 PPG. apnews.com/article/iowa-hawkeyes-lucy-olsen-82371bb061f4a96efd1779db5cb00def
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Post by HC92 on May 6, 2024 7:31:10 GMT -5
ND just added a big from Marquette who was a unanimous All Big East selection last year. ND is likely the second best team in the country behind South Carolina now with USC and UConn a little behind them.
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Post by purplehaze on May 6, 2024 8:02:14 GMT -5
It is not a good trend for UConn to have such a big gap between themselves and the rest of the Big East. In other words, the league is not strong enough after the Huskies
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Post by HC92 on May 6, 2024 8:23:13 GMT -5
It is not a good trend for UConn to have such a big gap between themselves and the rest of the Big East. In other words, the league is not strong enough after the Huskies Agree. Rest of conference is terrible and seemingly getting weaker. Geno does a pretty good job playing a lot of top teams in the OOC but they definitely will not be challenged in conference.
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Post by sader1970 on May 6, 2024 8:23:34 GMT -5
It is not a good trend for UConn to have such a big gap between themselves and the rest of the Big East. In other words, the league is not strong enough after the Huskies I suppose this is like the real estate maxim that you should never have the most expensive house in the neighborhood because the others drag your home value down. Having a "cheaper" home in the neighborhood brings your value up. Not sure that's actually true but it makes logical sense (to me).
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Post by HC13 on May 6, 2024 10:34:45 GMT -5
It is not a good trend for UConn to have such a big gap between themselves and the rest of the Big East. In other words, the league is not strong enough after the Huskies Agree. Rest of conference is terrible and seemingly getting weaker. Geno does a pretty good job playing a lot of top teams in the OOC but they definitely will not be challenged in conference. Gee, aren't you overstating, at least a little bit, the demise of the Big East? they were the 6th ranked conference in most of the services and 8 of their teams were in the top 100 and everybody but Xavier was top 140.
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Post by HC92 on May 6, 2024 14:50:02 GMT -5
Agree. Rest of conference is terrible and seemingly getting weaker. Geno does a pretty good job playing a lot of top teams in the OOC but they definitely will not be challenged in conference. Gee, aren't you overstating, at least a little bit, the demise of the Big East? they were the 6th ranked conference in most of the services and 8 of their teams were in the top 100 and everybody but Xavier was top 140. I don’t know if they had a team besides UConn that belonged in the top 25. Creighton finished the season at 23 in the AP. UConn beat them with half a team by an average of 32 points in two games. No one else even made the others receiving votes. UConn won its 3 BE tourney games by 33, 29 and 36. If those teams couldn’t compete with the team UConn had to play with last year, it ain’t looking good for the future for those teams. There is a huge gap between the top teams and everyone below 20. So, most of the rest of the Big East might be in the top 100 but those teams are bad.
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Post by hchoops on May 6, 2024 15:05:40 GMT -5
Creighton was seeded #7 and Marquette #10 in the NCAA tournament. That would put Creighton anywhere from #25-28 and Marquette #37-40.
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Post by bfoley82 on May 6, 2024 15:31:02 GMT -5
It is not a good trend for UConn to have such a big gap between themselves and the rest of the Big East. In other words, the league is not strong enough after the Huskies Has UConn ever really been challenged in the Big East from anyone besides Notre Dame??
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Post by bfoley82 on May 6, 2024 15:32:24 GMT -5
Agree. Rest of conference is terrible and seemingly getting weaker. Geno does a pretty good job playing a lot of top teams in the OOC but they definitely will not be challenged in conference. Gee, aren't you overstating, at least a little bit, the demise of the Big East? they were the 6th ranked conference in most of the services and 8 of their teams were in the top 100 and everybody but Xavier was top 140. Yea, Providence got into the WNIT with a top 100 RPI. They went 13-21 overall and 6-12 in the Big East.
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Post by HC13 on May 6, 2024 15:50:08 GMT -5
I guess, and I do get and appreciate everyone's points. But in the world of rebuilding through the portal, if's very hard to determine who is going to be any good next year. Lot of top 50 teams have good players in the portal & have also have commits from good players. I've always believed and said as much that the bottom half of every Power 5/6 conference is over rated.
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Post by bison137 on May 6, 2024 16:34:56 GMT -5
It is not a good trend for UConn to have such a big gap between themselves and the rest of the Big East. In other words, the league is not strong enough after the Huskies Has UConn ever really been challenged in the Big East from anyone besides Notre Dame?? They were challenged somewhat for a decade by Rutgers, who got to the championship game five times between 1998 and 2007, culminating with a win over UConn in 2007..
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Post by bfoley82 on May 6, 2024 16:56:11 GMT -5
Has UConn ever really been challenged in the Big East from anyone besides Notre Dame?? They were challenged somewhat for a decade by Rutgers, who got to the championship game five times between 1998 and 2007, culminating with a win over UConn in 2007.. UConn though DOMINATED the regular season going 16-0 in Big East play and Rutgers went 12-4. The Scarlet Knights caught them on a bad day in 2007.
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Post by bison137 on May 6, 2024 17:50:33 GMT -5
They were challenged somewhat for a decade by Rutgers, who got to the championship game five times between 1998 and 2007, culminating with a win over UConn in 2007.. UConn though DOMINATED the regular season going 16-0 in Big East play and Rutgers went 12-4. The Scarlet Knights caught them on a bad day in 2007. No one is claiming Rutgers was as good as UConn, but there was not a big gap between them that year. It should be noted that the 2007 Rutgers team ended up advancing to the championship game of the NCAA tournament, losing to Tennessee in the finals. in the national USA today/coaches poll, Rutgers ended up being ranked second in the country, ahead of UConn. . They were also ranked seventh in the country by Massey.
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Post by timholycross on May 8, 2024 17:13:09 GMT -5
That was the Rutgers team that got Don Imus canned, wasn't it?
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Post by rgs318 on May 8, 2024 21:11:03 GMT -5
It was a dumb comment by Don Imus about players on that team that got him canned.
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Post by timholycross on May 9, 2024 6:21:20 GMT -5
Of course. The players themselves had nothing to do with it.
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Post by rgs318 on May 9, 2024 6:44:54 GMT -5
Correct. They did not...and Coach Singer accepted his apology saying, at the time, she believed he was being sincere.
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