WBB: 2026 Transfer Portal

[WartburgClone]

after watching Ashley Joens for 5 years I’m beyond ready for a new system. Or any kind of system, period.

Queen of getting her shot blocked.

 

[WartburgClone]

As for the debate of Audi vs the rest of the team, when a player takes 20+ shot attempts from inside 5 feet they'd better be scoring 20+ per game.

 

[Stormin]

As for the debate of Audi vs the rest of the team, when a player takes 20+ shot attempts from inside 5 feet they'd better be scoring 20+ per game.

The rest of our team took 42 shots to make 26 points. Against Syracuse. 42 shots and only 26 points. JFC.

 

[HarryClone]

Queen of getting her shot blocked.

Last night I slept for six consecutive hours, all of which was consumed by a dream that Fennelly called an iso for Ashley Joens. Hour one was screening for the mismatch, hour two she turned her back to the defender 30 feet from the hoop, hour three she backed her down to the three point line, hour four she got to the free throw line, hour five she made it to the low block, and at 4:59 am she finally scooped under the hoop for a reverse layup. As the clock struck 5, a help defender stuffed that **** so hard that Ashley fell to the floor and the defense took off on a 5-on-4 fast break. Fennelly screamed at Ashley for running the play he called, but all came out of his mouth was the sound of my alarm.

 

[Marcelason78]

Queen of getting her shot blocked.

My memory of Ashley Joens is two time All-American, three time Cheryl Miller Award winner and one of the best to ever wear Cardinal and Gold.

 

[throwittoblythe]

Last night I slept for six consecutive hours, all of which was consumed by a dream that Fennelly called an iso for Ashley Joens. Hour one was screening for the mismatch, hour two she turned her back to the defender 30 feet from the hoop, hour three she backed her down to the three point line, hour four she got to the free throw line, hour five she made it to the low block, and at 4:59 am she finally scooped under the hoop for a reverse layup. As the clock struck 5, a help defender stuffed that **** so hard that Ashley fell to the floor and the defense took off on a 5-on-4 fast break. Fennelly screamed at Ashley for running the play he called, but all came out of his mouth was the sound of my alarm.

I'll add a little positivity to the thread. The bolded reminded me of this being a huge problem last year. Emily and especially AJ would be 10 ft from the 3 pt line with the ball and their back to the defender. I never understood how you could possibly facilitate an offense when you can't see most of the floor.

It did seem like that was corrected this year. It didn't happen enough that I really remember it from this season, honestly. So...nice job?

 

[rosshm16]

Last night I slept for six consecutive hours, all of which was consumed by a dream that Fennelly called an iso for Ashley Joens. Hour one was screening for the mismatch, hour two she turned her back to the defender 30 feet from the hoop, hour three she backed her down to the three point line, hour four she got to the free throw line, hour five she made it to the low block, and at 4:59 am she finally scooped under the hoop for a reverse layup. As the clock struck 5, a help defender stuffed that **** so hard that Ashley fell to the floor and the defense took off on a 5-on-4 fast break. Fennelly screamed at Ashley for running the play he called, but all came out of his mouth was the sound of my alarm.

This is poetry.

 

[rosshm16]

I'll add a little positivity to the thread. The bolded reminded me of this being a huge problem last year. Emily and especially AJ would be 10 ft from the 3 pt line with the ball and their back to the defender. I never understood how you could possibly facilitate an offense when you can't see most of the floor.

It did seem like that was corrected this year. It didn't happen enough that I really remember it from this season, honestly. So...nice job?

"Ballhandler turns their back to the offense 30 feet from the hoop" is a classic BF move.

 

[Inthesystem]

I find it interesting that 3 of the 4 players who haven't announced yet are what I would consider our 3 best defenders.

Let’s go full first year TJ and junk up every game.

 

[ZorkClone]

Let’s go full first year TJ and junk up every game.

With who we have left and potentially bringing in, a 40 minutes from hell defense might be our only choice.

The only problem is that the staff can’t coach a defense.

 

[BCClone]

The problem is the coach that forces the ball to Audi in bad situations and has no alternate plan. Audi is very good when she gets the ball in hand. She does not pin her man well enough; so she gets the ball taken more often than she should. You mention that she had to fight if a triple teamed. She should never have to do that because we. Should not pass it to her. We should pass to one of the 2 other open players.

What I noticed was teams found success guarding Audi if they had a taller post who could jump while fronting her. This forced the lobs into her to be a little higher and Audi would need to go retrieve and would find herself too close to the basket and would just try to fling it up. She would usually miss

 

[HarryClone]

I'll add a little positivity to the thread. The bolded reminded me of this being a huge problem last year. Emily and especially AJ would be 10 ft from the 3 pt line with the ball and their back to the defender. I never understood how you could possibly facilitate an offense when you can't see most of the floor.

It did seem like that was corrected this year. It didn't happen enough that I really remember it from this season, honestly. So...nice job?

To be fair I think it was a coaching problem. Dont fault Ashley at all. It worked to the tune of averaging 19 & 9 over a five year career, which is great!! Just very stale for me by the end, especially with the lack of postseason success.

 

[NWICY]

Adding to this, it’s not Audi’s fault but after watching Ashley Joens for 5 years I’m beyond ready for a new system. Or any kind of system, period.

It's a decade this started with Carleton, then Joens, now Audi. I don't blame the players back during Bill's good teams late 90s early 00s the team shared the ball and the coaches worked to the players strengths. I think it is lazy coaching/recruiting. Unbalanced offense has been a problem long before NIL entered the picture that is a lazy excuse by the staff.

 

[kcdc4isu]

Because it didn't work. Teams figured out how to handle the one trick.

Well her last 6 games she averaged 28 points per game with a 41 and 37 point games. And she averaged 37 points in those games. Our defense was porous but her scoring was high level.

 

[throwittoblythe]

What I noticed was teams found success guarding Audi if they had a taller post who could jump while fronting her. This forced the lobs into her to be a little higher and Audi would need to go retrieve and would find herself too close to the basket and would just try to fling it up. She would usually miss

From my perspective, most college WBB posts are 90% tall/big and 10% skill. I think of the bigs from KU, Cincy, or UCF. They're physically big/tall, but they are generally very uncoordinated and downright unathletic. This is why I can't stand the argument from the haters that "AC is just big, that's it." Watch some of the other bigs in the country and they have a fraction of the offensive production AC has. They don't have the skills she has.

AC is more like 50/50. She's got the physical size, great hands, pretty good footwork, and an accurate shot close to the hoop. When she goes against the 90/10 crowd, she's strong enough to push them around and she can easily outmaneuver them with her skills to get high percentage scores.

The problem is when she faces bigs who are 50/50. Their skill and athleticism offset her advantage in skill. It gets really bad when they're big AND skilled. That's where she can really struggle against the likes the elite bigs in the country (Betts, Strong, etc). To be fair, those bigs dominate pretty much anyone.

 

[kcdc4isu]

As for the debate of Audi vs the rest of the team, when a player takes 20+ shot attempts from inside 5 feet they'd better be scoring 20+ per game.

Out of 32 games she played in only 7 times did she take 20 plus shots

 

[kcdc4isu]

Wonder what the issue is at OK State they have a number of players going to the portal.

 

[Buckminster]

Well her last 6 games she averaged 28 points per game with a 41 and 37 point games. And she averaged 37 points in those games. Our defense was porous but her scoring was high level.

How many points one person scores is not important. The issue is that this year's team had two high school McDonald's All-Americans and a real All-American with no real results...middle of pack in a weak conference and bad losses in both the Big 12 and NCAA tournaments.

When Addy was healthy, we played 3-on-5 offense much of the time. When Addy went down, it almost became 2-on-5. It was pretty obvious that the team did not practice running any kind of offense that used players 4 and 5.

 

[bozclone]

Wonder what the issue is at OK State they have a number of players going to the portal.

Maybe they want to come play for Bill.

 

[BoxsterCy]

Wonder what the issue is at OK State they have a number of players going to the portal.

It does seem odd. They had a decent enough season, 12-6 in league play and finished about where coaches poll predicted them to. Their #8 seed had to be a disappointment though. Wondering how much the weakening league is going to play into portal in and outs and future HS recruiting.