WBB: General All-NCAA Thread - Not Team Cyclones Stuff
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Probably throwing crap against the wall so if it actually happens, they can crow "I told you so", BUT there are people on that thread that predict Emely Rodriguez, Addie Deal and Journey Houston will all transfer after this season. That would be a huge loss.
Hell, the four teams combined are
2-0 Q1 teams
7-0 Q2 teams
4-0 Q3 teams
36-0 Q4 teams
Combined, that is 74% of their games (36 out of 49) are against Q4 teams.
Or prepping for league play when they will need to be in shape to play that many minutes. Keep in mind they are also trying to meld together a team of players who have not played with one another. Miles and Suarez are experienced seniors but have only played together for 12 games. Same for their starting post Clara Silva and guard Maddie Scherr who missed all of last year with a back injury.
There was a game earlier where the coach said he left Miles in to learn to play with four fouls because she would need to do that.
So is this about scheduling or is it more indicative about women's basketball overall? We know there are big gaps. #'s 1-5 are head and shoulders above everyone else. #'s 6-15 are the next grouping and then it starts to fall off. Is there a HUGE gap after about #30 where quality drops off dramatically? Looking at the NET rankings is a bit deceiving as they are snapshots at the time of the game played. But even looking at those, after #30 the number of quad 1 and 2 wins practically disappear. There are blips here and there (like KU and KSU each having a quad 1 win). KU's I'm guessing is Minnesota which has zero quad 1 wins and is 1-1 in quad 2. KSU has a win against Ole Miss which is rather bizarre. Otherwise it becomes a quad 1 and 2 wasteland.
Following the trend of high school girls basketball where a team can win by 30 one night and lose by 30 the next night.
KU playing Haskell Indian Nations University tonight for the championship of Lawrence. KU holds a narrow 60-19 lead at half.
Does it even count? I mean, there is a limit to how low you can go. I looked them up, Haskell is in Lawrence and has 878 total students (all undergrad).
The Jayhawks beat the Jayhawks
So what you’re really saying is we are pretty good…just not UConn good?
They usually would have had a few more top teams on their schedule to make up for the Big East. Still, they have played USC, Michigan and Ohio State and have Iowa, ND and Tennessee yet but I think they win all of those. Will be interesting to see if Iowa can avoid being blown out Sunday in that "neutral" court in CT.
Era of freewheeling NIL and portal transfers but we seem to be looking at maybe old school UConn domination.
Think the Iowa - UConn game is in the Barclay Ctr in NY - Will still be VERY Pro UConn but better than Conn.
Yeah, you're right, that is actually more neutral than the Mohegan Sun Arena where I thought the game was going to be played. Those games at the Sun are really home games for all practical purposes.
Sounds like Kiyomi McMiller at Rutgers last year, suspended, came back but left at seasons end. On paper Rodriguez sounded like a good get but seems like she is a problem child. I guessing she quits rather than adjust.
That's about the spread for anyone other than SC, Texas or UCLA playing UConn right now.
We do have a late afternoon Big 12 to.
Jensen's reputation is as a "players" coach so that does indeed sound like social media mud slinging.
Depending on her personality, I guess Deal could. She's a highly ranked HS recruit that's been slow to get minutes or start but if she's smart she will stay put and not let ego tempt her to look for greener pastures. She still looks like a good fit for Iowa and she hasn't shown enough yet to make herself some sort of hot portal prospect. More minutes in conference for her if Rodriguez quits, which seems likely. Houston has been playing more than some people thought she would and looks pretty good, not sure what people are seeing that would suggest she leave. All of the recruit attention went to her classmate Divine Bourrage who is averaging a whopping 3 pts a game at LSU as the nations #12 recruit.
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