Nice to have some local talent come home and add some experience / post depth! Welcome, Annika!
https://gophersports.com/news/2024/4/12/gophers-add-stewart-to-the-womens-basketball-roster
Michigan’s Taylor Woodson (Hopkins) is in the portal!
https://www.michigandaily.com/sports/womens-basketball/taylor-woodson-enters-the-transfer-portal/
I’m checking out the St. Louis team page and I think it should be a good game! They are an experienced team with 4 graduate students and two seniors. Their coach is in their 2nd year there coming from Longwood, and St. Louis has 4 Longwood transfers on the roster, along with a St. John’s xfer...
A Bar of Their Own is a women’s sports bar, and their Facebook page lists the Gopher game on their schedule for this evening.
I haven’t been yet, but have friends who enjoyed watching games there. 🙂
https://www.abaroftheirown.com/
Liza Karlen - a 6’2” Big East First Teamer who averaged 17.7ppg and 7.9rpg at Marquette (played at Stillwater HS) in the transfer portal! 🤞 ‼️
https://gomarquette.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/liza-karlen/7332
I had to miss last night, but got my tix for Friday! I just checked the NDSU site and they have 5 Minnesotans on their roster. I imagine they’ll bring in some fans too - hopefully a nice crowd there!
Looking forward that I get to see the team play WITH Mara and Sophie again this season! 🥳
https://womensnit.com/news/2024/3/18/general-bracket-round-1-matchups-and-times-announced-for-2024-postseason-wnit.aspx
Minnesota with a first round bye and play the Thursday winner of Cal Poly @ Pacific… Maybe a chance to host then?!
I love reading these previews. The similarities between Coach P and the Michigan St. head coach mentioned in the preview, occurring the home game following Nebraska (where Coach P took over at South Dakota right after the current Nebraska coach left SD for the Huskers) seems kinda wild to me.
Everything I’ve read said she stopped playing to focus on her fast track med school degree. She has an entire dream career path she mentioned outside of basketball. To me that seems highly unlikely, and sounds like she’s doing other great stuff.
I *think* she might have one more year of basketball eligibility than she does in volleyball. She’s definitely putting some thought into basketball. Another volleyball message board mentioned she and Kim Mulkey recently started following each other, in addition to Kim’s recruiting coordinator...
I look forward to these game previews. Thank you. 🙂
It looks like it will (hopefully) be another good game to help develop our bench and get many players good minutes.