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Agree. Even this year, lots of top 35 teams, but still a weak tourney showing for the legacy BIG after the best 4 years in a long time (and not just Iowa - Michigan, Indiana and OSU all had impressive tourney success during the period 2021-2024).

A lot of opportunity to move up in the BIG next year. The legacy BIG teams had a bad year last year (0 Sweet 16s, very few marquee victories). The league was run by USC and UCLA, and UCLA and Maryland seem like the top 2 for next year. After that, with JuJu's injury, there is opportunity...

In this article. Paywalled, I think. https://www.on3.com/her/news/womens-basketball-transfer-portal-intel-lsu-tennessee-and-more/

Talia Goodman for On3 reporting that Minnesota is a program to watch for Mississippi State transfer Tahj Bloom. ESPN rated her the #43 recruit in high school. Redshirted last year due to injury. 4 year’s eligibility remaining.

BIG teams: UCLA 1 Maryland 3 Michigan 4 USC 5 Iowa 5 Michigan St 6 Washington 6 Ohio St 7 Indiana 8 Minnesota 8 Nebraska 9 Oregon 9 Illinois first four out. So basically every team except the holdover bottom five has a good chance to make the tourney.

Save your lecture for someone who cares what you say. I don't ignore people as a rule, but I'll make an exception in your case starting now. Shaming is also a perfectly appropriate word. Shaming involves insulting, and that's precisely what Reusse was doing. Coach P should be insulted for...

Hope the continual public shaming of Coach P’s non-conference scheduling leads to a course correction, but coaches are a stubborn lot. Off-season scheduling news will be interesting. I part ways with Reusse over “young ladies.” It’s Coach P’s thing. No need to change.

A bench 3-point shooter with size is not a bad addition for a team that finished 17th in 3-pt% against BIG competition.

A hail-mary attempt by Kieger to keep her job. Take the talented-but-seemingly-cancerous player and hope for a miracle.

2 good bench pieces for the Huskers. Amy Williams likes to play a lot of players, and both of these players can help.

And yet Clark made first team all WNBA, the first rookie since Candace Parker to do so (5th since 2000). Not bad with all the problems you see. Agree that Paige will have an easier time because she won't face the backlash that Clark faced.

A hard season to grade, but I end up at C. The Braun/Woodson injuries altered expectations, but the emergence of McKinney, addition of Stewart and improvement by Battle and GG raised them again (perhaps not all the way back). The non-conference season was a plate of empty calories before a...

Interesting portal pickups for Maryland from a pace-of-play perspective. Garzon is slow in transition (seems to run flat-footed) and Merkle is slower.

Agree with your point about Staley’s great handling of her players, including Fulwiley. But not sure about your story about sitting her down and not starting her for some games. FWIW, Fulwiley has started 0 games this year, and only 3 last year, none in the SEC or NCAA tourneys, and only 1 in...

Hope the Gophers can do better, and not mimic the Illini. Illinois started 1-3 in the BIG. They were never contending (though they later won 8 in a row, including 6 games against the bottom 5). Illinois also lost its last 4 games against BIG teams, including 0-1 in the BTT.

I guess. Sad to see the legacy BIG teams revert to second tier, at best.

Opportunity knocks for the Gophers in 2025-26. Pending portal roster adjustments, the Gophers appear to be one of only 2 (along with Michigan) BIG teams that look to be improved next year. With Minnesota playing Wisconsin twice, that’s 6 games against the bottom 5 (RU, PSU, PU, NW, WI), all of...

Battle sounded so happy in the post-game interview. Good for her. Been an uphill climb the last three years, with hopefully a bright senior-year season on the horizon.

Agree that Minnesota shot the ball pretty well from 2 this year against BIG competition, but the 3-ball was a very different story. Against BIG competition, the Gophers shot 29.6% from 3, 17th in the BIG. And the Gophers lose Stewart, which will hurt, but get Braun back, which will help. The...