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Given that every player that Coach P and her staff recruited is special in their own way, I believe they will all contribute to the team chemistry and dynamics. Who sees the floor first / most depends on the health and development of the players that we have returning, but it is at least a year...

Marquette is dealing with some key injuries, but they were picked to finish second in the Big East, behind UConn.

I have not watched the replay of that play, but watching it live in the barn, a few fans around us were complaining. My husband and I both agreed that it was not a dirty play - frustration yes, but dirty, no. Just somebody who got her pocket picked and was trying not to let the Gophers get an...

I think Glenn did better in the second game, but in both games, I noticed that she has a tendency to drive into triple coverage. She needs to look out and find the open person just a little bit more. Hopefully that will come, because she does appear to be a good shooter and good on defense.

Marquette was picked to finish second in the big east, behind UConn….

Her Mom mentioned something about a procedure to reduce fluids on her knee.

Tommies volleyball picked up a player from Rogers High School, Anya Schmidt, who could have gone to a much bigger program. As a freshman she is putting up amazing numbers. Along with a few other very good players, I think they are going to make that a very strong program to contend with.

St. Thomas Head Coach Ruth Sinn is a good tactical coach and a great person, and I could see Coach P agreeing to play them in the not too distant future. Since becoming a D1 program a few years ago, she has taken great strides with her team. In addition, the lead assistant at St. Thomas is a...

Walker Demers was actually recruited to the University of South Dakota by Dawn Plutzuweit. At Coach P’s request, she re-classified and graduated a year early, to join the Coyotes in 2022-23. However, after the Coyotes Sweet 16 run in 2022, Coach P had left to go to WVU, and Walker only stayed...

I have followed players and rankings, and resulting college performance, for many years. Both as a Gopher fan and as a parent of a D1 player. In my experience, there are so many many many players who were ranked highly in high school, but do not perform up to their ranking while playing in...

For many Bigs, it is hard to evaluate their skills unless they have a high school team that is built around them or built on a strong defensive scheme. So many high school coaches focus on guards and three point shooting, unless they are stacked full of talent. College coaches need to evaluate...

The team may have been a mid major, but she consistently scheduled and competed with P5 teams. And beat most of them, often on their own courts. Iowa State, Missouri, Creighton, Oklahoma, and South Carolina were on the schedule frequently. They also played Northwestern, Indiana, TAMU, and Ohio...

Sometimes players are not considered for reasons other than their ability on the floor. In addition to positional need, Coach P is very much into making sure it’s a good fit with chemistry, personality, and heart, as well as other aspects of the player as well. I’m not saying anything about this...

Coach P does have a lot of history playing both of these teams. Looking at Drake‘s roster, they have two Minnesota girls, but neither are seniors. Creighton does not have their whole roster online yet. However, they do have one Minnesota senior listed, so it could be a homecoming game for her.

As a parent of a former player, we loved it when Coach P called our girls young ladies. It’s a subtle way of reminding them that they are being noticed in the community, that young girls are looking up to them, and that older fans and boosters see who they are and how they present themselves...

In addition, recruiting starts as young as seventh grade now. Coach P has not been here long enough to get the big names. Many top players narrow down to their top 10 or five, or occasionally even commit, before their junior year.

But they are looking at changing the rule, according to that article.

I saw an alternate perspective on this rule, suggesting that it is for the end of the game, when teams can choose to use a timeout and take the ball in the front court. However, that changes the game because they are not given their full 30 seconds, especially if they are trying to kill the...

It doesn’t currently. But look at the proposed rule changes, above. That is one of the things that is mentioned.

Resetting the shot clock to 20 seconds on a out of bounds in the front court is a horrendous idea. If you are playing really good defense, the shot clock is winding down, and you knock the ball out with 2 seconds left, why should the offense get another 20 second reset?