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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...

At the beginning of the year, Meister looked like she might be ready to take a big step forward, but when Striplin asserted herself and took the starting the job, Meister regressed big time. Meister was pretty bad down the stretch this year. Confidence seems to have left her. Was very...

Message board gossip says turned down by several mid-major coaches, who were told that WBB would receive little in rev share. Badgers apparently choosing to prioritize volleyball on the women's side of things.

5% for WBB is what Georgia announced, but there has been speculation that strong volleyball schools might give less than 5% to WBB, especially with hockey (W & M) also to consider. Hard to see how the default formula announced by Georgia works at a place like Minnesota (or Wisconsin, which has...

Has Coyle told Dawn P how much WBB will receive in revenue sharing (assuming the settlement is approved in April)? Hard to compete in the portal without knowing your budget.