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A loss is a loss, but some encouraging signs against a good Maryland team. Powell had a solid game and kept her turnovers down, back playing the point. Sconiers looks like she is getting better. Smith shows some potential. And who is that high school kid? Just teasing. Katie was terrific...

I think the Gophers will eventually be able to cut down on the turnovers, especially if they end up with a 4-guard lineup. Defense, I'm not so sure. This team has been woefully bad on defense and it's going to take a lot of work to even get to average on that. Belz is right in saying that...

Good points. It should also be pointed out that some players end up in junior colleges for academic reasons. One thing I generally don't like about JC transfers is that teams usually only get a couple years out of them and that doesn't leave much time for development. Plus, they're not...

Maybe I'm too optimistic, but I think this team will get a lot better as the year progresses, if they can get enough players healthy to practice together regularly. The defense has been dreadful and you can't win games when you're turning it over at the rate the Gophers are, but there's some...

Really looking like teams are going to have to remain flexible all season in regards to when they will play their games. Admittedly, that will be a lot easier as the universities won't have to concern themselves with fans attending games. Nevertheless, it's going to be interesting. I'm a bit...

Generally not a fan of JC transfers. That being said, I thought there was a chance that she might be able to defend at the DI level. Kent Youngblood speculated that this may have been about playing time. If that's the case, then her departure is probably understandable; if that's the case...

No surprise that some similar stuff happened when she was here. I'm hoping that the U can put some systems in place to prevent this kind of treatment for athletes of any sport in the future. I'm guessing that an AD might attend practices only a handful of times during a season so it might not...

I'm guessing that Stollings will try to get some kind of settlement out of TT. The result of that may well be decided on the way the contract is written and the interpretation of the language. USA Today had a followup op-ed today which espoused that the TT AD should also be fired. I'm...

Yes, TT did the right thing, although I'm sure swallowing that large contract has to be difficult. Maybe they'll end up litigating that if there were any clauses in the contract that might put her remaining contract in question. What this came down to for me was the lack of basic human decency...

Texas Tech AD issued statement saying he'd met with remaining players and staff yesterday and that the conversation would continue. Ultimately, however, I don't know how she'll be able to keep her job and I'm a bit surprised she still has it. Is the holdup the $2 million that's have to pay her...

Wow. Thanks for locating that old article. One thing I've learned over the years whenever there are multiple accusations against someone...as they say, "If it looks like a skunk, and smells like a skunk, it's probably a skunk." Dawkins should not have been hired here. Her definition of...

A very interesting and in-depth article. As someone (Hogshead-Makar) said near the end of the article, "We need to get abusive coaches out of coaching. Period. End of story." I couldn't agree more. This crap must have been happening here when Stollings & Company were at the U. Also, I was...

Freese is a great recruiter, maybe the best in the BIG, but her ability to retain players, including some key players, is certainly questionable. She loses key players at a much higher rate than most other Top 10 program coaches.

Are we even sure there's going to be a WNBA draft/season? She could certainly enter the draft, but I doubt that she would be drafted. I'm thinking that her game doesn't translate all that well to the WNBA, as she was primarily a 3-point shooter and a lot of those opportunities go away with the...

Really interesting to see the large number of transfers these days, including some major players. One of the reasons I've enjoyed the women's college game "was" that you could usually count on players staying for the full four years. No "one and done" players like the men's game; very few...

I'm not buying that Cosgriff is anti-Gopher. It's my opinion that the Gophers have to earn the reputation as a landing spot for coveted high school players and they haven't done that yet. As others have said, AAU coaches and others usually have much more influence than high school coaches do...

Looks like some good post players have entered the portal. It would be great if the Gophers could add a post transfer. On Maryland losing Austin, that's a huge loss for the Terps. I agree with the thought that there must be something about Freese that at least some players don't like, as she...

Love the energy that Masha brings. Too bad she's a senior. K. Bello's rebounding a major factor in the outcome. The two frosh guards having to carry a lot of the offensive load. Second half too close for comfort, after a great first half.

I don't mean to drag this thread further and I don't mean to drag a men's basketball story into the women's thread, but there are so many likenesses to what happened with Pitts at Minnesota and what happened with the Badgers second leading scorer Kobe King. Both players left mid-season, both...

Hawkeyes have been so much better than I thought they would be after losing Gustafson, Stewart, and Davis to graduation. Bluder is a very underrated coach. Also, her player Doyle often flies under the radar. She's a "heart and soul" player who brings it every game.