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No finalist surprises: Texas, Duke, Ohio State

Even if obvious, glad to hear the coach mention offensive efficiency first on the list of things they are working on.

This may not be directly relevant to Braun’s WNBA chances, but, when you exclude pre-BIG recruits for Maryland and Rutgers, there are surprisingly few BIG players in the W. This is especially true among starters. I must be missing someone, but other than Kelsey Mitchell and Caitlin Clark, I’m...

Bershers had long-standing offers from BYU and SMU. Believe those are her only other P4 offers, but haven't seen a definitive listing so there could be others. Prep Girls Hoops ranks her as # 3 2025 prospect in Arkansas.

Jayla Forbes ranked # 16 nationally in the initial HoopGurlz 2027 rankings.

Always appreciate your insight, but confused by the two posts. The second post suggests that maybe Mack passed on the Gophers, but the first post indicates the Gophers passed on her.

3 of the 5 losses against ranked non-BIG team since 2014 (Missouri # 16); TCU (# 2); North Carolina (# 20)). The glorious victory over # 9 Auburn, the only ranked non-BIG victory since 2014. Overlooked non-BIG win - Fresno State-2018, finished year ranked # 18.

Wonder whether this is a position thing/lack of need for another guard, or if Coach P and staff simply disagree about Mack's upside. Mack's recent offers this AAU season from North Carolina, Michigan and Va Tech, along with a previous offer from Maryland, give her a pretty impressive recruiting...

Their only winning conference season in the last 18 years. The previous 10 years before the 2016 announcement of the Colorado game, Colorado went 17-68 in conference play. When Colorado sucked in 2021-22, it was utterly predictable.

The scope of this new review seems very narrow, unless I misunderstand. Consider the following scenarios 1. Catch and shoot from corner with foot on the line. Ball caught with .6 second left with foot on line (no call), made shot released with .1 seconds left, with last foot touching court...

Are you talking about Brooks and Rose? Brooks' D1 experience is 15 games played, 7.9 minutes per game (only 1 game played more than 15 minutes), and 0 games started. Nothing in her background suggests she is a Big Ten-level starter.

Rose has a mixed statistical profile. She has good steal and assist numbers (inc. A/TO), both at ECU and UMASS, and gets to the free-throw line a fair amount. A profile that suggests quickness. But she struggles to put the ball in the basket, shooting 35.4% from 2 and 27.3% from 3 last...

Iowa is spending a lot of time and effort chasing elite national recruits, while passing on regional recruits they previously would have offered, e.g. Creighton commit Ava Zediker, or slow-playing regional recruits. Iowa has passed, so far, on Gopher offeree Ashlyn Koupal, who seems to be...

FWIW, Scalia’s Covid extra year was mixed. Much better against non-BIG opponents, and really bad from 2 against BIG opponents (under 40%, bottom 15% in the league). But a good year from 3.

Any news on the non-conference schedule? We know some of the men’s non-conference opponents, and some BIG WBB teams have had non—conference information released.

Twice. 2023 and 2024.

ESPN has its final class rankings out for the 2024 class. The new BIG is quite the recruiting juggernaut. Final rankings have 9 BIG teams in top 25: 1. USC 4. UCLA 8. Michigan 10. Ohio State 13. Iowa 14. Washington 20. Maryland 21. Oregon 23. Michigan State...

Will be interesting to see if Iowa can keep Lucy Olsen from Villanova via the portal, and their '25 commit from California, Addison Deal (top 5-15 national player by various rankings). Those are the 2 biggest recruits for Iowa during the long Bluder era from outside Iowa/neighboring states...

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Would Karvonen have been a big scorer if she had stayed home to play for the Gophers (pre-Big Ten at first)?