UConn Women Next Season- 2020-21

[the Blades]

@Blades, I play softball with Peter Cochrane in Norwalk. He was a two or 3 year walk on and won a ship in ‘11. I ask him a ton of shit. He hated when he had to switch on Kemba. He is 6’3, but guarded mostly wings in practice. Usually Lamb. It’s amazing that he’s the best athlete everywhere we go and he was a walk on at UConn. That is how ridiculously good they are. I think he should have been a WR in football.

Speaking of If you follow UConn football, how is DB Juan Rosario from Stamford? My step daughter dated him a few years ago. Great great kid. I’m trying to recruit him for for wood bat softball team once this craziness is over.

Yeah I give these practice kids alot of credit, hour and hours of work, plus school and everything else they're into. Rosario if I recall was a PWO
(preferred) seems to have the right measurables, so he could probably earn a scholly if he keeps with it like former WO's Marcus Easley, Donald Thomas (both made the NFL) and a bunch of CT kids have done in the past.... That's the one thing in CFB that happens alot more often with 85 spots and a bunch of turnover...

 

[CaNOLEE]

Thanks bud! Seems like there is a ST Luke’s pipeline after Noel Thomas. He’s a kid that I was supposed to coach at Norwalk high until they hired his dad.

Silas Redd and Kevin Pierre Louis are other Norwalk kids that went the private school route. Got to love HS recruiting.

 

[the Blades]

Didn't know you roll like that...

 

[CaNOLEE]

How about Muffet retiring? Has she been hanging out with MJ at the sports book?

 

[Dominicfrank]

Muffet retiring might have a negative effect in that whoever takes that job could have been on a short list for who we get after Geno.....whenever that comes.

 

[KhalidShockedTheWorld]

Niele Ivey was groomed for the job and has the job. It was known for years she would succeed McGraw.

 

[KhalidShockedTheWorld]

Here is her Stanford bio- daughter of former NFL player Darren Carrington:

https://gostanford.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/dijonai-carrington/16804

Darren was a safety who played 8 years in the NFL after being a 5th round draft pick:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darren_Carrington

 

[KhalidShockedTheWorld]

Here is an interview with Carrington that appeared in the Oregonian:

https://www.oregonlive.com/sports/2...e-basketball-and-oregon-baylor-and-uconn.html

 

[CaNOLEE]

I Was thinking of a Megan Walker comp and it’s Melo. Good rebounder and spot up shooter, but not athletic enough to be a 3 or big enough to be a 4. So a combo forward, but more of a tweener. Doesn’t make anyone else better and not great defensively.

This stung initially, because women usually stay all four years. But I stand by my comment that this makes us better at the end of next season.

 

[KhalidShockedTheWorld]

From my standpoint it could be addition by subtraction with Walker leaving. They will miss her 45% 3 point shooting, but they have some players who can make up for it, and they will be better defensively with Griffin starting. Simply put, they have more than enough scoring and talent on the roster to offset her loss. A few players need to step up, but can step up, and if they do she will not be missed.

 

[KhalidShockedTheWorld]

I am not sure if this Paige Bueckers profile was posted elsewhere here but it's worth a look, she seems like a winning type player:

 

[Dominicfrank]

So........her only flaw is that she is a Kyrie fan. Misguided youth.

 

[the Blades]

 

[the Blades]

2020-21 Women's Basketball Roster - UConn Athletics

 

[KhalidShockedTheWorld]

The Terrific 10! Although it's only the Magnificent 7 until the 3 foreign girls arrive in Storrs.

 

[the Blades]

The Terrific 10! Although it's only the Magnificent 7 until the 3 foreign girls arrive in Storrs.

hmmm. wonder how this effect Geno's BB team or a bunch of other sports with foreign players and the Covid issues going on in the world:

Connecticut intends to sue over policy barring international students from U.S. if classes are entirely online

 

[KhalidShockedTheWorld]

This is concerning. No Anna Makurat means one of Bueckers or McLean likely starts. If Bueckers starts in a 3 guard lineup, the bench is just McLean and Gabriel- both untested freshman. This isn't what you want!

 

[the Blades]

I Was thinking of a Megan Walker comp and it’s Melo. Good rebounder and spot up shooter, but not athletic enough to be a 3 or big enough to be a 4. So a combo forward, but more of a tweener. Doesn’t make anyone else better and not great defensively.

This stung initially, because women usually stay all four years. But I stand by my comment that this makes us better at the end of next season.

Speaking of Megan....

 

[the Blades]

hmmm. wonder how this effect Geno's BB team or a bunch of other sports with foreign players and the Covid issues going on in the world:

Connecticut intends to sue over policy barring international students from U.S. if classes are entirely online

The above, which also applied to Javonte Brown-Ferguson ( who Hurley said has grown from 6-10 during his recruitment to now 7-1 ) along with a bunch of Uconn men's hockey players, etc, etc... is now moot:

 

[KhalidShockedTheWorld]

The Register is reporting that Nika Muhl and Aaliyah Edwards will join the team later this week or early next week. Regarding Anna Makurat, it's still not known when she will come over from Poland.

 

[the Blades]

" Members of the UConn women’s basketball team started to arrive in Storrs for summer workouts this past weekend, the program’s target date for their return initially set in June. Those on campus include, according to their social media, all three international players, sophomore Anna Makurat and freshmen Nika Muhl and Aaliyah Edwards, who previously faced issues entering the country with U.S. travel restrictions.....Though it is unclear how many of the team’s 10 players have made it to campus, freshman Paige Bueckers, junior Christyn Williams and senior Evina Westbrook have posted on social media about traveling to and/or being on campus. "

 

[the Blades]

The Terrific 10! Although it's only the Magnificent 7 until the 3 foreign girls arrive in Storrs.

And now there are " The Elite 11 !!! " ......
" A 5-foot-8 guard, ( Lafayette, LA ) Chassion held a 4.0 grade-point average and was her high school's valedictorian. "

 

[KhalidShockedTheWorld]

Seems like a deep bench player, but 10 assists per game in women's basketball is unheard of. More on Autumn:

https://uconnhuskies.com/news/2020/8/1/womens-basketball-uconn-wbb-adds-walk-on-autumn-chassion.aspx

This kid is a valedictorian who won 4 straight state championships. That spells one thing to Geno: WINNER

 

[the Blades]

Great front page story by Dan, (You can just click the twitter link like the first twitter above I posted of her, for the full read) she's not your average walk-on: "there was one power conference school that was in the AP Top 10 as recently as last season that showed interest, pulled off but then came back late in the process with an offer. "

 

[KhalidShockedTheWorld]

It's a rare kid who passes up scholarship offers to walk on at UConn. UConn would seem to be deep at point guard, and there are 2 other point guards in the freshman class, but she lengthens the bench, which could be a good thing if there are injuries or illnesses.

 

[CaNOLEE]

Love her gpa and assist totals.

When does Fudd announce?

 

[the Blades]

 

[the Blades]

Love her gpa and assist totals.

When does Fudd announce?

 

[the Blades]

 

[CaNOLEE]

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thanks Blades, I sneak over to the Boneyard and read some stuff.

i won’t post there though. I said Ben Gordon was a lottery pick as a soph and was mocked here, before they bolted for the BY.

some people can watch a lot of basketball and not have any clue what they’re seeing.

 

[the Blades]

thanks Blades, I sneak over to the Boneyard and read some stuff.

i won’t post there though. I said Ben Gordon was a lottery pick as a soph and was mocked here, before they bolted for the BY.

some people can watch a lot of basketball and not have any clue what they’re seeing.

I hear ya, I remember those days and had some moments back then with a few too. First they were all lead to Scout, but I've never been a lemming so sticking around here has been more than fine.

 

[the Blades]

When does Fudd announce?

TODAY ......

 

[the Blades]

 

[KhalidShockedTheWorld]

The reports I read indicate she is even better than Bueckers, her friend and future backcourt mate. Will be best backcourt at UConn since Bird-Taurasi, which was the best backcourt in women's college basketball history.