TTT

No indication of happening but Kubek would be a good trade for IU. Good shooter/scorer, good rebounder, and tough.

And Garzon best chance for WNBA was to stay with T. Moren though I think she is probably overseas player due to lack of strength, she gets thrown off her game with physicality and toughness and who is she going to guard. T. Moren was trying to continue to make her stronger and develop her game and was very very flexible with her and supportive letting her play through shooting/scoring/defensive/slumps etc.

I pretty much posted Gazon wanted to play for honestly better team a month or so ago….Recent IU recruiting was just not enough as in championship contention for her final year. However, Garzon seems very dismissive about T. Moren and staff, she was on a big ten championship team as a starter, highly ranked team and a sweet 16 (though things may have not been perfect) the good far outweighs the bad talking about her campus life. Gazon had excellent support overall. Garzon is a very good player but not as good as she thinks she is. If she stayed at IU with current transfer players IU would have only been one big player short from being pretty good which she could have continued to excel. Maryland has showed her the strength of their Jewish community but at IU was supportive as well. She may or may not run into an obstacle at 1 year at Maryland and that vs 3 years at IU. 3 years communication while in high school with T. Moren who supported her at a distinguished level and developed her game at IU under T. Moren and staff with supportive players around her (maybe Garzon didn’t like the inside game challenges put on her) but Garzon was getting better at it including her overall game. And Garzon just seems so dismissive of what she spent 3 high school years and 3 college years. Her development as a player seems she thinks it’s all her. T. Moren and IU program was responsible for much of her development. Only to use her final year where her growth may be somewhat stunted in a new system (then that could be an excuse for her). Garzon could have stayed with her current IU team of transfers growing in a system her final year at IU watching her statistics continue to rise if she wants to go WNBA which is a ? Maybe it’s her way of moving forward and not looking back giving Brenda Frese who has not set her on the bench yet for poor play all her love that she should be giving T. Moren as T. Moren gave Yardon Garzon.

A while back I noted General Manager for college basketball on the men’s side. on the women basketball side UCLA coach plans to prioritize to hire a GM because there is not enough time to attend to coaching duties and recruiting transfers. Maybe, a similarities to recent Alabama hire for IU Colston Thompson.

Amber Scalia to Miami of Ohio. Good for her and Miami of Ohio.

A parallel to what IU Ladies basketball was this year (and other years)…like a farm team (in professional baseball) go to IU Ladies program and develop your skills and get professional coaching (though unintentional but this year it turned out that way) but recruited players that needed and received player development in so many ways….and transfer to another program…..inability to recruit at high enough level to sustain (were very significant for a period of time) significance. IU Ladies with a significant hire are looking to return to significance. sidenote: wondering why he left Alabama for IU.

Unless it’s Kubek (don’t know if IU is even involved) and Rodriguez = 2 Rodriguez= 1 Neither Rodriguez nor Kubek = 1 but who knows who it would be…..Scalia’s sister was or still is in portal and could be a maybe. I am sure she would try hard and give it her best. Without a taller dominant center as in really good big ten star caliber….doubt if she starts but will have to make a small miracle of improvement especially scoring is Faith Wiseman that has not been seen and wondering what she is currently doing to develop her game for next year. This is a situation that is one of the biggest opportunities for her in the whole country bar none. (the question…is she good enough. sidenote: thoughts…Caitlin Clark though she did not stay for her 5th year at Iowa, however, she did stay at Iowa after her main partner the Iowa center Cinzano graduated…..something that Garzon did not do after being treated well within program. Garzon abandon ship. Yes, it was Clark at Iowa but…Garzon is no Clark ….and at IU T. Moren especially outwardly treated Garzon as royalty.

Williams/Wisconsin to UCONN

Rodriguez has IU Ladies on her list of several programs and is going to be a challenge but would be an A+ get for both her and IU Ladies.

It’s been a while since seeing high profile recruiting activity…..but it’s great to see the new guy, Colston Thompson’s name (along with T. Moren) in much more and higher profile recruiting activity in his first few weeks…..he has hit the floor running….just what IU Ladies need. IU Ladies have turned over a new leaf.

Exactly what IU Ladies need and 6’0” physical scoring guard. Plus smart athletic upside (better all around player than K. Peterson). T. Moren a guard herself would be excellent coach for this guard. (Rodriguez a big time hard worker…that would positively impact team). T. Moren would love this one with Ciezki. Then, one 6’1 or 6’2” wing like Kubek/Maryland comes to mind or a player like Williams/Wisconsin…..could change IU Ladies 20-26 projection really upward…..even without a 6’5” or 6’6” center. (6’5” and 6’6” centers were popular in men’s basketball 1950’s and early 1960’s.

Some validation in what you say. I am sure some players have that idea especially if they are not a big time player going to big time program. (NIL has contributed to a transfer portal craziness in the last two or three years. Transfer portal started 2015. Then, NIL started 2021 (some coaches on the men’s side complain…but ironically they contributed to the craziness because of the crazy high salaries they were demanding). = has grown into whatever one might call it now. FAITH WISEMAN: 4 star at 93. And had offers because of her size, in high school bigger than other players, played volleyball, pretty good player (not great or even excellent) but has excellent upside. Faith was going to pretty much have to be developed at any major program for college. She probably would have played some at mid majors. Wiseman just wanted to go to IU if at all feasible because she was raised down the road. (dream come true). Still a mystery….but she should become a good player that could impact the game for IU Ladies…..even though she has not showed it yet. (Last year probably wasn’t good enough to see the floor).

Couple years ago Peterson to UCF from IU and now to Ole Miss and now trying for ER from UCF. Sounds about right. Kitts to Ohio State. (not Chloe/the one from SC). But her sister.

IU Ladies Basketball current 2025-2026 Rag Tag roster stands at 12 which includes a couple previously injury players…..makes for another thin roster….unless one or two high quality players are going to be added. Current big ten finish with this RagTag roster for 25-26 over is top half (1-9)big ten and under is bottom half (10-18) of big ten regular .

So is T. Moren going to take a 2025-2026 ‘Rag Tag’ team and make ‘Cardiac Kids’ out of them?