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I hope your option to replace Kadlecova isn’t maya because that’s not it by any means

Wow

With Shay and Caffey on the floor at the same time, why is Beaumont taking it up the floor so often

Terrible first half quarter. Z is about the only one with any positives today.

Just bought 2 tickets row 2 midcourt for a total of 14$ with fees I’ll be there. Section k

And I watched the first half and the player is the same. I’m surprised they are so committed at a full court press, she adds little value to it, she’s made several turnovers. Still runs like a potted plant. A few of the turnovers weren’t all on her, could have been a good play maybe, teammate wasn’t quite ready. 0-4 3s first half. Still runs like the knees don’t bend and just really slow. I’m with you in that coach moren actually got a lot out of her vs what is really there.

Watching the Maryland vs umbc. Don’t know that I am all that afraid of Maryland. Okanawa (I probably butchered the spelling and i apologize) is very good. Other than that, not all that impressive. Have been committed to a full court press that this small school really hasn’t had a problem with.

Who the f is kenpom and why should any fan care at all about it?

Not to be disrespectful, loved tonight’s game and these new players and coach, but I’ve read “ kenpom”more times than I want to for a day, go win and take care of business will all take care of itself

From what I understand over the last couple years they have changed the reserved seating policy and such. For 2023/2024 season tickets rows 25 and below were reserved tickets, anything above was general admission first come first serve. They changed that to the entire main level being reserved and I know on Facebook a lot of past season ticket holders being moved up substantially from their past seasons seats, as some people began to buy up the reserve season ticket seats to improve their priority points for men’s games and football tickets.

I had season tickets last year for the first time, and chose not to renew them. I live fairly far away so the midweek games are a stretch. Last year my tickets were 40 rows up. Many seats below were empty. Half the time I went I bought low seats for 10-15$ rather than sit in the rafters. I’ll go to games this year and just buy great seats for low prices

My takeaways are this. Zs athletic ability and skill are impressive. and that size. Hopefully she can stay out of foul trouble, will only get better every game. Beaumont has a lot of Berger in her with more range, will be really good. phoenix isn’t afraid to come off the bench and fire it up. Had some nice plays, will bring energy and scoring ability off the bench. shay is trying to do too much. kadlecova is as skilled and smooth as anyone we have and better than maya by a substantial margin caffey is the real deal.

The points system kills the incentive to buy season tickets in my opinion. I bought them last year for the first time and was stuck 40 rows up while many were empty below. Half the time I went I bought cheap tickets in the first 10 or 15 rows on vivid. this team is so much faster than the last couple years. Garzon moved like a potted plant

I had a feeling valyntena was going to be a dark horse for real minutes. While she didn’t get many minutes last year, I Went to a lot of games last year and often early enough to watch warmups and looked the part physically with a very good looking shot.

Why someone needs to subscribe and pay this and get that and blah blah for any information does tend to get to be annoying, you already have to have cable and subscribe to 4 different things to watch the games

I don’t feel like the university does themselves many favors with the women’s program with just a general lack of a media presence, social media, and the couple writers that occasionally do things are pretty uninformed most the of the time and cringy. And some of it could be on the coach, not sure how it all works. Feel like on a campus of over 40,000 in a basketball state some of that would be pretty easy to get a couple of kids to do some of that.

Caffey will start or get big minutes. She is really good. Obviously Shay. Don’t really have an option besides z getting big minutes. Beaumont will start and play plenty, as of 2 years ago she played 10 a game as a freshman. Phoenix is going to start. On size and position don’t know how Noyan doesn’t start. Spreen and makuklsky will get time but it will be a big adjustment. Unfortunately being an Indiana miss basketball doesn’t really translate to a whole lot in the college game, generally role players. Perhaps the duqenese transfer makes a push. She’s not gonna play more than 7 or 8 meaningful time, and almost none of the women’s teams do , so it’s a crapshoot after the first 6 or so. Maybe faith can make a push, I’d say she is going to have to for the year to be successful we will see

Caffey and mackculsky are players that a lot of teams wanted. Big z was a coveted player on a stacked veteran team and is built like a Shaq for women’s playing behind all Americans on a 1 seed. Beaumont was going to get serious minutes. Shay was as good as we had and will be a lot better here in year two. Striplin was admirable but left Tennessee because she wasn’t going to get to a be a contributor. Garzon left and not to ruffle feathers but had to be slowest player in the country. Phoenix and Noyan I think they can play. Phoenix adds speed and Noyan adds size and strength with skill. We’ve gotten bigger, faster, stronger. Need another add and will be just fine. Don’t know that we get much from spreen but would like to be surprised

I believe Gulbe could have actually played another year but went home, and that would have been huge as we hugged a top 5 all year and got upset in a very poorly officiated and played game against #8 Miami. I really believe this years version will be better than last year even if it’s unfamiliar and less experienced. Getting drummed in non conference gimmes to start the season to giving usc, ucla, South Carolina all the wanted was impressive. Don’t think a clean slate of more athletic players is going to be bad

I think moren is going to do better with a new cast. I think at times her loyalty to players hurt. I don’t think Lilly should have ever started over striplin. I think it would be good to get bargesser back, if not just for some familiarity, but such a liability offensively. At times teams don’t even send a defender. Chloe had some great days and as many “what are you doing” days on the offensive end. Parrish this season i assume just battled injuries and they took their toll, not near as effective as the last few years. Benched Garzon in the Illinois game because was just getting absolutely torched on defense and couldn’t hit anything. And had several games in row being invisible. It’s going to be interesting. Henna actually got a decent amount of minutes which I thought was questionable, but did have some plays. Julianna was not very good and probably performed better as a freshman.

I optimistically think they will be better. Already have substantially more size, strength, and athleticism. Now if they all can play together and form a unit.

Would be good to get back Bargessar. I thought she gave us great minutes the last few years, and while not really a threat her defense was really good, and more so the year before did make some big plays. She is fast and can get up the floor

Lemondola to Grand Canyon

Going after overseas talent in the portal is probably a work around for not having enough funds since they do not receive near as much due to the visa restriction and the fact that it’s more complicated.

I’m assuming Moore McNeil, Garzon, Striplin, and Lemondola all had some sort of NIL money. And I’d guess Parrish had a pretty decent deal. With all of them, where did the money that was allocated to them go?