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Off topic, but why isn't Gandy Malou-Manel ranked in the 2025 class of prospects? Don't see her. Or have I overlooked?

But Ice was badly injured, and I would not be surprised if she was hobbled the entire year by that serious injury and major surgery. She may not be the same player again that she was pre-injury.

Good grief! Poffenbarger is transferring again? Bad look...

But unlike when they were in the Pac-12, the distances, the hours, and the jet lag will be debilitating. The Pac-12 had how many trips just inside California? UCLA, USC, UC Berkeley. Then quick hops to Oregon, Oregon State, Washington and Washington State. The "long" trips were just to...

The presence of Sarah will also be a blessing for Paige. There will now be a huge threat for threes in addition to Paige and Ashlyn, which will cause the opposing team to spread out to defend, leaving gaps for drives to the basket, or for passes back out to the perimeter for high-percentage...

But we desperately need a strong post. Will El Alfy rebound and be able to play a normal schedule after her horrible injury? That would be great. But it would still mean that we're terribly undersized in the front court: just the 6'6" el Alfy and 6'3" Ice Brady. Strong is much more a tall...

What a horror for the student/athletes at Stanford when they have to fly seven hours each way to East Coast universities for basketball games. I'm guessing that they'll be grouping games together within regions. But if so, say UNC and NC State and Florida together, when in the world will they...

But talented CBB men rarely remain for more than a year, possibly two, before decamping for the pros. Women's CBB players remain on their teams, or at least in college somewhere else after a transfer, for four years. So we get great teams, rising dynasties, and tremendous rivalries. All that...

What Dawn Staley is going at South Carolina makes her one of the greatest. Her team destroyed the opposition all year long. So proud of Connecticut, especially making the Final Four and coming within a possession of making the championship game. But South Carolina, even without Camilla...

Based on her performance in the McDonald's game and her comments after committing, she'll be tremendous. 1) She's incredibly versatile, being able to hit with precision from the arc, as well as going underneath. Her size will provide defensive deterrence as well. 2) She's Coach Geno's type of...

This was one of the very finest coaching achievements of Coach Geno's great career. But let's not overlook the supreme courage, dedication, and grit of the seven young women who overcame enormous obstacles to come within one basket of making the championship game. Breathtaking achievement...

I wouldn't have credited Dawn with COY this year. She has a roster that is by far the most talented and deepest in WCBB. Her second string is arguably more talented than the starters. And next year, even losing Cardozo, she will have an even more talented and formidable team. She has...

The two teams are uncannily similar. Both undersized. Both playing mostly with guards. The one difference is that our undersized post, Edwards, is significantly better than Iowa's undersized post player, Stuelke. But they're both excellent five-man teams. Won't take anything away from Iowa.

I don't know what that means. Not being a gambler, what is "BPI", and how does that give a percentage chance of winning?

Of course, there's Chen from Princeton with that one year remaining. But Connecticut does, without doubt, need to adapt to the new world of transfers, and get ahead of the game. That might also mean doing what the Big Five leagues are doing, and get boosters to (legally) provide NIL...

Iowa is actually a superbly coached team. They have the all-time scoring leader. But the rest of the team plays seamlessly around her. Not great talent, but play brilliantly together. One can't double-team or triple-team Clark and expect to win. They're very, very sharp, and hats off to Bluder.

It's the scoring from Ice Brady that was miraculous! She's been a huge disappoint and non-factor the entire season. Yet she's woken up suddenly!!! A miracle!!!

This is Coach Geno's fFinest Hour. In all of his Final Four appearances and National Championships, he's never faced the hardships that this team has faced. Think of it: Five of his top seven players are out for the season, and either never played, or were injured early on in the season...

She reminds me of Larry Bird. Not particularly athletic. But just has a magic touch. The assists get put in, the ball goes in, and we're left trying to figure out how he/she did it!!!!

In fact, we were never a shoe-in to be in the Sweet Sixteen. We had to play Syracuse, which was taller, and had momentum. Even the BigEast Championship was not a given. Miracle on the Connecticut!!!!

Another reason why this season could be Coach Geno's finest hour of coaching. He fielded a team that was vastly outsized by Duke, which went, including the bench- 6'6", 6'4", 6'3", 6'3", 6'0", 6'0". His team was vastly outrebounded. Yet his six players managed to win and move to the Elite...

Absolutely!!! The Sweet Sixteen with half of the roster out for the season is a brilliant achievement! Indeed, making the Final Four once, and Sweet Sixteen twice during three years when injuries devastated the team is a breath-taking achievement! So proud of Connecticut for all they've...

The past three years Coach Geno has displayed perhaps the best coaching of his entire career. Complete mastery of the coaching arts. Absolutely incredible that Connecticut could lose seven of their fourteen players, including the expected starting post player, a can't-miss All-American guard...

Coach Geno really explained what was what in his press conference remarks. Towards the end he wondered how a really tough team like Jackson State would have done in the tournament if they had not been required to go up against a UConn on their home court in front of that sort of sell-out crowd...

Shows how strong Jackson State was. Credit to them, and credit to Coach Geno and Connecticut for a strong win against a very tough opponent.

They're a tough team. And well coached. Credit to them. They are one of those teams in a minor conference that nonetheless is tough and talented. Very impressed by Jackson State.

Can someone help me understand why an 11 seed would still have to compete in a "play-in" game? And there's even a "play-in" game for a 12 seed. I can understand- sort of- a play-in for the lowest seeds, the 16's. But why in the world would relatively well-seeded teams be forced into a...

The problem with this player to player matchup and analysis is that the South Carolina starters played far fewer minutes. So if you were to do this position-to-position and aggregated all of the points, rebounds, blocks, etc., then South Carolina would come out far ahead at each position. To...

And next year, while losing just two key players, they bring in three of the top 26 in the nation. And that's not considering that they might just attract some of the best players to come over as transfers.

Paige is not close to the player she was before her injuries and surgeries. Still a fine player, but not what she was.

To show how strong South Carolina is, of the nine players that played today, three were sophomores and two freshmen. They started just one senior. So seven of the top eight players today that blew out Connecticut will be returning next year.

Dawn is a great coach and the biggest draw in terms of recruiting top talent. But Coach Geno is still the best bench coach in history.

He meant it. Look for Coach Geno to retire at the end of the season. He has nothing left to prove. And the team will only get worse next year. He means it.

It's been a dozen years since Connecticut recruited a top post player. That was when Breanna Stewart signed with UConn. Since then we've experienced a shocking doubt. We had ONO, though she was clearly a second-tier player at best. Yes, we got Dorka for two years a a transfer. We got...

We're missing five of our first seven players. Jafy would have started, as would Azzi. Aubrey was always first off the bench. Caroline had been starting. Shade and Arnold are doing yeoman's work. But they would have been subbing in for others, had the injuries not occurred. Coach Geno is...