2019-20 NON-Uconn WCBB News

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Does Jeff Walz need that much baby sitting help?

 

[CocoHusky]

Notre Dame's Abby Prohaska out indefinitely after being diagnosed with bilateral pulmonary embolism (she has a clot in each of her lungs).

This is the kind of "huh" news that puts things in perspective. Glad/hope this was caught early and that Abby is able to address these issues. Due to her upbeat nature, positive spirit, infectious enthusiam and drive, Abby is a fan favorite and will have a lot of positive vibes behind her. All the best....
Update at 5 p.m.: Coach McGraw (MM) has said that Abby will be out until at least January.

Abby Prohaska was one of those ND players that this UCONN fanatic low key rooted for. I'll no longer be low key. Go kick its ass Abby, you got this!

 

[CocoHusky]

Does Jeff Walz need that much baby sitting help?

Just hope everyone enjoyed it as much as I did.

 

[Plebe]

 

[CocoHusky]

I give up trying to understand the NCAA rationale in these cases.

 

[militarydog]

I give up trying to understand the NCAA rationale in these cases.

I agree. However have there always been waivers requested at this rate? The only ones which I pay close attention are my school and the only other ones that I have a cursory knowledge are normally listed here. Still, it seems as though it’s the rule versus the exception to request it. I’d like to see some data on it.

 

[donalddoowop]

Aijha Blackwell, after a very good preseason game, had four fouls in nine minutes and scored one point in Mizzou's season opener. She missed all seven of her field goal attempts. One should not make too much of preseason performances, whether they are good or bad.

 

[jonson]

An update on Sedona Prince:

"It's big picture with her," Graves said before Wednesday's practice. "She's got a rod in her leg that hasn't still completely healed. It's been a while, because of that it's kind of made her have other issues physically.

"We just hope that if she is indeed able to play this year, we get a healthy Sedona by mid-January some time. That would be a real bonus."

Graves also doesn't have an answer on when the NCAA will finalize a determination on her hardship waiver to play this season.

[. . . .]

Due to recent history, Graves doesn't have a clear picture of which direction the NCAA will choose to go. At times he's seen "slam dunk situations" shut down and other times seen players unexpectedly cleared. He added that he and Prince are both readying themselves for either situation.

"Mentally, I think she's preparing for both," he said. "We hope that we get her. She is a difference-maker. If we don't, we're going to make the best of it. I know she will... We're just hoping for the best."

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[Plebe]

Graves also doesn't have an answer on when the NCAA will finalize a determination on her hardship waiver to play this season.

Just a terminology nitpick here: It's not a "hardship waiver" that would allow her to play this season. A "medical hardship waiver" is to regain a year of eligibility that was cut short by a season-ending injury.

I'm not sure what the NCAA's precise term for the transfer year waiver is, but I've never heard it called a "hardship waiver."

 

[jonson]

Just a terminology nitpick here: It's not a "hardship waiver" that would allow her to play this season. A "medical hardship waiver" is to regain a year of eligibility that was cut short by a season-ending injury.

I'm not sure what the NCAA's precise term for the transfer year waiver is, but I've never heard it called a "hardship waiver."

The term is the writer's, so I don't know if he actually knows the correct label or is simply assuming that's what it's for, given Prince's injury. Or maybe it's Graves's, although I don't recall him using the term.

 

[UConnCat]

Just a terminology nitpick here: It's not a "hardship waiver" that would allow her to play this season. A "medical hardship waiver" is to regain a year of eligibility that was cut short by a season-ending injury.

I'm not sure what the NCAA's precise term for the transfer year waiver is, but I've never heard it called a "hardship waiver."

Muffet repeatedly referred to Shepard’s waiver as a hardship. It’s a carryover from the days when waivers were given for medical hardships, I.e., sick relative so need to be close to home.

 

[Figurehead]

So there it is. Someone here that said it was decided months ago was full of it. If Texas has a disagreement they will respond in kind in regards to treatment. Let wait to see how it plays out.

 

[DaBball]

Very strategic of UO, very sad for Sedona: Oregon women’s basketball awaiting NCAA decision on hardship waiver for Sedona Prince, who felt ‘unsafe’ at Texas during recovery from broken leg

 

[CocoHusky]

Very strategic of UO, very sad for Sedona: Oregon women’s basketball awaiting NCAA decision on hardship waiver for Sedona Prince, who felt ‘unsafe’ at Texas during recovery from broken leg

OMG.

 

[bballnut90]

Very strategic of UO, very sad for Sedona: Oregon women’s basketball awaiting NCAA decision on hardship waiver for Sedona Prince, who felt ‘unsafe’ at Texas during recovery from broken leg

Jeez that sounds brutal, I dont blame her for leaving. Hope she recovers fully and gets eligibility this year.

 

[CocoHusky]

Jeez that sounds brutal, I dont blame her for leaving. Hope she recovers fully and gets eligibility this year.

She kind of threw all the mud on the wall here. For example having her leg tape in cardboard in Mexico after she broke her leg was USA Basketball's fault not Texas. Also if you are on a medication and you are getting sicker why in the world would you wait 5 days without eating. Also don't understand why the 2nd surgery was in New York .

 

[Plebe]

Jeez that sounds brutal, I dont blame her for leaving. Hope she recovers fully and gets eligibility this year.

What was the brutal part? Certainly she suffered a devastating injury, which can be described as brutal. The fact that the school didn't send additional trainers and doctors to escort her to doctor's visits? I'm a little unclear on how this rises to the level of "neglecting" her and making her "unsafe."

My heart goes out to anyone who suffers such a difficult injury requiring such protracted rehab, and by all means if she no longer felt comfortable at Texas then she did the right thing in transferring. But the accusations seem a bit unsubstantiated based on what little she has said.

 

[bballnut90]

What was the brutal part? Certainly she suffered a devastating injury, which can be described as brutal. The fact that the school didn't send additional trainers and doctors to escort her to doctor's visits? I'm a little unclear on how this rises to the level of "neglecting" her and making her "unsafe."

My heart goes out to anyone who suffers such a difficult injury requiring such protracted rehab, and by all means if she no longer felt comfortable at Texas then she did the right thing in transferring. But the accusations seem a bit unsubstantiated based on what little she has said.

This part sounded brutal:

Prince said she also received daily doses of antibiotics during her recovery process, which led to her being hospitalized for kidney damage.

“My kidney function was unbelievably high,” she said. “I was in a lot of pain. I couldn’t really walk. I was throwing up. I didn’t eat for five days. I couldn’t eat, I couldn’t drink. I felt so sick."

 

[Sifaka]

5:56 PM ET

• Associated Press SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- No. 16 Notre Dame will be without 6-foot-3 junior center Mikayla Vaughn for four to six weeks because of a right knee sprain.

Vaughn was injured Tuesday night during the season-opening win at Fordham.
"It's hard for all of us, especially Mikayla -- she doesn't want to let the team down," coach Muffet McGraw said. "She's a little disappointed right now. She knows how much we need her experience. She was our leader."

 

[bballnut90]

5:56 PM ET

• Associated Press SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- No. 16 Notre Dame will be without 6-foot-3 junior center Mikayla Vaughn for four to six weeks because of a right knee sprain.

Vaughn was injured Tuesday night during the season-opening win at Fordham.
"It's hard for all of us, especially Mikayla -- she doesn't want to let the team down," coach Muffet McGraw said. "She's a little disappointed right now. She knows how much we need her experience. She was our leader."

Yikes...are they down to 6 scholarship players? How did ND go from 8 straight #1 seeds to this?

 

[Dillon77]

5:56 PM ET

• Associated Press SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- No. 16 Notre Dame will be without 6-foot-3 junior center Mikayla Vaughn for four to six weeks because of a right knee sprain.

Vaughn was injured Tuesday night during the season-opening win at Fordham.
"It's hard for all of us, especially Mikayla -- she doesn't want to let the team down," coach Muffet McGraw said. "She's a little disappointed right now. She knows how much we need her experience. She was our leader."

I was just writing a note on this, so I'll just add a bit to this bit of news.
This just bites the you-know-what for both Mik and the team. Mik was finally back to full speed after the ACL on her left knee. Man, this person cannot buy a break. As MM said, she was one of the co-captains of the Irish, along with transfer Marta Sniezek.

When she went down in the third quarter of the game, all of us Irish fans in attendance just put our heads down in either disbelief and/or prayer.
Quite candidly, the way things have been going, many expected worse, so all the best to Mik for a steady and fruitful recovery.

Gosh knows the rest of the team needs it...ND is now down to 7 scholarship players (one of whom was a former walk-on awarded a scholly her senior year) and one post: Danielle Cosgrove, who now has to step into the lane. The Irish need it because as game as Sam Brunelle is, she's not a center and it takes away from her all-rounds skills as a forward.

Keep the faith, Irish.....

 

[Dillon77]

Yikes...are they down to 6 scholarship players? How did ND go from 8 straight #1 seeds to this?

Since the Final Four in April:
- Jackie Young left a year early to enter the WNBA;
- Danielle Patterson (Indiana) and Jordan Nixon (Texas A&M) transferred.
- Abby Prohaska was sidelined the day before the regular season with blood clots in her lungs. Her return is indeterminate.
- And, now, Mik Vaughn is out for 4 to 6 weeks.

Muffet plucked Marta Sniezek (point guard, Stanford) and Destinee Walker (guard, North Carolina) off the graduate part of the transfer portal and thank the Golden Dome she did, otherwise, double yikes.

Like Geno, MM prefers to keep a scholarship limit below the 15 limit (12 is a number she uses.), but the recent advent of transfers and a focused recruiting strategy that can go boom or bust (in my opinion) has seemingly caught up, augmented by illness and injury.

That said, she's got four verbal commits (Alli Campbell, Al;esia Hayes, Nat Marshall and Maddy Westbeld) and are very much hoping to land Caitlin Clark (and there may be a plan B after that).

Save for senior walk-on Kaite Cole and Sniezek, everyone else is back (if Prohaska is ok). But one would expect MM to go after after a few more folks in 2021, as well.

 

[domerduck]

Since the Final Four in April:
- Jackie Young left a year early to enter the WNBA;
- Danielle Patterson (Indiana) and Jordan Nixon (Texas A&M) transferred.
- Abby Prohaska was sidelined the day before the regular season with blood clots in her lungs. Her return is indeterminate.
- And, now, Mik Vaughn is out for 4 to 6 weeks.

Muffet plucked Marta Sniezek (point guard, Stanford) and Destinee Walker (guard, North Carolina) off the graduate part of the transfer portal and thank the Golden Dome she did, otherwise, double yikes.

Like Geno, MM prefers to keep a scholarship limit below the 15 limit (12 is a number she uses.), but the recent advent of transfers and a focused recruiting strategy that can go boom or bust (in my opinion) has seemingly caught up, augmented by illness and injury.

That said, she's got four verbal commits (Alli Campbell, Al;esia Hayes, Nat Marshall and Maddy Westbeld) and are very much hoping to land Caitlin Clark (and there may be a plan B after that).

Save for senior walk-on Kaite Cole and Sniezek, everyone else is back (if Prohaska is ok). But one would expect MM to go after after a few more folks in 2021, as well.

Dill0n, Good update

 

[Plebe]

This part sounded brutal:

Prince said she also received daily doses of antibiotics during her recovery process, which led to her being hospitalized for kidney damage.

“My kidney function was unbelievably high,” she said. “I was in a lot of pain. I couldn’t really walk. I was throwing up. I didn’t eat for five days. I couldn’t eat, I couldn’t drink. I felt so sick."

I had somehow missed that paragraph earlier when I read the article, apparently too quickly.

I'm very sorry she went through this. I'm sure there's another side to the sad story, which of course UT can't really get into due to privacy laws.

Also, I'm not sure what she means by "high" kidney function. I would think low-functioning kidneys (impaired kidney function) would be more of a problem than high-functioning ones.

 

[UConnCat]

I had somehow missed that paragraph earlier when I read the article, apparently too quickly.

I'm very sorry she went through this. I'm sure there's another side to the sad story, which of course UT can't really get into due to privacy laws.

Also, I'm not sure what she means by "high" kidney function. I would think low-functioning kidneys (impaired kidney function) would be more of a problem than high-functioning ones.

She's probably referring to a high creatinine level which is a sign of poor kidney function. Certain antibiotics can cause AKI which is exhibited in poor creatinine clearance.