It will be even more difficult for ESPN, or any rating service, to effectively evaluate players going forward if, as seems likely, HS basketball is largely curtailed this season by the pandemic. Add in the fact that AAU & international play was largely eliminated over this past summer, and the rating services are left with their best guess.
Numbers wise a 5 player 2021 class does not work for UCONN unless Evina Westbrook goes pro after the season or Autumn is not put on scholarship.
I don't know where things stand with UCONN and Hollingshead but if I had to speculate I don't see it happening. This is going to sound sacrilegious coming from a UCONN fan but I like Hollingshead more than any other post in the 2021 class. She came up a perimeter player with a decent three ball and has added muscle to now be a legit college post and/or a stretch 4. Even at UCONN she would press for a starting spot as a freshman.
Think it was Georgia. The post also said she had dropped Mississippi State. I predicted that Hollingshead would end up at Georgia about 5 months ago.
If you ask coach jumper, she’s going to Tennessee
...and he should be coaching her.
He gave a walk-on a scholly??
Don’t believe that is true. In any case he has not given Autumn Chaisson a scholly, not that it would have anything to do with Hollingshead or Fudd. He just needs a full practice roster THIS YEAR.
Coach Auriemma DID NOT give a scholarship to Autumn. Autumn is a preferred walk on and has been given a roster spot and the chance to earn a scholarship.
That's not true. Only 4 out of 8 walkons at UConn have received scholarships eventually. Chaisson is the 9th and she does not have one yet. And only one got it early in their career and that was Jacquie Fernandes.
More accurate to say Every UCONN walk on under Geno has earned a scholarship. UCONN WBB is not a charity it is a meritocracy=you get what you earn.
I remember saying pretty much the same thing in our inbox conversation about Azzi. I also expressed shock at how Lattimore could drop so precipitously. For my two cents, other than Azzi, after watching Miles play I haven't seen any PG in that class come close to her level of play. Not close. As you've said as well, Caroline Ducharme seems a nice player, but in my mind, Saylor is far the better all around player, especially on the defensive end.
