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Message: [QUOTE="CocoHusky, post: 2564163, member: 5823"] Don't agree with much of what is written here. The comparison of Teaira McCowan & Kalani Brown to Griner is blasphemous on all levels. Going into her senior year Summer of 2012 USA basketball & Geno were willing to leave a spot open on the 2012 Olympic team for Griner. When the world championship roll around this summer Brown & McCowan will not even be invited to try out. Ooops my bad, tryouts have happened already. McCowan is not a lock to make an AA team much less 1st team. If McCowan, Brown, Wilson and Ionescu are locks to make first team then so is K. Mitchell-which would mean no UCONN player on the 1st team=Not going to happen! Carter does not belong in this discussion. Give Carter the National FOY award put her on the watch list for next year & call it a day. AP traditionally conservative and don't like to change their minds. AP had 3 UCONN players (Gabby, Napheesa, KLS) on the first team AA Pre-season list. AP is not going to take all three off and this season performance just doesn't warrant being taken off for all three players. WBCA 2017 AA Peterson & Plum guards graduated. Two most worthy guard selections as replacements should be Ionescu and Nurse. WBCA 2017 AA Osahor has graduated and Turner is injured. Two most worthy selections as replacements should be Vivians and Gustafson. WBCA 2017 AA Williams, Collier, KLS, Brown, Mitchell, & Wilson are all playing well enough to retain positions. But it's not possible to have 4 UCONN players on WNBA AA teams. The most vulnerable returning UCONN WBCA AA selection is Napheesa. Gabby will likely repeat as National DPOY and coaches love and value defense. We can have some very good arguments at the margins, for example Ionescu vs. Durr, vs Nurse vs Vivians each would be a first time selection-to which I'd point out that these selections tend to favor Seniors =Nurse & Vivians. Some very good players are not going to make AA selection L.Brown, Canada, McPhee, Flaherty , Cunningham..... this is always the case. [B][U]Predictions[/U][/B] WBCA AA: Ionescu, Nurse, Vivians ,Gustafson, Durr, Williams, KLS, Brown, Mitchell, & Wilson AP Ist Team AA: Wilson, Brown, Mitchell, KLS, & G. Williams AP 2nd team AA: Ionescu, Durr, Vivians Collier, & Cox [/QUOTE]

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