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Message: [QUOTE="CocoHusky, post: 2564337, member: 5823"] You would still need to lower the bar significantly! Kristine Anigwe last season and Alaina Coates' Junior season are much better comparisons. You can make it simple and pick Gustafson this season or last. McCowan is not a lock. I did see the Oregon game, McCowan played well. Cox is a superior post player to McCowan as is Gustafson. Baylor only loss of the season is a game that Cox did not play in. Vivians should make both (WBCA & AP) AA teams. AA teams is an individual award having little to do with "undefeated" teams or ranking of the teams. Mississippi State was among the last teams to lose a game last year and a FF team =ZERO AA selections. "Her numbers are good" but you are suddenly going to kick Kelsey Mitchell off 1st team AA after two years which would make room for a UCONN player on 1st team? Aren't you contradicting yourself? UCONN is undefeated and ranked higher than MSU so if MSU should have 2 AA why would UCONN have less? Here is the thing though, you never have to make room for UCONN players-they always make room for themselves. The last National Freshmen of the Year to make an WBCA AA team was Maya Moore. Chennedy Carter is no Maya Moore. Prior to Maya these NFOY [B]DID NOT[/B] make WBCA AA in their freshmen seasons; 2008–09 Stricklen, Shekinna 2009-10 Griner, Brittney 2010–11 Sims, Odyssey 2011–12 Williams, Elizabeth 2012-13 Loyd, Jewell [U]2013-14[/U] DeShields, Diamond 2014-15 Mitchell, Kelsey [U]2015-16[/U] Anigwe, Kristine 2016-17 Ionescu, Sabrina[U] [/U] You might not be concerned but the AP voters will be. They do not like to be proven wrong and you have to give them overwhelming reason to change their mind. Mitchell was already on pre-season first team that would not be a Jump. Inouscu received pre-season AA votes-she was already on the radar. McCowan was not on the radar, she is having a very good season but not overwhelming enough to supplant the post players (Wilson, Brown, Anigwe, & Stevens) that were on the pre-season AP list. [U][/U] [/QUOTE]

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