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Message: [QUOTE="bballnut90, post: 2564412, member: 2117"] McCowan's numbers are better than Cox's, and she's had huge games against very good teams. Advantage McCowan over Cox. Team success does matter for these awards. You wont see Natalie Butler on any team even though she's having a great season in her own right--her team is bad. Vivians is playing much better than she did a year ago when she was shooting in the 35-40% range and will get recognized this season. Same with McCowan. How many players on undefeated or 1-loss teams who average about 20ppg get left off 1st and 2nd team? My guess is close to zero. Both will make it. Mitchell's year has been underwhelming compared to previous years and her team is falling short of expectations, so I don't see her being rewarded with 1st team. Voters put the players having the best seasons on the top AA team. Mitchell hasn't had one of the best seasons this year, while KLS has. Simple as that. In regards to MSU vs. UCONN....they're both undefeated and have played tough competition, so one being ranked above the other is negligible right now. The way I see it, McCowan and Vivians will both make 1st or 2nd team, KLS makes first team, Nurse is on 2nd or 3rd, and one other UCONN player makes 3rd team. Mississippi State's 2 standouts have better numbers and resumes than Nurse/Williams/Collier/etc. so they'll get an edge over those players. UCONN has a deeper pool of AA candidates, and will get more players on the top 3 team than Mississippi State. For the WBCA AA awards, Mississippi State will get 2, UCONN will get 2 or 3. The Carter reference was for making 3rd team AP AA, not the WBCA list. I don't think she's a strong candidate for making a top 10 team, but she should be in the mix for top 15. Whether she makes it or not is a different story, but she's definitely an AA candidate at this point. And as far as AP voters--they had no problem acknowledging they guessed wrong by giving UCONN's AA trio 0 combined votes in the 2016-17 preseason poll. Voters will recognize who is having the best season and reward the deserving players. It's an negligible concern. [/QUOTE]

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