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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 4475712, member: 12088"] I don't disagree about Boston. Of course, she belongs at or near the top. Brink, too. But there also ought to be a "what have you done lately" element to this sort of calculation, especially since it will inevitably influence PoY decisions. [B]What Boston's done in previous years can't be the primary factor at the end of the year.[/B] But this part of your argument seems contradictory. [B]Yes, Huskies play more minutes, but they do it against tougher competition.[/B] SCar and Stanford players don't get to have it both ways, racking up numbers against cupcakes and then getting extra credit for not having to play serious minutes because of it. If Tara and Dawn want to give their players the sorts of challenges on which post-season awards are based, they can schedule differently. That's a bit unfair of me, I realize, since it isn't always easy for the powerhouses to get other schools to play against them. But that doesn't mean Huskies should be punished for this. [B]The only fact on the ground[/B] is that Aaliyah (and Nika and Lou) have played well against ranked competition, and we have precious little evidence of this for Boston, Brink, Jones, Cooke, etc. I totally get it, though: early season surveys like this are inevitably going to be distorted by speculation and nostalgia. [/QUOTE]