Andra Espinoza-Hunter considering six schools for transfer

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Brianna Turner (#2 in Hoopgurlz, #5 in Prospects Nation) hasn't had too shabby a career either, including two-time ACC Defensive Player of the Year, ACC Rookie of the Year (2015) and 2016 ACC Player of the Year (Coaches) .

And while Kathryn Westbeld has not won the kind of accolades her classmate, she's been a starter for most of the last three years and been the Irish "glue player" according to her head coach, Muffet McGraw. In fact, she just came off a career high 21 points and 12 rebounds at FSU.

So the Irish have done pretty well with their 2014 class, as well.

Brianna Turner Bio :: Notre Dame Women's Basketball :: UND.COM :: The Official Site of ND Athletics

Kathryn Westbeld played the worst game I've ever seen anyone play verse L'ville's Hines-Allen in 4 years. Westbeld was brutal defensively. Then she goes out and has a great game verse Fl State and Hines-Allen is given fits by Chatrice White. Match ups.

 

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There was a certain poster here, @wallman , who predicted Ekmark would struggle at UConn and that Osahor was the best player on her high school team.

I wonder if Geno has the talk with a player like Ekmark or the players arrive at their own conclusion. Just looking at her play this year I would not see her as a #28 player. That 2014 class I would always get Gabby Green and Gabby Williams mixed up. Cal not cashing in on Gabby Green #11 and #12 Cowlings really set them back. Green was so low intensity and transferred and Cowlings is kind of just out there. What a value Nurse #33 and Williams #15? turned out to be.

 

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Possible, it would have been a tall order though. That class was loaded with athletic wings that not only made a name for them selves in HS ball but quite a few were also ripping it up in AAU ball ( Gabby Green, Miraya Moore, Jamie Nared, Shakayla Thomas, Myisha Hines-Allen Mikayla Cowling, Sierra Calhoun, & Gabby Williams). Shoot, even A'ja wilson considered herself a Wing-until reality set in. To be fair, Courtney in HS could shoot better than all of them and her BB IQ would be among the best, athletically she was a step or two behind just about all these players.

A step or two? I finally got the chance to see her play several games at Az State and she is more than a step or two behind. Hope she does well but more than that I hope she just makes it through the year without injury. She looks very frail.

 

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A. No, he didn't. Coombs is a 1, AEH is a 2, Gordon is a 2/3, and Walker is a 3. Completely different positions and skill sets.
B. As well as the entire UConn team and coaches
C. True
D. Might be right on where she lands but I don't see her as that type of player. She will be a solid player IMHO but not a star.
E. That's fine. Her loss not UConn's. She hasn't been anywhere close to the same player since her injury. Only time will tell whether her athleticism returns. There are also at least 5 other players UConn is recruiting in the class of 2019 that I want before her.
F. True, but besides EDD, that left for family reasons, how many of them have gone on to be stars at their next school?

Regarding "F" above. I wondered the same thing about how many UConn transfers have gone on to be stars on other teams? Lets add that transferred to Power 5.
I can't think of anyone besides EDD either. You can't call Edwards a star. I looked at this a few years ago and UConn had someone transfer to BC and she wasn't close to a star. What is Boykins doing?

 

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Wow. That Hoopgurlz 2014 rankings list is pretty bad in retrospect. A few vastly underrated players, but more players that were overrated and didn't amount to much. Some superstars sprinkled in there, but not much depth.

I won't bore everybody w/ what I found w/ some researching, but overall that was a horrible class for the Pac 12! Many top 20 players that didn't develop much, some ended up transferring out. A few lower down the list medically retired or also transferred out, without accomplishing much before they left. Pretty much only Canada, Billings, McPhee and Simon panned out with the team they originally signed w/. A couple others stuck around and ended up being role players, didn't come anywhere close to living up to their ranking. The conference did get a bit of a bonus w/ several players that transferred in and became contributors. Still, overall the class of '14 was mostly a bust for the conference.

edited--of course Marie Gulich, coming from Germany, is not on this list. Not sure she would've been considered top 100 even if she was in the US in HS, but she has developed into a tremendous post player

 

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You're cherry picking. Look at the entire top 100. See how many of those players you think have been impactful. In particular look at the top 20 and top 40 and make note of how many of those players have not had noteworthy careers.

Hines Allen was red hot her soph year and so so her junior year due to lousy team chemistry and the emergence of Asia Durr. Mariya Moore was a good player her frosh year and peaked real early and slid her junior year. Will be interesting to see how Mariya Moore does at USC. She can pass but she slows th game down and has trouble with a fast team.
Prior to this year, L'ville was ugly basketball from 2014-2016. They won but I wouldn't pay to see them. This year they are entertaining. Jasmine Jones and Arica Carter have developed but haven't developed enough yet to put a scare in UConn. L'ville doesn't have enough weapons to hurt UConn.
UConn by 18 or more.

 

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Time to put an end to this meandering thread.