I've been hearing it for days, and today it was made official on Louisville Scout board, we are out of the running for Arike.
In a way it's a tad surprising - but maybe not so much since Durr went to L'ville. Still, it will be interesting to see how she does at ND. In the games I watched, she is much more of a 1 on 1 player and didn't really excel in the team concept that Team USA was trying to employ. ND runs a more complex offense than L'ville and it will be interesting to see how she does in that type of environment...
I mean no disrespect to our competition, but there is not a single team out there at the moment that has the talent that UCONN has, and given our coaching, I just don't see anyone coming close. In 2015 we have 3 of the top 10 players, and 2 of them are probably top 3. For all that anyone talks about teams catching up to UCONN, (there was a thread where SC was talked about as possibly being able to beat UCONN), SC has not one single player verbaled from 2015 who is in the top 100. In fact I don't think they have a single verbal from that class.
You simply can't lay a goose egg in a recruiting year and expect to challenge the big boys at the top. You could say UCONN fared not so well with only landing Chong, but injuries have effectively put Tuck in that class making it a really good pair of players.
KML, Stokes
Stewie, Jefferson
Tuck, Chong
Ekmark, Butler, Edwards, Williams, Nurse
Collier, Boykin, Samuelson
I don't prefer classes of 5 like we have, but UCONN is going to be loaded every single year and every single class has a potential star player (or more). Only ND even comes close to recruiting like that, and look at how they fared against us last year.