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Are SC, Baylor, ND, Stanford & MD bad for WBB?
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[QUOTE="oldude, post: 2156580, member: 7511"] We all know UConn is bad for WBB :rolleyes:, and with a loaded team next year, bent on bringing home their 12th NCAA championship, the chorus from trolls like Shaughnessy and others will resurface again next season. While the Huskies are an easy target, I submit that in recent years a collection of the “Usual Suspects” have dominated the P-5 conferences. Despite losses to graduation, transfer and injury, that make SC, Baylor, ND, Stanford & MD all appear vulnerable next season, there is no clear end in sight to their dominance. [B][U]SC/SEC[/U][/B] – SC has won each of the last 3 SEC regular and postseason championships, and they finally won their 1st national championship, but they lose 3 of the top 10 WNBA draft picks with the losses of Coates, Davis & Gray. The SEC is a brutally tough conference. MS St has a great coach and their own Big 3 all return next year. TN may have more talent than any team not located in Storrs, CT, so if they finally get their act together…OK never mind about TN. On the other hand, SC returns Wilson and a solid supporting cast, and at the end of the day, it just doesn’t seem likely that MS St, TN or anyone else in the SEC will be able to dethrone the Gamecocks. [B][U]Baylor/Big 12[/U][/B] – Baylor has won the last 7 regular and/or postseason Big 12 Championships, but the Bears lose 3 key G/W’s in Davis, Prince and Jones along with frontcourt reserve Cave. While Baylor has a number of talented bigs, they face a similar challenge to SC in trying to play with 2 or more post players on the court at the same time. Despite the challenges the Bears face next season, only TX has remotely challenged them for the top spot in the conference. There was a point this season when it looked like the Longhorns had finally arrived beating Baylor in Waco, but then TX stumbled into the conference tournament and in the NCAA’s. With some key losses of their own, it’s difficult to envision TX taking the top spot over Baylor next season. [B][U]ND-ACC[/U][/B] – ND has won every regular and postseason championship in the 4 years since they joined the ACC. The Irish graduate star PG Lindsay Allen. Two key returning players have announced they will transfer and AA center Brianna Turner may miss next season due to injury. There are a number of strong teams waiting in the wings for ND to slip, including Duke, Lou, Miami & FSU, but MM will probably figure it out and ND should once again be the team to beat in the ACC. [B][U]Stanford/Pac 12[/U][/B] – The Pac 12 may be the most competitive conference in WBB, and yet Stanford has won the regular and/or postseason championship in 16 of the past 17 seasons. The Cardinal graduate 3 of their top 4 players (McCall, Samuelson, Roberson), and teams like UCLA, OSU & Oregon appear poised to challenge for supremacy in the Pac12, but Tara didn’t get to 1000 coaching wins by accident. She can coach. Stanford engineered come-from-behind wins in the conference championship against OSU and then in the NCAA’s against TX & ND. It’s foolish to bet against Tara and the Cardinal finding their way to the top of the conference again next year. [B][U]MD/Big10[/U][/B] – The Terps have won/shared every regular & postseason championship in the BIG since they joined the conference 3 years ago, but no top team has suffered greater losses. MD graduates their two best players, Walker-Kimbrough & Jones. Three players have announced their intention to transfer, including super frosh Destiny Slocum, but outside of OSU, the BIG is the weakest of the P-5 conferences, and the Buckeyes have their own losses to graduation & transfer to deal with, along with having a coach that has underperformed with talented players. MD is certainly vulnerable next year, but it would hardly be a surprise to see the Terps win the BIG again. While there has been some indication over the past few seasons that WBB is moving in the direction of parity, it appears that the more things change, the more things stay the same, at least as far as the teams at the top are concerned. [/QUOTE]
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