bballnut90
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1. Will anyone be able to keep up with Baylor/UCONN? These two should be light years better than any other team in the nation-with the exception of potentially Duke, who typically looks better on paper than in person. Baylor will catch UCONN's 2002-2003 win streak should they go through the regular season/conference tournament undefeated, something else to keep an eye on.
2. Griner/EDD chasing Stiles/Donovan. Not sure if this has been brought up at all, but Griner has a great shot of catching Stiles as the all time NCAA scoring leader. She has 2425 points in her career, Stiles finished hers with 3393. EDD currently has 2240 career points. I think Baylor can only play a max of 39 games this year, which means she'd have to average 24.8 points per game. This would be about 2 points more per game on average than last year/in 2011, but I think it's definitely very doable, and probably something that would be in the back of her mind/Mulkey's mind even if it isn't addressed publicly. She also needs just 202 blocks this year to tie Ann Donovan. That would be about 5.2 per game. She had 206 this year, so another similar year would do the trick. EDD will probably play no more than 35 games this year, meaning that in order to catch Stiles she'll need to average 32.9 points per game. Not very realistic, but who knows with EDD playing at Delaware. Wouldn't surprise me if she scored 30+ a game this year, and if she made it to the final four or possibly the title game (doubtful, but who knows) and played 37 games, she'd only need 31 points per game. Even if both fail to catch Stiles, it is likely that both players will end up as #2 and 3 all time, or at the very least, join the elite 3000 point club.
3. Will Stanford/UCONN push their final four streak to 6? Seems likely that UCONN will, not so sure about Stanford, depends on how they'll adjust without Nneka who is one of the best players to ever play at Stanford.
4. How will Tennessee fare with a new coach and fairly inexperienced roster? They lose several seniors, new coach, probably the lowest starting ranking they've ever had, etc. Who will be the goto? Will Massengale/Burdick live up to their hype coming out of high school? How will they fare in the SEC?
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2. Griner/EDD chasing Stiles/Donovan. Not sure if this has been brought up at all, but Griner has a great shot of catching Stiles as the all time NCAA scoring leader. She has 2425 points in her career, Stiles finished hers with 3393. EDD currently has 2240 career points. I think Baylor can only play a max of 39 games this year, which means she'd have to average 24.8 points per game. This would be about 2 points more per game on average than last year/in 2011, but I think it's definitely very doable, and probably something that would be in the back of her mind/Mulkey's mind even if it isn't addressed publicly. She also needs just 202 blocks this year to tie Ann Donovan. That would be about 5.2 per game. She had 206 this year, so another similar year would do the trick. EDD will probably play no more than 35 games this year, meaning that in order to catch Stiles she'll need to average 32.9 points per game. Not very realistic, but who knows with EDD playing at Delaware. Wouldn't surprise me if she scored 30+ a game this year, and if she made it to the final four or possibly the title game (doubtful, but who knows) and played 37 games, she'd only need 31 points per game. Even if both fail to catch Stiles, it is likely that both players will end up as #2 and 3 all time, or at the very least, join the elite 3000 point club.
3. Will Stanford/UCONN push their final four streak to 6? Seems likely that UCONN will, not so sure about Stanford, depends on how they'll adjust without Nneka who is one of the best players to ever play at Stanford.
4. How will Tennessee fare with a new coach and fairly inexperienced roster? They lose several seniors, new coach, probably the lowest starting ranking they've ever had, etc. Who will be the goto? Will Massengale/Burdick live up to their hype coming out of high school? How will they fare in the SEC?
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every team they play! Blocks are another story! EDD is going to score/avg more due to Delaware's reliance on her!
