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Message: [QUOTE="BobbyJ, post: 5191201, member: 4250"] This last comment makes me unsure if you're aware of how Auriemma does find and evaluate players. Like other coaches, he actually does search very far. For the most part the top 100 and many more play in one of either the Nike, UA, or Adidas summer circuits. These tournaments are played over several sessions all around the country during the NCAA evaluation periods. GA and his staff spread out and attend these sometimes simultaneously to follow and evaluate kids. And they start as early as Jr. HS age tracking their physical and competitive progress over several years building their files and they see most every kid in the US that in their opinion has UConn potential. He has no need of a website's rankings because these summer sessions are the same places that the websites do theirs. And of course there are various reasons why he doesn't offer certain players that the websites think are top 1 to say 50 talents. There are probably many lower level programs that rely on those rankings but the top 30 or so schools don't really need them. If you were to camp out at these summer sessions for days like these websites do, you'd know it's not hard to identify the top 100 players around the country. Good coaches don't need much help. [/QUOTE]