Christyn Williams's Final 2: UConn and SC

[cockhrnleghrn]

Here we go again; I have a feeling the future will hold more recruiting and hardcourt battles between our schools.

 

[huskyd]

Right now size is most important. We have several outstanding 6ish types, so CW will have to contend for playing time. The Big O is who we really need. Our belief that we are always the best choice for any top player worth her salt isn't always the reason kids make the choices they do. I'm sure Aja is happy at SC, but she'd have been contending for a 4th NC had she come here.

 

[bags27]

I believe she already knows precisely where she is going to go. Then why do it this way?
1. Because she wants the coach of the other school to think she's really torn-- matter of respect and politesse
2. Because she wants that moment in the sun where they orchestra some really stupid t-shirt or hat thing in the gym in front of all the other students. It'd be nice if a high school did that for every student: every student gets to announce their final choice of colleges.

 

[uconn34]

CW will not shy from competition.

 

[BobbyJ]

Why are you surprised?

I am stunned that any poster on this board would be surprised that UConn made Williams's final 2.

I’m just surprised there’s a final 2. I’ve had her as a UConn lock all along.

 

[TitleTown]

Right now size is most important. We have several outstanding 6ish types, so CW will have to contend for playing time. The Big O is who we really need. Our belief that we are always the best choice for any top player worth her salt isn't always the reason kids make the choices they do. I'm sure Aja is happy at SC, but she'd have been contending for a 4th NC had she come here.

Getting the #1 player in the country is not exactly inconsequential. While UConn does have a number of 2/3 position players on their roster, Samuelson graduates after next year and Walker is the only other player that is the caliber of Williams. I think Walker at the 3 and Williams at the 2 playing together for three years would be pretty damn special. This is not a dig at all towards Coombs, Gordon, or Espinoza-Hunter.

 

[BobbyJ]

I believe she already knows precisely where she is going to go. Then why do it this way?
1. Because she wants the coach of the other school to think she's really torn-- matter of respect and politesse
2. Because she wants that moment in the sun where they orchestra some really stupid t-shirt or hat thing in the gym in front of all the other students. It'd be nice if a high school did that for every student: every student gets to announce their final choice of colleges.

Exactly.

 

[donalddoowop]

Pretty sure she goes to UConn now, she knows she has a more realistic chance to wins a championship with UConn especially with the rosters both have for the coming years. I don’t mean to discredit S Carolina’s championship, but UConn’s loss gave them one - just being honest!

Like Baylor's loss gave Uconn one in 2013.

 

[SCGamecock]

Like Baylor's loss gave Uconn one in 2013.

How easily they forget.

 

[Sluconn Husky]

Like Baylor's loss gave Uconn one in 2013.

It was a given that Baylor would've won a tourney game against UConn? They barely beat UConn during the season when Stewart and Jefferson were non-factors.

 

[bags27]

well, fair's fair. when I saw that absurd charging call against Baylor, I almost felt sorry for the ballistic Kim, and knew that UConn had just lucked into another NC. I just don't think Baylor deserved to lose that game or the NC.

 

[MilfordHusky]

Like Baylor's loss gave Uconn one in 2013.

If we got a gift in 2013, S.C. got a gift in 2017. You have to win all of the games to be champions.

 

[MilfordHusky]

Getting the #1 player in the country is not exactly inconsequential. While UConn does have a number of 2/3 position players on their roster, Samuelson graduates after next year and Walker is the only other player that is the caliber of Williams. I think Walker at the 3 and Williams at the 2 playing together for three years would be pretty damn special. This is not a dig at all towards Coombs, Gordon, or Espinoza-Hunter.

Meg and Christyn. I think the word is “unstoppable.” And Christyn knows it.

 

[mhshuskies]

well, fair's fair. when I saw that absurd charging call against Baylor, I almost felt sorry for the ballistic Kim, and knew that UConn had just lucked into another NC. I just don't think Baylor deserved to lose that game or the NC.

That wasn’t a game, it was a street mugging where a game broke out. Orchestrated by that chief punk at L’ville.

 

[Sluconn Husky]

well, fair's fair. when I saw that absurd charging call against Baylor, I almost felt sorry for the ballistic Kim, and knew that UConn had just lucked into another NC. I just don't think Baylor deserved to lose that game or the NC.

The game, maybe or maybe not. But they weren't entitled to a NC they didn't play in. A case can easily be made that the Huskies were the better team by tourney's end. Doesn't guarantee they would've beaten Baylor but it was certainly no fait accompli.

 

[SCGamecock]

If we got a gift in 2013, S.C. got a gift in 2017. You have to win all of the games to be champions.

I think that’s the point he’s making. Or at least the point-adjacent.

 

[donalddoowop]

If we got a gift in 2013, S.C. got a gift in 2017. You have to win all of the games to be champions.

That had already been established in an earlier post.

 

[donalddoowop]

The game, maybe or maybe not. But they weren't entitled to a NC they didn't play in. A case can easily be made that the Huskies were the better team by tourney's end. Doesn't guarantee they would've beaten Baylor but it was certainly no fait accompli.

Come on Sluconn. I am BIG Uconn fan. However, the same could be said of Uconn. They were not entitled to a NC they did not play in last season as some say they were. Just trying to be fair. IMO, the same could be said of both situations.

 

[Sluconn Husky]

Come on Sluconn. I am BIG Uconn fan. However, the same could be said of Uconn. They were not entitled to a NC they did not play in last season as some say they were. Just trying to be fair. IMO, the same could be said of both situations.

You're right, and I would never say they were entitled to one. What I would say is that UConn was the best team in the nation last season. There was little to no gap between UConn and Baylor by the end of 2013.

 

[RSHERMVIKES]

Are you seriously trying to figure out an 18 old? Who is about to make the biggest decision of her life to this point? A youngster that has MOST of the top 25 programs in the country wooing her, and all of them promising her the sun, moon and the stars. Being bombarded daily with the constant wooing and begging, of over zealous coaches, after awhile it all starts to run together, and becomes a blur. I was very impressed with Ionescu last year. She's special. She's going to break some records and win some awards before she moves on to the next level.

Scoop- - - -One thing you can be sure of Geno is NOT promising CW "the sun, moon, and the stars. Being bombarded daily with the constant wooing and begging, of over zealous coaches" Geno doesn't work that way! Never Has, Never Will! He tells it like it is and lets his honesty win out!

 

[Golden Husky]

If we got a gift in 2013, S.C. got a gift in 2017. You have to win all of the games to be champions.

Sometimes the best team doesn't win the championship. Or, as Damon Runyon put it, "The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.” And I'm wagering that the Huskies win it all this season.

 

[mhshuskies]

Sometimes the best team doesn't win the championship. Or, as Damon Runyon put it, "The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.” And I'm wagering that the Huskies win it all this season.

Can you get odds on that?

 

[oldude]

It'd be nice if a high school did that for every student: every student gets to announce their final choice of colleges.

Bags, I think you’v Hit on a really good idea.

ESPN host:

- Joe Smoe is sitting at the table in his High School gym flanked by his proud parents looking at three hats in front of him. He starts to reach for a hat, and Oh My God, he chooses Fenwick Community College. The student body is going crazy!

 

[easttexastrash]

You're right, and I would never say they were entitled to one. What I would say is that UConn was the best team in the nation last season. There was little to no gap between UConn and Baylor by the end of 2013.

Alternative facts on demonstration.

 

[bags27]

Bags, I think you’v Hit on a really good idea.
ESPN host:
- Joe Smoe is sitting at the table in his High School gym flanked by his proud parents looking at three hats in front of him. He starts to reach for a hat, and Oh My God, he chooses Fenwick Community College. The student body is going crazy!

But maybe not ESPN. Maybe: Alex Trebek: