Milford and i have been talking about that for a long time now. when she verbaled, i continuously pointed out that she outperformed, or at least played equal to (stats wise) Cierra BurRichard, who was a year older than her. and her stats on all the USA teams have been MUCH better than Malina Howard and Basharra Graves, 2 kids HG has way ahead of her.
USA stats are not really a fair measure, given they are not playing against one another and it does not say anything about the quality of competition at their respective positions, to say nothing of the fact that Tuck does not play the same position as Howard and Graves.
That being said, rankings are a snapshot of where players are at a given time, with some factor weighed in for potential. I expect Tuck to move up quite a bit when the final rankings are released, given how she has recovered from her injuries and her impressive total body of work.
Obviously, HG thinks very highly of her
now, even if they have not done a comprehensive revision of the rankings (the current rankings are from August, IIRC), seeing as how HG named her
one of the top five players in high school, irrespective of class.