COY semifinalists announced

[Vowelguy]

10 semifinalists named for Werner Ladder Naismith Trophy Women's Coach of the Year

The Atlanta Tipoff Club announced today 10 semifinalists for the Werner Ladder Naismith Women's Coach of the Year award, including previous winners Geno Auriemma and Tara VanDerveer.

www.ncaa.com

Geno
Moore, Walz
Barnes, Tara
Carey
Frese
Taylor, Blair
Jose

Think it's Blair or Tara (road games, breaking record), though what Barnes has done at Arizona in just a few years is pretty remarkable.

 

[PAHuskeyFan]

10 semifinalists named for Werner Ladder Naismith Trophy Women's Coach of the Year

The Atlanta Tipoff Club announced today 10 semifinalists for the Werner Ladder Naismith Women's Coach of the Year award, including previous winners Geno Auriemma and Tara VanDerveer.

www.ncaa.com

Geno
Moore, Walz
Barnes, Tara
Carey
Frese
Taylor, Blair
Jose

Think it's Blair or Tara (road games, breaking record), though what Barnes has done at Arizona in just a few years is pretty remarkable.

I fully understand there is a different set of voters for NCOY than there are for Conference COY...but Taylor was just announced as the SEC COY over Blair... I would think it will be an "up hill battle" for Blair to win NCOY (since his own conference didn't think he was best in the conference)... but of course it's possible.

 

[Bald Husky]

Glad to see Dawn isn't there. I do think Kellie Harper should have gotten a look though.

 

[dtbtbtb]

Why not Geno? a team with 7 Freshmen, no seniors and somehow it is 1st in the country...

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

No good reason to diss Geno or Tara or other established coaches, and I don't think Barnes is as good a choice this year as she would have been last year. Not that I wouldn't love her to win it, but I think last year was (absent Covid of course) a better coaching job - but they all had Covid to deal with.

I like Blair, probably Wes Moore and Carey for raising their programs to heights never seen before. And at least as regards A&M and WV, I think a bit unexpected. Many of the others, to a great extent, while they exceeded expectations, I mean, really, who exactly is voting "against" Geno, Tara, Brenda and the like to have their teams positioned at or near the top?

 

[Fairfield Fan]

Geno!!! Hands down!!!!!!!

 

[Sched234]

Glad to see Dawn isn't there. I do think Kellie Harper should have gotten a look though.

Dawn is a great coach but given we were ranked #1 twice and now sit at #7, I think other coaches were more deserving.

 

[itsasport]

I would also put Kellie on and hear top of the list because she has, with inherited players, rapidly turned around a damaged program that had squandered top talent for years.

 

[donalddoowop]

10 semifinalists named for Werner Ladder Naismith Trophy Women's Coach of the Year

The Atlanta Tipoff Club announced today 10 semifinalists for the Werner Ladder Naismith Women's Coach of the Year award, including previous winners Geno Auriemma and Tara VanDerveer.

www.ncaa.com

Geno
Moore, Walz
Barnes, Tara
Carey
Frese
Taylor, Blair
Jose

Think it's Blair or Tara (road games, breaking record), though what Barnes has done at Arizona in just a few years is pretty remarkable.

I don't think what Barnes has done in previous years should be considered. It's what she did this season or, should be.

 

[DefenseBB]

My order would be
1. Blair 2. Tara 3. Geno 4. Frese 5. Moore

Barnes was overhyped coming into the year vs. what she did last year so this years team underachieved by that standard.
The others are just filler as nothing is too notable on their efforts.