ESPN Recruiting Class Rankings (UConn 3rd)

[Orangutan]

Mikayla Vaughn

Blue Star: #15
ESPN: #90
Dan Olson Collegiate Girls Basketball Report: #91
Prospects Nation: #150

**Note that Dan Olson also does the ESPN rankings and has so for the past few years. He recently made a few minor revisions to the Collegiate Girls Basketball Report rankings that he has not made (or ESPN has not requested) to the ESPN rankings.

***Note that I was unable to find/access the ASGR rating, so her ASGR ranking is not included.

Good catch, I could have sworn that she wasn't top 100 with ESPN the last time they did a big update. Anyhow, good to see her ranked.

Bret McCormick was on the "Ladies Night" podcast with occasional Boneyard visitor Coach Bill and described Vaughn as a a "top 50 kid, maybe a little higher" - that's all I know of ASGR's thinking towards her.

 

[MarieYLee]

A trio of players in the 15-40 range is much more like the Nurse/Williams/Edwards/Ekmark class than Stewie/Morgan/Mo.

We still need that stud to put us over the top.

People seem to forget that the 2014 recruiting class was a top recruiting class. Neither Edwards nor Ekmark really panned out, but it was a very strong class.

BlueStar
Williams 6
Edwards 9
Nurse 10
Ekmark 13

ASGR
Williams 2
Edwards 6
Ekmark 8
Nurse 14

PN
Edwards 8
Williams 18
Ekmark 26
Nurse 5 star International (which would put her in the Top 10, as there were only 10 5 Star recruits in the class)

 

[Tenspro2002]

People seem to forget that the 2014 recruiting class was a top recruiting class. Neither Edwards nor Ekmark really panned out, but it was a very strong class.

BlueStar
Williams 6
Edwards 9
Nurse 10
Ekmark 13

ASGR
Williams 2
Edwards 6
Ekmark 8
Nurse 14

PN
Edwards 8
Williams 18
Ekmark 26
Nurse 5 star International (which would put her in the Top 10, as there were only 10 5 Star recruits in the class)

That seems to prove my point. A class with a handful of "merely" mid-high-end recruits is unlikely to produce a true game-changing player.

In the men's game, there's not a huge dropoff from a top 5-10 recruit to #30. In the women's game, it's enormous.