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Message: [QUOTE="bballnut90, post: 3691338, member: 2117"] One thing to note, it's easy to get caught up in analyzing teams simply based on who they lose, who they return, and who they add....but what's often overlooked in preseason is how much specific players improve during an offseason or into a new year taking on a larger role. Especially jumping from freshmen to sophomores. No, SC doesn't bring in any top recruits, but they have a very good freshman class with 4 players who very likely take on much larger roles this upcoming season and will be much improved. If you look at previously loaded #1 classes, it's quite common to see a big surge in quality of play and production as players become sophomores: 2018 Baylor-endured 2 transfers, but Queen Egbo/Nalyssa Smith had big sophomore years 2017 Tennessee-Rennia Davis/Evina Westbrook had much improved sophomore years 2016 Maryland-Slocum transferred, but Charles/Watson/Jones improved big time from freshmen to sophs 2014 UCLA-Canada/Billings had huge production increases 2012 UCONN-Stewart/Jefferson were far better as sophs than freshmen I think SC joins this grouping too, which is saying something since their crop of freshmen were outstanding. Obviously they'll miss the contributions from MHH and Harris, but a lot of the offensive opportunities they took are now going to go to Aliyah Boston. As good as Boston was as a frosh, she never had a game where she took more than 14 shots, and she only played 30+ minutes in 8 games last year. Now that she's a sophomore she probably plays longer minutes, demands the ball more, adds a couple more post moves and becomes a POY candidate. [/QUOTE]

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