Silly ranking Edwards outside the top 10-I have her in top 5. At the end of the year, likely she will be one of the top draft choices depending on who needs offense, defense, and a pro ready player. You will not have to guess on her upside.
I don't think people are going to take into account that Aaliyah is often going to be the only uconn big on the floor when they rate her.
Agree, and Kitely is way too low also. Another glaring omission is Gianna Kneepkins of Utah, didn’t even get an honorable mention.
Your UConn bias is in overload
Actually, I think they were being more than fair on Aaliyah as she simply has not played great against great teams. In our 3 losses, she's struggled and especially against UCLA where she fouled out with only 5 pts,, 5 rebounds, 0 assists and 2 turnovers. while here points in NC State were 21 and against Texas were 22, she still only had 6 rebounds each which is not what you want your key post player to have. Add in her 7 turnovers in those games (4/3) and that is a problem. "Being a top draft pick" and being a top collegiate player are not necessarily the same criteria. I absolutely love Aaliyah but she needs to step up in the big games and show us. She will have her chance against ND and SC so I hope your right but at the moment I agree with ESPN.
Kneepkens is out for the rest of the season after breaking her foot a few weeks ago. Same reason why Azzi Fudd is not on the list.
I agree. With no disrespect to Paige or anyone else, there's no one even close to Caitlin Clark at the moment.
Not a good comparison, Fudd only played two games this season and didn’t exactly light it up in those two games, while Kneepkens played in 8 games and was averaging 20ppg when she got injured. Gianna should be on that list.
But she's out for the season. Are there any other players on the list who are out for the rest of the season?
Kitley’s better than Cunane, and that’s saying something since I think Cunane was one of the top two picks in the draft, and Kitley doesn’t have Diamond Johnson in the backcourt either.
Yeah maybe, but if Caitlin Clarke breaks her ankle tomorrow do they take her out of the running for NPOY? I think but for the injury, Kneepkens would be a lock for top 25. That being said, I hope UConn and Iowa meet in the post season. That would be a fun game to watch, and Paige with something to prove.
That’s the oddity of the situation, since Cunane was an excellent D1 player, and had an excellent supporting cast when NC St ran into the buzzsaw known as Paige.
Me too, absolutely! Let’s compare Caitlin and Paige, both against top defenses and see what we’ve already seen before confirmed… again. They won’t guard each other, of course. Nika, KK and Ashlynn would have the assignment for Geno, and Kate Martin, Molly Davis and Gabby Marshall would guard Paige.
Agree with most of what you say, but I’ll just throw it out there that right now Kitley is well on her way to having significantly better college career stats than either Cunane or Boston.
A player who misses the final two-thirds of the season would undoubtedly be out of the running for NPOY.
You're not wrong, though Kitley will only overtake Boston because she's playing a 5th year. Anyway, your remark got me to look stuff up, and Kitley's numbers look a lot better than Cunene's and not too far behind Boston's, on a 4 year basis.
Thank you but it's true and most of those rating the players are not big fans of uconn.
