It's absolutely crazy, what's the men's equivalent to that? Spencer, Karaban, Johnson, Castle?
14 scholarship players
8 currently available.
6 out for the season (With overlap, half during the season and half already having demonstrated prior success).
4 first-year players.
3 honored on Senior Day.
2 of the 8 out last season, one returning & one new.
2 clearly a notch below, one currently available.
1 playing tomorrow for the first time after more than a week off from a broken nose & fitted with a face mask.
Spencer, Karaban, Castle, Johnson is actually a pretty good equivalent when spread across 6 players.
The 3-seed is justified, even with a far higher NET ranking, owing to a superior SOS. The need to adjust to so many in-season line-up and team-conception shifts has been extraordinary. The response has been effective and inspiring, but the ceiling remains under question, with good reason to believe that it's just too compromised as the competition elevates for each round.
A summary like this could be gleaned from watching the games, spending time on the Women's board, or paying attention elsewhere, but this is written as an executive summary for a different audience, which legitimizes its presentation here. Serious disagreement to that last assertion would fail.
Mocking-as-meme is expected, and
could be fun, if done well, but that's more likely to be a flat-footed, rote punch-down...which could nonetheless be fun if people with opposing viewpoints could lighten up from both directions.
It has been a team well worth following and deserving of support. By being short-handed, the team faces depletion risks in every encounter.
In pre-season, the WBB team would have been considered better-positioned for its end of a 2004, 2014, 2024 double championship extension.
Not all will agree with the above. Not all will see themselves in the below.
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