Geno on the men’s team

[Vowelguy]

Well, to be fair, they probably deserved a higher seed than 3.

No they didn’t

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

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.

 

[Horatio]

If it wasn’t for a ridiculous amount of injuries, we had a realistic chance to win it all with both the women’s and men’s teams this year. Geno was getting close to holding walk-on tryouts this year.

 

[Scoe]

If it wasn’t for a ridiculous amount of injuries, we had a realistic chance to win it all with both the women’s and men’s teams this year. Geno was getting close to holding walk-on tryouts this year.

There’s a shot though with Paige Bueckers, she will need to pull a Kemba. The Aubrey Griffin injury is the one that really kills them it would’ve been like us losing Andre Jackson last year.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

If it wasn’t for a ridiculous amount of injuries, we had a realistic chance to win it all with both the women’s and men’s teams this year. Geno was getting close to holding walk-on tryouts this year.

We are due. We did it in 2004 & 2014 so.........

 

[Martin]

Take it to the women's board. j/k Anything can happen, Paige could pull a Kemba. +1600 at the moment.

Made that bet. It’s March anything can happen.

 

[Martin]

People were saying Doom on this thread then Sabbath Bloody Sabbath came on Sirius….The Boneyard!

 

[HuskyHawk]

Made that bet. It’s March anything can happen.

Honestly, if someone else can knock of the few teams we simply cannot beat, then it becomes possible.

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

There’s a shot though with Paige Bueckers, she will need to pull a Kemba. The Aubrey Griffin injury is the one that really kills them it would’ve been like us losing Andre Jackson last year.

Seen in terms of loss impact, I think that's a good comp.