OT: Good article about Marquette WBB navigating the portal era

[BRS24]

The Marquette Anomaly

The current landscape of college basketball, men's or women's, revolves around the transfer portal. It may not be how the heart of every team's roster is created, but the positives and consequences of the portal's growing impact shapes some amount of just about everyone at the Divison I level. Just

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[Zarathustra]

The Marquette Anomaly

The current landscape of college basketball, men's or women's, revolves around the transfer portal. It may not be how the heart of every team's roster is created, but the positives and consequences of the portal's growing impact shapes some amount of just about everyone at the Divison I level. Just

www.basketunderreview.com

NICE ARTICLE ... about a good H.C. and a team to challenge
Creighton in the BIG EAST (?). I predict the "Eagles" will
be "GOLDEN". No disagreements I assume!!!

 

[MooseJaw]

We want a very good Marquette team, we need better competition from Big East teams. DePaul used to give us lively competition they have fallen back a bit, we need as many good conference games as we can get. Why not the Golden Eagles.

 

[FanSince17]

I do not see this as an anomaly.
Bottom line is that star women’s collegiate basketball players want to be on the biggest stages, competing for championships, and improving their stock moving forward to the pro ranks. So, one needs to decide for themselves whether any of those three criteria can be met at Marquette or any school in the Big East with the exception of UConn.
I think Marquette is in a sort of sweet spot. Great university, good coaching, solid facilities. Good enough to hold onto a nucleus of players, but not good enough to attract top recruits or top players in the portal. Great landing spot for a second tier recruit. (Forbes) Is Marquette the newest version of Creighton. Creighton lost everyone after their six years of commendable performance. This Marquette squad will graduate more than half of their roster after this year. Will be interesting to see if Skylar Forbes stays for her senior year. If she breaks out, maybe not, like Serah or Kaitlyn.
Lucy Olsen- portal to Iowa from Nova, Aneesah Morrow- portal to LSU from DePaul.

 

[YKCornelius]

I wouldn't write-off Creighton just yet, FS17. Great coach, great fan base, a program that is attractive to a certain type of team-focused player. They are very young, but in the era of the transfer portal where many teams have to remake their identity from one year to the next, if anyone can get a group of non-NIL focused midwestern ladies quickly playing tough defense while spreading the floor, it's Jim Flanery. We shall see how they compete.

 

[Centerstream]

This is why I am looking forward to the Big East Preseason Awards and rankings. It can give us a perspective at the start of the conference games

 

[Boreifs]

Totally amazing that six players who hardly played elected to stay.