How will the minutes be distributed to all players next season?

[browns]

I do think our fans sometimes forget that other teams get better too. Neither Stanford or South Carolina were peaking this last season. Early in the year many were forecasting the next couple of years might be Uconn, Stanford and South Carolina separating themselves from the rest of the field, kind of like Oregon, South Carolina and Baylor did the year before.

Those projections were based on sound reasoning, Uconn had a great freshmen class, no graduating seniors, and another great class coming in. South Carolina had the great recruiting class the year before, minimal graduation losses next year, and another big recruiting class like Uconn coming next year. Stanford had a great sophomore (Jones) a great freshmen (Brink) a ton of quality bigs and supporting players, some significant incoming recruits and not much outgoing.

Those three teams for the next couple of years looked to be at another level. What has changed I think is the activity in the transfer portal and the extra year of eligibility. Several teams in the next tier used these resources to approach the level of the top 3. Maryland and North Carolina State got back in the conversation by returning seniors with the extra year of eligibility, Louisville made major additions via the portal etc. I still think the big three are ahead of them, but now the difference is far less and there might be 6 or 7 true national championship contenders.

In fact many teams will be better than it appeared they were going to be before the extra year of eligibility was granted. We might have a hundred or more returning seniors competing for the same number of spots.

So we will be better, no doubt, but so will South Carolina, Stanford should be just as good, and several teams have pulled themselves into the top team discussion because of transfers and returning seniors. I think we start at the top, but while we might be say 10 points a game better than most ranked teams, I think there are probably a half dozen or so we need to worry about quite a bit. Time will tell.

Stanford losing their backcourt of Wilson their best defensive player and Williams their leading scorer will not be as good next year

 

[SVCBeercats]

Considering the roster size for this upcoming season and minutes played last year, Dorka's included, a total of 234.7 minutes are in play, 34.7 minutes over the 200 allotted per game.

Reread the title of this post. Perhaps the words "distributed to" should be replace with the words "earned by."

 

[mbr33ct]

Reread the title of this post. Perhaps the words "distributed to" should be replace with the words "earned by."

I'm the original poster. Not sure what you're trying to say...are we playing "word game" now? All I attempted to show, based on last years minutes everyone played (minus Anna's), included Dorka's minutes there are 234.7 minutes (already 34.7 minutes over the alloted 200 minutes per game). With the incoming freshmen class, I attempted to distribute minutes (you want earned) to all players and possibly what one would expect the minutes to be like at the end of next seasons stats. If you have a list of your own please provide what you believe players minutes will each "earn".

 

[Shaffer0011]

The million dollar question. Paige (30), CW (30), Evina (20), Liv (25), and Aaliyah (25) all start. Azzi (25) first off the bench at guard, Dorka (25) first off the bench at forward. Nika (10) spells the point. Amari, Aubrey and Caroline split up whatever is left. Of course blow outs will effect individual game numbers. Big games might see plus minutes for Paige. Injuries don’t factor in at this point.