Speaking of numbers...I read somewhere that B. Pulido has given up her #24 so Collier can wear it. It's the second year in a row she's given up her number (she gave up #11 for Nurse). Briana will be wearing #2 next season. Since both KLS and DJB wore #33 in HS...I wonder which one gets to keep that number...KLS might end up opting for the great #23 instead. She'd look good wearing that number and I'm pretty sure KML would approve.
Cheers for Polly, as she will be setting the record for most numbers worn by a Husky. Her this year's number of 24 was also the one worn by Kerry Bascom, which remained unused after Kerry's senior year in 1991 until Charde Houston picked it up for 2004-2005 and the rest of her career.
0 and 1 are indeed the forbidden numbers unless perhaps a player comes in who can already rebound like Tina Charles, score like Maya Moore, block like Kiah Stokes, pass like Diana Taurasi, shoot 3's like Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis, steal like Moriah Jefferson, shoot free throws like Sue Bird, set picks like Stef Dolson, shut down opponents like Kelly Faris, dominate like Breanna Stewart, dive for loose balls like Mel Thomas, intimidate like Rebecca Lobo, shoot layups like Tamika Williams, smile like Swin Cash, interview like Svetlana Abrosimova, and slap ten like Briana Pulido -- and even then Geno would make a player prove it all for three years before grudgingly allow them to let them declare themselves a 0 if they really need to.
The other numbers in the no-takers zone are the last three, 53, 54 and 55, which I guess no one wants because they're at the end. Even 52 was last worn way back in 1997 by Kara Wolters, though Kara would probably self-deprecatingly say that she put a jinx on it.
