Megan Duffy reflects on magical first year at Marquette in the Athletic

[eebmg]

Very nice article about first year coach Megan Duffy overachieving with Marquette in her first year and having to deal with a large freshman class

Megan Duffy reflects on magical first year at Marquette, with a bright future

Duffy was named the Big East Coach of the Year after leading Marquette to a 24-8 record and what would have been a NCAA Tournament bid.

theathletic.com

Can they be the second team after DePaul that will give us some much needed inconference competition??

 

[DefenseBB]

We all hope so and it gives both @Dillon77 and @Orangutan reasons to keep coming to the BY and with great insight as always..

 

[Dillon77]

Very nice article about first year coach Megan Duffy overachieving with Marquette in her first year and having to deal with a large freshman class

Megan Duffy reflects on magical first year at Marquette, with a bright future

Duffy was named the Big East Coach of the Year after leading Marquette to a 24-8 record and what would have been a NCAA Tournament bid.

theathletic.com

Can they be the second team after DePaul that will give us some much needed inconference competition??

We all hope so and it gives both @Dillon77 and @Orangutan reasons to keep coming to the BY and with great insight as always..

eebmg: Thanks for posting the article. Always good to read about Megan Duffy, one of my fave Irish players who -- now that she's a coach -- has continued to work hard and carve out a niche for she and her players in her coaching capacity.
DefenseBB: Thanks for the kind words. You're right! The Warrior-Husky games will give some direct reasons for continuing to dial into The Boneyard!

Thus far, at Miami (Ohio) and Marquette, Coach Duffy has demonstrated an ability to assess what talent she has and make it work: making the proverbial whole work better than the sum of its parts. That's a talent, for sure. The work at Marquette demonstrated this: meshing kids who by and large didn't play that much with incoming frosh (whom she didn't recruit) and making them play that high-intensity style of hers.

What the hoop world hasn't had a chance to do is see how the kids she recruits for those schools then do. That got curtailed in Miami when she moved onto Marquette. We'll get a chance to see how this plays out a little next year and more so afterwards. Stay tuned....should be a fun ride.