Is it five on the current roster? Anyone know?In response, Oregon Ducks are renamed Oregon Gators
i cant wait to see ucla next year if their healthy. They got a really good freshman class coming in plus good upperclassmen.
I might be missing some, but I also see 2 for Arizona and one each for Stanford, UCLA and Utah. Of course not all of these players are Seniors, so many of them have not made their college choice yet.
Stanford has two: Lauren Betts from Colorado and Indiya Nivar from North Carolina.
See, I did miss one. Thanks.
Angela Dugalic and a non-gimpy Osborne with Bessoir returning is a nice foundation. Kiki Rice, Gabriela Jaquez, and Londynn Jones are the "known" freshmen. A couple of international players (who knows what they will bring), plus Christeen Iwuala round out the new group. I am gonna guess that it will be a train wreck early, but get interesting as January starts.
Is Conti expected back for next year, since she didn't play at all this season?
As of a couple of weeks ago Conti remained undecided (or at least hadn’t revealed to the coaching staff) whether or not she’ll petition for a waiver to play in ‘22/‘23. She enrolled in UCLA’s one year masters degree program in Transformative Coaching and Leadership this year. I believe she can extend it for a second year (Natalie Chou has been a grad student two years.)
Add in 6'7" Kennedy Basham and Oregon has 4 coming in and only 2 currently leaving: Sabally and Dufficy. This would leave Graves with a roster of 15 potentially. Hard to keep that many happy. Transfer portal coming up for some?
No idea. I think WestsideWaltz might have better info. She did participate in Senior Day, though, so as the Magic 8-Ball says, "All signs point to No." There is a spot for her, but it could always get filled by another transfer, too.
You have much better info than I do. I replied today, before seeing your much more complete reply. I note that Coach Brown just got back from Barcelona, where she "Visited with our future Bruin..."
Looks like Wash St might get in which I’m happy to see but they are hard to watch. Charlisse does not have that eye of the tiger mentality any longer. She starting to pass up medium range looks that she needs to go for. Definitely not the same unafraid mentality
Whiting is a junior this year. Won’t be a Duck until ‘23. However, Oregon also has Grace Vanslooten coming next year. As you said the roster would be 15 without any transfers out (seems unlikely).
It was incorrect of me to imply Whiting was in the incoming class. Gray, Isai, Basham and VanSlooten make up next year's class. That is four coming in with only two leaving which was the focus of my post. 15 is a lot of players to keep happy with PT.
I will bet there will be transfers.
This is also his first season without Mark Campbell and that definitely seems to be a gigantic loss. But once you've scaled those heights with Ionescu and are then brought back to earth, it's got to be difficult when you're beaten in the first round.
He looked burned out every game I saw him Coach against Louisville. He’s 0-3 and his teams never looked ready. I thought it was just an anomaly.
Sac St first year with Mark Campbell 14-16, 10-10 Conf. Big improvement but they faded last 3 games so lost winning record. Minyon Moore asst coach. They lose best player a grad transfer from Pacific
I was curious what would happen when Campbell move on. Next season with the class he is bringing in will be very interesting. Personally, I hope no one transfers as I think this roster can do very well but we all know that's not reality.
Absolutely an improvement but nowhere near what LaRocque has achieved. My point being that Graves relied on Campbell more than I thought, or at least that's my impression. Maybe he could also have been the good cop to Graves' bad cop.
One does have to remember that all states are not created equal in terms of basketball talent and some state Gatorade players probably fall outside any rating service top 100, as states like TX and Cal have probably 10+ players each better than the Gatorade player from ID or VT for example.