did any sane person think PSU was the #6 team in the country ?
Ya, but someone has to be ranked sixth! Seriously, like last year, does it even matter this season who is ranked where after the first four teams. Clearly, UConn, Stanford, Baylor and Duke are heads and tails better than the rest of the field. Obviously Penn St. and Kentucky are pretenders...and believe me when I say Notre Dame is no where in the vicinity of the top four teams. Did you see tonight's ND box score vs. CMU? Muffet basically used a seven player rotation with the two of the seven (Cable and Turner) combining to shoot 0-7 in 30 minutes of play; both of these players have absolutely NO offensive skill set and only shoot the ball when they are left wide-open, and even then they can't hit the broad side of a barn. Surprisingly, Michaela Mabrey who performed so well for the USA U17 team is not "getting it yet" at the college level and tallied only two minutes of playing time. Meanwhile, Markisha Wright who started the first game already has seen her role diminished to a mere four minutes, this coming after Muffet was reluctant to play her much last season and despite the fact, she is one of only three post players for this year's Irish squad -- it's almost like Muffet is daring her to transfer! Believe me, if she isn't playing this year, she isn't going to be playing much next season with Taya Reimer, Kristina Nelson and Diamond Thompson coming on-board.
Not only does ND lack both skill and depth at the post position, they lack ANY bench talent period. It will be interesting to see how much Geno decides to run up the score on Muffet come the conference opener on the Huskies home turf.
) UVA could be a NCAA team this season... and should be a upper division ACC squad for years to come. 