Required reading: "What can I say? It's over."

[Plebe]

Mike Anthony: UConn women's recruiting setbacks part of normal basketball world program rarely sees

Nan included this article in her news summary, but I think it deserves its own thread.

What a 10-day block this is becoming. Down go the Huskies! They were challenged by St. John’s in St. Thomas. They didn’t land any top recruiting targets for the first time in … forever. They’re underdogs Sunday against an Irish team that bounced them from the Final Four. They’re a top-heavy team lacking depth.​

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“What can I say? It’s over,” said coach Geno Auriemma, who has 1,033 victories and 11 national championships in 33-plus years of coaching wave after wave of All-Americans and All-WNBA players.​

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Yup, it’s all over, everything we have come to expect as much as appreciate over the past quarter century.​

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Sarcasm can be difficult to detect in print. It is not from Auriemma, who smiled often in a Wednesday night press conference as he lent perspective to a panic-filled discussion of the Huskies’ demise, given that they whiffed on top high school players such as Aliyah Boston and Haley Jones, the consensus No. 1 player in the Class of 2019 who announced hours earlier that she would attend Stanford.​

 

[ABCDFE]

2020 and 2021 will be very interesting recruiting years. ND and UCONN will have lots of slots available for immediate playing time.