Saniya tonite Unbelievable

[UcMiami]

On her being under the radar - haven't seen or looked to see who and where (or if) she is playing on the AAU circuit. If she is not on a good team that travels to the big tournaments then none of the rating services are going to see much of her.
On Uconn offers prior to a visit - our own Tiff got an offer and gave a verbal before she ever made it to Storrs, and had Taya visited before she reportedly received her offer? It is a general rule, but not one that is absolute.
Geno generally likes to see a player himself, but I am not sure that is absolute either. I think he trusts all of his coaches enough at this point that if one were to tell him a player was a slam dunk, he would believe them.

 

[jdubct]

On her being under the radar - haven't seen or looked to see who and where (or if) she is playing on the AAU circuit. If she is not on a good team that travels to the big tournaments then none of the rating services are going to see much of her.
On Uconn offers prior to a visit - our own Tiff got an offer and gave a verbal before she ever made it to Storrs, and had Taya visited before she reportedly received her offer? It is a general rule, but not one that is absolute.
Geno generally likes to see a player himself, but I am not sure that is absolute either. I think he trusts all of his coaches enough at this point that if one were to tell him a player was a slam dunk, he would believe them.

As you stated, Tiff received an offer prior to a visit to Storrs. Geno had seen her play prior to the offer. Don't know the timing of Taya's offer.

 

[speedoo]

IMHO, we need to get a pure center.

I also felt that way, until Kiah showed what she can do. Stef is here through 2014 and Kiah through 2015.. Plus we have Breanna and Morgan through 2016, so we can manage the 4-5 spots for a while. But yeah it would be good to get a really good center somewhere down the line. Maybe Turner in 2014.

 

[UcMiami]

I just did a wee bit of the google - her AAU team is Westchester Hoopers which does not seem to be a big travel team, though they are now teaming with Exodus for an Elite level as of last summer, and I don't think she was on that team. I would expect that she would be this summer? Anyway - I would say this points to why she does not have the 'national rep' that is generally reserved for the Elite AAU team members.