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Message: [QUOTE="TheFarmFan, post: 3100798, member: 9403"] Are you anticipating the future or describing the past? In the last two seasons we've gone to the Final Four (losing to eventual champs South Carolina) and lost to Louisville in the Sweet Sixteen - and neither of our senior classes those years featured a single top ten player or McDonald's All-American. They were average senior classes for a top 25 program, but nothing especially notable in terms of top players. Even this year our recruiting class was not highly ranked at all; Smith kind of came out of nowhere from Australia, but she was not considered a top ten prospect, and our senior recruiting class was the lowest ranked since at least the mid 2000s - not even in the top 20. Stanford hasn't had even a top 5 recruit since Chiney Ogwumike in 2010 (and our only top [I]ten [/I]recruit in that period was Kiana Williams at #7), and yet Stanford hasn't lost earlier than the Sweet Sixteen since 2007 - 12 straight Sweet Sixteen appearances. So if anything, I think Tara's teams have overachieved relative to her recruiting classes. That will change next year, but I think that's a really off-base description of the past decade. [/QUOTE]