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Message: [QUOTE="Carnac, post: 3974346, member: 5798"] The question is: "who is the [U]NEW[/U] threat?" I take this to mean teams that ARE NOT regular/consistent top 10 contenders. Hard to postulate this subject this early in the year. Final team rosters have not been formed yet. A team can appear to have all the potential in the world "on paper", but we need to see them on the floor against better than average to elite competition before we can begin to form an intelligent and informed opinion on their potential. It will take at least 10 games before the contenders begin to separate themselves from the pretenders. We should know by the holiday break who the front-runners will be the remainder of the season. I think the next serious threat is not necessarily an unknown, but a program that has been hanging around in the top 15-25 for years, just waiting for the chance to step up to the plate for admission to the sorority (top10), maybe[B] Arizona[/B] or [B]LSU. [/B]A dark house is always a possibility when that one special player(s) puts a team over the top that no one anticipated. By definition, a dark horse is a little known, unexpectedly successful entrant, or someone who was previously unknown, but suddenly emerges into prominence. One or two more plays in the final game, and Arizona could be the nation champion. That one point loss could have been a one point win. Texas will be a very tough out this year as Vic Schaefer adds more and more of [B]his own[/B] players to his roster. Kim Mulkey and her LSU Tigers will certainly to be looking for a seat at the table in the "upper room" come March. Not sure they will be ready THIS year, but certainly next season. Mulkey will hit the ground running HARD in Baton Rouge as she will attempt to make a "Baylor" type of splash/impact her first year in the SEC. It may take her another year to acquire the personnel to do so. I look for the recruiting trail and the transfer portal to be very good to her next year. I think she'll schedule her usual "soft" preseason schedule to get her squad up to speed and "jell", then explode into conference play with a bang. She'll encounter a lot more "quality" competition/resistance in the SEC than she did in the BIG 12 where Baylor was the constant elephant in the room, and maintained a "death grip" on conference dominance. No doubt South Carolina and Texas A&M will be eager to welcome her to the conference, and show her exactly what she has to look forward to in the coming years. [/QUOTE]

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