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Magy Cannon said:
Keyen Green from Liberty to TN. Former Big South player of the year.
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Details here

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Keyen Green commits to Lady Vols

Grad transfer to provide post help for Tennessee.
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She also was recruited as a graduate transfer by Maryland, Kentucky and Texas. Green is a physical post player with excellent footwork, great hands and an assortment of moves in the paint. Sounds like Evelyn Adebayo from an optimistic point of view.
 
MDoggie said:
Why on Gods green earth would anyone go to Tennessee for WCBB these days?
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If she is any good, she will get alot of minutes.
 
DEpup said:
I don't think Bibby is 100% and back to where she was speed wise so I don't think she'd be a good fit for UConn unless she has improved.
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Bibby strength was never speed, she was a physical player with outside shot prior to the ACL injury. She regressed quite a bit in both of those areas after her injury. In addition to her injury she lost playing time because of the incoming talent MSST had and I believe the lacking of playing time contributed to her physical problem.
 
Color me skeptical on any mid-major player actually contributing on a good P5 team. I don't have such great memories of Natalie or Evelyn really contributing and really can't think of any other school who added a mid-major player that proved they belonged. What am I missing?
 
DefenseBB said:
Color me skeptical on any mid-major player actually contributing on a good P5 team. I don't have such great memories of Natalie or Evelyn really contributing and really can't think of any other school who added a mid-major player that proved they belonged. What am I missing?
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Strangely enough, Natalie Butler was not a mid-major until she left UConn for George Mason.
 
DefenseBB said:
Color me skeptical on any mid-major player actually contributing on a good P5 team. I don't have such great memories of Natalie or Evelyn really contributing and really can't think of any other school who added a mid-major player that proved they belonged. What am I missing?
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Technically, Espinoza-Hunter went from a mid-major to a major. :oops:
All jokes aside...

More relevant examples may be Carmen Grande (Ball State ----> Ohio State), Aliyah Jeune (Morehead State to USC-West), Deja Cage (DePaul to Ole Miss), Kendall Spray (UT-Martin to Clemson). Some of these aren't world beating teams but Southern Cal, Ohio State, and Clemson have had some decent teams of late.
 
Lorcan said:
Technically, Espinoza-Hunter went from a mid-major to a major. :oops:
All jokes aside...

More relevant examples may be Carmen Grande (Ball State ----> Ohio State), Aliyah Jeune (Morehead State to USC-West), Deja Cage (DePaul to Ole Miss), Kendall Spray (UT-Martin to Clemson). Some of these aren't world beating teams but Southern Cal, Ohio State, and Clemson have had some decent teams of late.
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UConn and DePaul are not mid-majors.
 
DefenseBB said:
Color me skeptical on any mid-major player actually contributing on a good P5 team. I don't have such great memories of Natalie or Evelyn really contributing and really can't think of any other school who added a mid-major player that proved they belonged. What am I missing?
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It didn't actually happen but I'd wager that Jonquel Jones, a GW grad, would have helped UConn.
 
Alydar said:
what then is the Big East if not a mid-major?
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We're officially guilty of thread drift at this point, but briefly:

Where is it written that every conference has to be classified as either "power five" or "mid-major"?

The term "mid-major" has no official meaning or definition. It's just one of those arbitrary labels propagated for convenience (or for PR purposes) by the media. With that caveat, the Big East and AAC are generally not classified as "mid-majors" by sports media outlets. There's a long and tedious history behind it all, but that's the takeaway.
 
Plebe said:
We're officially guilty of thread drift at this point, but briefly:

Where is it written that every conference has to be classified as either "power five" or "mid-major"?

The term "mid-major" has no official meaning or definition. It's just one of those arbitrary labels propagated for convenience (or for PR purposes) by the media. With that caveat, the Big East and AAC are generally not classified as "mid-majors" by sports media outlets. There's a long and tedious history behind it all, but that's the takeaway.
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Correct. Just because a conference is not a "power 5" does not mean it's a mid-major. The Big East has never been considered a mid-major.
 
Drift, but ...
The BE was not classified as a Mid-Major because until it broke up it included: Uconn, ND, Syracuse, WV, Louisville, Rutgers, Va Tech, Pitt, BC, and Miami. All of those teams are now in one of the P5 except Uconn.

The AAC and the new BigEast only claim to not being a mid-major really rest on Uconn Women's BB - otherwise the AAC is comprised of mostly schools who joined from other mid-majors and the BE is non-football schools. So while our discussions concerning WCBB allow us to claim a top 5 (and the most storied) program, and pretend our league is a big deal, in reality we are just one of the 'other conferences' that are not P5.
 
UcMiami said:
The AAC and the new BigEast only claim to not being a mid-major really rest on Uconn Women's BB - otherwise the AAC is comprised of mostly schools who joined from other mid-majors and the BE is non-football schools. So while our discussions concerning WCBB allow us to claim a top 5 (and the most storied) program, and pretend our league is a big deal, in reality we are just one of the 'other conferences' that are not P5.
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I don't quite agree. First of all, you've neglected to include Cincinnati and South Florida (and arguably Temple) as Big East football schools. Secondly, these labels are historically driven by football and men's basketball, not women's basketball or other sports.
 
UcMiami said:
Drift, but ...
The BE was not classified as a Mid-Major because until it broke up it included: Uconn, ND, Syracuse, WV, Louisville, Rutgers, Va Tech, Pitt, BC, and Miami. All of those teams are now in one of the P5 except Uconn.

The AAC and the new BigEast only claim to not being a mid-major really rest on Uconn Women's BB - otherwise the AAC is comprised of mostly schools who joined from other mid-majors and the BE is non-football schools. So while our discussions concerning WCBB allow us to claim a top 5 (and the most storied) program, and pretend our league is a big deal, in reality we are just one of the 'other conferences' that are not P5.
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Plebe said:
I don't quite agree. First of all, you've neglected to include Cincinnati and South Florida (and arguably Temple) as Big East football schools. Secondly, these labels are historically driven by football and men's basketball, not women's basketball or other sports.
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Yeah, it pains me to say this but if you're basing "P5" and "mid-major" status on quality of basketball results, then the Big East is more P5 than the Pac-12 is, at least in Men's basketball. The Big East has more championships in the past 5 years than the PAC-12 has in the past 25...
 
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