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Message: [QUOTE="DefenseBB, post: 5284627, member: 7492"] Ok, first, let me offer my assessment of the 2024 Portal Competition by incorporating the 2024 Season results to give a better perspective to the masses. [B]Rank/Team/Additions/2024 Seeding/result; 2025 Seeding/result[/B] [LIST=1] [*]UCLA- Barker, Gardiner, Leger-Walker 2/S16-1/FF [*]USC-Iriafen, Von Oelhoffen 1/EE-1/EE [*]TCU-Van Lith DNQ-2/EE [*]Tennessee-Spencer, Spearman, Latham 6/2nd-5/S16 [*]Kentucky-Amoore, Key, Strack DNQ-4/2nd [*]Maryland-Dolce, McLean, Poffenbarger, Smikle 10/1st-4/S16 [*]Oklahoma-Beers 5/2nd-3/S16 [*]Ole Miss-Jacobs, Iwuala 7/2nd-5/S16 [*]Iowa-Olsen 1/Final-6/2nd [*]UConn 3/FF-2/Champion [*]SC-Dauda 1/Champion-1/Final [/LIST] [B]UCLA[/B] was eliminated in round 2 in the 2024 Tournament as a #2 Seed. This year they earned the overall #1 seed and reached the final four. While Charlisse Leger-Walker did not play this year due to injury both Barker and Gardiner contributed significant minutes. [B]USC[/B], on the paper was a push between 2024 and 2025 except they lost Juju early in the tournament and still made it to the Elite Eight [B]TCU[/B] could be argued to be #1, 2 or 3 based on the fact they didn't even make the field in 2024 and garnered a #2 and 6 overall seed losing to Texas. [B]Tennessee[/B] did extremely well in the portal last year along with the addition of their new coach. I would put [B]UConn[/B] at #10 as this was still going to be a good team regardless of who they added. Yes, Kaitlyn Chen was a key component and added to the team but we still had a robust team so I am not convinced we "won the portal" in 2024. [/QUOTE]

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