Updated roster - 4/6/21

[BRS24]

So, here's an updated roster that I created a while back when Saylor joined. Updated with today's news of Anna's transfer.

 

[HuskyNan]

Boy that’s still a young team

 

[f1f1ferrari]

Saylor's in a class of her own!

 

[BRS24]

Saylor's in a class of her own!

I must have changed up the format of how to designate Saylor's status a million times. In the future, if it's apparent that she stays with her original 2021 recruiting class, then I'll update. There was also an addition of final ESPN/HoopGirls ratings in light of a prior thread discussion of HS player rankings.

 

[hoopsfan22]

Saylor is still in the same class as Azzi, Amari, and Caroline Ducharme. She just showed up a couple of months early.

 

[donalddoowop]

I may not be around to see it but, that 24/25 class with just the six players is very formidable.

 

[f1f1ferrari]

I must have changed up the format of how to designate Saylor's status a million times. In the future, if it's apparent that she stays with her original 2021 recruiting class, then I'll update. There was also an addition of final ESPN/HoopGirls ratings in light of a prior thread discussion of HS player rankings.

I don't have any problem with the way it's represented, just went for the play on words!

 

[hoopsfan22]

That 23-24 season to send Paige & Co. out in style could be special given the players and experience levels by that time.

 

[UcMiami]

Boy that’s still a young team

It is! Changed out juniors to seniors this year and the sophomore class went from 2 to 6 and the freshman class from 6-3.5 but still heavily weighted by underclassmen 10-4. I think having only 3 players new to the coaching and system will make a significant difference though. Easier to get work done efficiently, and hopefully they have a normal summer and fall which will also help immeasurably.

 

[dogged1]

Hoorah, we have Seniors.
But, we need bigs, can't have enough bigs.

 

[Centerstream]

I must have changed up the format of how to designate Saylor's status a million times. In the future, if it's apparent that she stays with her original 2021 recruiting class, then I'll update. There was also an addition of final ESPN/HoopGirls ratings in light of a prior thread discussion of HS player rankings.

Is there another reputable rating service that you have access to that may make our future teammates look even better? Just asking because on one of the recruiting threads someone posted that there were maybe 5 other rating services without saying who they were. I have only looked at the ESPN/HoopGurlz myself. Thanks.

 

[chrissaran]

Even in 2024-2025 UConn looks damn good.

 

[Sluconn Husky]

Is there another reputable rating service that you have access to that may make our future teammates look even better? Just asking because on one of the recruiting threads someone posted that there were maybe 5 other rating services without saying who they were. I have only looked at the ESPN/HoopGurlz myself. Thanks.

Blue Star, Prospects Nation, and All-Star Girls Report all have higher collective rankings for UConn's '20 and '21 classes than ESPN/PBR.


Here's Blue Star's UConn commits with the ranking listed on the left. They essentially didn't rank Edwards for whatever reason.

Blue Star Basketball

ASGR's 20-22 player rankings:

ASGR Basketball - Women's Basketball Recruiting & Scouting Services

Comprehensive basketball scouting services for high school players nationwide.

asgrbasketball.com

2021 ASGR Top 100 National Player Rankings Are Now Live: Azzi Fudd Takes Top Spot At No. 1 @azzi_35 @GTS_Fusion | ASGR Basketball

asgrbasketball.com

No. 1 Lauren Betts Highlights Top 100 Prospects In The Class Of 2022 @ColoradoPremier @unitedbballclub @FairfaxStars @Calsparks1 @NatWillBBall @EssenceGirlsBB | ASGR Basketball

asgrbasketball.com

Prospects Nation has not ranked the 2022 class yet but Patterson and Brady will be top-6 when they do.

2020 Ranked Players | Prospects Nation

prospectsnation.com

2021 Ranked Players | Prospects Nation

prospectsnation.com

2022 ELITE 100 Watch List | Prospects Nation

prospectsnation.com

 

[Wilderness]

I believe that all players on this year's roster have an option of a fifth year of eligibility. How to represent that?

 

[BRS24]

I believe that all players on this year's roster have an option of a fifth year of eligibility. How to represent that?

Honestly, not going to try, too many unknowns. I'm going to keep it as is, and next year, if anyone stays, then I'll change the format.

 

[oldhusky]

Blue Star, Prospects Nation, and All-Star Girls Report all have higher collective rankings for UConn's '20 and '21 classes than ESPN/PBR.


Here's Blue Star's UConn commits with the ranking listed on the left. They essentially didn't rank Edwards for whatever reason.

Blue Star Basketball

ASGR's 20-22 player rankings:

ASGR Basketball - Women's Basketball Recruiting & Scouting Services

Comprehensive basketball scouting services for high school players nationwide.

asgrbasketball.com

2021 ASGR Top 100 National Player Rankings Are Now Live: Azzi Fudd Takes Top Spot At No. 1 @azzi_35 @GTS_Fusion | ASGR Basketball

asgrbasketball.com

No. 1 Lauren Betts Highlights Top 100 Prospects In The Class Of 2022 @ColoradoPremier @unitedbballclub @FairfaxStars @Calsparks1 @NatWillBBall @EssenceGirlsBB | ASGR Basketball

asgrbasketball.com

Prospects Nation has not ranked the 2022 class yet but Patterson and Brady will be top-6 when they do.

2020 Ranked Players | Prospects Nation

prospectsnation.com

2021 Ranked Players | Prospects Nation

prospectsnation.com

2022 ELITE 100 Watch List | Prospects Nation

prospectsnation.com

Thanks for providing that information Sluconn. I hope all the members of the Boneyard will stop using ESPN as the default most quoted rating. The media, fans and the people here all do the same thing, referring to a player as the number whatever recruit "according to ESPN" as if that is the only source worth mentioning. The three you reference are all way superior to ESPN's recruiting coverage and ratings.

Centerstrea asked are there other "reputable' rating services. I take exception to assuming ESPN is a reputable rating service. They are at best a distant fourth to the above three, but by far the most quoted because of ESPN's reach and fame. There are probably a thousand things more important to ESPN than their women's recruiting coverage, and it shows. As an example they still do not show Ayanna Patterson as committed to Uconn as of this morning, and for well over a year they showed Carolyn Ducharme as 5-10 not 6-2.

It won't happen, but the only way ESPN would be forced to approach competency in this area would be if the public stopped quoting ESPN's ratings for women's recruits. Their brand and reach is allowing the worst product to become the default source, which is sad.

 

[BRS24]

Blue Star, Prospects Nation, and All-Star Girls Report all have higher collective rankings for UConn's '20 and '21 classes than ESPN/PBR.


Here's Blue Star's UConn commits with the ranking listed on the left. They essentially didn't rank Edwards for whatever reason.

Blue Star Basketball

ASGR's 20-22 player rankings:

ASGR Basketball - Women's Basketball Recruiting & Scouting Services

Comprehensive basketball scouting services for high school players nationwide.

asgrbasketball.com

2021 ASGR Top 100 National Player Rankings Are Now Live: Azzi Fudd Takes Top Spot At No. 1 @azzi_35 @GTS_Fusion | ASGR Basketball

asgrbasketball.com

No. 1 Lauren Betts Highlights Top 100 Prospects In The Class Of 2022 @ColoradoPremier @unitedbballclub @FairfaxStars @Calsparks1 @NatWillBBall @EssenceGirlsBB | ASGR Basketball

asgrbasketball.com

Prospects Nation has not ranked the 2022 class yet but Patterson and Brady will be top-6 when they do.

2020 Ranked Players | Prospects Nation

prospectsnation.com

2021 Ranked Players | Prospects Nation

prospectsnation.com

2022 ELITE 100 Watch List | Prospects Nation

prospectsnation.com

GM @Sluconn Husky and other BY-ers more familiar with various recruiting services - is there one or more that you've found to be more accurate than ESPN/HG? I just used that as a reference based on a prior thread that had a discussion of various recruiting classes by school.

 

[Sluconn Husky]

GM @Sluconn Husky and other BY-ers more familiar with various recruiting services - is there one or more that you've found to be more accurate than ESPN/HG? I just used that as a reference based on a prior thread that had a discussion of various recruiting classes by school.

Opinions vary on that but I just look at all of them. I will say that Blue Star tends to reward their own Blue Star camp players a bit more, but then maybe that's partly because they get to see more of them.

 

[JellyBean]

So, here's an updated roster that I created a while back when Saylor joined. Updated with today's news of Anna's transfer.
View attachment 66660

Awesome! Thanks!!

 

[Bills Fan]

Honestly, not going to try, too many unknowns. I'm going to keep it as is, and next year, if anyone stays, then I'll change the format.

Thanks for doing this. It is a very valuable chart to keep track of rosters and scholarships. I wish it could be pinned to the top of The Boneyard so I didn't have to always try to find it.

A couple of comments/suggestions:

I have no idea what the difference is in the top group of charts vs. the bottom group. They appear to me to provide the same info. Really, I have tried to figure out the difference and am not having any luck.
Agree with other comments about Saylor. There is no reason, at this point, to treat her as anything other than part of our incoming class.
If there is a reason for having the top and bottom charts then the 3rd box from the left (on the bottom charts) seems to have a mistake in the "year heading." Shouldn't it be 2023-24?

Again, thanks for keeping this info updated!

 

[Centerstream]

Blue Star, Prospects Nation, and All-Star Girls Report all have higher collective rankings for UConn's '20 and '21 classes than ESPN/PBR.


Here's Blue Star's UConn commits with the ranking listed on the left. They essentially didn't rank Edwards for whatever reason.

Thank you @Sluconn Husky , much appreciated.

 

[BRS24]

Thanks for doing this. It is a very valuable chart to keep track of rosters and scholarships. I wish it could be pinned to the top of The Boneyard so I didn't have to always try to find it.

A couple of comments/suggestions:

I have no idea what the difference is in the top group of charts vs. the bottom group. They appear to me to provide the same info. Really, I have tried to figure out the difference and am not having any luck.
Agree with other comments about Saylor. There is no reason, at this point, to treat her as anything other than part of our incoming class.
If there is a reason for having the top and bottom charts then the 3rd box from the left (on the bottom charts) seems to have a mistake in the "year heading." Shouldn't it be 2023-24?

Again, thanks for keeping this info updated!

Fixed the header. The difference b/w each group - the top is coded by class (Fr/So/Jr/Sr) and the bottom is similar, by grad year. I was trying to show the number of seniors (etc) at the top, so that it shows the breakdown of the roster by class. The bottom group shows the class transition via color code, for example, Paige's class (yellow) and how it will trend over next few years. Not much of a difference, however after displaying it a few ways, I kept both of them in the spreadsheet. I'm kinda visual that way.

 

[UcMiami]

Who knows how many HS basketball programs and AAU teams. There is very little money in ranking service companies - a few people make a solid living doing it usually running camps, sponsoring tournaments, running AAU teams as part of their jobs. That means seeing all the good HS recruits against decent competition every year is really hard, and most 'rankers' probably see a lot of the kids in two or three day windows a few times a year at specific tournaments where they may see 500 kids across 4 HS classes. The rankings provided by any service are therefore 'suspect' - not because of supposed biases, simply because they have such small windows through which they view the thousands of kids in each class.

One of the reasons USA basketball changed the U16 format for trials to an invited universe and an uninvited audition selection was because of the impossibility of their selectors seeing enough young ballers to make a educated selection on their own. A number of HS kids get their first real exposure through being selected through that application process to come to the selection camp.

 

[Longtime fan]

I must have changed up the format of how to designate Saylor's status a million times. In the future, if it's apparent that she stays with her original 2021 recruiting class, then I'll update. There was also an addition of final ESPN/HoopGirls ratings in light of a prior thread discussion of HS player rankings.

The 2024.5 is great.

 

[Alydar]

GM @Sluconn Husky and other BY-ers more familiar with various recruiting services - is there one or more that you've found to be more accurate than ESPN/HG? I just used that as a reference based on a prior thread that had a discussion of various recruiting classes by school.

ESPN is using a new service. It may still be Hoopgirlz but is is just a list, nothing more. The player profiles are the old providers' comments. You get what you pay for and ESPN obviously took the low bid.
I agree that all the public ranking services have bias so I like to just think of players as being in a range instead of a hard number.

 

[Essexdave]

Have been reading about South Carolina’s impressive number of McDonald’s AA on next years team. I count 9 on UConn’s team next year. That excludes Muhl and Edwards. That’s not too bad.

 

[JRRRJ]

I believe that all players on this year's roster have an option of a fifth year of eligibility. How to represent that?

Why not just have another color for Senior+ ?

 

[The CDR-Ret]

Thanks for providing that information Sluconn. I hope all the members of the Boneyard will stop using ESPN as the default most quoted rating. The media, fans and the people here all do the same thing, referring to a player as the number whatever recruit "according to ESPN" as if that is the only source worth mentioning. The three you reference are all way superior to ESPN's recruiting coverage and ratings.

Centerstrea asked are there other "reputable' rating services. I take exception to assuming ESPN is a reputable rating service. They are at best a distant fourth to the above three, but by far the most quoted because of ESPN's reach and fame. There are probably a thousand things more important to ESPN than their women's recruiting coverage, and it shows. As an example they still do not show Ayanna Patterson as committed to Uconn as of this morning, and for well over a year they showed Carolyn Ducharme as 5-10 not 6-2.

It won't happen, but the only way ESPN would be forced to approach competency in this area would be if the public stopped quoting ESPN's ratings for women's recruits. Their brand and reach is allowing the worst product to become the default source, which is sad.

It also appears that ESPN tries and usually succeeds in skewing the 64 team field for seedings in the women's basketball tournament. It was blatantly obvious this year when they were pushing for Stanford to be the number 1 overall seed, and will use the two one point victories to show they were "right" all along, regardless of how the officiating was center stage instead of the basketball played by the two teams....