Can't argue with that. Well, maybe a little. I'd keep Tennessee where they are. Maybe Auburn in the second tier, though? It's going to be a very intense conference schedule with some battles among the teams at the top and among those in the middle. I said it last year, and I'll say it again...somebody has to beat South Carolina before I'll believe it. I still think they're the best team in the country.
Yeah they definitely phoned in this game. It was very apparent that they were not mentally there and just trying to play hard enough to get the dub and head out the door on Christmas break.
I agree that something is off with this group this year but I'm not putting too much stock into this specific game. It's hard to compete your hardest when your 19 years old playing a noon game with an empty arena, hours away from Christmas vacation and facing inferior competition. Looking at some scores, I don't think South Carolina was the only team having this issue.
We’ll see how TN and OK handle SC, LSU, and TX. We might see some similarities in SEC WBB and SEC football… the best teams beating each other, to the overall detriment of the conference when it comes to the big dance seedings.
Are you a Gamecock fan? Dawn always gives the benefit of the doubt to seniors. BTW, Feagin was MVP of the FIBA 3x3 world cup last summer, so she's not chopped liver.
Yes, a fan and an alum… graduated 50 years ago tomorrow. I realize that Dawn prefers senior leadership, but I thought Watkins’ contributions last year, which were greater than Feagin’s, might earn Watkins more playing time and starts. I trust implicitly in our Coach. Glad that Feagin is having a bigger impact this year, and maybe she is outperforming Watkins in practice.
Nobody knows. She only played 8 minutes in the first half. Never entered in the second half. No report of injury or anything like that.
lol I'm glad I'm not the only one thinking about next season before we even hit SEC play for this season.
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UT will be top four SEC this year, maybe top 3, watch.
Not at the moment. I posted a Sports Yahoo article in another thread about the ruling and per their report, it only applies to Pavia right now...and speaking of next year, does the ruling with Diego Pavia about JUCO eligibility mean that Sakima Walker has the option to come back next year?
Long story short for those not in the know, the quarterback at Vanderbilt, Diego Pavia, sued the NCAA for another two years of eligibility due to using up two years of eligibility in JUCO. I'm not a lawyer but my interpretation is that they are temporarily allowing one more year of eligibility to all seniors who would have ran out of eligibility at the end of this season AND have played at least one year in JUCO. I believe they made this injunction just in case they didn't give a verdict before Pavia runs out of eligibility. It seems like Sakima (and a few other Gamecocks like Cam Pringle and Bam Martin-Scott) would have the option to play one more season...
Vandy QB Pavia granted injunction, can play in '25
A federal judge in Tennessee granted an injunction Wednesday that allows Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia to pursue another year of eligibility and could represent another significant blow to the NCAA's ability to enforce its own rules.
I want to watch them play somebody good before I think they’ll be better than SC, Texas, LSU or Oklahoma. Right now they have better athletes than the people they are playing. Iowa is not as good as everybody wanted to think they were. Will be interesting for sure.
Lol better hope our hosts don’t wander in and find this. At this rate, it’ll be days before ESPN runs another ‘Is UConn the favorite? Many are saying!… ( it’s us. We are “Many”)’
I was really just trying to emphasize that Dawn does know what she’s doing with her player rotations. Wasn’t meant to say anything bad about the other one but yeah, I could see that getting the side-eye.
I agree with almost all of this, but I do think that Iowa may be as good as everyone expects them to be. They have a new PG and HC, so there will be a few growing pains. Also, Hannah Stuelke is not nearly as good as everyone thought she'd be because she's not a PF but must play there out of necessity (she's an undersized center who can't play her natural position because Addison O'Grady is better there for them).
Part of me worries if this is a "square peg in a round hole" issue. I trust the staff and it is probably in her best interest to do what she is currently doing, but I also sometimes feel like we don't take advantage of her ability to shoot the 10 footer and instead she is posting up too much. We need to use her like Kiki Herbert Harrigan during her senior year.
