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Message: [QUOTE="oldhusky, post: 3537018, member: 9844"] From what I can tell Charlie is not a Uconn friend and ESPN's recruiting class rankings are pretty much worthless if your school has a significant foreign recruit. So maybe not mentioning Anna just fits in, she wasn't very relevant as a recruit because ESPN can't or won't even try to make a accurate assessment of foreign players. It bothers me that a source so often referenced as one of the major ones for recruiting information doesn't even try to get this right. It is not a minor oversight but rather a major flaw in their product. My feelings about Charlie are mostly related to how he had us seeded for this year. It turns out it didn't matter, but this year there was potentially a big difference in being ranked 5th overall and the highest 2 seed, and everything lower than that. There were three teams this year that were clearly a notch above the next tier, and we lost to all three. Frankly the odds of getting to the final four by beating one of those three teams was not good. Our best or most probable path involved either getting the 4th number one seed, or playing and beating that seed if we were ranked as the 5th best overall, and the highest second seed. Normally the highest ranked 1 seed winds up in the same bracket as the lowest ranked 2 seed, and the lowest ranked 1 seed would be in the the same bracket as the highest ranked 2 seed. So if we could achieve an overall rank of 4th ( last 1 seed) or 5th ( highest 2 seed) we could probably avoid having to beat South Carolina, Oregon, or Baylor to get into the final four for the 13th consecutive season. Most years the differences would be small, but given this amazing final four streak, and the dominance of the top three teams, I'm upset he would abandon that concept for geographic reasons (too many Pac 12 teams in the west) and pretty much say it doesn't matter if you are the 5th best team, you don't get to be in the same bracket as the 4th ranked team, you have to go thru one of the top 3. If we were 6th or lower we don't deserve the easier path, but I believe you could have made a case for us as the 4th number 1 seed, and if we were not the 5th overall and highest second seed I think that would be robbing us of our deserved place, something Charlie would happily do. [/QUOTE]

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