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Message: [QUOTE="willtalk, post: 2428202, member: 1220"] In most cases in a team game limited to five players on the court at on time, quality always trumps quantity. In the 2018 class their was never a consensus list. Rather the rankings fluctuated, even at the top, season by season and ranker by ranker. Also as I have stated before the resources once committed to girls high school rankings have dwindled so that it is no longer possible for rankings to be kept up to date. The personal available just are not sufficient to cover all the spread out viewing events. There fore with the players involved the quality between them is not that discern-able. So in this case numbers definitely wins out. Rankings fluctuate constantly from season to season and all of the top players have gone up and down during the past few years. Some players have still not even reached close to their potential ceilings. For example the 6'9" Oregon St commit that transferred from the east coast to Ribet ( southern Cal ). She is relatively new to the game basketball and has climbed the ranking ladder very quickly so that she is now #6 in the ESPN rankings. She still has a much higher ceiling, so with more experience, at the end of the next viewing period she might possibly climb even higher. Being that the center position is the hardest to fill, she might possibly even end up as the most valuable recruit in the class before all is done. I will get a good look at her in mid Jan. since her school is coming to my area for a MLK tourn. This class as yet does not have a Griner, Della Don or a Stuart. So much as Uconn fans want it to be so, Williams is not by any stretch that much better ( if at all ) than a number of players that follow her. Therefor, in this class, the number one ranking carries less weight adding to the argument for Baylor's numbers trumping Uconns class. Quality being relatively more equal numbers will trump any minor differences in quality. What is actually more important is if a team gets the pieces they need. What is working against Baylors numbers in respect to value is the positions they acquired. Their best acquired pieces were at the two guard wing positions and those are the easiest ones to find and fill. The country is filled with quality wings and two guards. Uconn did get a point ( second hardest position to fill) and and also filled it's greatest need "a Center". I would even go on to say that even if Williams is truly the higher rated player, Ododa was a more valuable get for them. The fact that it was a position of real need probably played a major role in her choosing UConn. The ultimate value of classes will not really reveal themselves until it is seen how they fit in with subsequent recruiting classes. Sometimes numbers in one class can also become a long term liability. [/QUOTE]

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