11-28-2018, 07:26 PM
(11-28-2018, 07:02 PM)2006alum Wrote:(11-28-2018, 06:45 PM)TheFarm07 Wrote: Think about this lineup on the floor during the 2019-20 season:
Kiana, Lexie, Haley, Cameron Brink and Maya Dodson
That would be all top-14 recruits coming out of high school with Lexie the lowest at #14 and would including three Top-10 recruits. It would also leave a bench of multiple Top-25 recruits in Belibi, Brown, Prechtel and others from the remaining 2 spots in next year's class.
If Tara is able to land Bueckers and/or Daniels, we could have 3 top-5 prospects on the floor at the same (based on the current rankings)
Wowwie. I hadn't thought that far ahead yet - that lineup rivals any I can remember in terms of recruiting rankings - the closest was 2009-10 when we had Appel (mid-top 10 I believe?), Nneka (#6), Pederson (#4), Pohlen (top 25?), but we had no fifth highly ranked player that year, and it ended in that horrible championship game against UConn where Appel's ankle basically gave out at the start and she was limping back and forth across the court, going 0-12 in her final college game. Oh how I would love to avenge that loss a decade later!
Whoops, I got a little bit ahead of myself with the timing. I should have said the 2020-21 season since Brink is only a junior this year and won't graduate high school until spring of 2020.
But my point is still the same.
Yes, that one hurts, as well as the following season, where we swapped Appel for Chiney, in terms of highly ranked HS recruits and couldn't get pass Texas A&M in the national semis.
