09-21-2014, 12:59 PM
The Cardinal played their most recent tournament without the defending NCAA champion (Cameron Wilson), the college Player of the Year (Rodgers), and the third-place finisher in the NCAA championship (David Boote, playing for this Welsh team in an international event in Japan), and still won decisively.
McNeally, who has won both events in which we've played this year, is quite a story, and Jim Liu seems to be coming into the form fans might expect of one of the world's top five junior players. Didn't everyone assume he'd be only the third-best player in his incoming class?
If the three sophomores McNeally, Liu, and Badhwar) stay strong and a solid fifth man emerges (looks like Patrick Grimes unless Franklin Huang breaks out), this team might avenge last year's somewhat arbitrary faliure to win the national championship. (Grumbling about using team match play to decide the champion goes here.)
McNeally, who has won both events in which we've played this year, is quite a story, and Jim Liu seems to be coming into the form fans might expect of one of the world's top five junior players. Didn't everyone assume he'd be only the third-best player in his incoming class?
If the three sophomores McNeally, Liu, and Badhwar) stay strong and a solid fifth man emerges (looks like Patrick Grimes unless Franklin Huang breaks out), this team might avenge last year's somewhat arbitrary faliure to win the national championship. (Grumbling about using team match play to decide the champion goes here.)