09-25-2024, 07:43 PM
Said it worked it didn’t. I’ll be patient
Stanford Women's Basketball 2024-2025
09-26-2024, 11:40 AM
We are not in ESPN's Top-25 rankings:
https://www.espn.com/womens-college-bask...24-25-poll
Not surprised with us being left out.
I think it will be a critical year for Kate to show that we can still be a top tier program post-Tara and hopefully we can get the elite recruits back in. We badly need a Brink/Haley-level, top-5 recruiting win.
https://www.espn.com/womens-college-bask...24-25-poll
Not surprised with us being left out.
I think it will be a critical year for Kate to show that we can still be a top tier program post-Tara and hopefully we can get the elite recruits back in. We badly need a Brink/Haley-level, top-5 recruiting win.
We are not in ESPN's Top-25 rankings:
https://www.espn.com/womens-college-bask...24-25-poll
Not surprised with us being left out.
I think it will be a critical year for Kate to show that we can still be a top tier program post-Tara and hopefully we can get the elite recruits back in. We badly need a Brink/Haley-level, top-5 recruiting win.
https://www.espn.com/womens-college-bask...24-25-poll
Not surprised with us being left out.
I think it will be a critical year for Kate to show that we can still be a top tier program post-Tara and hopefully we can get the elite recruits back in. We badly need a Brink/Haley-level, top-5 recruiting win.
09-26-2024, 12:28 PM
(09-26-2024, 11:40 AM)TheFarm07 Wrote: We are not in ESPN's Top-25 rankings:Stanford still has TWO (2) borderline Top 10 recruits in senior DEMETRE (ESPN #11 overall in 2021) and
https://www.espn.com/womens-college-bask...24-25-poll
Not surprised with us being left out.
I think it will be a critical year for Kate to show that we can still be a top tier program post-Tara and hopefully we can get the elite recruits back in. We badly need a Brink/Haley-level, top-5 recruiting win.
sophomore OGDEN (ESPN #10 overall in 2023) but both have yet to show that they can be a Go-To player.
Next season, they will have another borderline Top 10 recruit in PG Hailey SWAIN (ESPN #9 overall)
to go along with junior-by-then OGDEN.
I just hope Kate can unleash their full potential by "allowing them to play" loose and not be afraid
to make mistakes.
(09-26-2024, 11:40 AM)TheFarm07 Wrote: We are not in ESPN's Top-25 rankings:Stanford still has TWO (2) borderline Top 10 recruits in senior DEMETRE (ESPN #11 overall in 2021) and
https://www.espn.com/womens-college-bask...24-25-poll
Not surprised with us being left out.
I think it will be a critical year for Kate to show that we can still be a top tier program post-Tara and hopefully we can get the elite recruits back in. We badly need a Brink/Haley-level, top-5 recruiting win.
sophomore OGDEN (ESPN #10 overall in 2023) but both have yet to show that they can be a Go-To player.
Next season, they will have another borderline Top 10 recruit in PG Hailey SWAIN (ESPN #9 overall)
to go along with junior-by-then OGDEN.
I just hope Kate can unleash their full potential by "allowing them to play" loose and not be afraid
to make mistakes.
Cameron Brink got engaged today. Boyfriend proposed to her in front of Eiffel Tower in Paris. She was there for fashion show week.
https://people.com/wnba-star-cameron-bri...er-8720645
https://people.com/wnba-star-cameron-bri...er-8720645
Cameron Brink got engaged today. Boyfriend proposed to her in front of Eiffel Tower in Paris. She was there for fashion show week.
https://people.com/wnba-star-cameron-bri...er-8720645
https://people.com/wnba-star-cameron-bri...er-8720645
I got tired of debating with myself about who will be in the starting lineup for the coming season, so I asked for some AI help at guessing for "who the starters will be on Stanford's 2024-2025 women's basketball team". Some answers were clearly much better than others:
***Perplexity:
Lepolo
Bosgana
Demetre
Agara
Umeh
***ChatGPT app (4.0)
Lepolo
Clardy
Bosgana
Agara
Umeh
***ChatGPT web page (4.0)
Lepolo
Harriel
Bosgana
Iriafen (?)
Brink (??)
***Gemini:
Lacie Hull (!?!)
Fran Belibi (!!!)
Haley Jones (???) "...may not start every game due to her versatility...."
+two "potential starters":
Kiki Iriafen (???) "A talented freshman..."
Agnes Imbayi (WTF???) "Another incoming freshman..."
…and apparently we will also be bringing Lauren Van Kleunen off the bench!
As I see it, you have to get your best talent on the floor, but with enough positional variety and flexibility to be solid across all aspects of the game, so I'm sticking with:
Lepolo
Heal
Bosgana
Demetre
Stevenson
Ideally, I'd find room for Agara, Ogden and perhaps Clardy in this lineup and if we're matching up against some big, strong and athletic post players, I'd be tempted to start Umeh.
***Perplexity:
Lepolo
Bosgana
Demetre
Agara
Umeh
***ChatGPT app (4.0)
Lepolo
Clardy
Bosgana
Agara
Umeh
***ChatGPT web page (4.0)
Lepolo
Harriel
Bosgana
Iriafen (?)
Brink (??)
***Gemini:
Lacie Hull (!?!)
Fran Belibi (!!!)
Haley Jones (???) "...may not start every game due to her versatility...."
+two "potential starters":
Kiki Iriafen (???) "A talented freshman..."
Agnes Imbayi (WTF???) "Another incoming freshman..."
…and apparently we will also be bringing Lauren Van Kleunen off the bench!
As I see it, you have to get your best talent on the floor, but with enough positional variety and flexibility to be solid across all aspects of the game, so I'm sticking with:
Lepolo
Heal
Bosgana
Demetre
Stevenson
Ideally, I'd find room for Agara, Ogden and perhaps Clardy in this lineup and if we're matching up against some big, strong and athletic post players, I'd be tempted to start Umeh.
I got tired of debating with myself about who will be in the starting lineup for the coming season, so I asked for some AI help at guessing for "who the starters will be on Stanford's 2024-2025 women's basketball team". Some answers were clearly much better than others:
***Perplexity:
Lepolo
Bosgana
Demetre
Agara
Umeh
***ChatGPT app (4.0)
Lepolo
Clardy
Bosgana
Agara
Umeh
***ChatGPT web page (4.0)
Lepolo
Harriel
Bosgana
Iriafen (?)
Brink (??)
***Gemini:
Lacie Hull (!?!)
Fran Belibi (!!!)
Haley Jones (???) "...may not start every game due to her versatility...."
+two "potential starters":
Kiki Iriafen (???) "A talented freshman..."
Agnes Imbayi (WTF???) "Another incoming freshman..."
…and apparently we will also be bringing Lauren Van Kleunen off the bench!
As I see it, you have to get your best talent on the floor, but with enough positional variety and flexibility to be solid across all aspects of the game, so I'm sticking with:
Lepolo
Heal
Bosgana
Demetre
Stevenson
Ideally, I'd find room for Agara, Ogden and perhaps Clardy in this lineup and if we're matching up against some big, strong and athletic post players, I'd be tempted to start Umeh.
***Perplexity:
Lepolo
Bosgana
Demetre
Agara
Umeh
***ChatGPT app (4.0)
Lepolo
Clardy
Bosgana
Agara
Umeh
***ChatGPT web page (4.0)
Lepolo
Harriel
Bosgana
Iriafen (?)
Brink (??)
***Gemini:
Lacie Hull (!?!)
Fran Belibi (!!!)
Haley Jones (???) "...may not start every game due to her versatility...."
+two "potential starters":
Kiki Iriafen (???) "A talented freshman..."
Agnes Imbayi (WTF???) "Another incoming freshman..."
…and apparently we will also be bringing Lauren Van Kleunen off the bench!
As I see it, you have to get your best talent on the floor, but with enough positional variety and flexibility to be solid across all aspects of the game, so I'm sticking with:
Lepolo
Heal
Bosgana
Demetre
Stevenson
Ideally, I'd find room for Agara, Ogden and perhaps Clardy in this lineup and if we're matching up against some big, strong and athletic post players, I'd be tempted to start Umeh.
10-01-2024, 06:56 PM
I think your very first lineup is the one. With Heal and Peterson plsying a lot.
Reception in 4 weeks
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10-15-2024, 09:35 AM
The AP poll came out today and we are not ranked in the pre-season poll for the first time since 1999
10-15-2024, 09:40 AM
(10-15-2024, 09:35 AM)TheFarm07 Wrote: The AP poll came out today and we are not ranked in the pre-season poll for the first time since 1999
From ESPN article:
"Looking for Iowa or Stanford? Neither was in the preseason Top 25. With Caitlin Clark and Lisa Bluder no longer with the Hawkeyes, and Tara VanDerveer and Cameron Brink gone from the Cardinal, those programs have just lost too much."
Hope Coach P and team quickly answer that comment.
(10-15-2024, 09:35 AM)TheFarm07 Wrote: The AP poll came out today and we are not ranked in the pre-season poll for the first time since 1999
From ESPN article:
"Looking for Iowa or Stanford? Neither was in the preseason Top 25. With Caitlin Clark and Lisa Bluder no longer with the Hawkeyes, and Tara VanDerveer and Cameron Brink gone from the Cardinal, those programs have just lost too much."
Hope Coach P and team quickly answer that comment.
10-15-2024, 01:08 PM
There are 6 ACC teams in the pre-season top 25.
Notre Dame
NC State
Duke
North Carolina
Louisville
Florida State
So Stanford at this point in time looks like the 7th best team in the conference. Seems about right for now. But as M T said, that's why they play the games.
Stanford's non-conference schedule includes 3 pre-season top 25 teams:
7. LSU
14. Ohio State
25. Indiana
Notre Dame
NC State
Duke
North Carolina
Louisville
Florida State
So Stanford at this point in time looks like the 7th best team in the conference. Seems about right for now. But as M T said, that's why they play the games.
Stanford's non-conference schedule includes 3 pre-season top 25 teams:
7. LSU
14. Ohio State
25. Indiana
"We have an unwritten rule around here not to do anything stupid."
-Casey Jacobsen, Feb 3, 2000
There are 6 ACC teams in the pre-season top 25.
Notre Dame
NC State
Duke
North Carolina
Louisville
Florida State
So Stanford at this point in time looks like the 7th best team in the conference. Seems about right for now. But as M T said, that's why they play the games.
Stanford's non-conference schedule includes 3 pre-season top 25 teams:
7. LSU
14. Ohio State
25. Indiana
Notre Dame
NC State
Duke
North Carolina
Louisville
Florida State
So Stanford at this point in time looks like the 7th best team in the conference. Seems about right for now. But as M T said, that's why they play the games.
Stanford's non-conference schedule includes 3 pre-season top 25 teams:
7. LSU
14. Ohio State
25. Indiana
"We have an unwritten rule around here not to do anything stupid."
-Casey Jacobsen, Feb 3, 2000
(10-15-2024, 09:40 AM)SkiBum80 Wrote:BRINK moving on to the WNBA was expected. I think Stanford's biggest loss was IRIAFEN(10-15-2024, 09:35 AM)TheFarm07 Wrote: The AP poll came out today and we are not ranked in the pre-season poll for the first time since 1999
From ESPN article:
"Looking for Iowa or Stanford? Neither was in the preseason Top 25. With Caitlin Clark and Lisa Bluder no longer with the Hawkeyes, and Tara VanDerveer and Cameron Brink gone from the Cardinal, those programs have just lost too much."
Hope Coach P and team quickly answer that comment.
not coming back for her senior year.
Had she not transferred, I bet Stanford will still be pre-season Top 25, even pre-season Top 15.
Her lofty 19.5 ppg and 11.0 rpg are just too much to compensate for.
(10-15-2024, 09:35 AM)TheFarm07 Wrote: The AP poll came out today and we are not ranked in the pre-season poll for the first time since 1999UCLA at AP pre-season # 5.
Hmmm, their current line-up is really
THE Who's Who from the HS Class of 2022:
# 1 BETTS,
#2 RICE,
#3 BARKER,
#6 GARDNER (who I feel is better than both #4 PATTERSON and #5 BRADY)
then you also have:
#19 JAQUEZ and
#22 Londynn JONES
That's 6 McD AAs just from one Class.
Then you add Serbian Olympian DUGALIC and
Class of 2024 McD AAs DUDLEY and ZOCKA-NGUEMEN
(and not even including WSU legend Charlisse LEDGER-WALKER
because she might redshirt as a Grad student this season
due to injury)
(This post was last modified: 10-15-2024, 10:13 PM by joemontes.)
(10-15-2024, 09:40 AM)SkiBum80 Wrote:BRINK moving on to the WNBA was expected. I think Stanford's biggest loss was IRIAFEN(10-15-2024, 09:35 AM)TheFarm07 Wrote: The AP poll came out today and we are not ranked in the pre-season poll for the first time since 1999
From ESPN article:
"Looking for Iowa or Stanford? Neither was in the preseason Top 25. With Caitlin Clark and Lisa Bluder no longer with the Hawkeyes, and Tara VanDerveer and Cameron Brink gone from the Cardinal, those programs have just lost too much."
Hope Coach P and team quickly answer that comment.
not coming back for her senior year.
Had she not transferred, I bet Stanford will still be pre-season Top 25, even pre-season Top 15.
Her lofty 19.5 ppg and 11.0 rpg are just too much to compensate for.
(10-15-2024, 09:35 AM)TheFarm07 Wrote: The AP poll came out today and we are not ranked in the pre-season poll for the first time since 1999UCLA at AP pre-season # 5.
Hmmm, their current line-up is really
THE Who's Who from the HS Class of 2022:
# 1 BETTS,
#2 RICE,
#3 BARKER,
#6 GARDNER (who I feel is better than both #4 PATTERSON and #5 BRADY)
then you also have:
#19 JAQUEZ and
#22 Londynn JONES
That's 6 McD AAs just from one Class.
Then you add Serbian Olympian DUGALIC and
Class of 2024 McD AAs DUDLEY and ZOCKA-NGUEMEN
(and not even including WSU legend Charlisse LEDGER-WALKER
because she might redshirt as a Grad student this season
due to injury)
10-15-2024, 06:05 PM
If Iriafen had returned for another season, we’d be preseason ranked as a top 15 team. I think there’s still a good chance we are a ranked team throughout the upcoming season.
Regarding UCLA, the most talented roster they’ve had ever this year. Although they’ve had plenty of talent over the years. Close has been to 1 Elite 8 and no Final 4 in 13 seasons. Also in 13 years, Close has never won a single regular season conference championship or tournament. Coaching matters. I wouldn’t lock them in as a Final 4 team (based on history alone) although I expect they will have a very good year.
Regarding UCLA, the most talented roster they’ve had ever this year. Although they’ve had plenty of talent over the years. Close has been to 1 Elite 8 and no Final 4 in 13 seasons. Also in 13 years, Close has never won a single regular season conference championship or tournament. Coaching matters. I wouldn’t lock them in as a Final 4 team (based on history alone) although I expect they will have a very good year.
If Iriafen had returned for another season, we’d be preseason ranked as a top 15 team. I think there’s still a good chance we are a ranked team throughout the upcoming season.
Regarding UCLA, the most talented roster they’ve had ever this year. Although they’ve had plenty of talent over the years. Close has been to 1 Elite 8 and no Final 4 in 13 seasons. Also in 13 years, Close has never won a single regular season conference championship or tournament. Coaching matters. I wouldn’t lock them in as a Final 4 team (based on history alone) although I expect they will have a very good year.
Regarding UCLA, the most talented roster they’ve had ever this year. Although they’ve had plenty of talent over the years. Close has been to 1 Elite 8 and no Final 4 in 13 seasons. Also in 13 years, Close has never won a single regular season conference championship or tournament. Coaching matters. I wouldn’t lock them in as a Final 4 team (based on history alone) although I expect they will have a very good year.
10-15-2024, 09:22 PM
I was concerned that we might not even make the tournament this year after losing our two best players and the way we collapsed in the second half of our loss to NC State. With the transfer additions, I believe we have a better chance of making the NCAAs, but for the first time since I've been a fan, I feel like our tournament berth is not a guarantee.
Athletic mobile guards are still an Achilles' heel for us and at least with Brink and Iriafen, we can counter with one of the best frontcourts in college wbb. We no longer have that luxury.
I would feel a whole lot better if Ogden can make a Kiki-like jump in her skill level and our transfers/freshmen can make an immediate impact. Right now, there is no clear cut successor to take over as the top go-to scorer in our lineup.
Kate Paye will have done an amazing job in her first year if we are better than a #8 seed in the NCAA tournament and gets us to the Sweet 16, IMHO.
Athletic mobile guards are still an Achilles' heel for us and at least with Brink and Iriafen, we can counter with one of the best frontcourts in college wbb. We no longer have that luxury.
I would feel a whole lot better if Ogden can make a Kiki-like jump in her skill level and our transfers/freshmen can make an immediate impact. Right now, there is no clear cut successor to take over as the top go-to scorer in our lineup.
Kate Paye will have done an amazing job in her first year if we are better than a #8 seed in the NCAA tournament and gets us to the Sweet 16, IMHO.
I was concerned that we might not even make the tournament this year after losing our two best players and the way we collapsed in the second half of our loss to NC State. With the transfer additions, I believe we have a better chance of making the NCAAs, but for the first time since I've been a fan, I feel like our tournament berth is not a guarantee.
Athletic mobile guards are still an Achilles' heel for us and at least with Brink and Iriafen, we can counter with one of the best frontcourts in college wbb. We no longer have that luxury.
I would feel a whole lot better if Ogden can make a Kiki-like jump in her skill level and our transfers/freshmen can make an immediate impact. Right now, there is no clear cut successor to take over as the top go-to scorer in our lineup.
Kate Paye will have done an amazing job in her first year if we are better than a #8 seed in the NCAA tournament and gets us to the Sweet 16, IMHO.
Athletic mobile guards are still an Achilles' heel for us and at least with Brink and Iriafen, we can counter with one of the best frontcourts in college wbb. We no longer have that luxury.
I would feel a whole lot better if Ogden can make a Kiki-like jump in her skill level and our transfers/freshmen can make an immediate impact. Right now, there is no clear cut successor to take over as the top go-to scorer in our lineup.
Kate Paye will have done an amazing job in her first year if we are better than a #8 seed in the NCAA tournament and gets us to the Sweet 16, IMHO.
Season opens with an exhibition match two weeks from today and yet with almost half the roster filled with new faces via the portal or frosh recruits, we have almost no information about who is looking good in practice other than Talana and Brooke predicting that Nunu is most likely to be our breakout player this season. I think our trajectory is most dependent upon the contributions of newcomers Tess and Mary Ashley, but I’d love to know how the frosh are developing.
Season opens with an exhibition match two weeks from today and yet with almost half the roster filled with new faces via the portal or frosh recruits, we have almost no information about who is looking good in practice other than Talana and Brooke predicting that Nunu is most likely to be our breakout player this season. I think our trajectory is most dependent upon the contributions of newcomers Tess and Mary Ashley, but I’d love to know how the frosh are developing.
10-16-2024, 11:47 AM
Preseason ACC all conference team includes 8 guards, 1 forward and 1 guard/forward.
3 from Notre Dame, 2 from Florida State and 2 from NC State.
https://theacc.com/news/2024/10/15/women...-year.aspx
3 from Notre Dame, 2 from Florida State and 2 from NC State.
https://theacc.com/news/2024/10/15/women...-year.aspx
"We have an unwritten rule around here not to do anything stupid."
-Casey Jacobsen, Feb 3, 2000
Preseason ACC all conference team includes 8 guards, 1 forward and 1 guard/forward.
3 from Notre Dame, 2 from Florida State and 2 from NC State.
https://theacc.com/news/2024/10/15/women...-year.aspx
3 from Notre Dame, 2 from Florida State and 2 from NC State.
https://theacc.com/news/2024/10/15/women...-year.aspx
"We have an unwritten rule around here not to do anything stupid."
-Casey Jacobsen, Feb 3, 2000
10-16-2024, 03:18 PM
(10-16-2024, 11:47 AM)Spiny_Norman Wrote: Preseason ACC all conference team includes 8 guards, 1 forward and 1 guard/forward.One voter picked Stanford as #1 in the ACC...WOW! That's pretty delusional!
3 from Notre Dame, 2 from Florida State and 2 from NC State.
https://theacc.com/news/2024/10/15/women...-year.aspx
(10-16-2024, 11:47 AM)Spiny_Norman Wrote: Preseason ACC all conference team includes 8 guards, 1 forward and 1 guard/forward.One voter picked Stanford as #1 in the ACC...WOW! That's pretty delusional!
3 from Notre Dame, 2 from Florida State and 2 from NC State.
https://theacc.com/news/2024/10/15/women...-year.aspx
10-16-2024, 04:08 PM
(10-16-2024, 03:18 PM)joemontes Wrote:(10-16-2024, 11:47 AM)Spiny_Norman Wrote: Preseason ACC all conference team includes 8 guards, 1 forward and 1 guard/forward.One voter picked Stanford as #1 in the ACC...WOW! That's pretty delusional!
3 from Notre Dame, 2 from Florida State and 2 from NC State.
https://theacc.com/news/2024/10/15/women...-year.aspx
No offense but i hope your post doesn't age well! =)
(10-16-2024, 03:18 PM)joemontes Wrote:(10-16-2024, 11:47 AM)Spiny_Norman Wrote: Preseason ACC all conference team includes 8 guards, 1 forward and 1 guard/forward.One voter picked Stanford as #1 in the ACC...WOW! That's pretty delusional!
3 from Notre Dame, 2 from Florida State and 2 from NC State.
https://theacc.com/news/2024/10/15/women...-year.aspx
No offense but i hope your post doesn't age well! =)
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