In reply to: Liza Karlen visiting ND posted by Orangutan
them by 15 points on their court and we beat them the previous year. On 1/27 we did that without Miles and they had Paige and Edwards. Why do you want ND to get worse? Whether we get Iriafen, Karlen, neither, or both we will still be better than UConn again for the third straight year. The only reason UConn made the Final 4 this year was they were lucky to have a better draw than we had. I doubt they could have beaten Oregon State and definitely not South Carolina. If we had Duke or tOSU then Southern Cal we would have been in the Final 4 too taking on Iowa.
let's not aspire to become worse.
When did I say I want us to get worse? I'm not really sure how you came to that conclusion that a fan on this board wants the team to get worse. I just think UConn is getting deeper. They're bringing in Sarah Strong, and El Alfy and Fudd will be back. If they're also getting Beers that will be a tough matchup.
near the top. I'm not sure Paige was even back at 100 yet when we beat them.
Add in new and returning faces and it might be the return of the Soviet Union.
still hasn't played much like Olivia missed more than a year with her severe injury and surgery, so we don't know when or if she'll be back. Plus they are losing Edwards who was their best player against us when we beat them by 15. They also lose Muhl who was the only one stopping Hannah Finally Beers isn't confirmed yet much like our xfrs aren't yet. '
As for the comment sorry if I misjudged your intent, but your exact statement you said "But Iriafen would put us closer to being on par with UConn" I didn't think you wanted us to get worse which is why I made the casem since I thought we were clearly better than UConn being only "on par" with Uconn. So my calculation meant we somehow got worse than we were this year. If you think them adding who they added while losing Edwards and Muhl means they're now better than us and we need Iriafen to be just as good as them then I now understand your position even if I think otherwise. My wife also accuses me of reading things too literally so sorry I read your intent differently.
That's how I came to that conclusion. Sorry again.
Yes Hannah was near unstoppable against UConn, but I think defenses were starting to adjust to her in the tournament.
On the other hand no one has seen the combination of Olivia, Hannah and Soni yet. But the combination of Paige, Fudd and Strong I think would really challenge us.
I still think we're still another decent post player away. Kate will be great but she may have a bit of a learning curve as a true freshman and Maddy as we know isn't a pure post player, although I like her improvement in rebounding last season.
...after so much time away from high-level play. She's had a couple of serious injuries and it takes a time to get game back.
Strong looks to have a lot of Madison Booker in her. It will be very interesting to see how she fits in with this team of folks who like to have the ball in their hands.
Hannah was forced to be both a scorer and distributor last season on offense. Next year, she'll be able to concentrate on one role or the other and I think it will mostly be scoring (plus the iconic defense). Olivia Miles is top shelf.
And I think Soni can shut down/slow or at least mitigate Fudd or Bueckers(she .
Yes, Maddy's not a center. She's one of the best two-way forwards in college and UConn just lost theirs. Strong is a freshman, save as Koval.
Let's see.