Yes, that looks to be the key.

Even with our full line-up, we have no one who put up numbers like Johnson and Hooks did last year. Johnson averaged about 19 per game and Hooks 18. Their Efficiency ratings last year of 20.5 and 17.6 are far better than any ND player. Of course we played a more difficult schedule.

If you compare recruited talent, we should blow them out of their own gym. They have no one rated in HoopGurlz top 150. However, this is the college game, not how well you drew ratings in high school. We are favored, but not by a lot. It should be a good test and may come down to that grit, determination, passion, and swagger that Coach Ivey has been trying to instill.

As dillon says, we have to try to stop Johnson and Hooks. In the last few years, we have rarely been able to slow down star players. The game will be very revealing.