Will the transfer portal kill WBB's growing parity?
by NDLAW88 (2021-04-12 15:21:40)

For years, there were essentially 3 teams expected to win a championship: Tenn, UCONN or Stanford. Most recently, it's been UCONN, although as I noted below snarkily, it's been 5 years for them between titles.

There are, of course, other challengers - Baylor, SCar, and until recently ND.

I worry that the transfer portal may actually serve to shrink the number of overall competitive teams again. For every UA that might pop up, UCONN and MD seem to reload every year and fix any holes with transfers. Geno typically gets the #1 overall recruit and now picks and chooses with transfers - Stevens, Westbrook and now Dork (she's going to UCONN, she deserves to be called Dork). Baylor has done much the same the last few years. Without Jackson, Baylor doesn't beat us in the Finals two years ago. Carrington was just the latest mercenary there.

The timing of the wide open transfer portal may have come at the worst possible time for the ever increasing parity of women's hoops. Hope I'm wrong.




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