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Post by rmancarl on Jul 27, 2019 10:27:42 GMT -8
Kylee Lewandowski should do pretty well at that level. She must of went through the July evaluation period without any other Big 5 or significant offers. It will be interesting to follow the recruitment of her little sister, who looks to be quite a talent.
I really don't think the Beavs will offer another long shot we have followed, Savannah Samuel, although it was interesting to see that BH started following Savannah's mom on twitter a day or two ago. Savannah herself follows all of the Beaver coaches, and even retweeted Kat Tudor's Happy Birthday to Coach Rueck.
I would have loved to see the Beavers recruit Treasure Hunt. Not only is she one of the top players in the country, I know her Grandfather, Great Uncle, and a few other distant relatives of hers, and she's a good kid.
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Post by markwbeaver on Jul 27, 2019 11:51:12 GMT -8
I can't find it now, but I believe both Iowa and Iowa State are very high in the attendance lists that were discussed in another thread. I think at least one of them was in the top ten in the country.
Historically Iowa was the national hotbed of girls' high school basketball going back to the days when they played by very different rules.
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Post by bvrbooster on Jul 27, 2019 12:14:40 GMT -8
Last year, Iowa State was 2nd nationally in attendance (9,573), Iowa was 9th (6,797), and we were 16th (5,438). Previous year was 3rd, 13th, and 16th, and year before was 3rd, 19th, and 20th.
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Post by fridaynightlights on Jul 27, 2019 12:48:58 GMT -8
Women's basketball in Iowa has a rich history. Up until 1993 girls high school basketball was 6 on 6 and drew large crowds. It was played with 3 girls on offense and 3 on defense and players could not cross half court and only 2 dribbles were allowed by a player. The state title game drew 15,000 fans and residents of small towns in Iowa filled their gyms to capacity.
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Post by rmancarl on Jul 28, 2019 19:51:05 GMT -8
According to this, Clark has dropped OSU from consideration.
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Post by beaverwbb fan on Jul 28, 2019 19:52:30 GMT -8
According to this, Clark has dropped OSU from consideration. Was also reported by beavershoopsfan yesterday. Guessing she may be looking to stay closer to home. |
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Post by rmancarl on Jul 28, 2019 20:01:48 GMT -8
beaverhoopsfan is probably their source  |
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Post by rmancarl on Jul 31, 2019 7:14:47 GMT -8
Has anybody heard any information on the recruitment of 2020 Jordyn Merritt, 6'2" stretch forward, from Plano Texas, ranked number 27 in the country by ESPN? I see she is getting ready to announce her final 8. I haven't seen anything that would tell me the Beavs are involved, but a couple coaches have followed her on social media for a long time, and Jordyn's Mom follows all the Beaver coaches. There are no other signs I've seen that the Beavs are actively recruiting her though (although the Beavs do a good job of keeping the recruiting process quiet). Curious to see what Pac-12 teams may be involved. Oh, and as expected, Jordyn and Sasha are friends.
As a side note, I also see that Treasure Hunt is going to be at the Stephen Curry basketball camp with Sasha. I don't think the Beavs are recruiting Treasure, although one of the coaches does follow her Mom, but I'm pretty sure that is because her Mom coaches one of the best basketball schools in the country, Hamilton Heights Christian Academy in Chattanooga.
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Post by beaverwbb fan on Jul 31, 2019 7:46:40 GMT -8
Has anybody heard any information on the recruitment of 2020 Jordyn Merritt, 6'2" stretch forward, from Plano Texas, ranked number 27 in the country by ESPN? I see she is getting ready to announce her final 8. I haven't seen anything that would tell me the Beavs are involved, but a couple coaches have followed her on social media for a long time, and Jordyn's Mom follows all the Beaver coaches. There are no other signs I've seen that the Beavs are actively recruiting her though (although the Beavs do a good job of keeping the recruiting process quiet). Curious to see what Pac-12 teams may be involved. Oh, and as expected, Jordyn and Sasha are friends. As a side note, I also see that Treasure Hunt is going to be at the Stephen Curry basketball camp with Sasha. I don't think the Beavs are recruiting Treasure, although one of the coaches does follow her Mom, but I'm pretty sure that is because her Mom coaches one of the best basketball schools in the country, Hamilton Heights Christian Academy in Chattanooga. I think Jordyn and Sasha played together for Cy-Fair during the 2018 season. This article from March 2018 lists "Texas A&M, Maryland, Harvard, San Diego and Texas." Then this article from July 2019 states "Merritt mentioned Alabama, San Diego State, Florida, North Carolina State and Texas." There will be six girls at the SC Elite Camp this year: Goforth, Oregon's PaoPao, Treasure Hunt, Iowa State's Lexi Donarski, and I'm guessing Azzi Fudd and Cameron Brink (family friend). |
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Post by beaverwbb fan on Aug 2, 2019 6:23:08 GMT -8
Has anybody heard any information on the recruitment of 2020 Jordyn Merritt, 6'2" stretch forward, from Plano Texas, ranked number 27 in the country by ESPN? I see she is getting ready to announce her final 8. I haven't seen anything that would tell me the Beavs are involved, but a couple coaches have followed her on social media for a long time, and Jordyn's Mom follows all the Beaver coaches. There are no other signs I've seen that the Beavs are actively recruiting her though (although the Beavs do a good job of keeping the recruiting process quiet). Curious to see what Pac-12 teams may be involved. Oh, and as expected, Jordyn and Sasha are friends. As a side note, I also see that Treasure Hunt is going to be at the Stephen Curry basketball camp with Sasha. I don't think the Beavs are recruiting Treasure, although one of the coaches does follow her Mom, but I'm pretty sure that is because her Mom coaches one of the best basketball schools in the country, Hamilton Heights Christian Academy in Chattanooga. Jordyn's top 8: San Diego State, Army, Kentucky, Alabama, Penn State, NC State, Kentucky, Florida. |
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Post by rmancarl on Aug 2, 2019 8:37:41 GMT -8
I'm a little surprised that no Pac-12 teams got involved with Jordyn, but I'm also wondering if she is a little bit overrated.
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Post by alaskabeav on Aug 4, 2019 19:18:16 GMT -8
The speed of the girls game increases every year .Rueck is successful in fielding good teams because he has a good system that has al the pieces that make that system affective . He will need to be able to upgrade with a elite pt. Guard and lights out three shooter. Both those need to be at the tops of their class.
I think Sasha replaces Williams very well. With good bigs in our system now I think it will free up our outside shooting again and our defense will be hard to shoot against.
Go beavs
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Post by beav74 on Aug 4, 2019 19:49:07 GMT -8
Just remember that Sasha.....is a senior in high school this coming year. Incoming 2020. Nobody replaces Katie this year.
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Post by 411500 on Aug 4, 2019 20:47:01 GMT -8
"Nobody replaces Katie this year."
I wouldn't bet the bank on that.....The combined talents of Kat Tudor and Kennedy Brown just might equal, even exceed Katie's production....
They won't excel at all of the things Katie excelled at, but they very well may perform better than her in several categories, including rebounding and point production...
No disrespect to Katie or her game.....
We easily forget, but Sydney Wiese, a far more key player on her team, was replaced almost seamlessly.....
GO BEAVS !!
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Post by beaverwbb fan on Aug 5, 2019 5:29:49 GMT -8
Katie had an outstanding junior year that saw her shoot 45.5% on FG and 43.2% on 3FG. Unfortunately, her senior year wasn’t as good, and she shot 39.2% on FG and 36.2% on 3FG. She got off to a hot start, but ultimately she had a downward trending, though very up and down, season. I was always a KT fan, so I wanted that big senior season dominance from her, but unfortunately we didn’t get that.
I think her output can almost immediately be replaced by Kat. There were times we lack offense last year because we didn’t have that dominant three point threat in Kat or Syd, getting that back is huge because of our style of play.
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