nksuwu
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Longtime Beaver fan...especially WBB
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Post by nksuwu on Jan 27, 2021 17:19:00 GMT -8
Pac-12 Women's basketball has seen an ever increasing number of international players on league rosters. Of about 168 women bball players this season, 50 are from foreign countries, or about 30%. WSU has 9 of 13 on roster (including their best players, the Leger-Walker sisters from New Zealand who burned us twice this year); Utah also has 9; Arizona 6 (including an Erdogan from Turkey); our Beavs had 5 before Faustino left, including Serbians Jelena Mitrovic and Jovana Subasic, Andrea Aquino from Paraguay, and Aussie Jasmine Simmons; UCLA also has 5; ASU has 4; Cal and Colorado each have 3; and Stanford and the Ducks just have 2 each. The younger Sabally from Germany and Aussie Jaz Shelley are the Ducks' foreign players.
By contrast the WNBA has 28 foreign players (including our own Marie Gulich) out of about 144 in the league for a 19% average. The NBA has 117 foreign players out of about 450 in their league for a 26% mark. The Portland Trailblazers, as you know, have Jusuf Nurkic from Bosnia and Enes Kanter from Turkey.
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Post by Werebeaver on Jan 27, 2021 17:29:01 GMT -8
Pac-12 Women's basketball has seen an ever increasing number of international players on league rosters. Of about 168 women bball players this season, 50 are from foreign countries, or about 30%. WSU has 9 of 13 on roster (including their best players, the Leger-Walker sisters from New Zealand who burned us twice this year); Utah also has 9; Arizona 6 (including an Erdogan from Turkey); our Beavs had 5 before Faustino left, including Serbians Jelena Mitrovic and Jovana Subasic, Andrea Aquino from Paraguay, and Aussie Jasmine Simmons; UCLA also has 5; ASU has 4; Cal and Colorado each have 3; and Stanford and the Ducks just have 2 each. The younger Sabally from Germany and Aussie Jaz Shelley are the Ducks' foreign players. By contrast the WNBA has 28 foreign players (including our own Marie Gulich) out of about 144 in the league for a 19% average. The NBA has 117 foreign players out of about 450 in their league for a 26% mark. The Portland Trailblazers, as you know, have Jusuf Nurkic from Bosnia and Enes Kanter from Turkey. Wow, like..numbers man.  Didn't OSU have a LOT of foreign players back in the Aki Hill/Michael Abraham days? |
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Post by beaverstever on Jan 27, 2021 18:17:08 GMT -8
We also played USF, who has 11 of 15 on their roster that are international players, and only 2 of their US-based players actually play in games. Foreign players have been en vogue with the WCC for a while, but that seems extreme (as does WSU).
I have been wondering if euro players in the mens game have been on the decline, as it seems the best foreign players in the draft generally are coming from overseas pro leagues now rather than via the NCAA. For the women's game, a lot of these players aren't going to get much out of the free scholarship, as they often come from countries where they wouldn't pay much for tuition anyway. So the appeal likely is likely mostly about the US college ball experience (and probably establishing English).]
I also recall Aki having a decent euro pipeline, and our volleyball team did as well in the mid-90s. It's likely mostly about the program's connections overseas at any given time.
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