Mays and Harris to transfer
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With a coach like Bill Fennelly, I'll always cheer for the women! True cyclone fans root for all sports!
Agree there. I've heard though that Baier kid from South Tama is highly overrated. Hope she pans out.
While Mays may have been a project, we knew that, and I personally liked her size and strength. She had a big 12 body. People said Pop was a project, and look what BF & co did with her.
Harris, really like her, but as others have said, without her killer shot she had in high school, probably not going to see the court much.
Harris, really like her, but as others have said, without her killer shot she had in high school, probably not going to see the court much.
The big difference between her and Pop though are attitude. She may have had the potential physically, but her mindset and attitude were never going to get her to Big 12 level play. Pop got to where she is with her work ethic, motivation, and determination. It was extremely evident during games from her body language that Kileah never wanted to be there. She just sat on the bench the whole time looking bored and never cheered on her teammates. In my opinion Coach Fen and staff made the right decision in letting Kileah go.
I too think Ellis could be all Big 12 if she keeps at it. Seems like a good year for one post to redshirt, because unless Hallie goes to the 3 more, we are pretty full in 4-5 minutes. I wonder if there is a true wing out there, because we only have Brynn in between the smalls and the bigs.
I think Harris wasn't that far away from more minutes, but I'm sure starting for some small warm-weather college would seem a lot easier path. Who knows. Mays did have that one good game, but she was buried beneath so much talent ahead of her. Hope we have a surprise JC/international player popping up on the radar.
Mays was a project, as others have pointed out, and Harris was just not quick enough either to create her own shot or to play tough defense. We will have three promising guards coming in the next two years: Bingley, Blaskowski, and Buckley. These three Bs will, if they are as good as advertised, sting the opponents (sorry--couldn't resist the bad joke), but next year the first two will be facing a steep learning curve as frosh always do, and Nicki will be only a soph. As a result, my guess is that BF will turn to the juco ranks for more immediate help at guard.
In two years? She was a junior this season. The only seniors were Mansfield and Cole.
Sounds reasonable to me. Another Cole or Mansfield might be good to add veteran experience to a backcourt that is otherwise entirely freshmen and sophomores.
Maybe he's my old neighbor, who always had a new NFL jersey every year. One year the Steelers, then the Cowboys and amazingly, in the 80s, he switched to San Fran, go figure.
I sometimes wish my fandom were so easily excused that I could get bored with a team and look elsewhere. I don't get how you could get bored with the women's team. Anytime you have a team that you expect to make the tournament is a good team.
There's no need to be a complete dirtbag. If you don't care about WBB, don't read threads in the WBB forum.
Seems reasonable and needed. Without Harris, we have 0 guard depth. Vanloo may make it here, may not. If she doesn't, as it stands, we have 4 guards, 2 soph, 2 frosh, to spread across 3 positions(not considering walk-ons), with Vanloo, 2 soph, 3 frosh. One injury and we are up a creek.
Who knows with Mays gone, maybe we could snag both Lang and Trapp. Killer!
Yes...but no matter or not, those who don't like WBB will continue to chime in to tell us they don't like it instead of just moving on. Our best course of action is to ignore them, for all they really care about doing is starting drama.
Mixed bag I guess. If these two don't posess Big 12 skills, then it is good that they are moving on. But on the other hand, as TornadoMan suggests, the continuing recruiting whiffs are of concern.
It would be interesting to see the "whiff rate" of other Big 12 schools, and how ISU compares.
It would be interesting to see the "whiff rate" of other Big 12 schools, and how ISU compares.
Although the comments below refer to mens basketball, it's increasingly applicable to womens bb. It's the nature of today's college-aged students as well as of the current environment for college bb.
Iowa State hoops: Reports say Sledge is leaving, etc. | Des Moines Register Staff Blogs
Don’t even try to make sense of the scholarship numbers game yet, considering college basketball’s postseason is Transfer Season.
“The last two years, there have been over 400 players in Div. I basketball who have transferred,†Auburn coach Tony Barbee wrote in a press release announcing the transfer of some players. “The majority of the time is because it is not a fit one way or the other or from both sides. That is what we have here.
“They are great people, have great character, are great students and they are going to be fantastic basketball players in time if they continue to work and grow. We wish them nothing but the best of luck in wherever they wish to go in all of their future endeavors.â€
Transfers happen everywhere, and it’s likely to happen at Iowa State, too.
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Iowa State hoops: Reports say Sledge is leaving, etc. | Des Moines Register Staff Blogs
Don’t even try to make sense of the scholarship numbers game yet, considering college basketball’s postseason is Transfer Season.
“The last two years, there have been over 400 players in Div. I basketball who have transferred,†Auburn coach Tony Barbee wrote in a press release announcing the transfer of some players. “The majority of the time is because it is not a fit one way or the other or from both sides. That is what we have here.
“They are great people, have great character, are great students and they are going to be fantastic basketball players in time if they continue to work and grow. We wish them nothing but the best of luck in wherever they wish to go in all of their future endeavors.â€
Transfers happen everywhere, and it’s likely to happen at Iowa State, too.
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If we go JUCO we need a scorer. While Chas was a great defender, she wasn't a scorer, and it hurt us playing 4 on 5 on the offensive end.
BF has a scholly to play with, so it wouldn't surprise me if he goes the JUCO route.