Sorry if this is old news. While in Omaha Sat., the World Herald had a write up saying NE landed a 2015 recruit out of NE, of which ISU was also mentioned as recruiting her. I vaguely remember some discussion on this site indicating our chance wasn't too good as she had other NE connections. Believe the name was Blackburn (or similar). Thought I'd see something on her here but haven't so far. Seems like NE is getting some recruits last year or so.
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Jessica Shepard, a 6-4 post out of Fremont, NE is the player that you are mentioning. She plays for the All Iowa Attack Elite team and just made the USA 17U national team. The Cyclones did recruit her and probably were in her top 6 schools. I think that she always had Connie Yori's team as number one.
You may be talking about Rachel Blackburn, a 6'3"post who verballed the Huskers this past week. She is out of Leavenworth, Kansas.
Yes, I'm sure this is the one. I don't like loosing recruits to Big 10 or other Big 12 schools.
Losing out on Gustfason out of WI to Iowa hurt too. Yori is definitely building a powerhouse to the west of us....Fingers crossed on Burkhall, Ellis or Tucker....tough competition for all three....
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Nebraska picked up another Kansas player today as Lanie Page committed to the Huskers.
http://kansas-sports.com/ks/news/?id=2937&t=wamegos-lanie-page-commits-to-nebraska
http://kansas-sports.com/ks/news/?id=2937&t=wamegos-lanie-page-commits-to-nebraska
Lanie is a 2015 4 star recruit and will be joining her sister, Kaylee, a 4 star 2014 recruit in Lincoln. Both are around 6'2-6'3.
In 2015, if everyone stays, Huskers will run 6'5, 6'3, 6'3, 6'3, 6'2, 6'2. Even their point guard is 6'0. And with depth they could play that Shepherd kid on the perimeter ala Jordan Hooper.
Well, looks like Lori is reeling them in. Only good thing for us is that we won't have to face them in league play.
I feel NCAAW is and will always be about guard play. WHen you want to make the game sexy, you speed it up and that means you get the players in the backcourt who can shoot, handle the ball, and defend. And get the ball into the bigs. ANd shoot! Consistently.
Definitely need some "big" depth to have an advantage. Yori must have a plan, and she's shown she can make things work.
But -- the only reason this might work is that the Big Ten is, generally speaking, a slower league. They might fare well in conference with lots of size. But if some of the size doesn't play like guards, they will have a hard time matching up with teams from the Big 12, SEC or ACC. Or the size will be sitting on the bench.