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She also said that Leigha Brown has a real nose for where the ball is going on offensive rebounds which should help us there as well.

I agree since most of those players have more experience in our system. We were looking hard last year for a point guard to come in off the bench early and allow for some rotation with Hannah going to 2 guard. It didn't work out with Bria. Depending on injuries, off nights and matchups who knows who will be starting as the season rolls on. Anyway it is exciting to speculate.

Reply from Brent. Thanks for reading and your interest. I think it's usually a week or two into practice before the women's coach has a news conference. The women's team does not have a photo day that is open to the media, like the men's team did yesterday.Thanks, Brent

Practice can start 6 weeks before our first regular season game which if my math is correct would be next week. i emailed Brent Wagner from the Lincoln Journal this morning and said "your newspaper just had a nice article on the men's program and I was wondering if there will be one on the women's side soon". Have not heard back yet.

Good analysis redsteve. She is usually cautious in giving out that kind of info so she must have something up her sleeve. I like it.

Nebraska will win one of the two titles. Either the regular season or the tournament. Staying healthy is the key.

Absolutely nothing does more for me then beating Iowa. Especially the pounding we gave them last year at their place in front of a huge home crowd. GBR

Last year before the season started in November I threw out the post called how much will our defense improve? Basically the year before as noted in that post we were weak inside on defense. Well for many reasons that have been discussed previously we really improved in that area. This year with more depth and conditioning we should be able to press teams a lot harder. The question now is what improvements do you see for this year's offense with the addition of 5 new players. I'll start it off with a big improvement in team 3 point and free throw shooting.

I certainly did. I think she is one tough girl and will prove it this coming season. She was also the first to commit from this class at a time before last season began. She will really push for playing time.

All three of the players that are still on scholarship but not playing have redshirted a year so in actuality Bria and Rachel are academically seniors this year and Darrien is in her 5th year. All will probably graduate this year.

With 2 true point guards in Kristian and Sam we may get to see Hannah a little more at the 2 position which is a natural for her as a shooting guard. I also see Leigha backing up Taylor at the wing.

I think it will be a combination of Mershon and Veerbeek. Both are physical players and excellent rebounders. I would really like to see Mershon develop into Kate's primary back up as that would give more time for Veerbeek to concentrate on the Power forward position. I saw Mershon play in person and she is an excellent passer as well. She is physically a little bigger then Veerbeek. It all depends on how fast they pick up the college game.

I for one really like this team. Coach has covered all the bases in recruiting and the team will have 2 good senior leaders. We have the potential to have a better record then last years even with a tougher non conference schedule. We are starting with everyone healthy and need to keep it that way to become a top 20 team.

Academics was mentioned along with injuries as the reason some were looking at leaving. Go back and rewatch the video of the team get together as the news was announced as to who was getting into the big dance. All were very excited except for two players. Darian was some what enthused but Bria just sat there looking totally disinterested. Maybe she was sick.

I don't worry so much about the total scholarship numbers going forward unless we would be at 10 or less. What enthuses me is Coach Williams has obviously a good plan on rebuilding the program and is ahead of schedule in my mind. I'm excited about the classes she is putting together and really like what she has going for 2019. Isabelle Bourne. What a name and what an athlete.