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Williams is getting closer to the full 15 scholarship roster that we all want to see. With Kate gone in 2021 and 3 freshmen coming aboard we will have 1 or 2 scholarships left depending if Whitney Brown earns one which I think she will. Just have to hope all get and stay healthy which will be difficult.

I'm satisfied with the 12 players we will have this season and excited with the 3 (to date) that will be coming next year.

Go to Huskers.com to see the 3rd signee. Welcome Bella Cravens. GBR

That's a great article. Thanks for finding and posting it.

As for guards we are pretty well stocked up for the next two years especially if Dilliard will be eligible and Cayton healthy. According to my math we will have 8 guards for 20/21 and 11 for 21/22 with the addition of Weidner, Moriarty and Coley. If everyone stays it looks like we still have 2 or 3 scholarships left to give depending if Whitney Brown ultimately earns one.

Her sister (6-2 Fwd) hasn't done much in her first two years at Purdue. I'm no expert by any means but I wouldn't consider her a miss.

We definitely need one or two. Can't make it with only three like we now have. We don't need a starter but backup will be extremely important with injuries, foul trouble etc. Plus we only have Kate for one more year.

I'm going to take the optimistic approach and believe that it will all work out. Check back with me at the end of the season.

We still need at least one more post player.

Once your ego is bruised it's hard to overcome. Who the hell want's to be known as the "beast off the bench" when she was the best player on the team. This one is on the coach.

Thanks for the article. I hadn't seen it before. Having a long 6' guard who makes an effort to play great defense is what we need going forward. Now if we could just get Alexis Markowski to reconsider we would have a great 2021 recruiting class. GBR

As in life you can tell a lot about a manager/coach when they have to face a large amount of issues. Williams will be in a pivotal fifth season this fall and will have the opportunity to show how she tackles the present adversity. She obviously needs to add several players soon for this season. She hasn't done much with the transfer market to date but hopefully that will change. It will be interesting.

I made a comment on a post during the last half of the season that it seemed to me that there may be some sort of chemistry issue on the team. I didn't' explain it further at that time as the only thing I noticed was at times our not being able to play together on a consistent basis. By that time in the season we should have had the kinks worked out. I have no evidence that any players should be singled out but every year is different and this year we seemed to not be together at times for whatever reason. I'm sure that was frustrating to players, coaches and fans.

I'm sure those feelers from several teams were out there in some form that flew below the radar helping her make up her mind to leave before she told Williams she was leaving. Should be interesting when we play them. Hope she has to sit a year.

I totally agree that it's our highest priority which would help every body on the team be more successful. Just stating that Leigha is one of the few on the team that can create and get to the basket on her own to score or get foul shots. Sam is coming along in that area as well but not totally there yet in my observation. Leigha has that game to game consistency but Sam not quite.

It seems to me Brown has been given the green light to play her kind of game on offense and it has been very productive. As much as a great point guard would help Kate, Leigha is able to get her own shots when she wants. I think having a consistent outside shot like Taylor will help open the middle for Leigha to take the ball to the hoop even more. Her 3 point shooting continues to improve as well. She showed quite a bit of development throughout the past season. She knows she is our go to person. I don't know why she would leave.

Wow! Now we have 6 open scholarships available for this fall.

I kind of thought that was possible after losing her starting position to Veerbeek and somewhat passed in playing time by Bourne. Coach kind of alluded to the possibility of some turnover the other day. We have 4 open scholarships to fill for this fall if we want.

Coach has probably sat down one on one with the players already outlining her vision going forward for the team and how that particular player will fit in to it. They then must decide whether they want to be part of that or not. A lot of factors can enter in.

I think as has been noted for a long time she was not recruited as a pure point guard but had to play there out of necessity and did the best she could. Not having a top notch point guard is on the coach. She tried with a couple of transfers (Bria Stallworth and Kate Hudson) but that didn't work out partially due to injuries and then we recruit a potentially good one in Makenzie Helms and the injury bug bites again.

The only person that I ever saw that could do that on a consistent basis was Bill Russell.

When your starters at two key positions PG and CTR are slow of foot and unable to create shots for themselves and teammates by taking the ball to the hoop it has a real negative effect on your offense and defense as well.

Humphrey St. Francis is pretty well a one player team and Wynot after losing to them by 16 earlier in the year really dedicate 2 to 3 players to help on Weidner. Through all of that especially in the 2nd half she was still able to get the ball to wide open team mates under the basket. The problem was they couldn't hit lay ups or free throws. I think she will prove to be a good addition. One who we haven't mentioned much is our walk-on Whitney Brown from Grand Island NW. I watched her in their triple overtime loss to Crete. She is a real gamer but somewhat vertically challenged at 5' 7''. She can shoot and is the team leader. She's tough as nails and reminds me a lot of Woody.

I was at her game when she scored 39 and watched her game on TV today. I was excited to see a point guard who is very athletic, fast especially taking the ball to the hoop, a great free through shooter and generator and a great passer. The outside shot will come but she has skills I haven't seen on our team at point guard for a long time. She is a good rebounder and plays good defense. Seems to me to be a real gamer. The big question to me is our player development under this staff at NU. I am scratching my head to come up with a player who consistently got better these last 4 years.

And Grace played well for the minutes she played. She was extremely pumped on a couple of her big plays. I always liked her team first attitude. We will miss it.