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All I'm saying is that it's hard to sit as judge and jury with out all the facts in front of us. I have faith that those in charge of making those decisions see a lot more than we as average fans do and that we will have a new coach that will continue to build our program.

I agree what mess did he create. More likely having to clean up some body else's mess.

I think that after this next class gets here and starts play we will all forget about Chandler Smith.

I can't believe the top player in a big state has only a 3 star ranking by espn. Kathleen apparently has been over looked for a while.

We have not seen a healthy point guard on our team since Theriot's sophomore season. PG makes everything else go. I think you will see a benefit for all positions.

As I previously noted I see one possibly two redshirts from the freshmen coming in. It depends a lot on the development of Simon and Cincore. Of course the main factor in all this is our sad injury situation. Will it be ongoing on could we see improvement. Hopefully they will reevaluate the practice scenario as that seems to be where we have a lot of the injury's.

If Ostrander returns on scholarship then the only opening would be if some one (Washington) left. Either she fits in as a good reserve next year or we will need to get a decent transfer to fill that role.

I kind of thought we would be set for post players for next year but now I don't think so especially for the depth. I agree that something must be up for Washington as we always heard good things how she was progressing but not to get any time in the game where we had several posts hobbling up and down the floor was strange. We have one scholarship available now and maybe two in the near future. An experienced transfer with a couple of years to play would maybe help. We need at least 4 posts capable of contributing.

As someone alluded to if we had more transparency on injuries by the coach we limited knowledge but team loving fans would't be left to speculate so much.

What about Grace Mitchell?

I'm quite sure that with all the medical personnel including trainers on staff they will make the right decision on playing her and how much.

Even though it wasn't for the championship, what a way for a team to finish.

Just to clarify I was talking about Kathleen Doyle in the previous post.

With the population size of Illinois, just to be in the conversation as a potential as player of the year is quite a compliment.

Sorry HB but I have to take exception that we couldn't win without Shepard and Blackburn. Even though neither of them had much of a game against Rutgers we could have or should have won the game. We still have 3 healthy forwards.

I was visiting my daughter in Salina today so took in the aforementioned game. Close game and Grace had her usual 20 ptrs. She can shoot from the outside but also drove to the hoop well. Some one previously discussed Grace's team mate 6'1" junior Lauryn Snipes as having a lot of potential. She looked to me to be the real deal as she was the glue that held their team together. Good ball handler and defender as well. Very athletic. She will generate a lot of interest next year.

Does anybody know if the Huskers are still Practicing?

I think that the success of the class of 2016 as noted in previous posts will have as big of an impact as to where our program is going as any class since the 2012 one. I think Coach Yori has potentially one of her best. I think a couple of the new coaches found at least a couple of the recruits. Hopefully they have figured out what we need to be an upper level team in the B10.

With the ongoing improvement of Romeo, Cincore and Simon I would look for C. Yori to possibly redshirt one or two of the freshmen. that would be a luxury that we haven't had much in the past. That would also help level things out. Of course if we continue with the injury bug that could be a different story.

I still think Coach Yori plays some people too long in the games making the aforementioned even worse. Besides depth isn't developed. Why do you put all your cards at point guard on two players coming off major knee and ankle surgeries when neither one is going to be here next year anyway. Puzzling to me.

The injury thing has me bewildered. According to my recall the only players not suffering one this year were Anya and Woody.

We can cut through the chase and admit that when you give the opponents 16 more shots then we get we are probably going to get beat. That has been our nemesis all year long. We have way too many unforced turnovers and give up a lot of offensive rebounds. I predicted a win if we could stay at 10 or less turn overs. We had 14.

I listened to the Ok. St. / K. St. game the other night which was won by O.St. K.S. plays a really slow down boring type of BB. I'll take our offense any day. The slower pace fits Kaylee Page much better then the type of offense we run. At this point we don't miss her.

I went back and watched the 10 point loss to them in their place from the end of Jan. We jumped out to a 12 point first qtr lead that they reduced in the 2nd qtr. It was tied up at the end of the 3rd qtr and we just ran out of gas in the 4th. That was the game that the starters Theriot, Havers, Shepard, Clark and Romeo basically played the whole game. Only subs were Kalenta and Cincore for 4 minutes each (0 pts). Theriot had a decent game and Romeo and Shepard played very well except for 5 turnovers by Shepard. Havers and Clark had really rough games. I counted at least 12 unforced turnovers. Primarily poor passes and traveling. Also Coach Yori admitted in post game that she should have subbed more. Keep our turnovers under 10 and I see a win on Thursday! GBR!

That's been my complaint for years as well. It even happens to the women's VB team at times and they are a regular top 5 team. I have been a sports fan all my life and prefer watching women's bb over men's. Call me crazy but they just don't have the ego problem as much.