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Just eyeballing it and not counting exhibition, I think 21-8. Perhaps I'm too optimistic. I'm going on the assumption we have people healthy and Shepard will be able to play immediately. I broke it down to 9-2 out of conference and 12-6 in conference. I'm also assuming we will get stronger as the season progresses. Off the top of my head, I've got Shepard, Havers, Blackburn, and Washington getting significant minutes. Also Theriot, Romeo, Clark, Cincore, Simon with significant minutes. I'm hoping Theriot gets decent rest in games so that she can play the whole season injury free. Would like to see Wood and Ramacieri getting some minutes, especially if Wood gets hot from 3 point land. Would also love to see Kalenta and Ostrander, but I have my doubts since I haven't heard anything about Kalenta in the media and I know Ostrander won't join until after VB. As of right now, I'm not missing the Page sisters, and I had kind of forgotten that Chandler had left the team. Wish Chandler the best.

I didn't realize Esther was going to be out for some time. Hopefully Cincore will be back mid-November if I'm reading the article correctly. Noticed Yori made no mention of Kalenta, or at least the paper didn't report that she did. I know we lost a lot from last year, but I feel pretty good going into this season. The future is bright.

Interesting from article: Training Errors: Training errors may be one of the greatest contributors to this injury. A change in training such as increasing the frequency, intensity, or duration too quickly may contribute. What has been termed the “terrible too’s” of too much, too often, too soon, and too fast over stress the bone before it can appropriately react to the stress by reinforcing itself by new bone growth and increased density. Increased forces into the bones of the foot and leg have been found to be generated in the presence of fatigue. In other words, you are likely to be at higher risk if you often run to the point of fatigue or exhaustion. The muscles are tired and can not properly position the bones, slow the forces, or attenuate the forces in any of several ways that normally functioning muscles may do. “...avoid doing too much too soon.” Equipment Errors: An improper match of foot type and structure to shoe may contribute to a chronic repetitive stress injury to bone (stress fracture, stress reaction). Old shoes, worn out shoes, shoes that look bad even to the person wearing them are obvious contributors to injuries of all sorts. Running on a hard and unyielding surface may increase forces into the bones of the foot and leg. Those who have suffered this injury should obviously avoid running on concrete. Other Factors: It is important to keep in mind other contributing factors in the development of RSI of bone. In addition to the training errors and the biomechanical causes we often think of first, a variety of systemic conditions can contribute to this injury. These conditions include osteopenia, osteoporosis, other metabolic bone disorder, hormonal abnormalities, inadequate nutritional intake, and collagen disorders. In women amenorrhea or oligomenorrhea may lead to deficient estrogen and low bone mineral density. The female athlete triad includes low bone density by definition along with disordered eating and amenorrhea.(Lebrun 2007) Overtraining may lead to decreased testosterone levels in men resulting in osteopenia. Patients of either gender having multiple stress fractures should likely have a bone density (DEXA) scan performed.

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Unless Coach Stephens is wearing heels or something is going on with the photography, Kathleen is not 5'9" as listed Those eyebrows aren't real are they? I was wondering the same thing.

Love Esther's interpretive dancing skills.

I know that Grace Barry committed to UNK within the past few weeks.

I suppose they could hire a certain Pelini...

Cornhusker Shooting Stars hires Divilbiss as their new director of player development. They also hire Lindsey Moore as assistant director of player development.

The ick factor is high with this one. Knew the girl in elementary school. My concern is that he will walk away from this because technically he was no longer her coach when he decided to be handsy with her.

BTW, it is nice to have players show up in shape and ready to go.

The original post excluded Shepard, Theriot, and Clark as starters (sort of a worst case scenario, that none would be ready to go immediately). Has Clark been able to practice at all? If not, I would give the nod to Cincore to start the season, because she has been here for a year and knows the system better. Once Clark is healed and up to speed with the system, things may change. It's a good problem to have. We should get solid minutes from the bench for all positions this year. Theriot should even be able to take a breather now and then. Anyone know how Kalenta is doing?

Article about the win - photos and boxscores included. http://www.huskers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=29&SPID=25&DB_LANG=C&ATCLID=210259887&DB_OEM_ID=100

Birds of a feather...

I'm sure we will have some clunky games/moments due to our youth. What I hope to see is improvement as the season progresses. These kids will be pretty darn good with some experience, it's just a matter of how fast they will get there. I think in the end we will look back and say the recruiting class with Cady, Sample, Jeffry and Laudermill was very special, but this group of kids was even better. This team will definitely have a different look to them compared to last year's team. Much needed depth and experience for all since they are young. I do feel the minutes piled up on several of our players last year, and they also could not afford any foul trouble.

I don't think we will miss her that much this year, or next. I think the two 2016 commits are going to be really good, and for this year Kendall Clark will be an important asset. I also look for Cincore to have a break out year. The main thing is to stay healthy.

Maybe this is premature, but I think Blackburn may be a starter by the time the season begins. Washington also had solid numbers in this game, especially rebounding. This is going to be a fun season!

Let's assume we are doing a flash forward to the first exhibition game. We know we won't have Ostrander until after VB, and let's also assume we won't have Shepard, Theriot, and Clark because Yori decides to sit them for exhibition games to aid in recovery (I have no idea if that will be the case or not). Who will start? We can re-evaluate after the Australia trip.

Wasn't part of the reason she picked Nebraska was because of our ag school? I don't think Gonzaga has an ag school. Maybe she changed majors.

Maybe extreme homesickness?

Don't know. The article I attached is very vague, but the NCAA is allowing it. Must have thought there were some special circumstances to grant her immediate eligibility this fall.

Minnesota picks up another player. http://www.livonbasketball.com/blog/2015/04/21/jessie-edwards/

There is some speculation that she will be a starter. I seem to remember some speculation along those lines that several of us made a year ago. Perhaps she is in better shape since she has been at KState for a while now. http://cjonline.com/sports/catzone/2015-06-08/ncaa-grants-immediate-eligibility-kaylee-page-k-state

Heard the NCAA is allowing her to play immediately this fall.

I guess I never understood why she chose Illinois in the first place.