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Kansas girls sub state games started this week. Kaylee Page's Wamego team won their first round of substate last night, and will advance and play Saturday. If they win Saturday they will advance to the state tournament for 4a (6a is biggest size in ks) which will be held in Salina, Kansas next week. Wamego's main competition as they try to win the 4a state title again this year will be Bishop Miege (kc) (beat Jess Shepard's team in a holiday tourney earlier this year); Andover Central and Paola. Wamego has a good chance to win again this year, but the Page sisters don't have nearly as much help as they had a year ago when they won but graduated a couple kids. I haven't seen any recent stats on Kaylee or Lanie. Emily Wood's salina central team is 19-1 and the 1 seed in their sub state. They won by a lot against a bad 8 seed last night, and then play again v Newton on Saturday. Newton is ranked 9 in 5a. If Central wins they advance to the state tourney in Topeka next week. 5a is loaded in ks this year. Leavenworth is probably the favorite as they have 3 kids Tyler Johnson, Tosha Jones, and Rachel Blackburn who have BCS offers. All 3 kids are 2015s and over 6 feet tall. KU, KSU and OSU are watching them all, and I think Blackburn was at an NU gm this year, but in my opinion Tyler Johnson is the best of the bunch. Her dad played with Wayman Tisdale at OU many years ago. Central has a chance though as Emily is having a great year (avg 16 ppg) and her teammate Shaelyn Martin is a 6'1 athlete similar to maddie simon who has signed to play at KSU. Wichita Kapun and Acquinas are also very good. Kapun has a guard committed to Drake, and a 6'3" post who turned down Missouri Valley offers in bball to play volleyball at Notre Dame.

Last years NCAA womens bball attendance http://web1.ncaa.org/app_data/weeklyrpi/2013WBBattend1.html some schools just don't draw very well. NU regularly has a great fan base. I assume when the final attendance numbers for 2013-14 are released the Huskers will be near the top again.

I know Kaylee page's Wamego team in undefeated and ranked 1st in 4a in Kansas, and Emily wood's Salina Central team is 12-0 and ranked first in 5a since Wichita kapun lost last weekend. Kaylee is avg about 16 ppg and I saw in the Topeka paper Emily is avg about 14.5

Some Collier info. Has a 2014 hs teammate pg who will be a freshman and ISU next fall. Has a 2014 HS center teammate who will be a freshman at KSU next fall. Plays club ball with 2014 kids who will be freshman at MU, KU and Alabama next year I believe. Long and mobile. Really talented kid. Would be a nice addition to any major program.

First, just wanted to say on Norms last post I accidentally hit some red arrow on the bottom right corner. Wasn't trying to rate the post or give it a score positive or negative. Not sure how to "undo" that mistake or I would. I don't post stuff much so thought it was a reply arrow. Second, I wouldn't assume Paige sisters are a package deal. Might well both end up at NU, but I think assuming they will is a mistake. I think leaders for Lanie are likely NU, KU, OSU, Texas Tech in no particular order. Just my guess.

I saw her play this week. She has improved a lot. Her ball handling was very good, and she put on a very dominant performance in a game with lot of high level kids on both teams.