Holup
Szczerbiak
Bob Tallent
Yinka
Shawnta

If they're not playing more Q1 or Q2 games, I at least wish they'd schedule more home-and-home games in major metros to get in front of more GW Alumni. One from each of the following pods (in order of the largest number of alumni according to LinkedIn) if you can't get one of the Power conference schools to agree, and then promote the crap out of them to the local alumni groups:

"Virginia" (which I assume is mostly NoVa, but fine...)
James Madison
Norfolk State
Old Dominion

Maryland
Towson
UMBC
Mount St. Mary's
Loyola MD
Navy

New York
Manhattan
Columbia
Marist
Stony Brook
Iona
Hofstra
LIU

South Florida
USF
FAU
FIU

Boston
Boston U. 
Harvard

Los Angeles
LMU
Cal State Fullerton
UC Irvine
Pepperdine

San Francisco
USF
San Jose State
UC Davis

"Texas" (which is kinda big!)
Rice
North Texas
UT San Antonio





 

dmvpiranha wrote:

Ordinarily I would cite a coaching change (really retirement, given Cliff Ellis is 78) as a reason to excuse Bray for leaving Coastal but he straight up left the team after a handful of games. It will be interesting to see whether any team takes a chance on him at this point or he goes the JUCO route. I could see a school like Nicholls State or maybe Florida A&M giving him a chance. Howard could be a fit if he gets it together.

Chase Paar also went portaling yesterday. I guess he was granted a redshirt for the 2022-23 season as this past year was his fifth year playing.

Honestly, it's exhausting/not as fun to track player movement as it used to be. There are cases like John Tonje the other day where he "committed" to New Mexico only to flip his decision to Wisconsin three days later (UNM will be fine as they landed a player from Arizona on the same day, but I would have been upset as a fan). Tonje played his role as a connector piece who can shoot/cut on offense well at Colorado State before moving to Mizzou last year where he got hurt, but I can't help but feel like Wisconsin probably paid him more than what was necessary to get a player of his caliber. Switching commitments is not a new phenomenon, but with money on the line it's a guarantee to happen more often moving forward making it tougher to be invested beyond the other factors that have been mentioned here in various threads.

Anyways, does the transfer portal closing tomorrow really mean anything outside of the ones that haven't officially entered this offseason? The players who have already entered and committed can always flip their decision should more money be offered without them re-entering the portal. Until the season begins, they might as well still be considered in the portal. I don't really know that signing changes anything because I'm sure a player will sue if they leave a team late in the offseason and demand to be made eligible at the new school they choose.
 

Seems like WBB landed a commitment from Paige Mott of Northwestern. The native of Philadelphia averaged 8 ppg/5 rpg/2 apg last year with some big games against Big Ten competition (13 pts/9 rbs vs. Illinois, 14 pts/10 rbs vs. Wisconsin, 10 pts/5 rbs vs. Iowa, 10 pts/6 rbs vs. Ohio State). The McKeown connection has to have helped.

This seems like a big-time pickup and something the team really needs. I also thought Durant was a good get last year and then she ended up not being as big of a factor as I thought. There's no denying the talent/ability, but we have to be able to play through the post a lot better next year.
 

GWRising wrote:

Joel Joseph wrote:

Please let us have an improved schedule over the last 3 years.
I can't stomach all the NCAA at-large bid talk after running through our D-2 and low D-1 schedule only to come in dead last in our conference!

 Other than the Dude (who you can't take seriously), who was talking at-large bid here this past season?

Doesn't really matter what our noncon schedule looks like until we can win our league road games (and our home games, too!). 

After the last few seasons, I would be just fine having the pundits all saying in March that our non-league schedule wasn't tough enough to be considered for the NCAA Tourney.  You know why?  Because that would mean we've been a top 4 A-10 team and we're ready to take the next step.

You have to walk before you run.  And right now we're talented but we've got a proverbial bum knee in one leg and a sprained ankle in the other.  We can heal from those injuries, right? 

And then...let's go.