Linda Lappe returns for her 2nd season as Head Coach after going 18-16 in her first season. The Buffaloes advanced to the quarterfinals of the NIT and finished 6-10 in the final Big 12 season. She was a two year Captain of the Buffaloes in her playing days. This is her 5th year of Head Coaching, the first three at Denver’s Metro State. At 31 she is one of the younger Head Coaches in the nation.
Jennie Baranczyk is in her 2nd year as an Assistant. She is 29, and coaches the post players and is the recruiting coordinator.
Jonas Chatterton is in his 2nd year. He spent the previous 8 seasons as an Assistant at BYU.
Latonya Watson is new to the staff, coming from American University. However she was an Assistant under former Colorado coach Ceal Barry from 1996-2006.
Losses:
Brittany Spears is a huge loss, as those of us who saw her play in the Kezar ProAm can attest. Spears averaged 19 points and 8 rebounds per game and was the 19th overall selection in the WNBA draft.
Britany Blythe scored 4 points per game but also played 27 minutes per game.
Chelsea Dale averaged 4 points per game and 20 minutes.
Colorado made 219 threes, that’s a lot, at 33%. Spears, Blythe and Dale made 129 of those.
Returning Players:
Chucky Jeffery is a 5-10 Jr who averaged 13.5 points, 8 rebounds 4.3 assists and 2 steals per game.
Brittany Wilson is one of two sets of sister on the team. The 5-8 Sr Guard averaged 8 points per game.
Meagan Malcolm-Peck is a 6-2 Jr, whose sister also plays. Meagan averaged 7 points and almost 5 rebounds and also made 38 threes at 36%. Meagan was the # 95 playerin the country out of High School.
Julie Seabrook is a 6-3 Sr Center who played in the just completed University Games for Canada. Seabrook averaged 5 points and 5 rebounds per game last season.
The four above were 2-3-4-5 in minutes per game for the Buffaloes.
Rachel Hargis is a 6-4 Soph Center who played in all the games averaging 16 minutes with 3 points and 3 rebounds per game. She was 2nd on the team in blocked shots.
Ashley Wilson is a 5-8 Soph Guard who averaged 2 points and 2 rebounds per game, playing an average of 12 minutes.
Newcomers:
Brenna Malcolm-Peck is a 6-2 So Forward who redshirted last year with an injury. She didn’t play much 2 years ago as a Frosh, but was Ranked # 97 in the country coming out of High School.
Lexy Kresl is a 5-11 Frosh Guard from Arizona. She was the # 74 Guard in the country last year in High School.
Jen Reese is a 6-2 Frosh Center from the State of Oregon. Reese was the Oregon Gatorade Player of the Year last season. I don’t why she is unranked by HoopGurlz, but I loved watching Reese play at the End of Trail last year. She’s very strong, very aggressive with some good post moves.
Arielle Roberson is a 6-1 Frosh Forward from Texas. She was the # 63 Forward last year in High School.
Jasmine Sborov is a 6-1 Frosh Guard from Texas.
The Schedule:
Weak, very weak. 9 of their non conference games are at home.
The Season:
It’ll be a tough go for the Buffalos in their first Pac 12 season. They appear to be in the 10th -12 place area. However their non conference schedule and the wins they should get, will give them hope.
August 28, 2011
August 18, 2011
The Washington Huskies have a new look
The Huskies have a whole new face to their team, a new Coaching Staff. New Head Coach Kevin McGuff came from Xavier where he was the Head Coach for the past 9 seasons. Before that he was an Assistant at Notre Dame when they won the NCAA Title. McGuff had a record of 213-73 including last season’s 28-3 at Xavier. He is a huge upgrade and probably the biggest name among the 4 new Head Coaches into the now old Pac 10.
The new Top Assistant is Mike Neighbors who coached with McGuff at Xavier for the past 4 seasons. He will probably have a lot to do with the defensive scheme and coach the post players as he did at Xavier.
Kevin Morrison was the 2nd Coach hired, not long after Cal and Kevin parted ways. Kevin was at Cal for 4 years and will be the Recruiting Co-ordinator at Washington. He was the President and Head Coach of the West Coast Elite, a well known Southern California Travel team, producing 74 Division 1 players and 17 McDonalds All Americans. He also worked as a social worker. He is known as an excellent recruiter.
Adia Barnes is also a new Assistant. Adia is the all time leading scorer at Arizona, and played Pro Basketball for 12 seasons, including 7 in the WNBA. This is her first year as a college coach, but has been prominent as a coach and mentor in the Seattle area.
Last season Washington was 11-17 overall and 6-12 in Pac 10 play.
Losses:
The Huskies lost only one player, starting Guard Sarah Morton. Morton averaged 9 points and a team leading 5 assists per game. She was also the only Husky with a positive assist to turnover ratio.
Returning Players:
Kristi Kingma is an outstanding 5-10 Sr Guard. She was the leading scorer at 15.6 point per game and close to their leading rebounder with 5 per game. She made 79 threes at 41%, while no other returning player made more than 7.
Regina Rogers is a 6-3 Sr who was 2nd on the team in scoring and rebounding at 10 and 5 per game. She made 52% of her shots. The problem she must overcome is playing only 18 minutes per game.
Mackenzie Argens is a 6-3 Sr who plays both Center and Forward. She averaged 6 rebounds per game to lead the team and scored 7 points per game. Argens started every game last season.
Charmine Barlow started all but one game and averaged 4 points and 4 rebounds per game. She is a 5-10 Sr Forward.
Marjorie Heard is a 6-1 Soph Forward who was the 4th leading scorer, 7 per game and the 4th leading rebounder, 5 per game.
Mollie Williams is a 6-2 Sr Forward who averaged 4 points and 4 rebounds per game.
Mercedes Wetmore is a 5-7 Soph Guard who looks to be the starting Point Guard. She averaged 3.5 points per game but shot just 29%.
Four players played briefly last year. Kassia Fortier a 5-8 Soph Guard, Amanda Johnson a 5-5 Soph Guard, Jeneva Anderson a 6-0 Jr Forward and Ashley Moore a 5-10 Soph Wing. Of these four look for Moore to step up.
Newcomers:
This is a pretty good class, especially considering it was no secret that former Head Coach Tia Jackson was on the very hot seat.
Jazmine Davis, from San Jose’s Valley Christian High School should step in as the back up Point Guard. She a 5-7 Frosh. Davis was the # 25 Point Guard in the country and shot 55% from three in High School. She was the # 10 player in Northern California and played travel ball with Stanford’s Erica Payne.
Talia Walton is a 6-2 Forward, the # 32 Forward in the country out of High School. She’s a top rebounder and should be a solid player in the paint.
Aminah Williams is a 6-0 Forward, the # 27 Forward in the country out of High School.
Kellie McCann-Smith is McGuff’s first recruit, a transfer from Nebraska. Kellie is from Eastern Washington and was All State as a Sr averaging 21 points, 8 rebounds and 5 assists per game. At Nebraska she was bothered by a bad back but did hit 4 threes in one game. She averaged 3 points per game but had a high of 13 and a high of 5 steals. She will sit out this season after the transfer.
The Schedule:
To Be Announced
The Season:
Going to be a tough one until they have a couple of recruiting years under the new Staff. Kingma will be outstanding and a fan favorite wherever she plays.
The new Top Assistant is Mike Neighbors who coached with McGuff at Xavier for the past 4 seasons. He will probably have a lot to do with the defensive scheme and coach the post players as he did at Xavier.
Kevin Morrison was the 2nd Coach hired, not long after Cal and Kevin parted ways. Kevin was at Cal for 4 years and will be the Recruiting Co-ordinator at Washington. He was the President and Head Coach of the West Coast Elite, a well known Southern California Travel team, producing 74 Division 1 players and 17 McDonalds All Americans. He also worked as a social worker. He is known as an excellent recruiter.
Adia Barnes is also a new Assistant. Adia is the all time leading scorer at Arizona, and played Pro Basketball for 12 seasons, including 7 in the WNBA. This is her first year as a college coach, but has been prominent as a coach and mentor in the Seattle area.
Last season Washington was 11-17 overall and 6-12 in Pac 10 play.
Losses:
The Huskies lost only one player, starting Guard Sarah Morton. Morton averaged 9 points and a team leading 5 assists per game. She was also the only Husky with a positive assist to turnover ratio.
Returning Players:
Kristi Kingma is an outstanding 5-10 Sr Guard. She was the leading scorer at 15.6 point per game and close to their leading rebounder with 5 per game. She made 79 threes at 41%, while no other returning player made more than 7.
Regina Rogers is a 6-3 Sr who was 2nd on the team in scoring and rebounding at 10 and 5 per game. She made 52% of her shots. The problem she must overcome is playing only 18 minutes per game.
Mackenzie Argens is a 6-3 Sr who plays both Center and Forward. She averaged 6 rebounds per game to lead the team and scored 7 points per game. Argens started every game last season.
Charmine Barlow started all but one game and averaged 4 points and 4 rebounds per game. She is a 5-10 Sr Forward.
Marjorie Heard is a 6-1 Soph Forward who was the 4th leading scorer, 7 per game and the 4th leading rebounder, 5 per game.
Mollie Williams is a 6-2 Sr Forward who averaged 4 points and 4 rebounds per game.
Mercedes Wetmore is a 5-7 Soph Guard who looks to be the starting Point Guard. She averaged 3.5 points per game but shot just 29%.
Four players played briefly last year. Kassia Fortier a 5-8 Soph Guard, Amanda Johnson a 5-5 Soph Guard, Jeneva Anderson a 6-0 Jr Forward and Ashley Moore a 5-10 Soph Wing. Of these four look for Moore to step up.
Newcomers:
This is a pretty good class, especially considering it was no secret that former Head Coach Tia Jackson was on the very hot seat.
Jazmine Davis, from San Jose’s Valley Christian High School should step in as the back up Point Guard. She a 5-7 Frosh. Davis was the # 25 Point Guard in the country and shot 55% from three in High School. She was the # 10 player in Northern California and played travel ball with Stanford’s Erica Payne.
Talia Walton is a 6-2 Forward, the # 32 Forward in the country out of High School. She’s a top rebounder and should be a solid player in the paint.
Aminah Williams is a 6-0 Forward, the # 27 Forward in the country out of High School.
Kellie McCann-Smith is McGuff’s first recruit, a transfer from Nebraska. Kellie is from Eastern Washington and was All State as a Sr averaging 21 points, 8 rebounds and 5 assists per game. At Nebraska she was bothered by a bad back but did hit 4 threes in one game. She averaged 3 points per game but had a high of 13 and a high of 5 steals. She will sit out this season after the transfer.
The Schedule:
To Be Announced
The Season:
Going to be a tough one until they have a couple of recruiting years under the new Staff. Kingma will be outstanding and a fan favorite wherever she plays.
August 6, 2011
The Pac 12 season begins before you know it
OK not really, the inaugural season begins in 3 months but it’s time to get started if I review a team a week and throw in some other newsworthy, to me at least, editorials.
Oregon State went through the worst of all possible scenarios last year before Scott Rueck arrived to bring at least some happiness and respectability back to the Beavers. Thanks to a very easy but very appropriate weak preseason schedule the Beavers went 7-5 in their non conference schedule and 9-21 overall. Of course with their depleted team they paid the price in Pac 10 conference play going 2-16. However that was also their record the previous year before losing so many players who transferred away. A very good stat, home attendance increased 30% to 1500 per game.
Losses:
El Sara Greer graduated and was probably their best player last season averaging 9 points and 8 rebounds in 34 minutes per game. She shot 56%.
Angela Misa was a Soph this past season, averaging 4 points and 5 rebounds in 16 minutes per game. Ironically she was the first player rumored to be leaving under former Coach Wagner, and did leave the team but returned for this past season. However she is not on the roster for this coming season.
Classye James was a frosh from Mitty High School who averaged 2 points in 13 minutes of play and she is not on the roster.
Returning Players:
Alyssa Martin is a 6-0 Soph Guard who was the leading scorer last season as a Frosh with 12 points per game and a Pac 10 best 38 minutes per game. Martin shot 34% from three, making 60.
Sage Indendi is a great story. The 5-9 Jr played for Coach Rueck at George Fox and had a great season but transferred to Oregon State and did not play basketball 2 years ago. Then she returns to the game and hits 75 threes at 41% scoring nearly 11 points per game while playing 34 minutes per game. She’s a very good Pac 12 level Point Guard.
Earlysia Marchbanks is a 5-11 Sr Guard who was a starter last season while averaging 9 points and 5.6 rebounds per game.
Alexis Bostick is a 5-8 Soph Guard who like the other 3 returnees above, started every game for the Beavers. Bostick averaged 5 points per game and was the only Beaver with a plus assist to turnover ratio.
Jenna Dixon is a 5-8 Soph Guard who walked on to average 3 points in 10 minutes per game.
Katie Schrock is the 3rd former walk on to return. She is a 5-11 Soph who saw limited action this past season.
Newcomers:
Last season the Beavers were short an Assistant Coach, understandable given the late hiring of their Head Coach. Megan Dickerson joined the program as an Assistant at the end of March. She coached the previous 5 years at George Fox, the first 4 with Coach Rueck.
Ali Gibson is the only High School recruit in the class of 6. The other 5 are JC transfers. Gibson played for State Champ St Mary’s of Stockton, CA. Gibson is a very active 5-11 Guard who should see playing time right away. Her High School team last year started 5 Division I prospects.
Patricia Bright is a 6-4 Forward/Center JC transfer from the state of Florida but went there from an Arizona High School. She’s pretty much of an unknown, didn’t score much either last year at JC or as a High School Sr.
Thais Pinto is a 6-7 JC transfer from the state of Nebraska by way of Brazil. She averaged 11 points and 6 rebounds last season at the JC.
Quortni Fambro is a 5-8 Guard from a Florida JC who played High School in Georgia and as a Frosh at Alabama State. She averaged 4 points a game at Alabama State and last year 10 points per game.
Mollee Schwegler is a 5-6 Guard who played High School in Oregon and JC in the state of Washington. She is the all time leading scorer at lower Columbia College with 910points in 2 years. She averaged 17 points, 6 assists and 5 ½ rebounds per game as a Point Guard.
ShaKiana Edwards-Teasley is a 6-2 Forward from Idaho. She averaged 9 points and 5 rebounds per game last year at JC.
The Schedule:
The non conference schedule isn’t out yet. In the Pac 12 schedule where each team plays 7 teams home and away, and 4 either home or away, Oregon State doesn’t play at Arizona and USC and UCLA don’t come to Corvallis.
The Season:
It will be very hard to escape the Cellar once again. The Beavers have added height and depth but this is only Year 2 of Starting Over. On the plus side they return 4 starters and only one of them is a Sr.
Oregon State went through the worst of all possible scenarios last year before Scott Rueck arrived to bring at least some happiness and respectability back to the Beavers. Thanks to a very easy but very appropriate weak preseason schedule the Beavers went 7-5 in their non conference schedule and 9-21 overall. Of course with their depleted team they paid the price in Pac 10 conference play going 2-16. However that was also their record the previous year before losing so many players who transferred away. A very good stat, home attendance increased 30% to 1500 per game.
Losses:
El Sara Greer graduated and was probably their best player last season averaging 9 points and 8 rebounds in 34 minutes per game. She shot 56%.
Angela Misa was a Soph this past season, averaging 4 points and 5 rebounds in 16 minutes per game. Ironically she was the first player rumored to be leaving under former Coach Wagner, and did leave the team but returned for this past season. However she is not on the roster for this coming season.
Classye James was a frosh from Mitty High School who averaged 2 points in 13 minutes of play and she is not on the roster.
Returning Players:
Alyssa Martin is a 6-0 Soph Guard who was the leading scorer last season as a Frosh with 12 points per game and a Pac 10 best 38 minutes per game. Martin shot 34% from three, making 60.
Sage Indendi is a great story. The 5-9 Jr played for Coach Rueck at George Fox and had a great season but transferred to Oregon State and did not play basketball 2 years ago. Then she returns to the game and hits 75 threes at 41% scoring nearly 11 points per game while playing 34 minutes per game. She’s a very good Pac 12 level Point Guard.
Earlysia Marchbanks is a 5-11 Sr Guard who was a starter last season while averaging 9 points and 5.6 rebounds per game.
Alexis Bostick is a 5-8 Soph Guard who like the other 3 returnees above, started every game for the Beavers. Bostick averaged 5 points per game and was the only Beaver with a plus assist to turnover ratio.
Jenna Dixon is a 5-8 Soph Guard who walked on to average 3 points in 10 minutes per game.
Katie Schrock is the 3rd former walk on to return. She is a 5-11 Soph who saw limited action this past season.
Newcomers:
Last season the Beavers were short an Assistant Coach, understandable given the late hiring of their Head Coach. Megan Dickerson joined the program as an Assistant at the end of March. She coached the previous 5 years at George Fox, the first 4 with Coach Rueck.
Ali Gibson is the only High School recruit in the class of 6. The other 5 are JC transfers. Gibson played for State Champ St Mary’s of Stockton, CA. Gibson is a very active 5-11 Guard who should see playing time right away. Her High School team last year started 5 Division I prospects.
Patricia Bright is a 6-4 Forward/Center JC transfer from the state of Florida but went there from an Arizona High School. She’s pretty much of an unknown, didn’t score much either last year at JC or as a High School Sr.
Thais Pinto is a 6-7 JC transfer from the state of Nebraska by way of Brazil. She averaged 11 points and 6 rebounds last season at the JC.
Quortni Fambro is a 5-8 Guard from a Florida JC who played High School in Georgia and as a Frosh at Alabama State. She averaged 4 points a game at Alabama State and last year 10 points per game.
Mollee Schwegler is a 5-6 Guard who played High School in Oregon and JC in the state of Washington. She is the all time leading scorer at lower Columbia College with 910points in 2 years. She averaged 17 points, 6 assists and 5 ½ rebounds per game as a Point Guard.
ShaKiana Edwards-Teasley is a 6-2 Forward from Idaho. She averaged 9 points and 5 rebounds per game last year at JC.
The Schedule:
The non conference schedule isn’t out yet. In the Pac 12 schedule where each team plays 7 teams home and away, and 4 either home or away, Oregon State doesn’t play at Arizona and USC and UCLA don’t come to Corvallis.
The Season:
It will be very hard to escape the Cellar once again. The Beavers have added height and depth but this is only Year 2 of Starting Over. On the plus side they return 4 starters and only one of them is a Sr.
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