02-23-2016, 06:49 AM
OK, I get it now.
I've tried to find a website with Pac 12 WBB records on it, with no luck. Easy to find the Stanford records, but where does one go to look over the Pac 12/10/8 records?
I did find some NCAA record books and came across some interesting tidbits. Clearly Cheryl Miller and Lisa Leslie will be in there.
I would think Chiney, Nneka, Nicole Powell, Candice, and Jennifer Azzi are locks if it is a complete 15 person team.
Kate Starbird, Jayne Appel, Val Whiting would be strong possibles.
Kayla Pederson, Sonya Henning, and Jeanette Pohlen I would suggest as candidates but I'm not sure how their stats will compare.
When snooping around the NCAA record books, two things unrelated to an all-star team struck me.
In 1990 Stanford averaged 92.8 ppg and 23 apg. Tara early in her career was an offensive-minded coach. Lately she is referred to as a defensive-minded coach. Not sure whether the game has change, whether Tara's philosophy has change, whether its just her personnel that have changed--but something has definitely changed.
The other thing I noticed was a list of years Stanford finished in the national polls. Here are the years we finished in the top 20:
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
2002*
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
Note that there was a three year downturn in the middle of Tara's career. I am beginning to think that over a 30 year career, the recruiting pool and random player decisions are just going to create the occasional downturn. It may have nothing at all to do with coaching or the quality or effort of recruiting--but just probabilities. I do know there was a theory that the prior downturn was somehow related to the year Tara was away coaching the Olympics, but I never really bought that.
I've tried to find a website with Pac 12 WBB records on it, with no luck. Easy to find the Stanford records, but where does one go to look over the Pac 12/10/8 records?
I did find some NCAA record books and came across some interesting tidbits. Clearly Cheryl Miller and Lisa Leslie will be in there.
I would think Chiney, Nneka, Nicole Powell, Candice, and Jennifer Azzi are locks if it is a complete 15 person team.
Kate Starbird, Jayne Appel, Val Whiting would be strong possibles.
Kayla Pederson, Sonya Henning, and Jeanette Pohlen I would suggest as candidates but I'm not sure how their stats will compare.
When snooping around the NCAA record books, two things unrelated to an all-star team struck me.
In 1990 Stanford averaged 92.8 ppg and 23 apg. Tara early in her career was an offensive-minded coach. Lately she is referred to as a defensive-minded coach. Not sure whether the game has change, whether Tara's philosophy has change, whether its just her personnel that have changed--but something has definitely changed.
The other thing I noticed was a list of years Stanford finished in the national polls. Here are the years we finished in the top 20:
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
2002*
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
Note that there was a three year downturn in the middle of Tara's career. I am beginning to think that over a 30 year career, the recruiting pool and random player decisions are just going to create the occasional downturn. It may have nothing at all to do with coaching or the quality or effort of recruiting--but just probabilities. I do know there was a theory that the prior downturn was somehow related to the year Tara was away coaching the Olympics, but I never really bought that.