[2006alum]

Well, the usual Stanford basketball recruit commitment rankings curse seems to have continued for us. ESPN recently revealed their 2018 HoopGurlz Top 100 and Jenna Brown has dropped from #11 to #20 since decommitting from Notre Dame and committing to us. Lexie Hull remains at #16, and Lacie remains unranked. Nelson-Ododa, one of our main targets, who is still uncommitted, is down to #5, I think(?) from #3.

It's odd how often our basketball recruits drop in the rankings subsequent to committing to Stanford. Last year Daejon Davis took a brobdingnagian hit after he decommitted from Washington and committed to us (I think he dropped around 20-30 places), and in 2014 both Dorian Pickens and Robbie Cartwright were top 100 players prior to committing, and then dropped from the rankings entirely. It's possible it's totally random, but I wonder if there's some reason they're more skeptical of Cardinal commits? It seems like Kezie Okpala is the only player I can remember in recent years whose ranking improved after committing to the Cardinal, and his enormous late-stage growth spurt made it hard to ignore his significantly elevated potential.

Not that any of it matters in the end, but I do think it shapes pre-season hype and expectations, and I feel like we're always getting the short end of the rerankings stick.

[2006alum]

Well, the usual Stanford basketball recruit commitment rankings curse seems to have continued for us. ESPN recently revealed their 2018 HoopGurlz Top 100 and Jenna Brown has dropped from #11 to #20 since decommitting from Notre Dame and committing to us. Lexie Hull remains at #16, and Lacie remains unranked. Nelson-Ododa, one of our main targets, who is still uncommitted, is down to #5, I think(?) from #3.

It's odd how often our basketball recruits drop in the rankings subsequent to committing to Stanford. Last year Daejon Davis took a brobdingnagian hit after he decommitted from Washington and committed to us (I think he dropped around 20-30 places), and in 2014 both Dorian Pickens and Robbie Cartwright were top 100 players prior to committing, and then dropped from the rankings entirely. It's possible it's totally random, but I wonder if there's some reason they're more skeptical of Cardinal commits? It seems like Kezie Okpala is the only player I can remember in recent years whose ranking improved after committing to the Cardinal, and his enormous late-stage growth spurt made it hard to ignore his significantly elevated potential.

Not that any of it matters in the end, but I do think it shapes pre-season hype and expectations, and I feel like we're always getting the short end of the rerankings stick.