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Recruiting war for 2023 Mendelson may come down to Tara versus Hambly.  If she accepted a VB scholarship I'm almost certain Hambly would let her play basketball after VB concluded if she wanted.  If she accepted a BB scholarship I doubt Tara would let her play volleyball.


I saw a couple videos of Betts.  She definitely has skill and coordination for a young kid that height.  She will be good in college but how good is difficult for me to extrapolate based on prep videos.  A player that height is so ridiculously taller than most opponents she can dominate almost entirely with height.  In college the height levels out somewhat making it not such an imbalance under the basket.

Yes but Betts has proven herself against taller players / better competition as well.  During the USA basketball U16 trials, she was consistently described as one of the few players who was a "lock" to make the team.  Plus she was a starter on the U16 team.  We have had players like Belibi and Brink make USA national teams before but neither of them started.  The only recent player we have had start on a USA national team is I believe Jones, who has turned out to be a pretty amazing player.  And then during the U16 Americas tournament, Betts lead the team in minutes and set a u16 team record of rebounds per game (13.5).  I think Betts will be pretty special but glad she won't have to do it all on her own as there is plenty of talent beside her on our future teams as well.

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Recruiting war for 2023 Mendelson may come down to Tara versus Hambly.  If she accepted a VB scholarship I'm almost certain Hambly would let her play basketball after VB concluded if she wanted.  If she accepted a BB scholarship I doubt Tara would let her play volleyball.


I saw a couple videos of Betts.  She definitely has skill and coordination for a young kid that height.  She will be good in college but how good is difficult for me to extrapolate based on prep videos.  A player that height is so ridiculously taller than most opponents she can dominate almost entirely with height.  In college the height levels out somewhat making it not such an imbalance under the basket.

Yes but Betts has proven herself against taller players / better competition as well.  During the USA basketball U16 trials, she was consistently described as one of the few players who was a "lock" to make the team.  Plus she was a starter on the U16 team.  We have had players like Belibi and Brink make USA national teams before but neither of them started.  The only recent player we have had start on a USA national team is I believe Jones, who has turned out to be a pretty amazing player.  And then during the U16 Americas tournament, Betts lead the team in minutes and set a u16 team record of rebounds per game (13.5).  I think Betts will be pretty special but glad she won't have to do it all on her own as there is plenty of talent beside her on our future teams as well.