[BillBradley]

"Finding someone to fill her spot at point guard is the team’s biggest question mark for now, Kate said. Possible replacements are sophomore guard Jana Van Gytenbeek, sixth-year guard Anna Wilson and graduate transfer guard Jordan Hamilton."


With regard to point guard, there is no way to know how genuine the competition is between Van Gytenbeek, Wilson, and Hamilton.  My guess is the coaches are genuinely undecided and are waiting to see how they do in practice and early season playing time.  Each of them will bring certain advantages and disadvantages.  Perhaps we will see more of Wilson and Hamilton early and more of Gytenbeek later in the season?  So we don't yet know who the starting point guard will be, but we do know--according to Kate--that it won't be anyone other than those three.  Jones was not mentioned in the point guard context.  And it shows that Wilson is indeed in the mix, something we speculated about but did not really know.  

I think that might be a misread. I don't think Coach Kate said one of those three would start at point. Probably not the place or time for the assistant coach to be saying something like that. Rather, I think Judy Richter mentioned the other three players after the "Kate said", simply calling out the 3 players on next year's squad who are true point guards. Not entirely sure though.

[BillBradley]

"Finding someone to fill her spot at point guard is the team’s biggest question mark for now, Kate said. Possible replacements are sophomore guard Jana Van Gytenbeek, sixth-year guard Anna Wilson and graduate transfer guard Jordan Hamilton."


With regard to point guard, there is no way to know how genuine the competition is between Van Gytenbeek, Wilson, and Hamilton.  My guess is the coaches are genuinely undecided and are waiting to see how they do in practice and early season playing time.  Each of them will bring certain advantages and disadvantages.  Perhaps we will see more of Wilson and Hamilton early and more of Gytenbeek later in the season?  So we don't yet know who the starting point guard will be, but we do know--according to Kate--that it won't be anyone other than those three.  Jones was not mentioned in the point guard context.  And it shows that Wilson is indeed in the mix, something we speculated about but did not really know.  

I think that might be a misread. I don't think Coach Kate said one of those three would start at point. Probably not the place or time for the assistant coach to be saying something like that. Rather, I think Judy Richter mentioned the other three players after the "Kate said", simply calling out the 3 players on next year's squad who are true point guards. Not entirely sure though.