01-07-2021, 09:53 AM
(01-07-2021, 09:09 AM)BostonCard Wrote:(01-07-2021, 08:17 AM)JohnR34231 Wrote: If you follow womens basketball recruiting you know that the Ducks had a monster class last year, signing five of the top players in the nation. If you are going to beat them, this is probably the year before those players mature.
I mean our classes the last three years have not been chopped liver.
2018: #14 Lexi Hull; #18 Jenna Brown
2019: #1 Haley Jones; #15 Ashton Prechtel; #19 Francesca Belibi
2020: #3 Cameron Brink
2021: #11 Brooke Demetre; #19 Kiki Iriafen
So, next year we will have 8 top-20 players on the team at once, 6 of whom will be sophomores or more experienced. Oregon had 5 top-25 players in the class of 2020, but none in the classes of 2018, 2019, or 2021. I would rather be us, with consistent high-level recruiting across classes rather than a monster class between less impressive ones.
BC
The average recruiting ranking for the five freshman Ducks:
12, 14, 19, 21, 30.
In this 2022 class, we feel good about signing at least three of:
1 (Betts), 4 (Gardiner), 6 (Rice), 7 (Nnaji), and 15 (Londyn Jones)