[joemontes]

Me too.

Looking at the ESPN preview, it reminded me of how loaded (and young) UConn and South Carolina as the two programs welcome in the top 5 recruits this year. Bueckers is only a sophomore and the transfer Kamilla Cardoso Dawn Staley got from Syracuse is only a sophomore, so both teams will be formidable for the next few years even as their upperclassmen (Westbrook, Nelson-Ododa and Williams for UConn, Boston, Cooke, Henderson for South Carolina) move on after the next couple seasons.

It's a reminder that these elite programs reload and not rebuilt, so hopefully we can keep up and get Rice to join us next year (and others in the years ahead).

I think getting Class of 2022 #2 overall 5'2 PG Kiki RICE is a BIG MUST for Stanford, at this point, in order for Stanford to have a formidable wing/guard ensemble to complement a very strong frontline group starting next season.    

Without RICE, Stanford can still be a Final Four team next season primarily because of the all-around skillset of Haley JONES and a dominant frontline.  But after next season, Stanford will still have a superior frontline (center 6'7 Lauren BETTS, PFs 6'4 Cameron BRINK and 6'3 Kiki IRIAFEN and SF/PF 6'3 Brooke DEMETRE, all of whom are HS McD AAs) but without any go-to wing/guard player (looking at SGs 5'11 Agnes EMMA-NNOPU , 6'2 Elena BOSGANA and 6'0 Nunu AGARA, plus PGs Jana VAN GYTENBEEK, Jzaniya HARRIEL and Talana LEPOLO)

[joemontes]

Me too.

Looking at the ESPN preview, it reminded me of how loaded (and young) UConn and South Carolina as the two programs welcome in the top 5 recruits this year. Bueckers is only a sophomore and the transfer Kamilla Cardoso Dawn Staley got from Syracuse is only a sophomore, so both teams will be formidable for the next few years even as their upperclassmen (Westbrook, Nelson-Ododa and Williams for UConn, Boston, Cooke, Henderson for South Carolina) move on after the next couple seasons.

It's a reminder that these elite programs reload and not rebuilt, so hopefully we can keep up and get Rice to join us next year (and others in the years ahead).

I think getting Class of 2022 #2 overall 5'2 PG Kiki RICE is a BIG MUST for Stanford, at this point, in order for Stanford to have a formidable wing/guard ensemble to complement a very strong frontline group starting next season.    

Without RICE, Stanford can still be a Final Four team next season primarily because of the all-around skillset of Haley JONES and a dominant frontline.  But after next season, Stanford will still have a superior frontline (center 6'7 Lauren BETTS, PFs 6'4 Cameron BRINK and 6'3 Kiki IRIAFEN and SF/PF 6'3 Brooke DEMETRE, all of whom are HS McD AAs) but without any go-to wing/guard player (looking at SGs 5'11 Agnes EMMA-NNOPU , 6'2 Elena BOSGANA and 6'0 Nunu AGARA, plus PGs Jana VAN GYTENBEEK, Jzaniya HARRIEL and Talana LEPOLO)