[BostonCard]

We were picked to be sixteenth in the preseason poll.  We are top-10, probably top-5.  We were picked to finish second in the conference, and won it going away.  Stanford has exceeded expectations this year.  The last three years have been a complete rebuild as the entire starting team from 2019 graduated.  We are ahead of schedule, and Hambly has done a good job in doing so.

BC

Preseason we were so low because we were not that good last year.  We had the talent but not the results.  Other than Texas, who has more talent than we do?

Kipp, Baird, Miner, Francis - all top-5 recruits
Rubin - top 10
Oglivie was one of top liberos her year
Heck Xu was top-5/10 as well

Why did we need to rebuild?

We needed to rebuild because it is hard to recruit when you have one of the all-time greatest players at their positions and nobody is going to want to sit on the bench for more than at most a year.  Unsurprisingly, by the 2019 year, when that class was seniors, we had the top recruiting class in the country (Kipp, Baird, Xu, etc.), the 2020 class was ranked 5 (Oglive), the 2021 class (Francis, Miner) was ranked #2, and the 2022 (Rubin) was not ranked in the top 10 because it was small.  But that all adds up to a top-5 team which is where we are.  And since Hambly recruited it, shouldn’t he be credited with the results.

BC

[BostonCard]

We were picked to be sixteenth in the preseason poll.  We are top-10, probably top-5.  We were picked to finish second in the conference, and won it going away.  Stanford has exceeded expectations this year.  The last three years have been a complete rebuild as the entire starting team from 2019 graduated.  We are ahead of schedule, and Hambly has done a good job in doing so.

BC

Preseason we were so low because we were not that good last year.  We had the talent but not the results.  Other than Texas, who has more talent than we do?

Kipp, Baird, Miner, Francis - all top-5 recruits
Rubin - top 10
Oglivie was one of top liberos her year
Heck Xu was top-5/10 as well

Why did we need to rebuild?

We needed to rebuild because it is hard to recruit when you have one of the all-time greatest players at their positions and nobody is going to want to sit on the bench for more than at most a year.  Unsurprisingly, by the 2019 year, when that class was seniors, we had the top recruiting class in the country (Kipp, Baird, Xu, etc.), the 2020 class was ranked 5 (Oglive), the 2021 class (Francis, Miner) was ranked #2, and the 2022 (Rubin) was not ranked in the top 10 because it was small.  But that all adds up to a top-5 team which is where we are.  And since Hambly recruited it, shouldn’t he be credited with the results.

BC