[GK3]

The Cori Closes resume
13 seasons in the PAC12 
Conference championships 0
Conference tournament championships 0
Best conference finish 2nd (twice)

A roster this year with the #1 and #2 recruits in 2022 plus enough surrounding talent to compete with any team in the country. They bow out in the Sweet 16. Her accomplishments don’t impress me with the resources and roster she has.

Well, they were playing the defending national champions and the #1 recruit missed part of the year due to injuries. She can recruit though. She has an excellent class coming in this year and Betts' sister (considered one of the top players in the '25 class) signed up.
The team that has the dynamite recruiting class is U$C. Team those players with Watkins and they look unstoppable in the future. I'm glad we don't have to play them.

Unfortunately, I fear we are going to struggle in the ACC next year.  On paper out team seems worse, not better and no apparent prospects for fixing our inability to guard quick opposing players of which there will be more than one in the ACC.  Brink's departure will be a brobdingnagian loss, just watch the last part of the NCS game without Brink.  I think opposing teams will do what NCS did and simply take the ball at Kiki and make her defend, probably foul or give up a layin.  Jump is gone, it could be ugly.  Hopefully someone already on the roster has a Kiki like improvement between now and then, preferably more than one.  Some of the young players are really going to have to step up.

[GK3]

The Cori Closes resume
13 seasons in the PAC12 
Conference championships 0
Conference tournament championships 0
Best conference finish 2nd (twice)

A roster this year with the #1 and #2 recruits in 2022 plus enough surrounding talent to compete with any team in the country. They bow out in the Sweet 16. Her accomplishments don’t impress me with the resources and roster she has.

Well, they were playing the defending national champions and the #1 recruit missed part of the year due to injuries. She can recruit though. She has an excellent class coming in this year and Betts' sister (considered one of the top players in the '25 class) signed up.
The team that has the dynamite recruiting class is U$C. Team those players with Watkins and they look unstoppable in the future. I'm glad we don't have to play them.

Unfortunately, I fear we are going to struggle in the ACC next year.  On paper out team seems worse, not better and no apparent prospects for fixing our inability to guard quick opposing players of which there will be more than one in the ACC.  Brink's departure will be a brobdingnagian loss, just watch the last part of the NCS game without Brink.  I think opposing teams will do what NCS did and simply take the ball at Kiki and make her defend, probably foul or give up a layin.  Jump is gone, it could be ugly.  Hopefully someone already on the roster has a Kiki like improvement between now and then, preferably more than one.  Some of the young players are really going to have to step up.