CARDINAL COUPLE WEDNESDAY
- Hoops heating up in July
( Jenny O'Bryan fills us in on her latest observations on women's basketball recruiting news. It looks like UofL has a lot of top-flight talent mentioning the Lady Cards and it also looks like Jenny is going to be busy keeping track of all this talent!)
July marks the summer NCAA Certified Evaluation Period where AAU basketball teams head all over the country to play in front of coaches. You can expect the U of L Women’s Basketball staff will be out in full force over the course of the next month trying to reel in some top talent to join the team in 2014.
- Hoops heating up in July
( Jenny O'Bryan fills us in on her latest observations on women's basketball recruiting news. It looks like UofL has a lot of top-flight talent mentioning the Lady Cards and it also looks like Jenny is going to be busy keeping track of all this talent!)
July marks the summer NCAA Certified Evaluation Period where AAU basketball teams head all over the country to play in front of coaches. You can expect the U of L Women’s Basketball staff will be out in full force over the course of the next month trying to reel in some top talent to join the team in 2014.
We all also know that Syd has
been recovering from an ACL tear and is getting stronger every day. Paul and I had the opportunity to see her at
the first Elite Skills Camp.
A great article surfaced last
week about Freeman. Wow, what a workhorse, and what incredible
dedication this young woman is showing to the game preparing herself for being
a future Cardinal. If you are not
excited about seeing this young woman as a Cardinal, you will be after you read
this article.
Just who will be joining this
already talented duo in 2014? The two
evaluation periods in July are July 6-12 and July 23-29. Below is a little of information about a few
kids I have seen linked to Louisville.
Two west coast kids who play
AAU ball on the same team are Mariya
Moore and Natalie Romeo, a wing
and guard, respectively. Their names
have been linked to Louisville basketball for months now.
A 3rd incredible
talent from California is Gabby Green. Green will miss the summer circuit of AAU
ball as she made the USA U19 World Championship team. If Walz and Company want to see Green play in
July, they will have to go to Lithuania.
She is a fierce talent. Check out
this clip:
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| Vivans is a scoring machine! |
Another recruit who was on
campus just this past weekend who will also be in the sights of the staff this
month is Mackenzie Engram. Engram is a 6-1 forward out of Georgia. Her list of schools is SEC heavy with Georgia
Tech, Georgia, LSU, Mississippi and Auburn.
I wonder what the Coach Purcell effect will be here? Makes one wonder, does it not?
The final recruit on my
radar, not necessarily Louisville’s radar, is Kortney Dunbar out of Edwardsville, Il. Does that sound familiar? It should, Dunbar was a teammate of incoming
freshman Emmonie Henderson. This 6-2 guard
is a solid shooter, and certainly does not hurt to have that kind of size on
the perimeter.
It certainly looks like the staff is zeroing in on some top talent.
I’ll be following their progress over the
evaluation period and hope to recap how they have done at the end of the
month.
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Unless you have been away for
a week and unplugged from technology, you have likely heard that U of L
Women’s Basketball has been nominated for an ESPY Award for the biggest upset
in sports. If you have not voted, please
do so. Coach Pitino is also up for Coach
of the Year and Angel McCoughtry is up for WNBA Player of the Year. Go visit the page and vote. Let’s keep this Year of the Cardinal thing going!
Voting ends July 17 at 9:00
p.m.
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-Jenny O'Bryan
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Seen Vivians play and she would be a great recruit for UofL. Where does UofL rank in her
ReplyDeletelist? Also, what is the news on Moss?
Tide rollin'
Here's what I know about the Moss situation. She now has been granted the opportunity to go elsewhere...as long as it isn't a SEC school. So, that rules out UK. I've read that UofL, WVU and Cincinnati are suitors. I've "heard" that UofL would find a spot for her...even though the roster currently has 16 players, with 15 scholarships available.
DeleteYou make room somewhere for Moss and her skills.
UC? The playing time would obviously be there after she sits out a year. The question is...do you want to play for a team that is going to get maybe 10 wins a year and not participate in the post-season? Even in the American conference...where, in the 2014-15 season, it'll be UConn and pretty much no one else.
WVU? Tough sledding for Mike Carey in the BIG 12 where you've got Baylor, Oklahoma, Texas...a winning record there won't be easy...which means post-season play is a no-go.
So, Louisville is the (in my eyes) the obvious choice. There is interest on both the player and the staff's sides. I've been wrong before, but I'd say UofL is the leader for her services.
AS far as Victoria Vivians, I'll leave that question up to our recruiting ace Jenny. I will say Jeff Walz likes shooters that are also scorers. "V-Dub" has shown she fits that category...at least on the high school level. It should translate easily over to WBB in college...
Paulie
What about Hines-Allen?
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