2024-2025 WBB Team (2022-present)
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UNC's women's basketball single game tix just became available. If you're wanting ticket, it would be a good time for Gamecock fans going to Chapel Hill to buy and help sell the place out...
South Carolina always gets a sellout . I remember last year when we played at . Stanford (7000 seats) and the announcer said "first sellout in 5 years " WTF...talented team every year and you can't sell out every home game in 7k seat gym. unc will be a sell out also
Carmichael holds 6,900 and the closest they came to a sellout last season was vs NCSU, 6,300. I’m intrigued as to how much garnet will be in the stands
Latest update on Olivia Miles, Star PG for Notre Dame. Doesn’t appear she will be ready for Paris.
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Exclusive: Notre Dame coach Niele Ivey issues update on Olivia Miles knee injury rehab
Notre Dame women's basketball point guard Olivia Miles is making her way back from major knee surgery. This is the latest on her rehab.
Good stuff here as always from Chris Wellbaum:
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South Carolina women's basketball: What to look for on the first day of practice
The Gamecocks tip off preseason practice Thursday afternoon. Here are three things they need to do before the season starts, plus schedule updates.
Need to have a lot of buses from Columbia. That would help as unc is a hard drive, even from Charlotte.
Is WBB all that Chris Does ? Does he have other responsibilities with GC ? I am grateful for any info on our WBB program . But if we are being honest ,I learn more from the other members here than I do from Chris. The other staff members pump out FB ,BB info every day...during season and out . Maybe Wellbaum has a lot more on his plate than WBB and it's the best he can do. I was just wondering.
I believe Chris works at WIS TV and this is not a full time gig here. He has connections and access to the WBB program. I always appreciate his knowledge and insight. I look forward to the day Gamecock WBB warrants and pays a full time beat writer.
Thnx for the info...I do also look forward to that .It would save beaucoup time not having to check The State...Instagram...twitter....Gamecocks online...The Insiders and here.. Sometimes I feel like a Stalker
I'm comfortable in saying it held more than that in the pre-Dean Smith Center days, something like 8,800. Evidently they have downsized it since the days when men also played there.
Here is the latest edition of top 25. We stay at #8. Five SEC teams, four in the top 12. The league is on an upswing for now. We have 10 games scheduled against the top 25
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LSU, UConn, UCLA headline women's basketball Way-Too-Early Top 25
With plenty of player movement and top stars back, the women's college basketball race is wide open. But everyone starts out looking up at LSU.
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This is espn's look at the polls which is often slanted by some traditional programs they favor. I expect the AP and Coaches poll to take into acoount what Kamilla, Chloe and Raven did this summer with USA Bball and I would expect South Carolina to few a few spots better to start the actual polls.Here is the latest edition of top 25. We stay at #8. Five SEC teams, four in the top 12. The league is on an upswing for now. We have 10 games scheduled against the top 25
LSU, UConn, UCLA headline women's basketball Way-Too-Early Top 25
With plenty of player movement and top stars back, the women's college basketball race is wide open. But everyone starts out looking up at LSU.
I'm talking about it being a sellout with majority Gamecock fans...
I hope Watkins get a chance to DUNK the basketball... when we play the Tarheels...
"No" to residual influence from last year's team. I like her honesty.
Interview with Raven. She gets asked about the Iowa game near the end. What an emotionally mature, strong and classy response
AND WOE TO THE PLAYER THAT TRIES TO UNDERCUT HER.....Ashlyn is no body to mess with
I think Dawn is excited for the potential of this team and maybe glad not to be the "Hunted " this year. I think we will be a dangerous team come the Spring
MORE FROM CHRIS:
Practice is scheduled to end at 3:30. I’ll update this post with anything of note.
All 11 players are present. So is Laeticia Amihere, who has been working out in Columbia since her season ended.
I miscounted. Sahnya Jah is not here. Will find out why.
Jah has the week off, Staley said.
Staley said some days they look great and some days it looks like 2009. Leadership is a work in progress.
Fulwiley is unlike any player they’ve had before. Sometimes she still falls back on instincts and that can get her in trouble at this level.
Kitts looks really good and will compete for a starting job.
Staley thanked the NCAA for granting the waiver to allow the exhibition with Rutgers.
Paopao said Cardoso is becoming more vocal on the court.
Raven is definitely closer to 6-0 than the 5-9 she is listed at. She said this is the revenge tour and as point guard it’s her responsibility to lead the team.
Both players had big praise for Khadijah Sessions. I’ll have more on her tomorrow.
one last note: after practice the team got in a circle and talked. I couldn’t hear what they were saying, but I saw Ashlyn Watkins talking and rallying her teammates. She never spoke up last season, so that’s an encouraging development.
Practice is scheduled to end at 3:30. I’ll update this post with anything of note.
I miscounted. Sahnya Jah is not here. Will find out why.
Jah has the week off, Staley said.
Staley said some days they look great and some days it looks like 2009. Leadership is a work in progress.
Fulwiley is unlike any player they’ve had before. Sometimes she still falls back on instincts and that can get her in trouble at this level.
Kitts looks really good and will compete for a starting job.
Staley thanked the NCAA for granting the waiver to allow the exhibition with Rutgers.
Paopao said Cardoso is becoming more vocal on the court.
Raven is definitely closer to 6-0 than the 5-9 she is listed at. She said this is the revenge tour and as point guard it’s her responsibility to lead the team.
Both players had big praise for Khadijah Sessions. I’ll have more on her tomorrow.
one last note: after practice the team got in a circle and talked. I couldn’t hear what they were saying, but I saw Ashlyn Watkins talking and rallying her teammates. She never spoke up last season, so that’s an encouraging development.
A few more notes from Chris Wellbaum:
On paper Fulwiley looks like another Zia Cooke, and the way the question was asked was kind of leading that way. I think Dawn was trying to stop the comparison. Fulwiley is incredibly athletic (5-9 and can dunk in a game?! That alone makes her unique). Staley also said she is extremely coachable. It’s such a coachspeak/marketing slogan that it kind of loses meaning, but great players want to be coached hard. Fulwiley seems to be a natural leader- if you follow them on social media the newcomers have definitely formed a group around her. She seems to have that A’ja mix of easygoing offcourt and intense oncourt.
That’s my interpretation, anyway.
Re: Joyce Edwards -
I'll say what I've been saying for a while now: USC hasn't missed an instate prospect it wanted in almost a decade. It will happen someday, but I don't expect it to happen now. Joyce and Chloe also got to be very good friends over the summer, which is just another boost.
On paper Fulwiley looks like another Zia Cooke, and the way the question was asked was kind of leading that way. I think Dawn was trying to stop the comparison. Fulwiley is incredibly athletic (5-9 and can dunk in a game?! That alone makes her unique). Staley also said she is extremely coachable. It’s such a coachspeak/marketing slogan that it kind of loses meaning, but great players want to be coached hard. Fulwiley seems to be a natural leader- if you follow them on social media the newcomers have definitely formed a group around her. She seems to have that A’ja mix of easygoing offcourt and intense oncourt.
That’s my interpretation, anyway.
Re: Joyce Edwards -
I'll say what I've been saying for a while now: USC hasn't missed an instate prospect it wanted in almost a decade. It will happen someday, but I don't expect it to happen now. Joyce and Chloe also got to be very good friends over the summer, which is just another boost.
My favorite thing about all this is that nobody in the media seemed to acknowledge the facts that 1. Raven shot 50% from three point range on 6 shots and 2. Clark shot 29% from three on 17 shots. Not saying Raven is the better shooter, but if I'm not mistaken, all of her makes came after Clark waved her off which suggests a ton of composure and maturity for a RS freshman playing in her first final 4. She has nothing to be embarrassed about despite what the big media and folks who didn't even watch the game have to say.
BOO HISS! I agree with you on this. UCONN has gotten a commitment from another overseas post player and has apparently moved on.
Maybe I’m just wishful thinking, but I don’t see Koval and Del Rosario coexisting more than one year. The portal giveth but it also taketh, and LSU has reached the point that all that talent is difficult to manage.
Something is up with Del Rosario. She was the only true post on the U19 national team and left the team. No explanation given. There have already been several expressions of disappointment in her conditioning coming out of camp. From multiple sources I might add. Coates and Wilson, Boston and Cardoso coexisting are unicorn events in college WBB.
That's what annoyed me the most from people trying to discredit Raven this off-season. She actually shot well from the 3 that game and she has previously stated she didn't even see the hand motion in the game. I wish she had seen the gesture, because I'm sure Raven would have really took it at her.
Interestingly enough, I lurk on the Tiger Droppings board, and in their women's basketball recruiting thread, a poster there is convinced she's going to Notre Dame. But I guess we'll know for sure on Wednesday!
The beat writer had good things to say about ADR from their first practice but I do not think she will play extended minutes this season with the SEC's pace of play.
I am now thinking that as well. Just went back on LSU On3 and they said things have changed and she istrending towards Notre Dame after her in home with them. Supposedly LSU has canceled their in home visit that was supposed to happen today.
I am still hoping that is the commitment they thought they would get bc if they are still confident in a commitment it would mean either Strong or Edwards as Cambridge isn't slated to visit until right before signing day.
I do think they thought they were getting Koval though.
Chris Wellbaum had said ND was the favoriteJust got a report that LSU asst coach was at Joyce’s volleyball game Mon night on the heels of her visit and sat with her mom during the game. I was there but never saw him bc he was sitting on visitors side.
I’m thinking that Dawn will be at Joyce’s senior night which is this Monday. I will report back.
I’m thinking that Dawn will be at Joyce’s senior night which is this Monday. I will report back.
I saw this posted on another board.
LSU is a finalist for Me’Arah O’Neal, Shaq’s daughter. She has been very underneath this thread’s radar as no mutual interest with Gamecocks. She is a 6’3” who is ranked #32 on HoopGurlz. One spot ahead of Adhel Tac
If she was given the week off, it would make sense that you wouldn't see her yet.
And now this …
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Hmm. I'm going to guess that since he said top 25 prospects that it is someone ranked 11-25. Otherwise, he might have said top ten prospects since Koval is in the top 10 prospects and if the other one was also in the top 10, he might have named a stat about the top ten prospects. Otherwise, I have no idea.