I don’t know if Emily counts tho, she was out of the team before the season started
My guess is that Coach Griffith has already selected her top three targets in the Transfer Portal.
Vas has also entered the transfer portal. I feel bad for this freshman class
Yeah, so many never got the chance to prove themselves.
I am so disappointed about Shay Shippen. She has been described as a walking bucket.
Are their departures just because there were better players on the team so they never got any playing time, or some other managerial error?
I think she sticks with the same starting lineup for too long. Broom should have been starting over Avlijas earlier in the season. I felt she did the same thing with keeping Riley Weiss on the bench for most of her first season and starting Fliss Henderson instead. JMO, but I thought that Shippen wasn’t given the opportunities she should have been based on her pedigree.
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To be fair, they get a chance every day.
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Meg’s simply trying to win games and that means using lineups that give her team the best chance to win. My only gripe is that she leaves the best players on the floor too long in blowouts.
Just one example… she had Mia Broom playing in garbage time vs Manhattan in a 40-point blowout. She could easily have played Vas, Shippen, Mitchell, Tor, and Jaama (or Erinugha) during the final 8-10 mins of that game. Vas didn’t get on the court at all.
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As long as the NET rankings factor in victory margin (I know it’s not straightforward, as someone, I think kreeeker, explained earlier this season), there is incentive to keep the top players in the games, unfortunately.
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Agree with Michael on two fronts:
First, if you take the NET at face value, the math is pretty clear: keep your best players on the floor. When you’re living in that at-large bubble range, optimizing efficiency margins isn’t optional—it’s part of the job.
Second, It’s not ideal, but it’s the reality.
Even if the tournament expands to 76, that’s directionally helpful for the Ivies on the women’s side, but it doesn’t change the underlying game. If anything, it raises the stakes on getting the NET profile right, because you’re still competing against P4 teams with deeper résumés and more Quad 1 opportunities.
More seats at the table, but the same unrelenting math deciding who gets one.
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Absolutely, that’s part of her job… build a strong resume for the NCAA in case they don’t get the automatic bid.
But… there are other aspects of the job to consider:
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Keep your star players healthy and don’t put them in low reward/high risk situations. Meg would be second guessing herself if Perri Page tore her hamstring in the 4th quarter with Columbia up 68-23 vs Dartmouth in late January. Say goodbye to a WBIT championship if that occurred.
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Keep players deep on your bench motivated to stick with the program and develop them to contribute in future years. While we don’t know why Shippen and Cholopoulou are currently in the portal, lack of playing time likely played a role. They combined to get only 50 mins on the floor the entire season. Vas didn’t even score a point.
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Anyways, I think it’s impossible to have a roster of 15 players and keep them all happy. Some people have to sit, and when you want to win, sometimes that means the less experienced are the ones paying the price. I hope Meg realized that 12-13 is the maximum roster size we should have if we want to keep a team that smoothly transitions from one year to another
While I tend to agree with you (very tough to keep 15 players happy), I don’t think Meg tried very hard. She could easily have given Shippen and Cholopoulou 60 mins each this season by allowing them to play in the 4th quarter of 8-9 blowout wins this season.
I agree, but I say this because it’s an extended opinion around D1 programs. Most coaches that have had 15 players season always say after it that they will try to never do that again.
I think 13-15 is ideal… it gives the coach some flexibility when the injury and/or flu bug hits. Anything over 15 makes it challenging to give many minutes to the end of the bench.
I understand wanting some game minutes, but blowouts are meaningless minutes. They compete hard every day in practice. That’s where the important evaluations are made.
What website(s) are you going to in order to see who has entered the transfer portal from Columbia or other schools/ Thanks
You can follow most of the info here
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Remember this name: Mary Ashley Stevenson
Big 10 Freshman of the year two seasons ago at Purdue, but didn’t do much in two seasons at Stanford.
Do you have an inside source? Or just speculation? You sometimes have knowledge of things like this before they become public.