You call my comment ridiculous, but you have not provided one piece of empirical evidence that it was just a difference of 5 or 6 more minutes and a few more shots for a first-year player. In her first year, Riley Weiss averaged a mere 15.7 minutes and scored 7.1 PPG. In her next two seasons, she averaged 30.0 and 33.1 minutes, respectively, and scored 17.8 and 20.1 PPG.
What you are saying is factually false, yet I’m the one making a “ridiculous comment.”?!?!
It seems like some on this board would like to defend Meg Griffith at all costs, ignoring the reality that she makes first-year players with high upside ride the bench all too often.
Andy… you seem to forget that the 23/24 team had a lot of proven/experienced offensive weapons… Abbey, Kitty, and Cecelia Collins to name a few. Meg didn’t need to rely on Riley’s shooting that much that season.
Cost Riley the all-time scoring title??? That shouldn’t be a remote consideration for the head coach, especially for a freshman. Riley didnt start bc it wasn’t in the best interest of the team in Megan’s analysis.
2000 pts should be pretty easy–it would only require a lower average than she posted this year. Surpassing Abby is the real stretch: she’d have to average 22, and we’d have to play deep into the postseason.
But after much hard work on myself, I have decided that nice as it might be, the team’s overall success is more important than her individual achievement!
IMO, one of the keys to next season will be the development of Nasi’s offensive game, specifically her 3-pt shooting. If she can build some confidence in her shot, watch out.
Here are some fun facts about Nasi this season. She shot 50.5% from the floor despite going 0 for 22 from beyond the arc. That resulted in a 63.5% FG percentage (54/85) inside the arc!
I don’t know how Defensive Box Plus/Minus is calculated, but she’s among an elite list of players here… and the only one to have never started a game.
That is opening weekend, but the season opener will be a home game at Levien against Davidson!
Over all three very solid first games. Considering the big senior class we have, it might be a very solid way to boost our resume right from the start. And get the team battle tested against probably three of the best teams we will play all season long.
11/2 vs Davidson
11/6 vs Rhode Island (Nashville, TN)
11/8 at Belmont
11/21 vs Duke
12/13 vs Seton Hall
I could not find anything scheduled for Thanksgiving weekend yet. They made destination trips to the Bahamas in 2023 (Baha Mar) and 2024 (Battle of Atlantis), and Mexico last year (Cancun Challenge).
We usually schedule double headers, so we potentially have Butler at home, Ohio at home, game at Binghamton, game at UTSA. If we are traveling to Texas we might be playing another game there. That would make 10 + a possible Thanksgiving tournament? (I know we were looking for 2 opponents beginning of the summer so maybe no Thanksgiving tournament this year)
I guess we will have the calendar once they get back from Japan.
Also, the team is on a trip to Japan where there are playing 3 preseason games. First one was a few days ago, comfortable win. It seems the main contributors were Weiss, Stevenson and Feldrappe. There is also good film from Dritz, Mia, Dix, Henderson, Mitchell, Jaama and Nasi. No clue if Eriny, Vella or Marija played any minutes. Blau did not travel with the team, does anyone know why?
Stevenson seems to have landed very well. The probable season first starting lineup right now feels: Broom, Weiss, Henderson, Feldrappe, Stevenson. And Dritz will probably have a very important role right from the start.
This is shaping up to be a very tough non-conference schedule… the average NET is 67 as of now with 5-6 games to be added later this month or next. I expect the Thanksgiving weekend game(s) to be against at least one Top 50 team.
11/2 vs Davidson (73) 11/6 vs Rhode Island (49)
11/8 at Belmont (106)
11/15 at Maryland (15) 11/21 vs Duke (8) 12/3 vs Old Dominion (151) 12/13 vs Seton Hall (65)
We are playing the Rainbow Wahine Tournament in Hawaii! Stanford just announced their schedule, they are also playing and we are playing them on 11/28.
The calendar is left as follows:
11/2 vs Davidson (73)
11/6 vs Rhode Island (49)
11/8 at Belmont (106)
11/15 at Maryland (15)
11/21 at Duke (8)
11/27 San Diego St (66) (at Hawaii) (TBC)
11/28 Stanford (46) (at Hawaii)
11/29 at Hawaii (121) (TBC)
12/3 vs Old Dominion (151)
12/13 vs Seton Hall (65)
We are probably missing 3 games, all of them in December I suppose. I expect one before Seton Hall and two more after Xmas. This is by far the toughest schedule we have ever had, on the lines of what other top mid-major programs are doing (Princeton, Harvard, Belmont, Fairfield, Davidson, for example, also have incredibly tough schedules)
