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(03-13-2021 06:43 PM)burden Wrote:  

(03-13-2021 05:56 PM)cleveland Wrote:  

(03-13-2021 12:22 PM)burden Wrote:  Bowling Green down 12 with 5 to go in the third quarter of the women’s game. BG was up about 6 near the end of the half and then the wheels came off. Why do so many very good players go to the hinterlands of Michigan but we can’t recruit as well? What ever happened to Amy Sherry, Dawn Zerman, Ann Forbes, Lindsey Shearer etc. Used to pull decent players from Europe too. Heck we out recruited Sherry from Connecticut’s Rebecca Lobo team. I know the landscape of women’s basketball is different but it’s not nearly as crazy as the men’s game. Most players stay four years, you can actually get top teams to come to Kent, etc.

While I was typing BG cut the lead to 4. Very good high paced game. Now it’s 1 with 2 minutes to go in the 3rd. These teams actually shoot well!!

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All great players ... but I think the most impactful player ever at Kent was Chase ... Andrea Caesar. She transferred before her senior year, I believe to get married to a ski athlete in Montana somewhere. She actually played again later, professionally.

Only for one year though. Those 9 blocks in a MAC tournament game were impressive. She looked like she had suction cups on her hands. I forgot Julie Studer who passed on Michigan St. and played 4 years. She could even score against the big girls. Twenty some points against a 4 seed Iowa St in Ames in the NCAA. Her and Zerman were quite the team.

Caesar left to turn pro in Europe and was still playing for a professional team in Switzerland a few years ago. Her and Zerman's four years were probably the best ever at Kent State.

But....Neither Studer nor Caesar ever averaged a double-double, as Nila Blackford did this season. Neither led the MAC in blocked shots three years in a row, as Lindsey Thall has (and she'll be back next year).

Starkey has had good teams. Two MAC East championships in five years.

I don't know what to conclude from this season except that COVID-19 made everything crazy.