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A tournament preview will follow, but a couple of comments on Burden and roundball4me's posts.

Last year was unexpectedly far better than we had any right to expect. This year has been unexpectedly, disappointingly worst. I agree with Burden that things have gotten steadily worse through the conference season. The team seemed to have peaked in its last two games before Christmas.

The next two years will tell us how good Starkey is as a coach. It's his team now. He recruited a five-person freshman class that looks as good as any I've seen in Kent. He has commitments from two 2019 grads who also look to be very good.

But Korinek will be every bit as hard to replace as Lurken was. The freshman class has one forward in it. Barber-Smith told me last Saturday that she expected to be back, but she's not a scorer. Only other underclass forward is Amanda Sape, who played fewer than 10 minutes. Monique Smith could play forward at 5-10, but that's badly undersized.

I don't know whether we back to where we started. We're really at a new start.

I'll have a lot more when I wrap up the season this week.