Jiselle Havas 5'10 guard Pratt Engineering undergraduate
https://goduke.com/news/2020/9/23/ha...ll-roster.aspx
Katie was also a two-time AP Virginia Player of the Year and USA Today National Player of the Year as a junior and senior. One year she averaged 30.4 points per game. Fudd’s father was a very good player for American U.
I saw Katie, Kara, Jasmine Thomas and Azzi Fudd play in high school in northern Virginia. Katie was most dynamic scorer of them all, with speed and wow could she shoot. Kind of reminded me of Pete Maravich. Azzi is a more complete player, sort of like Oscar Robertson with a better shooting range. Kara was a fabulous player, too, more in the classic point guard role, making everyone better but being able to run and score. I haven’t seen Fudd play since she recovered from her ACL/MCL reconstruction surgery last year. Nevertheless, she can likely go anywhere she wants. I expect she’ll go to one of the existing top tier teams, And Duke isn’t there yet.
Man, if your Mom made you wear that color when you were a baby, and you're still wearing it, it's time to grow up!
Lawson is recruiting with the mindset that Duke University and its women's basketball programs are very desirable landing spots. It's probably too late for this to have much of an impact in the class of 2021, most of which has already been locked up. But she's not conceding anything in the 2022 class and is laying the groundwork for classes beyond that.
Duke Basketball Report should apologize for treating Women's Basketball like it is an after thought.Glad they realize they have been behind in coverage,
Sage Grouse
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013
I'm a big fan of Duke Women's BB, hope they do well and expect Lawson will raise its profile. But here's the reality of who is top-tier:
Final Four and Elite 8 appearances in the last 15 years:
1 UConn FF 12 EE 2
2 Stanford 6-4
3 Notre Dame 7-1
4 U Tennessee 3-4
Duke is 1-5, arguably on par with U Maryland at 3-3. Of course, Duke has a lot of advantages as a place to attend college, not the least its academic standing with which only Stanford compares (and that's the other coast from home for Fudd).
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCAA_D...ol_and_by_year
Last edited by Rudy; 10-07-2020 at 01:06 PM. Reason: Add source
I know you're joking, but let's don't. In the words of the immensely talented Joni Mitchell, "Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got til its gone."
To be clear though - I am again very excited about women's basketball and hopefully Ms Lawson can restore the luster to this proud program.