Originally Posted by
NYC Duke Fan
If you look at it from the outside you could say that Duke Women's Basketball is one of the top 20 programs in the country.However, if you examine it really closely you would be disappointed. A few years ago, Duke was right up there with the 2 powerhouses, UCONN and Tennessee under Coach G, and dominated ACC basketball.
Now, we lag far behind UCONN, ( Ellena Della Donne is going there and will team with the young team that they had this year), and Tennessee, ( who recruited 5 McDonald's All Americans). UNC and Maryland have come up to us and probably have overtaken us in the ACC, and I bet that Texas under Coach G will soon be there also.
I see Duke being a very good team but not be one of the top programs any more and not challenging for a national championship in the near future.
As I said, it is disappointing to see the program drop from being one of the elite programs to being just a very good one.
I could not disagree more! to base this off of a coaches first year is unfair and wrong.
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WOMEN'S BASKETBALL RANKINGS
W Basketball AP
1 Connecticut 1249
2 North Carolina 1188
3 Tennessee 1158
4 Stanford 1091
5 Maryland 1027
6 LSU 1014
7 Rutgers 952
8 Texas A&M 858
9 Duke 817
10 California 788
11 Old Dominion 711
12 Baylor 705
13 Oklahoma State 552
14 Oklahoma 535
15 Notre Dame 477
16 Kansas State 436
17 West Virginia 434
18 Utah 426
19 Louisville 371
20 George Washington 352
21 Vanderbilt 263
22 Marist 222
23 UTEP 218
24 Virginia 113
25 Ohio State 86
Texas didn't make the top 25, so, since you based your evaluation on one years performance, what is your foundation for your Texas praise?
Originally Posted by
NYC Duke Fan
I agree the program will be fine, but not elite as we were a few years back. I see no chance of competing for a National Championship in the very near future, especially since as was posted on another thread that Coach P is not a very good recruiter
They wanted to run Coach K out his first year as well. Aren't you glad they didn't??????