Magassa has entered the portal. She's a 6'5" center from France and will be a junior.
Illini Women's Basketball 2022
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Any chance any can be persuaded to stay by the newb coach? Who would we want to stay?
Nye for sure
Dayton’s always been pretty good at WBB.
The team went 26-6 and 14-1 in the Atlantic 10 this past season. The team were Atlantic 10 champions five out of the past six years under Green. The team went 127-50 (.718) overall and 79-13 (.859) in the conference under Green's leadership. She led the team to four NCAA tournaments, but the team never got past the first round.
Nye can shoot, but there were very few players who took themselves seriously as athletes last season. Skipping every extra workout and shoot opportunity isn't a trait Coach Green is gonna lean real hard into.
Lopes, Bostic, Mckinze, and the incoming kids if properly motivated will as is finish top half of the Big next year.
Lopes, Bostic, Mckinze, and the incoming kids if properly motivated will as is finish top half of the Big next year.
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My word on whether the new kids still plan to attend? How about assistant coaches?
With the new world of the transfer portal, all the transfers out gives Coach Green a terrific opportunity to reshape the program in one or two years rather than three or four years to get her own types of players into the program. I wonder if any of our women entering the transfer portal, if they change their mind, might be told “thanks but no thanks.”
Every Assistant is gone. Gio Lopes wants to play as a super senior, Jada Peebles was originally recruited by Coach Green and is really looking for a team with (family) feel.. likely to stay, Nye likely stays (really who has a better engineering program than UofI) sure the rest are gone.
Brown was checked out 10games in, the Amusen and Porter dont fit into the new (we actually gonna work at this thing) program.
Brown was checked out 10games in, the Amusen and Porter dont fit into the new (we actually gonna work at this thing) program.
Peebles, Oden, Lopes, Rembert, McKenzie, Nye, Bostic, plus four recruits is 11. That leaves two available scholarships. Peebles, McKenzie, Nye and Bostic were starting at the end of the season. Dayton's Magassa entered the transfer portal shortly after Green announced she was coming to Illinois. She is 6'5" and started for Dayton at the end of the year. If Magassa is following Green she would be a help.
Cook is also now in the portal. She's a 5'6" guard who will be a junior this fall. She was ranked the #82 high school recruit by Prospect Nation. She averaged 14.6 PPG this past season. Hopefully, both Magassa and Cook will follow Green to Illinois.
General question to Illini fanbase -
If Illinois gets things turned in the right direction, maybe somewhere short of the volleyball program or on the level of the Grentz teams, what do you see as the ceiling for the Illini program? Will we be drawing 5,000 to SFC? More, less? Will we be NCAA team about 60-70 pct of the time?
I watch a ton of high school girls basketball in Illinois and certainly don't see any reason Illinois couldn't be an NCAA team most years. Just curious what everyone sees as the upside future of a program that has struggled for so, so long.
If Illinois gets things turned in the right direction, maybe somewhere short of the volleyball program or on the level of the Grentz teams, what do you see as the ceiling for the Illini program? Will we be drawing 5,000 to SFC? More, less? Will we be NCAA team about 60-70 pct of the time?
I watch a ton of high school girls basketball in Illinois and certainly don't see any reason Illinois couldn't be an NCAA team most years. Just curious what everyone sees as the upside future of a program that has struggled for so, so long.
Div. ! women get 15 scholarships in basketball.
We drew well during the better Grentz years - sometimes in the 3000s. That's part of the reason that the team moved to the Assembly Hall.
One year in the early '90s, there were no seniors on the All-Big Ten team and every guy returned the following season (those were the days!). Glenn Robinson was also coming off Prop 42. So the preseason All-Big Ten team the next year included four guys from the previous year's postseason list and the Big Dog. Mike Peplowski of Michigan State was the odd man out. On media day, someone asked Jud why his guy was left off. He retorted, "I don't know. Maybe they thought he died."
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Weren’t they forced to move to the Assembly Hall because of Title 9? Women were supposed to play in the same the same arena as men. I don’t think Grentz wanted to move because of the home court advantage at Huff.
What happened to her? She was terrific in high school. Just checked her ND stats. She did real well as freshman but fell off the map this year.
Former Schlarman standout Peoples enters transfer portal
The three-time News-Gazette All-Area girls' basketball Player of the Year has spent the previous three seasons at Notre Dame.
I think injuries have derailed her career, but her shooting numbers sure look like they fell off a cliff, as well. She was a dynamic high-school player, for sure.
Aaliyah Nye is headed to Alabama
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