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Figured they deserve a new thread. Stumbled upon this, sounds like they're making progress in turning things around.

http://tucson.com/sports/arizonawildcat ... a0bac.html" target="_blank

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Should have happened a long time ago. Butts never should have been hired in the first place. Never a HC. At least Ben Lindsey was a HC at some level. Interesting how Barnes will work out too.

AD and the UA fanbase just didn't care about UA WBB.
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Merkin wrote:Should have happened a long time ago. Butts never should have been hired in the first place. Never a HC. At least Ben Lindsey was a HC at some level. Interesting how Barnes will work out too.

AD and the UA fanbase just didn't care about UA WBB.
I don't know how Butts lasted more than four years here. Sounds like there wasn't much team chemistry. Look at how many players left the program over the last eight years.
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Merkin wrote:Should have happened a long time ago. Butts never should have been hired in the first place. Never a HC. At least Ben Lindsey was a HC at some level. Interesting how Barnes will work out too.

AD and the UA fanbase just didn't care about UA WBB.
You ain't wrong. Heck, I care more about Women's soccer, and I don't care about that either!
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Irish27 wrote:
Merkin wrote:Should have happened a long time ago. Butts never should have been hired in the first place. Never a HC. At least Ben Lindsey was a HC at some level. Interesting how Barnes will work out too.

AD and the UA fanbase just didn't care about UA WBB.
I don't know how Butts lasted more than four years here. Sounds like there wasn't much team chemistry. Look at how many players left the program over the last eight years.
I don't think they wanted to pay the money to get someone better than Butts. What was once a respectable if not great program went down the drain while Butts lingered on as coach.
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Whose the woman in the dress? Hot!
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Merkin wrote:Whose the woman in the dress? Hot!
Rosalyn Gold Onwude I believe.
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Yum.

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Nice start to the year. 6-1
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Is she gone for Udub?
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az91 wrote:Is she gone for Udub?
Just because she coached there doesn't mean she would leave. I doubt she would leave her alma mater.
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Adia doing work. Highest rated recruit ever signed by UA women's basketball:
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Wow #12 in the ESPN rankings
i was going to put the ua/asu records here...but i forgot what they were.

i'll just go with fuck asu.
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Adia does it again. She is building this program as fast as Lute did.
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Where is Paola Boivan when you need her? The recruiting gap is closing. She was finally right
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Can RichRod hire her as a recruiter?
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Merkin wrote:Can RichRod hire her as a recruiter?
I'm at the point where I'd hire her to be the football coach.
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Thanks ghost, that was a really cool article.
Barnes actually recruited Plum to Washington when she was an assistant there, and now is trying to use the San Diego native as an example for her current team at Arizona.

“I remind our players that she wasn’t a top-10 kid coming out of high school,” Barnes said. “She was a top-30, top-40 kid. No one would have thought that she would’ve been the first draft pick. No one thought she would’ve broken all the records. No one would’ve thought that at all. But her work ethic, her determination, her mentality set her apart.

“So I’m bringing in pieces like that to change the culture here like Kelsey Plum did at Washington.”
The turnaround in our program makes a lot more sense after that snippet from the article.
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Adia gets a commit from 5-star center Semaj Smith. Adia is really turning things around. https://www.azdesertswarm.com/recruitin ... 2018-class" target="_blank
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How much do we pay women's hoops recruits?
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Got to stop the culture of losing though.
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From someone who has seen the girls on this team multiple times: "The only Division I talent they have currently roster are redshirting due to transfer or are freshmen, next year will be a lot different."
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What a huge heads up play.

This team might be fun to watch too.
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They just exceeded their win total from all of last year. I’d say the turnaround is underway.
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This team is talented and young. Barnes has this program rising fast. What is crazy is next year's incoming freshmen are all from outside the United States.
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The ladies are playing ASSu right now on the network.
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So why isn't UWWBB ranked already?
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The Cats upset the 17th ranked Devils 51-39.
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RichardCranium wrote:So why isn't UWWBB ranked already?
Up to now they haven't played anybody.
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Big win!

Fuck ASU.
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Nice! Way to go, ladies. :D

Crowd was impressive, too.
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The ladies have nicer unis than the guys.
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azgreg wrote:
RichardCranium wrote:So why isn't UWWBB ranked already?
Up to now they haven't played anybody.
Yeah well it looks to like when A$$U played 'somebody', they lost. Badly.

Who cares... 'under the radar' and all that, amirite?
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RichardCranium wrote:
azgreg wrote:
RichardCranium wrote:So why isn't UWWBB ranked already?
Up to now they haven't played anybody.
Yeah well it looks to like when A$$U played 'somebody', they lost. Badly.

Who cares... 'under the radar' and all that, amirite?
It's clear Barnes has this program going in the right direction. They're playing great. However, coming off 7 straight losing seasons it's no wonder they weren't ranked. That won't last long.
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azgreg wrote:The ladies have nicer unis than the guys.

No kidding. C'mon Nike.
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Keep on keepin’ on ladies!
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Big game today against #6 Stanford at McKale. Looking forward to watching the lady cats keep rolling
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Bit of a setback today, but Stanford was always going to be a very tough game.
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Blown out in 4 of the last 5 games
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azgreg wrote:
Um... somebody at AZDS doesn't know how to spell New Zealand even when it is staring him/her in the face.

Edit: she is a Kiwi, but went to school in Oz. She plays for the New Zealand under 18 national team. So are guys who are born overseas, but go to school in the USA, considered Americans? Guys like, Ayton or Bol-Bol, or countless others?
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