Ryan’s back!

NWICY

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I don't think people have fully appreciated the defense and ball handling from Belanger who is moving up a full level in NCAA hoops. Heck, I was thinking she'd just be a three point threat but she's been improving each game IMHO. Like I said in other posts, we have enough good passers on the team that we do not need a PG completely running the show every possession.

Just spitballing but I don't see Ryan playing the kind of minutes she did last year. We have 80 minutes of guard play to fill each game and thinking all four will get ample PT. I am with you on Joens in thinking she has done really well.

I certainly hope you are right, Bill's teams have done better it seems to me when balanced, than when we have done the 1 star and 4 backup singer route.
 

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On the coach's show you could hear the joy in Coach's voice when talking about this team. Especially the respect he has for Ryan.

He said it was not his decision or Ryan decision on when she came back - it was the medical staff. And they look for the best long term interest of the player. Ryan had been agitating to play.

Said the medical staff had told him ten minutes for Ryan. She played 9 1/2 minutes and was upset not to get the extra 30 seconds! Ha!
 

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Well, I don't know if it answers the question, but the latest article in CF (about Crooks) mentions a lower leg injury is what was keeping Ryan sidelined.
 

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I had heard it was a back issue, and seems that she had issues in the past like this. Just not this extreme. May or may not be why she was out?
I was only told from family that it was her foot and I have a very close relative who is in the know. I also didn't push hard for information. I was just told that it wasn't that serious.
 

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and the most unheralded of them all - Tracy Gahan. She was phenomenal. That team literally had ZERO weaknesses.
Tracy was, and is still, one of my top five favorite players of all time. Never thought of her as being overshadowed because I thought she had that quiet "it" factor on that team. But looking back, THERE WAS such a dynamic on that team Gahan, ever so solid, did not project over.
 

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and the most unheralded of them all - Tracy Gahan. She was phenomenal. That team literally had ZERO weaknesses.
I’ll see your Angie Welle, Megan Taylor, Stacy Freese and Tracy Gahan, and I’ll raise you a Desiree Francis! My goodness but that 99/00 team was incredible! How fun was the week of the Big 8 tournament with our men’s and women’s teams?
 

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I’ll see your Angie Welle, Megan Taylor, Stacy Freese and Tracy Gahan, and I’ll raise you a Desiree Francis! My goodness but that 99/00 team was incredible! How fun was the week of the Big 8 tournament with our men’s and women’s teams?
The day the men beat OK State in an incredibly intense semifinal at Kemper in the afternoon and then we all poured into Municipal Auditorium that night to see the women roll Texas in the championship was one of the best days of my life. Then we got to go back to Kemper the next day to see the men destroy OU to top it off. It was an incredible weekend.