Here comes another one: WBB gains 3rd Transfer, 5-10 G from BGSU
Elissa Brett, 5-10 G from BGSU
https://www.michigandaily.com/womens-basketball/elissa-brett-transfers-to-michigan/
Welcome to the REAL Big Blue, Elissa!!!
Very excited for the upcoming season for WBB. For those who haven't attended, I can't recommend enough coming to Crisler to watch the women play ball...Coach Kim is steadily building a monster...get out and support it!
And before any one of you go on an uninformed "Big Blue" rant, the University of Michigan Athletic Department Cheer Team has been doing a "Let's Go, Big Blue" cheer at Crisler for years...so get over yourself for not knowing that.
Go Blue, my friends!!!
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Negged for "Big Blue" - we're not Kentucky. I don't care what the cheer team might be doing to make a rhyme for some cheer, when talking about college sports 'Big Blue' is equated with Kentucky. When sports fans talk about college sports, we don't quote the cheer teams.
Please stop comparing Michigan to Kentucky and trying to take over someone else's psuedo-name.
Everything else about your post was informative and spot on! Go Blue, and go KBA!!
Guy at work said “Go Big Blue!” To me when he saw my Michigan shirt. I had to resist punching him in the mouth and simply thanked him. Very important not to cross the streams.
Probably also very important not to get arrested at work for assault and battery.
April 20th, 2023 at 11:08 AM ^
Do you think Bowling Green is in Kentucky?
i don't know that i'd call a (correct) suggestion that "big blue" isn't really a thing "uninformed."
i'd also say - i don't know that i've ever heard the cheerleaders do "let's go big blue," like ever. "let's go blue," though? yah, i think i've heard that one.
April 19th, 2023 at 10:39 PM ^
She is the player that got punched in the handshake line by the Memphis player after an NIT game a few weeks ago.
Does this mean she's gritty?
It means she should be playing for the men's team.
April 20th, 2023 at 12:18 AM ^
Bowling Green was very good last year. This is a great addition.
Awesome
#talonsup
This girl can shoot, feel like her FG% should be a lot higher than what it was.
Welcome, Elissa Brett! Go Blue!
Interesting, because BGSUs coach just took the head job at MSU.
April 20th, 2023 at 10:47 AM ^
IMO the talent gap is still very large across women's basketball as talent is limited. I don't believe you can create a true contending team off of transfers from smaller schools.
Mens basketball, there isn't much of a talent gap at the collegiate level anymore. Womens, there is still that huge gap which is why a team like South Carolina can (come very close) to running the table every year. A BG transfer doesn't move the needle
i don't think anyone should think that KBA is attempting to create a contender through the transfer portal. in this case, she's using transfers to plug gaps created by graduation and transfers out. the two incoming (smaller) guards have similar skillsets to ari wiggins and maddie nolan and will pick up minutes while they develop macy brown this year and wait for olivia olson in 2024.
KBA is, like any coach, a mixture of approaches, however. i think she tends, more than anything else, to recruit to culture, that culture being "the hardest working team in america." she also preaches the notion of sticking around, and you'll get your chance, emily kiser and danielle rauch being perfect examples.
this is the first season of really significant, by-choice departures, the first time where players that had existing or expected increased roles have left, and her increased attention to the portal reflects that. i don't think it will be an every-year thing going forward.
Also, Brett is from LI, NY, close to KBAs old stomping grounds, and the article mentions that KBA has been scouting her for several years.