Raoul

January 25th, 2017 at 2:10 AM ^

Maryland is undefeated in the conference and unlikely to lose any of its remaining games, except perhaps to OSU. Michigan already has 2 losses, and while they have no games left vs. Maryland or OSU (the top 2 teams), I doubt they run the table.

Michigan has a good chance to finish 3rd or 4th in the conference and thus get a double-bye in the conference tourney. But they'd still likely need to beat either Maryland or OSU (or maybe both) to win the tourney, and those teams are much more talented and have deeper benches than Michigan.

Michigan has developed into a consistently good basketball team under Barnes Arico, but they are far from a women's basketball power, as the misleading headline in that article claims they are building into. Right now, they're not even a top-25 team, let alone being close to the powers of women's basketball.

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Mark46

January 25th, 2017 at 10:52 AM ^

I think there's a bigger gap between Maryland and OSU than there is between OSU and Michigan. We're deeper than most people think, the problem is when we play top teams KBA  tightens the rotation down to about 6 women and we get worn down in the 4th quarter.  It happens over and over and over again. Earlier in the season she was using a 9 women rotation and we were the ones wearing the opponents down.

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Raoul

January 25th, 2017 at 3:45 PM ^

You may be right about the gaps, although OSU does have a lot of talent, but they simply haven't jelled as a team given the transfers and freshmen they're trying to incorporate into their rotation.

I would say Michigan had great depth because they've now lost Boogie Brozoski to transfer and Akienreh Johnson to a torn ACL (KeAsja Peace has also been out with a concussion). But I agree with you about Barnes Arico; she always seems to tighten her rotation during Big Ten play. I've never quite understood that.

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