2022 Transfer Season

Well, last season they brought in grad-transfer Jordyn Lewis to help run the point for Baylor. This season, I don't think Andrews has to worry about this transfer PG from Stanford.

 

Notre Dame name, but Tennessee colors. Call me confused.

 

Blue and gold?

 

The jersey looks Tennessee orange to me.

 

Is this a repeat of "The Dress?"

 

Dre’una Edwards of Kentucky has committed to Baylor.

 

I actually like it. Not because I like Baylor but I want them to be competitive. They were going to be down bad without Smith and Egbo and I don’t want that specifically because when Texas beats them it helps our RPI and helps us in the long run. Besides the rivalry is boring when one team sucks and now that we have the pieces to win a big 12 championship, having them be competitive makes it that much better when we win

 

That's a good get for Baylor, but to me a rather surprising choice given Baylor's fundamentalist (aka hypocritical) "values."

 

I think Baylor will most likely get Blackwell also. That will make them a very good team if they can develop some chemistry among the current players, incoming freshmen, and transfers. The Big 12 will again be a very competitive conference. I like that!

 

While I don't disagree with this as a concept (better to have good teams for a strong conference), I personally just have a little bit different feelings about Baylor. Their fans have been almost intolerable on social media this year (only Tech fans have been worse. We know aggie and sooner fans are intolerable, but we're all just used to that by now). From Oct - March, Baylor fans had been regularly posting on twitter: how "entitled" Texas fans are; gloating in our lack of success; incessantly mocking us, our teams and our coaches for anything and everything; and yet were readily boasting at levels that made it clear that they were the "entitled" fan base. Then they started the "re-tweet if your school is the Football + Men's/Women's BBall conf champs" BS (while pointing out our lack of success in these sports). They forgot that their Football team won in a down year for Big12 football and on the last play of a game where OSU's best player was injured the whole game; their Men's BBall team actually shared the conf. champ. with KU (who, by the way, only went on to win the Natty), and their women's BBall team got their asses handed to them by Vic (who they disrespect quite often) in the Big12 tourney + couldn't even get out of Waco in the ncaa's, despite having 3 of the top 24 players taken in the WNBA draft on their roster (2 in the top 10). Mulkey is gone. Let's face it - she is the only reason their team has any history of success in WBB. So BU fans needed to be humble in their success this year - b/c once you talk s#*t, it usually comes back to haunt you. So quite frankly, I'd like to see BU's WBB program go straight into a ditch like Tech's has, at least for a few years, until they can regain some measure of humility and stop trashing our programs at every opportunity. And, oh by the way, Iowa St. fans have been horrible this year as well - but they don't have any championships to brag about.

 

Agreed 100%... I wouldn't root for a Baylor or Tech team against the Putin All-Stars. I don't want them to get ANYONE. But if they do, the fact that they may actually put a decent team on the floor again and make us work harder is a mere consolation.

 

Mostly agree but, not to get political, I don’t know about the Putin All-Stars. Maybe the Poutine All-Stars. Kia Nurse, Natalie Achonwa, maybe the Caron-Godreaus…

 

EXACTLY how I feel Jacob. This season was one of my favorites, not just because Texas won the Big 12 tournament, but this is the deepest Big 12 women's basketball has been in a long time with 4-teams hosting the 1st and 2nd rounds as the top-16 seeds, and 60% of teams made the NCAA tournament, the highest in the nation among power 5 conferences. It made for compelling games and brings more national attention to Texas.

 

Nice pick up for Florida. Deans made some noise against us.

 

Anyone else feel like they’re watching a group of kids play musical chairs?

 

At first I was excited about the possibility of Lauren Fields and her 16 point average transferring to Texas, but under closer examination, I'm not so certain.

Sure she scored 417 pts for the season and averaged nearly 16 PPG, but she did that while taking a total of 425 fga, and which equates to .98 pts/fga.

Compared to Joanne Allen-Taylor, she scored a total of 406 pts on 396 fga for 1.025 pts/fga.

Fields shot poorly, 32.9% from the field, 28.4% from BTA, and 63% free-throw. Therefore, her true shooting percentage was 42.9%.

Compared to Joanne Allen-Taylor's true shooting of 47%.

In Field's prior seasons, she also shot poorly.

But what makes Field enticing are her 67 steals in 27 games for 2.48 stl/g.

She's going to have to change her game if she comes to Texas, cannot be a high-volume shooter, but remain a strong perimeter defender.

 

When comparing the two, you need to look at the context. Okie State scored below 58 ppg. Given the absence of other scorers, Lauren was forced to be high volume and covered much tighter than Joanne was, resulting in bad shots.

 

Thank you!

 

Pretty sure Vic knows how to utilize her skills in such a way that her productivity per minute will be more optimized.

 

Lauren Fields is currently visiting Arizona. I think that's where she'll ultimately end up.

 

Fields inefficiency has been much discussed here. I understand all the rationalizations offered. Facts are facts. Stats are stats. She’s a high volume scorer with poor efficiency. I’m hoping like the dickens that suddenly she goes to a 40% three shooter and 50% overall. That is a huge stretch for me. She will bring other things to the team that are highly valuable….if she joins it. I just think we are trying to convince ourselves that the known offensive facts are untrue. I hope someone(s) can point me back in about nine months and call me a dufus.

 

Do we know if that's her last stop?
If she wants to win we seem like a great option.

 

I have no clue. But Arizona should also be pretty good next year.

 

Any insight on why she'd choose UA? I saw that they hired an OSU asst coach, but that was before last season even started. UA's business school ranks at #47 vs. McCombs' #5 ranking. Tucson is in the middle of the damned desert. UA didn't even make the sweet 16 this year (UNC spanked them in their own gym in the 2nd round) and had a whopping 7 players enter the portal (including one player that has announced she is transferring to Okie State!). Doesn't seems like a place you'd go right now if you want to compete for a final four (one of Field's apparently stated goals).

 

Each transfer is hoping to find whatever they believe is best for them. Lauren Fields is from Shawnee, OK and chose to stay close to home for her first 3 years of college. While Austin isn't as close to Shawnee as Stillwater, it's much closer than are Los Angeles, Tucson, and Durham. And, Texas will play 2 games in the state of Oklahoma next season, as well as 2 games in the nearby state of Kansas. Hopefully, geography among other factors mentioned by other posters will play in our favor.

 

So I noticed something that I didn’t want to notice but in the promo video released today showing the team tour the moody center we didn’t see K. Hunter and I FEAR this could mean what some have been speculating. I hope she was just missing tho and not transferring cause it ain’t no guards left that fit our system in the portal and I really like her.

 

Yeah, I thought may be it was just a one off season and reviewed her prior seasons before I posted and she still shot poorly despite the talent on the team.

In 2020-2021, Oklahoma State went 19-9 overall and 13-5 conference, averaged 71 PPG with Natasha Mack and Ja'Mee Asberry (before transferring to Baylor) leading the way.

Lauren Fields was the third scorer and despite Mack and Asberry receiving all the defensive attention, she shot 33.2% from the field, 30.4% from three, and 75.8% from the free-throw for a true shooting percentage of 45.1%.

Overall, she scored 226 points but took 223 shots to get those points.

So it wasn't just a one-off circumstance, whether she's surrounded by talent or not, she's an inefficient-high volume scorer.

I too trust Vic, that he will have to change her game and she can't be doing what she's done offensively in Austin.

 

Get her to understand better shot selection within the framework of an offense? Yes.
But I highly doubt Vic would be recruiting anyone at this point whose "game" needed changing. Too much young talent on the team for that.

 

Is there where we are headed with NIL? Afraid so.