Recent content by sambb

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    Women's Hoops 2026 CG Chikae Desdunes commits to Rutgers

    #51 prospect from ESPN. #57 from 247 sports. Seems like a consensus top 60 recruit. Really good get.
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    Coaching Changes Tracker, Women’s Basketball, 2026–27 Season

    Wow. Princeton's Berube takes the Northwestern job. Did RU even call her? McKeowan did announce his retirement a year in advance, so it's possible they've been talking for a while. But between Berube, Curry, Reiss, plenty of head coaches who have taken teams to the tournament getting new jobs.
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    Basketball Rutgers adds LSU assistant Daphne Mitchell to new staff

    Interesting that Redus is the head coach and Mitchell the assistant, given she has more experience (though not all folks want a HC job), but excited to have them both. Definitely a young staff thus far, particularly if the rumors about the TN assistant turn out to be true.
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    BB Recruiting Rutgers Women’s Basketball Recruiting Mega-Thread

    In the era of NIL and transfer portal, all recruiting is national. But I'd love to see RU start to be a huge player in the tri-state area recruiting scene again. Even though CVS had her critics in the NJ recruiting scene, most of her best players (Shawnetta Stewart, Essence Carson, Matee...
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    Basketball Angel Reese praises Rutgers hiring of Gary Redus II as new women's basketball coach

    Angel and Kah are very tight (and currently at USA basketball together) so I'm sure she put in more than a few good words.
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    Basketball Rutgers hires LSU assistant Gary Redus II as new Women's Basketball coach

    Can you say more Kupuna on Reiss? Zinn definitely moved FAST here...which feels weird given we landed an assistant--if this person hadn't worked at LSU, would they have even been a candidate? If they reached out to Fairfield and Columbia coaches and were turned down, I get it...but there are...
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    New HC candidates ?

    The A10 final actually has two coaches we could be taking a look at: Reiss at Rhode Island Vanessa Blair Lewis at George Mason ESPN has Rhode Island in and Richmond (A10's #3 seed that George Mason beat yesterday) as the "last team in." George Mason's NET is #60 which makes it hard to get in...