Russ Bowlus - Aggie Sports Talk

And yeah, I had read about her looking to play overseas, but figured that the Power 5 were going to have the draft pretty well locked up. Sounds like Coach Gross worked the phones a little bit on her behalf. :up:

First WNBA pre-season game is less than a month away (5/9); first Wings pre-season game is the 13th. Regular season opens on 5/24.

Pretty compressed timeframe for the teams to get their draftees in camp and a roster figured out! Morgan's going to really be juggling her schoolwork and basketball now...wow. At least the Wings don't have a game on the same day as CoE commencments. Ha.

https://wings.wnba.com/news/dallas-wings-select-ogunbowale-gustafson-burke-and-bertsch-in-2019-wnba-draft/

“Morgan Bertsch was a top five scorer in the NCAA this season,” Bibb [Wings President and CEO] stated. “She is a four-player with tremendous offensive skill and excellent range. Her length and size will translate well in the WNBA and I’m eager to see her compete in camp.”

https://ucdavisaggies.com/news/2019/4/10/womens-basketball-bertsch-selected-by-dallas-in-third-round-of-wnba-draft.aspx

https://www.sbnation.com/college-basketball/2019/2/15/18225099/ncaa-womens-march-madness-tournament-bracket-seeding

Here's the blog post I read last month complaining about the seeding process in WBB. It focuses on the top 16, but the principle is the same all the way down, IMO.

It's tough to finally make it and then not seem like you're being given a chance to be competitive.

Ah well. Local game, should have a good crowd. :)

(Listen to us, getting all greedy. :D)

Well, yes. The first game was the obvious previous data point. :)

The Aggies are a much different team, IMO, now than they were in game 2 of the season--100% agree. Let's see if they can do better than the 2011 team did!

Common opponents: Washington St, Hawaii, CSUN, USF. All relatively easy wins for Stanford, though it's worth noting that CSUN did pretty well, relatively speaking.

According to the bracket that ESPN leaked, UCD is headed back to Stanford as a 15. :meh:

Fingers crossing for a date in Corvallis or Eugene--we fortuitously have a spring break trip to Seattle already booked.

Trophy presentation: https://www.facebook.com/UCDavisWomensBasketball/videos/378197239578167/