WBB Transfer from UCONN?
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Nope, NY. Last night did the trick apparently. That display was probably pretty eye opening for a recruit on campus.
If you're on Twitter, might want to give her a simple welcome. She's responding to them right now.
I noticed that one of the people who replied to her tweet was Joe Moorhead’s wife. They have really embraced everything MSU.
Article with some info on Andra...
https://summitthoops.com/2018/02/06/wbb-bracketology-mid-majors/
She's a big time scorer (maybe a baby Queen?) and if she's not now she will soon be a big time defender...
"Espinoza-Hunter played sparingly for the Huskies, seeing action in just seven games, averaging two points per game. Her high school career, however, contained a plethora of impressive achievements. The 2017 New York Gatorade Player of the Year and Co-Miss New York State Basketball, Espinoza-Hunter finished her career averaging 36.9 ppg, 6.7 rpg, 3.1 apg and 3.0 spg. She scored 995 points her senior season alone, breaking the New York State Public High School Athletic Association record.
In addition, Espinoza-Hunter also was a member of the 2015 U-16 United States national team and averaged 10.0 ppg and 3.8 rpg as Team USA went 4-1 and won a bronze medal at the FIBA Americas Championship.
An Ossining, NY native, Espinoza-Hunter, originally committed to UConn as a high school sophomore, something she regrets in hindsight.
“I think if I didn’t commit at such a young age, I would’ve been able to explore more options,” she said in an interview with LoHud. “Just to look at other schools, see what other schools had to offer as well.”
https://summitthoops.com/2018/02/06/wbb-bracketology-mid-majors/
She's a big time scorer (maybe a baby Queen?) and if she's not now she will soon be a big time defender...
"Espinoza-Hunter played sparingly for the Huskies, seeing action in just seven games, averaging two points per game. Her high school career, however, contained a plethora of impressive achievements. The 2017 New York Gatorade Player of the Year and Co-Miss New York State Basketball, Espinoza-Hunter finished her career averaging 36.9 ppg, 6.7 rpg, 3.1 apg and 3.0 spg. She scored 995 points her senior season alone, breaking the New York State Public High School Athletic Association record.
In addition, Espinoza-Hunter also was a member of the 2015 U-16 United States national team and averaged 10.0 ppg and 3.8 rpg as Team USA went 4-1 and won a bronze medal at the FIBA Americas Championship.
An Ossining, NY native, Espinoza-Hunter, originally committed to UConn as a high school sophomore, something she regrets in hindsight.
“I think if I didn’t commit at such a young age, I would’ve been able to explore more options,” she said in an interview with LoHud. “Just to look at other schools, see what other schools had to offer as well.”
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Stupid post, but you might want to consider editing it as I have above so it can't be misinterpreted as something it's apparently not.
I'm pretty sure the men's team would beat the women's team pretty bad so it's all perspective. I'm behind them, but I just can't watch women's basketball. I really hope we win the national championship and I'll be sure to buy a T-shirt For my daughters. #hailstate
She chose us over Duke, Louisville, Michigan, Ohio State and USC.... I thought we couldn't get big time athletes to come to po ole Mississippi State?
And our baseball team would lose pretty badly to the Astros so why watch them?**
Think that because she did not play this semester that she ONLY has to sit ONE semester at MSU. She can play 2nd semester next year like Jordan Danberry did this january.
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Just curious, has she ever stated why she's leaving UConn? Not that its my business but just curious what the deal is.
According to Gene she has to sit out a full year. The difference between this situation and Danberry’s is that Danberry was enrolled at State for the Spring semester last year. Andra won’t actually enroll until the summer.
Honestly, I’m ok with her sitting out a full year, though. It means we get her for three full years instead of two and a half. That would put her in the same class as Taylor, Carter, White, and Wiggins, and that group can be even better than our current senior class.
In other words, we aren’t going away anytime soon. Next year may be a bit of a transition year but we’ll still be an NCAA Tourney team. And then we’ll be back to being elite again for the next several years.
Honestly, I’m ok with her sitting out a full year, though. It means we get her for three full years instead of two and a half. That would put her in the same class as Taylor, Carter, White, and Wiggins, and that group can be even better than our current senior class.
In other words, we aren’t going away anytime soon. Next year may be a bit of a transition year but we’ll still be an NCAA Tourney team. And then we’ll be back to being elite again for the next several years.
Complete guess but maybe I assume playing time. Only playing in 7 games as a true freshmen isn't that big of a deal, but she may be looking at the other people in her signing class and/or in the class above her and realizing she is not going to have the role she wants.
I shouldn't guess, but I imagine at her level she would like to be a starter on a great team for most of her career, not just late. UConn has the #1 HS player in the country, who is basically a clone of Andra, coming in next year. If she's what I think she is she's a sure 3 year starter for us and a quick fan favorite. I bet she just made a great decision.
I was you before I watched a few games. The only season more fun to watch than this one is maybe 89 baseball?
What's funny, at least to me personally, is that since I've been actively watching our women for a number of years now, I have a hard time watching the men. Don't get me wrong, I'm still a huge MSU fan and watch all the men's games, but our women (and quite a few other teams) simply play the game the right way. It can be beautiful to watch and has renewed my love of (and increased my knowledge of) basketball.
I'm going to suggest you get on WatchESPN or wherever you can find it and watch the 4th quarter of the SC game. Just do that before you make any more snarky posts about WBB. Only a suggestion, still a free country (for the most part).
Well, of course the men's team would beat our women. That's because, regardless of what many nowadays may want to think, there's a huge difference between males and females. And thank god for that. Men are naturally larger and stronger, but that doesn't mean women are inferior. You ever tried giving birth??
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