It is easy for the women’s basketball team to be overlooked in the pre- and post-Madness excitement every year. Dunk contest highlights and scrimmage clips from men’s basketball always trend on social media while the women are often pushed to the periphery.
That should be different this year though; they are, after all, only six months removed from the program’s first BIG EAST tournament title. The team also returns almost every starter from last season, including leading scorer Allazia Blockton.
McKayla Yentz is the only one of last year’s starters that graduated, although lightly-used bigs Meghan Mandel and Chelsey Gibson transferred.