MU Women's Basketball Thread

[MuMark]

Looking forward to who,is next.....I wasn't a fan.

[CountryRoads]

Dang got called a mid major. Ouch

https://x.com/94feetwbb/status/1775547135921901898?s=46

[Pakuni]

Dang got called a mid major. Ouch

https://x.com/94feetwbb/status/1775547135921901898?s=46

I'm more surprised by the description of her as "one of the most successful" anythings.

[Marquette Fan]

I'm more surprised by the description of her as "one of the most successful" anythings.

Yes how successful are you with zero NCAA Tournament wins? 

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

Taking advice from Buzz Williams?

[Dr. Blackheart]

No clue on the search but I was always impressed with Kieger's assistant Ginny Boggess. Recruited the BE Champs at MU and has quickly turned Monmouth around as head coach in her first head coach stint there.

Jury is still out on Scott Merritt.

[The Lens]

Thought her first two years were brilliant, she seemed to over acheive. 

But Megan the GM, failed Megan the coach. 

Too bad, she was good people but as others have said, cupboard is bare.

[Marquette Fan]

I like the Boggess as candidate idea.

Harper from Tennessee would be a good candidate too but I'm not sure she'd consider Marquette.

[The Sultan]

Harper may just want to sit out on her buy out for a year and see what comes available next year.

[Marquette Fan]

Kayl Peterson has reopened her recruitment:

https://x.com/kayl_petersen/status/1775632414485696807?s=46&t=qmHojXzONY0z7kSh4Cq1Rg

[Marquette Fan]

https://x.com/amanitjenkins/status/1775662112351650189?s=12

Class of 2025 verbal commit to MU reopens her recruiting process.

[Marquette Fan]

Interview with Bill Scholl by the Marquette Tribune - https://x.com/muwiresports/status/1775661020888936534?s=46&t=qmHojXzONY0z7kSh4Cq1Rg

[Tarragona]

Carly Thibault-Dudonis has been contacted regarding the MUWBB coaching position. It's early in the process. There will be other names. But she is a candidate.

[JWags85]

Carly Thibault-Dudonis has been contacted regarding the MUWBB coaching position. It's early in the process. There will be other names. But she is a candidate.

Thats a really intriguin name.  She had a hell of a season and comes from a hell of a coaching lineage.  Maybe Pops would come and help on the bench for a few years.

[Marquette Fan]

Thats a really intriguin name.  She had a hell of a season and comes from a hell of a coaching lineage.  Maybe Pops would come and help on the bench for a few years.

She's definitely a young up and comer as she's only 32.  Her brother Eric took over for Dad as the Mystics coach.

Random thing - her husband Blake was the one who broke the news on Twitter in 2019 when ESPN accidentally leaked the whole women's bracket a few hours before the selection show - https://x.com/blakedudonis/status/1107728155182284801?s=46&t=qmHojXzONY0z7kSh4Cq1Rg

[Marquette Fan]

Duffy's salary info at VT - https://x.com/goodmansport/status/1776226564042113436?s=12

[Tarragona]

Terri Williams, Ginny Boggess, Delisha Milton-Jones, Allison Pohlman, have been contacted regarding the MUWBB position.

[Marquette Fan]

Terri Williams, Ginny Boggess, Delisha Milton-Jones, Allison Pohlman, have been contacted regarding the MUWBB position.

Interesting list - Williams used to coach in the BE too although I didn't recognize the name at first since I remember her as Williams -Flournoy.  Boggess has the history at MU obviously and some head coaching experience.  Pohlman seems to be doing well at Drake taking over for former MU assistant Jennie Baranczyk.

Don't know much about Milton-jones as a coach.

[JWags85]

Don't know much about Milton-jones as a coach.

Easily the least exciting of the bunch, IMO.  Never made an NCAA in 6-7 years as a HC and even more underwhelming...has never finished better than 4th in conference in her time at ODU, all in 1 bid mid major conferences.

Pohlman is the most logical of the group, I think.  She's done really nice stuff at Drake and has really good momentum. 

Boggess makes the most sense if you want a MU connection.

Thibault-Dudonis has the biggest risk/reward profile.  Has the makings of a young star but also fairly unproven.

Williams and Milton-Jones are concerning cause neither have had much success lately and aren't that young.  Williams success at Georgetown was more than a decade ago.

If they are contacting Milton-Jones, wonder why they didn't contact Cara Consuegra?  Another Marquette assistant at a mid major in that area that has had just as much, if not more, success.

Its pretty clear that the administration wants a female head coach, which is fine, cause the coach at James Madison is a far more attactive hire on a results/profile basis than Milton-Jones in the same conference.

[Marquette Fan]

Easily the least exciting of the bunch, IMO.  Never made an NCAA in 6-7 years as a HC and even more underwhelming...has never finished better than 4th in conference in her time at ODU, all in 1 bid mid major conferences.

Pohlman is the most logical of the group, I think.  She's done really nice stuff at Drake and has really good momentum. 

Boggess makes the most sense if you want a MU connection.

Thibault-Dudonis has the biggest risk/reward profile.  Has the makings of a young star but also fairly unproven.

Williams and Milton-Jones are concerning cause neither have had much success lately and aren't that young.  Williams success at Georgetown was more than a decade ago.

If they are contacting Milton-Jones, wonder why they didn't contact Cara Consuegra?  Another Marquette assistant at a mid major in that area that has had just as much, if not more, success.

Its pretty clear that the administration wants a female head coach, which is fine, cause the coach at James Madison is a far more attactive hire on a results/profile basis than Milton-Jones in the same conference.

And as I recall with Williams, she wasn't super successful when she left Georgetown.

I'm not sure Consuegra would want to come back to Marquette.

[Marquette Fan]

UCONN just keeps restocking - they got a commitment today for the #1 player in the class of 2024 - https://x.com/maggie_vanoni/status/1776621317376127334

They already have commitments from the #4 player in the class who is from Neenah, WI and the #18 player in the class of 2024.  At Marquette it was notable that they had a top 100 recruit coming in who of course is no longer coming to MU after Duffy's departure.

UCONN came darn close to making the NCAA Final this season even dealing with a ton of injuries - looks like they will be even better next season.  That UCONN-Iowa game last night was a lot of fun to watch by the way .

Mentioning UCONN here since they are the top team in MU's conference.

[Tarragona]

Interesting list - Williams used to coach in the BE too although I didn't recognize the name at first since I remember her as Williams -Flournoy.  Boggess has the history at MU obviously and some head coaching experience.  Pohlman seems to be doing well at Drake taking over for former MU assistant Jennie Baranczyk.

Don't know much about Milton-jones as a coach.

Milton-Jones had a long professional career before becoming an assistant at Pepperdine, and eventual head coach. In just her 2nd season, she led Pepperdine to its most successful wins in 20 years and their only post season tourney in school history.

She left to be an ACC assistant under a very good long time coach who has a poor personal reputation. He was recently, controversially hired, as an Ole Miss assistant.

She was hired to be the HC at ODU where she has had a 12-6 league record the past 3 (of 4) seasons. She's had an overall record of 24-10, 22-12, 22-9 in those seasons.

She was selected as an assistant coach for the USA U19 Gold Medal team last Summer. And she was also selected an assistant on the USA U18 team the prior year.

Prior to that she played 17 years in the WNBA, where set the record for most games played in the league. 2 time WNBA Champion as a player, and a 3 time All Star. She also played 16 seasons in Europe where she was league MVP several times. She played for Carol Ross at Florida where she was named the National College Player of the Year while playing in 4 NCAA Tourneys.

Two of her coaching friends, peers, mentors, and former teammates have been the late Nikki McCray and Dawn Staley.

She also has the endorsement of Nancy Lieberman, Anne Donovan, and Ticha Penichero.

Again these are some of the names I know so far. Names will be added, dropped, and possibly hidden etc...in the process as it progresses. I will try to mention anything of note when I hear it.

I know of at least 2 people that have interest in the job.

[Marquette Fan]

Can you say who the two interested in the job are?

It's times like this when I am reminded how little in the know I am 😂

[Tarragona]

Easily the least exciting of the bunch, IMO.  Never made an NCAA in 6-7 years as a HC and even more underwhelming...has never finished better than 4th in conference in her time at ODU, all in 1 bid mid major conferences.

Pohlman is the most logical of the group, I think.  She's done really nice stuff at Drake and has really good momentum. 

Boggess makes the most sense if you want a MU connection.

Thibault-Dudonis has the biggest risk/reward profile.  Has the makings of a young star but also fairly unproven.

Williams and Milton-Jones are concerning cause neither have had much success lately and aren't that young.  Williams success at Georgetown was more than a decade ago.

If they are contacting Milton-Jones, wonder why they didn't contact Cara Consuegra?  Another Marquette assistant at a mid major in that area that has had just as much, if not more, success.

Its pretty clear that the administration wants a female head coach, which is fine, cause the coach at James Madison is a far more attactive hire on a results/profile basis than Milton-Jones in the same conference.

Jabir, Mitchell, Kieger, Duffy had zero combined NCAA appearances as a Head Coach, prior to being Head Coach at Marquette.

Duffy had 2 seasons as a head coach prior to Marquette. Kieger had zero. Mitchell had zero. Jabir had 4, 3 in D-1.

Williams made 3 NCAA tourneys and 2 WNIT's in her first 7 seasons at Auburn, in addition to her success at Georgetown.

Consuegra has never gone more than 2 seasons in a row with a winning record. 5 of her 13 seasons at Charlotte have been losing record seasons. She has had a few strong seasons mixed in with the others. 9 of her 13 seasons there, her teams finished 4th or worse in their league.

I referenced the resume of Milton-Jones in a separate post.

The HC at JMU is a JMU alum. He's been there 21 years combined as a student manager, assistant coach, and head coach. He's been successful there.

There are no set requirements or parameters.

[Tarragona]

Can you say who the two interested in the job are?

It's times like this when I am reminded how little in the know I am 😂

It's not that the others don't have interest. So I am hesitant to be more specific than that. Hopefully all of the current and possibly future additional candidates have interest. I can send you a message about it after the process.