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https://umeshawksports.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/ariana-seawell/5605 Final roster spot

Harness is a senior based on her Twitter post saying 1 year of eligibility left. Wonder where the other scholarships will go. I'm still hoping for more size, hopefully a center or another forward.

I was correct!

Per TBN, Ella Take, Jessica Wangolo, and Hattie Ogden entered the portal today.

6’5” would play well in the SEC too, which is where her coach just got hired 😉

My guess is a school with interlocking letters in blue and white.

D1 limits are 15 for women’s basketball. If all of the roster and coaching movement is done, this is a massive win for Burke and she absolutely proved me wrong. Portal is still open for about a month, but so much happens early on. Retaining the MAC FOTY and the conference’s top scorer (who I have to think has a degree by now, meaning transfer without sitting out is a possibility) is also huge.

Was hoping the same thing but it doesn’t look like she’s in the portal. And I don’t think we have her major, unless she has her degree already.

Buyout or given money to leave I view as the same thing. I don’t think he just voluntarily decided to leave without any monetary compensation. Remember Quentin Hillsman “resigned” too. He got a nice payday to resign, even though it’s possible he could have been fired for cause.

She had a HUGE crowd cheering for her in the SBC-MAC game at alumni arena this year. Usually when we play a team that has a local they’ll bring a handful of family members. She brought a whole section. Joins Josh Mballa as a player to play us one season then join us for the next.

The big question is are UB donors putting up money for Alnutt to be bought out? It doesn't matter how much we complain on twitter or this board, if the money isn't being put up he isn't getting fired/"resigning". Given Tripathi's age is it really worth buying out an AD when the president is likely to retire at any time? Alnutt has 2 years left on his contract. If it was going to be extended it would have been by now. There's a new football coach, a decent WBB coach, and possibly the worst D1 MBB coach we've ever had though he's only a year in. Short of Burke taking a new job this year (unlikely) or next year (possibly), Alnutt shouldn't have to make a major hire again. Obviously Bona's exclusively MBB donors care about the NIT enough to pony up money to buy him out. It's really unfortunate for Manhertz, apparently the Olean faithful did not tell him enough stories about the NIT Championship and/or the championship banner is not big enough for him to notice it.

Mark Alnutt is local to WNY and has experience leading a WNY D1 athletics program. An A10 program, part of the most prestigious athletics conference in all of college sports, could easily add Mark to their program and would even be able to outbid a SEC team.

We have our first BOOM of the season Losing: Point Guard: Rana Elhusseini Guard: Briyanna Baron Guard: Katie Burton Forward: Kiara Johnson Center: Chanteese Craig (per WBBBlog) Gaining: Forward: Brianna Barr-Buday (Nichols, Buffalo, NY) Offers from Manhattan, Marist, Saint Joseph’s, La Salle, Canisius, Niagara. Originally recruited by FLJ Point Guard: Mallory Daly (Pittsburgh, PA) seemingly no D1 offers despite scoring nearly 2k points in high school Point Guard: Aniya Rowe (Rochester, NY) Offers from Manhattan, Canisius, Binghamton Forward: Samairah Thompson (Columbus, OH) don't see anything for D1 offers Possibly Losing (Have Not Seen At Games, Still on Roster): Guard/Forward: Chryssi Gouzelou

Oh look Bowling Green in our little pod.

WNIT has history but WBIT gets first pick of teams. If we make a run it’s nice that we still have the WNIT reputation before most of the general public finds out it’s the #3 tournament.

WNIT, opponent TBD

I don't think independent contractors typically get taxes withheld. And the non-cash NIL incentives (car, tattoos, limo ride to the 2005 Heisman Awards) are considered taxable too. Ideally the collectives will help educate everyone involved in the taxes involved, making ES payments, etc. In reality do you think most are?

New this year is the WBIT, which has 32 teams.

He also has a eFG% of .566 this year, first in the MAAAC. Similar to Mballa's first season here.

They can snag our coach

Yeah there's a few of them. I don't know if we get an invite since we're upper 100's NET, it'll be close. Assuming they're pay to play like the men's versions are, there's still value in playing those this year with this young roster.

Maybe somebody needs to escort him out of the arena to cool down. Former UB student Tom Hallion can do the honors.

Who are we pulling for in this second semifinals game? I got Kent State

Barring something crazy, Chellia will finish the season with the third most points in a season for UB WBB!