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WBB: ESPNw. Ranks State's 2015 Class

With regard to recruiting for women's basketball in 2015, ESPNw has listed Hooopgurlz's class rankings (top 20) for women's basketball. State comes in at 16. Not bad.

As thought, Louisville has the number one class, followed by ACC members Duke at 3, Notre Dame at 5 and North Carolina at 6.

Prospect's Nations ranked this same State class at 21.

ESPNw. had this to write about the class:

Wes Moore's class features five players, including four Top 100 prospects and three from within the state's borders.

At No. 63, Rydeiah Rogers, a 6-foot-1 forward at Myers Park (Charlotte, North Carolina), is the top-ranked prospect in the class. Rogers' dad, Rodney Rogers, starred in the NBA, and her sister, Roddreka Rogers, currently excels in the ACC at Georgia Tech. Rogers led Myers Park to a state title and a No. 9 national ranking in the final espnW 25.

At No. 72, Amber Richardson is a 6-foot wing out of Southeast Raleigh. And Kaila Ealey, ranked 75th, is a 5-8 guard at Needham Broughton (Raleigh).

The fourth Top 100 prospect in Moore's class is Jonquanae Cole, a 6-3 post from Paul VI (Fairfax, Virginia). The final member of the class, Lena Niang, is a 6-2 forward from Riverdale Baptist (Upper Marlboro, Maryland), one of the national powerhouses year-in and year-out.

Editorial: No one should think that UNC's women's basketball program has not benefited from the athletic academic fraud that occurred at UNC for almost twenty years. Anyone following women's college basketball will note that a very successful men's basketball program can aid the women's program at the same school. With the UNC men's basketball program winning national championships and having national success year after year, the women's program beginning in the nineties did likewise much as the Duke women's program became prominent in the sport with the national success of the men's program. One could even argue that State's men's national championships in 1974 and 1983 aided the women's program. If it looks like a school is a good basketball school, both the men's and women's programs can benefit. Certainly, the athletic academic fraud at UNC aided the men's program and as such most likely aided the women's program.

In view of UNC's success in both men's and women's basketball aided by twenty years of academic fraud, Jessica Lange of Freakshow sings Lana Del Ray's "Gods and Monsters" (without all of the fk's).