While Sue Bird, Diana Taurasi, Tamika Catchings, Candace Parker, Sylvia Fowles, Cappie Pondexter, Seimone Augustus and Kara Lawson are guaranteed a spot on the team, the fourteen other players are not. They will have to earn a spot even though they were invited to camp. Coach Geno Auriemma is probably thrilled to have a variety of former UCONN players at his disposal. In addition to Bird and Taurasi, he will always have the pleasure of coaching Swin Cash, Ashja Jones, Maya Moore, and Tina Charles as well (at least for the duration of camp).

Geno Auriemma is probably thrilled to have so many former UCONN players in the U.S. women's basketball pool.

Rounding out the chosen fourteen are Jayne Appel, Alana Beard, Shameka Christon, Candice Dupree, Lindsey Harding, Ebony Hoffman, Crystal Langhorne, Angel McCoughtry, Lindsay Whalen, and Candice Wiggins.

Regardless of who makes the final roster, it looks as though the U.S. women’s basketball team is going to be an amazing one. Would we expect any less?

According to ESPN, The U.S. team will train in Washington for a week before heading to Russia to play in a tournament.

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Without former Player of the Year Candice Wiggins, Stanford needed one of its players to step up big time. Jayne Appel did more than “step up.” She dropped 46 points on Iowa St., to propel her team to St. Louis for another go at an NCAA Championship.

Jayne Appel dominated Iowa St. in the post on Monday night, scoring 46 points.

There was no stopping the 6-foot-4 junior, who is 20 pounds lighter than she was last season. Almost every time the ball came to Appel down in the  post, she made a basket. I can honestly say that she put on a post-player clinic that coaches around the country should study.

With her 46 points, Appel broke Wiggins’s NCAA Tournament single-game scoring record of 44 points. With a little over a minute left to play, Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer replaced the starters to finish out the game.

Had she kept playing, Appel might have broken the all time NCAA Tournament single-game scoring record.

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