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Hannah has been dealing with a lot. I wish her nothing but the best.

imacat wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 26, 2025 12:48 pm

Hannah has been dealing with a lot. I wish her nothing but the best.

Indeed, she's a talented player but kind of got buried on the depth chart at MSU. Given her personal circumstances I can see why she might want to be closer to family if that played into it at all. Best of luck to her!

One of the best interviews I've read in the past year or two. Absolutely the best of luck for her. Great person.

Sayonara.

Committed to Weber State today. So we shall see her again.

lutecat wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 06, 2025 8:19 pm

Committed to Weber State today. So we shall see her again.

Dang, I never like when former Bobcats transfer within the Big Sky. But she'll definitely get more playing time there in front of Weber State's massive crowds (at least the bus driver has to stick around for the whole game...)

Weber should be ashamed of their lack of fan support

aucat wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 07, 2025 8:13 am

Weber should be ashamed of their lack of fan support

It’s like Yogi said, “If they aren’t going to come to the game, how are you going to stop them”? Weber used to be among the best at WBB — but it’s been a long time. I think they had one or two really bad coaching hires. The fans disappeared along with the wins. Nothing that a few 30-win seasons wouldn’t fix.

The Weber women's team average 394 fans per game last season. I guess she could watch the Weber mens team play. The Weber men get a lot more love at around 2700 (down from around 4800 per game just a year ago) fans per game, about 350 more fans than the Bobcat MSU women's team averaged this past season.

I don't think this is about her going to somewhere with fan support. She had a tragedy in her life last year and it's not uncommon for people to make big changes when that happenes.

lutecat wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 07, 2025 1:18 pm

I don't think this is about her going to somewhere with fan support. She had a tragedy in her life last year and it's not uncommon for people to make big changes when that happenes.

Is weber close to home

I’m sure she had a good conversation with Coach Bin — I think she’d do her best to let a player know where she stood. The more I watched Hannah, I understood why she’d been named the pre-season freshman of the year for the MWC. She is not without some skills and jumps very well.

By the numbers, we had 15 players which included Lindsey Hein, three seniors (Lexi, KJ, Taylor) and two escapees (Marah and Natalie). That leaves just nine players with Hannah. Two or three of those players would seem to not be as skilled as Hannah — just my own opinion is three. Anyway that puts Hannah at either #6 or #7 on the rotation. I don’t think all four incoming freshmen will be in the top-10 rotation. Likely two will make it. That leaves Hannah in a good spot to get the 16-18 minutes that the “bench” usually gets. That’s really good minutes on a really good team. She might get 36 minutes at Weber, but not a chance of a return trip to the tournament.

The wildcard here is who does Coach Bin find at the final four? I’d expect transfer news pretty soon if there is to be any. With four sub 6-foot guards coming in, I’m thinking one or two “talls”.

I do hope she can settle in there — happiness wins every game. Seems to be a deserving person, and I think, a player that should garner a Big Sky Honorable Mention before she’s done.

My guess (and only a guess) is playing time. I think Hanna has a chance to be a featured player.
I wish her well.

Bobcat4Ever wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 07, 2025 2:44 pm

I’m sure she had a good conversation with Coach Bin — I think she’d do her best to let a player know where she stood. The more I watched Hannah, I understood why she’d been named the pre-season freshman of the year for the MWC. She is not without some skills and jumps very well.

By the numbers, we had 15 players which included Lindsey Hein, three seniors (Lexi, KJ, Taylor) and two escapees (Marah and Natalie). That leaves just nine players with Hannah. Two or three of those players would seem to not be as skilled as Hannah — just my own opinion is three. Anyway that puts Hannah at either #6 or #7 on the rotation. I don’t think all four incoming freshmen will be in the top-10 rotation. Likely two will make it. That leaves Hannah in a good spot to get the 16-18 minutes that the “bench” usually gets. That’s really good minutes on a really good team. She might get 36 minutes at Weber, but not a chance of a return trip to the tournament.

The wildcard here is who does Coach Bin find at the final four? I’d expect transfer news pretty soon if there is to be any. With four sub 6-foot guards coming in, I’m thinking one or two “talls”.

I do hope she can settle in there — happiness wins every game. Seems to be a deserving person, and I think, a player that should garner a Big Sky Honorable Mention before she’s done.

Just a couple corrections on your numbers. We had 15 players this year but that number did NOT include Lindsey Hein. Lindsey was a student manager helping the team but she was not in the roster. (Roster was Drea, Brooke, Hannah, Teagan, Issy, Ella, Lexi, Marah, Addison, Taylee, Esme, Taylor, Dylan, Nat, and KJ). Also, Lexi Deden is returning next year….this has been reported in Cat Chat by herself and also has been discussed in several news reports.

So off our 15 person roster we lose seniors Taylor, KJ, Esme and transfers Hannah, Natalie, Marah cutting our roster down to 9.We have 4 great freshmen coming in Bailey, Hintz, Couture, and Philip. We have 2 openings which the Coach can fill with transfers or late high school commits….this also assumes we don’t lose more in the portal before it closes.

I think you can wonder if Dylan, Brooke, Lexi and Drea will be fully ready to play by the time season starts. And certainly you can wonder how many of the new freshman crew can make significant contributions on the court….but their resumes sure look strong…I’m anxious to see how they compete at D1 level. I did like to watch Hannah when she got minutes on the court and there was a reasonable chance she could have gotten more playing time this coming year but there is also a lot of talent in front of her that maybe would have resulted in limited time on the court. I suspect several of the new freshmen could have beat her out for more time. I think she could see that. I also think Hannah has a good chance of getting more time at Weber.

Thanks for the updates! I try to read everything here but don’t get too much else. I had been wondering about Lexi because the last time she addressed returning, her answer was indirect but cetainly sounded like she’d give it a try if invited. Personally, i am thrilled by that news. Lexi has been a great ‘Cat and I’m sure has been frustrated by the injury timeouts. I love watchung her on the court, offense and defense. I also noticed in the stats toward the end of tnis year that she was having a very positive influence on games, even in limited minutes. The team was almost always allowing fewer scoring possessions and often scoring a bit more when Lexi was playing. She’s quite the player. The younger players are getting a great chance to learn.

I, as always, am very excited to see the new players! And the returning players! And Coach in action! Is it too soon to start the season???

Can someone point to a source on the Lexi thing? I've followed the reporters' social media and have seen nothing saying that.

lutecat wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 08, 2025 4:37 am

Can someone point to a source on the Lexi thing? I've followed the reporters' social media and have seen nothing saying that.

I’m too lazy to dig it up. She was at Cat Chat and stated it. There was a sports extra just this week that went through the recruiting for Bobcat women basketball.

There is this capture from the MSU Education Insta:

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Congratulations to Lexi Deden who is the recipient of a College of Education, Health and Human Development Outstanding Graduate Award for Fall 2024. Lexi is graduating from Montana State University with degree in Elementary Education, and will continue her MSU basketball career as a graduate student in the MSU-Bozeman Department of Education.

Interested in being an elementary school teacher?
https://www.montana.edu/academics/elementary-education/

#MontanaState #catgrad24 #ehhdbobcats #msuehhd

I just went back and checked all the Cat Chat recordings and unless they missed uploading one, Lexi wasn't one of the players who did an interview this season. She also participated in Senior Day last month, which suggests that at least at that point she hadn't made a final decision yet. KJ and Taylor did both decide to return after participating in 2024 Senior Day. I haven't seen any media reporting that Lexi has decided to return for one more year but if she has, that would certainly be great news!

Question... With my great memory sorry if this has been previously covered. A Senior, this one being Lexie, has graduated and walked/will walk with the class. To play next year what are her academic requirements to continue playing? Guessing the same for some that have done post grad work?

Thanks