Filed under: Women's Basketball
For years, the definition of being under the radar is to be a team in the Big East other than Connecticut. It's tough to get noticed when one team is winning seven national titles, and running up winning streaks into the 50-game plateau and beyond, and rolling up one league title after another.
However, this might (emphasis on might) be the year for some other school to carry the conference banner, given UConn's heavy graduation losses and the preseason injury to point guard Caroline Doty.
Toward the top of that list is Georgetown. Led by dynamic freshman guard Sugar Rodgers, the Hoyas emerged last season from years of relative obscurity to land in a tie for second in the league and garner a first-round NCAA tournament win.
All of a sudden, the Hoyas, ranked in the top 15 in most national preseason polls, have landed into a spot of prominence on most observers' lists.
"I can remember last season saying the secret is going to get out," said Georgetown senior Monica McNutt to a conference reporter at the Big East's Media Day last month.
"Clearly, it's out at this point. With a target on our back, every game we have to bring it. We don't have time to get down and make a comeback. We know that other teams are gunning for us now.
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