ClayK said:
First, go Gauchos ...
As for Lane, you never know. But what we saw in her senior year was a player who looked too slow and not athletic enough to thrive at the Power 5 level. Maybe that's changed, as sometimes college conditioning makes a difference.
I was going to say, it could have been a big-time commitment to conditioning before this season that has made the difference for Lane. I recall HS video where her conditioning stood out as needing improvement, not only struggling up and down the floor but even appearing too tired at times to muscle up/finish close layups over smaller opponents.
It's not unheard of...Channon Fluker was another CA post who would've gotten plenty of looks in HS based on genes/name (cousin Tyesha Fluker was ranked #2 nationally while in HS in Pasadena and played for Pat Summit at Tennessee) but had a modest HS career performance thus was not heavily recruited. But ended up being a pretty dominant post for Cal State Northridge from day 1 as a frosh, and likely would have done some damage at Pac-12 (though I think struggled against Cal's Anigwe in matchups)..