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Carr and Gloger will join an experienced frontcourt. Senior forward Mason Rocca (7.7 ppg, 5.9 rpg) is a hard-nosed rebounder, but don't expect Rocca to be a scoring threat. Sophomore center Chris Krug (2.1 ppg, 2.9 rpg) saw a lot of minutes as a rookie last season, and junior forward Nathan Walton (4.2 ppg, 4.0 rpg) is the son of Hall-of-Famer Bill Walton...
...biggest weaknesses are in the backcourt, where the loss of Earl--the 1998-99 Ivy Player of the Year--will be painful. Sophomore swingman Ahmed El-Nokali (2.5 ppg, 1.5 rpg) started as a rookie, but he is not a distance shooter. El-Nokali is the only guard who saw significant playing time during the Ivy season last year...
Inside, Miller will rely on a pair of sophomore forwards who saw significant playing time last year in Shaun Etheridge (8.3 ppg, 5.2 rpg) and Josh Meyer (5.8 ppg, 2.2 rpg). It is unclear who will replace Rountree at center, but sophomore John Verdeaux (0.7 ppg, 1.5 rpg) and junior Tyler Driggers (0.5 ppg, 0.9 rpg) will compete...
...other guard spot will be a fight between three juniors. Samantha Berdinka saw action in all but one game last year. Sherryta Freeman has a reputation as a defensive stopper with a creative offensive streak. Finally, Stephanie Kinnear dished out 53 assists and also started four games...
Consider too the sharks: apex predators, lords of the food chain, inspiration for scary stories. A few years ago, I dived off the coast of Costa Rica in a marine preserve where, supposedly, all life was protected. Every day, looking down, I saw the sea bottom carpeted with the corpses of whitetip reef sharks, grotesquely stripped of their fins by poachers who had slashed them off to sell to the soup markets of Asia and had cast the living animals back into the sea to die. Around the world, the numbers of some shark species have declined as much...