COACH BLUDER: Thank you for coming this morning. I appreciate having you here. The weather has turned. It's time to start talking about women's basketball. Our men are opening up tonight, so I think it's time. But as you all know, we lost three starters from last year's team that advanced to the Sweet Sixteen, was ranked No. 11 in the country, and, yes, they were the all-time leading trio in Big Ten history. But I can assure you it's not all doom and gloom around our program.
We have great optimism in the gym, and we have a group of women that are kind of excited about proving everybody wrong.