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Looking toward the FutureAfter a season that certainly had its fair share of ups and downs, the Boston University women's basketball team enters its second offseason under coach Kelly Greenberg with many choices ahead.The Terriers must decide whether to let the heartbreak of a loss to the University of Hartford in the America East Championship brew in their minds until November. They must determine just how to view their non-invite to the NIT -- despite being the highest-ranked team in the country without a postseason playoff spot. They must judge exactly how the graduation of seniors Shannon Petranoff and Rachael Vanderwal will affect their chemistry. They must opt to spend their offseason preparing for next year. And they must choose to improve. With the ability to make all of those choices, there's still the unpredictability that comes with the end of a long, successful season. "That's what so great about team sports," Greenberg said. "Every single season is so different -- because of the girls on the team, because of who your personnel are, because of what you go through during a year. Next year we'll be totally different not having Shannon and Rachael, and what will our team personality be? We don't know." What the Terriers do know, after finishing the year 18-12, is that they simply can't afford to lose some of the games they lost this season. "For us to be a legitimate postseason tournament team we can't lose to some teams we lost to, and we did lose to some teams that we should not have lost to," Greenberg said. "But that's what we're going to take into next year, let's really take care of business and beat the teams we're supposed to." And beating those teams should be much easer with the young players that emerged this season for BU. Freshmen Jesyka Burks-Wiley (7.8 points per game, 5.4 rebounds per game) and Christine Kinneary (4.8, 3.1) and sophomores Kasey Devine (7.8, 7.7) and Cheri Raffo (10.9, 3.1) all saw tons of playing time and improved exponentially with each game. 9:13 AM - Mar. 31, 2006 - post comment
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