I've seen 10 of the 24 tournament teams from last year already this season and my thoughts for those 10 teams are as follows.
1 - Ursuline: Banks, Brown and Bolden...a law firm that's gonna be hard to stop
2 - Caravel: They've got the guard play, if the two young bigs come along faster, they can challenge Ursuline
3 - Appo: Talent is there, size is not, chemistry is still loading
4 - A.I.: same as Appo with a bigger propensity for slow starts unfortunately
5 - St. E: Once Tye Taylor gets those girls on the same page, look out
6 - Archmere: Gritty, gutty team that might not overwhelm you with talent, but they're pesky
7 - Cape: Young, needs more scoring punch
8 - Saint Mark's: Lauren McDonald is a first-team player, they could be a surprise elite eight team
9 - Woodbridge: Robinson, Larrimore...and that's it
10 - Smyrna: Still very young, tough on defense, offensive struggles will be their bugaboo until they get that fixed.