Another reason
@Peacone36 will expand claiming NC over his home state...
I didn’t really pay attention to Maine WBB after Versyp left. I know that it went in the crapper for a long time and I lost interest, not that women’s CBB really interests me anyways but when we were winning and going to tournaments it was cool.
Never heard much about Barron other than the girls at UMaine really liked him as funny and contradictory as that is.
Maine is impossible to win at in Basketball. Facilities are ancient, the weather sucks, there is very rarely any local D1 talent and once players get better they transfer. UMaine had some really good players transfer during the Bob Walsh era (Isaac Vann of VCU) it’s just a really hard job. Never made the dance
The last Maine D1 talent I remember was Matt Cimino who ended up at GW. Before that it was Ralph Mims (FSU) and Nik Caner-Medley (Maryland).
Marc Socoby and Joe Campbell were Maine Mr. Basketball that went to UMaine but nothing ever really materialized. It’s been a hard run since Coach G left for LaSalle