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At the AFLW recruitment table, getting the right balance of age, skills and high performance experience will be critical to success.Never before have the 218 AFLW players carried the weight of such unmatched investment in front of the watchful eye of an adoring but demanding AFL public.With hopes of little girls resting on their shoulders, players abilities to cope and perform well under such pressure will go a long way to determining the type of reception future women in their position will receive, and justify the AFLs implementation of such a game-changing initiative.With club lists now settled ahead to the leagues debut season, ESPN has taken a look to 2017, and what to expect from each side.Adelaide, balancing speed and endurance, expect to be a contender at every contest. But the Crows boast few players with exhibition match experience, making them vulnerable under expected AFLW pressure. The injection of Western Australian stars Chelsea Randall and Kellie Gibson will bolster their homegrown talents. Adelaides exciting youngsters such as Ebony Marinoff and emerging ruck Sarah Allan are promising but will need support if the team is have a chance at the flag.With few players older than 25, fearless forward Tayla Harris, agile small Shaleise Law, versatile tall Tahlia Randall and reliable defender Emily Bates will form Brisbanes nucleus for many years. Imports Katelyn Ashmore (Victoria) and Jess Wueschtner (WA) add speed and skill, and Sabrina Frederick Traub (WA) will stretch opposition defences in size and strength. Victorian defender Nicole Hildebrand might be the star pick with her courageous ball-winning ability. The performances of older Queensland stateswomen such as Emma Zielke and Leah Kaslar will be vital if the Lions are to be in the premiership hunt.There is no pattern to Carltons list other than theyve got depth everywhere and have a little of everything needed to cope with any situation. Darcy Vescio and Brianna Davey, Australias most versatile players, will smash you on the scoreboard then intercept across half back on the next play. And the rest of the squad? Talls. Smalls. Insiders. Outsiders. Attackers. Shut down players. Carlton will be able to cover whatever their rivals throw at them, making them a likely contender for the AFLW premiership.Collingwood boast five of AFLWs most dangerous forwards - Moana Hope, Sarah DArcy, Jessica Cameron, Jasmine Garner and Lauren Tesorerio, who can debilitate the best defender. Their defence runs just as deep, with none better than Nicola Stevens, AFLWs best defensive pressure kick and a rare contested mark. Defenders Steph Chiocci and Penny Cula Reids execution will hurt teams on the rebound. The Pies shallow inside midfield depth will see them scrap at stoppages but their outside runners are quality and ruck Emma King is brilliant. If offence wins games and defence wins championships, then Collingwood could be two thirds of their way to the premiership.If stemming the talent flow to other states was Fremantles first challenge, enticing coach Michelle Cowan from the Demons was their first win. The Dockers will be dangerous by foot through Kara Donnellan and the sublime Kirby Bentley, who fans will adore. Their young defence featuring Ebony Antonio and Hayley Miller is elite, but losing key forwards interstate has left them vulnerable. Goal kicker Amy Lavells return to the game is a positive while forward Kira Phillips rare talent will need consistency. Balancing elite athleticism and skill make Fremantle one of the competitions most hunted teams.Greater Western Sydney plugged their experience gap by recruiting nine interstate players. Emma Swanson (WA) and Jessica Dal Pos (Victoria) will support midfielders Nicola Barr and Maddie Collier. Victorians Phoebe McWilliams and Louise Stephenson will add much-needed height and forward strength. The Giants harvested the ample junior NSW talent now flowing upwards. Erin McKinnon, 18 in December and the AFLWs youngest player, will shoulder the Giants ruck work. Forward Kate Stanton, 18, will also impress. The Giants need their local senior talent to stand up if they are going to be in the mix.Pre-signing the experienced Daisy Pearce, Karen Paxman, Elise ODea and Melissa Hickey bode well for Melbourne. On draft day they deviated from experience however, recruiting 18 players who have played no more than one year of VFL football. All-Australian 18-year-olds Deanna Berry, Katherine Smith, Lily Mithen, and their junior state team peer, Jasmine Grierson, will be stars of the future, as will Jess Anderson. But have Melbourne gone too young, too soon? The Demons coach, former TAC Cup premiership coach Michael Stinear, whose ability to get immediate results with young players is revered, may be the key ingredient to their AFLW success.The Western Bulldogs might be a premiership contender due to their long list of midfielders. With stoppages the critical feature of coach Paul Groves success, it was no surprise they made emerging midfielder Jamie Lambert their first draft pick. Add hard-hitting Hayley Wildes and Hannah Scott to elite runners, Ellie Blackburn and Emma Kearney, and the Dogs should own the inside football. 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With this freshmen class, six guys have never played a college basketball game, so those expectations, were just looking at the process.This is a blueprint the Blue Devils have followed to a title recently, with freshmen Jahlil Okafor and Tyus Jones leading them to their fifth national championship in 2015. Now theyre hoping Tatum and fellow first-year players Harry Giles, Javin DeLaurier, Marques Bolden and Frank Jackson can do it again.The road to Arizona in April for the Final Four starts now, with that freshmen class getting acclimated to college and meshing with a solid group of returners led by third-team AP All-American Grayson Allen and sixth-year forward Amile Jefferson.Those guys have welcomed us with open arms, and theyre like our new big brothers, Tatum said. They have so much experience just being at Duke -- not just basketball, but the off-the-court things, how to get to classes and where to get food and just small things like that. Theyve been very welcoming with (me) and the rest of the freshman class. Our bond has gotten so much stronger and it will keep getting stronger through the rest of the summer.Tatum has some strong basketball bloodlines, but his family situation is atypical: His father coached against him throughout his high school career.Tatum aveeraged 29.dddddddddddd5 points and nine rebounds -- scoring at least 40 points six times -- while leading Chaminade High to a Missouri state championship as a senior. The path to that title led through Christian Brothers College high school -- and coach Justin Tatum.Justin Tatum says Pops got the best of his son only once -- when he was a freshman.Its like me and him are Siamese twins, Justin Tatum said. I have to coach against him, to prepare and just to see the attention that it brings, seeing him on the opposite team for the first time, its tough. But to see him not back down because he was never taught to back down ... that gave me a special feeling, too, that my son is going to challenge anyone whos across from him.He says the sport was embedded in him from the jump because the elder Tatum was playing college ball at Saint Louis in 1998 when Jayson was born, and it was his mother who helped introduce the game to him. By the time Jayson was a fifth-grader, Justin could tell what he described as how special we noticed that he could be on the court.Justin Tatum says his sons recruiting experience was different from his because mine was probably a little more rugged ... I could potentially fit in a lot of peoples program.Jayson, meanwhile, was a consensus top-five recruit in the nation, and, accordingly, was targeted almost exclusively by the sports blue bloods -- Kansas, Duke and Kentucky. He committed to Duke last July, signed with the Blue Devils in the fall, arrived on campus over the summer and immediately began working on bonding with his new teammates.Weve just gotten so much closer over this short period of time since weve been here, Tatum said. I think it will take us a long way. ' ' '