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figures in her first 13 games.
• Roberson said all those hours on the court last summer facing her brother, who's a half-foot taller at 6-7, paid off.
• "Yeah, because I'm prepared for Brittany Griner. Just kidding," Roberson said. "He's a big man, and there's not really any girls that big. Granted, you have Brittany Griner and the girl from Iowa State and I think BYU may have had one. So, you don't really run across that many big people. So, that helped a lot. His length. Shooting over them and getting around them. Granted, it was not easy. But it definitely prepared me."
• So did sitting out last year, ironically.
• "She was very, very engaged," Buffaloes coach Linda Lappe said. "She did her rehab during practice. She made sure she watched and she understood. She's very perceptive. She understood what our team was lacking last year and something that maybe she could bring this year, part of that is consistency, part of that is competitive fire."
• Lappe said Roberson was able to see the game from a coach's perspective last season.
• Sitting on the bench, she also worked on her shot. Yes, her shot.
• "Even before she could stand she would sit in a chair and she would shoot. And work on her form," Lappe said. "She did anything that she could do basketball-wise before she could even be on the court, so she kept her touch. I think it really helped her shot. She shot it pretty well this year, a lot better than she ever did in high school. She utilized that year to get better at something."
• Kansas coach Bonnie Henrickson lost out in recruiting Roberson in large part because Andre was already in Boulder and the siblings figured their parents, John (basketball) and Lisa (volleyball), who were both student-athletes at New Mexico State, could get to more of their games if they were on the same campus.
• "Arielle is a phenomenal player," Henrickson said. "We recruited her and thought she'd be a great player in our league. She certainly has done everything we thought she'd be capable of. she plays both the 3 and the 4, she can shoot the 3. She can put it on the floor. She's a tough kid."
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