Apologies to Dana Evans, who headlines Louisvilles No. 1 class heading into the NCAAs early signing period for womens basketball. Likewise to Duke, which is expected to welcome an outstanding 2017 recruiting class. And even to Delaware, which is expected to sign the tallest Top 100 recruit in 6-foot-5 Katherine Cain. But the most significant D in this years A-to-Z guide to signing week is drama.Heading into a week that normally features pens going to predictable places, four of the top five prospects in the espnW HoopGurlz Top 100 and six of the top 10 remain undeclared.So while we wait to find out where No. 1 Megan Walker, No. 2 Evina Westbrook, No. 3 Rellah Boothe, No. 5 Sidney Cooks, No. 6 Chennedy Carter and No. 10 Michaela Onyenwere are mailing their letters, we present you with 26 of our own, A to Z:A: ACC. Starting with Louisville at No. 1, six of the top 20 recruiting classes heading into the early signing period are in the ACC. Following the Cardinals are Syracuse at No. 6, Duke (8), Miami (15), Georgia Tech (18) and Notre Dame (19). The Pac-12 and SEC are tied for second with five each in the top 20.B: Baylor. One of just two Big 12 teams ranked in the top 20, the Bears are following up an outstanding 2016 recruiting class with another gem in 2017. Coach Kim Mulkey has verbals from four players, including three in the top 100. Deauzya Richards, a 6-1 guard ranked 16th; Alexis Morris, a 5-6 point guard ranked 18th; and Cara Ursin, a 5-6 point guard ranked 64th, are expected to sign national letters of intent this week.C: Chasity Patterson. Texas has dibs on the lone player in the top five who has announced her destination. Chaz Patterson, a 5-6 point guard and the No. 4 prospect in the country, is simply electric. Shes got a quick release and long range. If that sounds like a dangerous combination, its because it is. As a junior at North Shore (Houston), Patterson averaged 24.5 points, 4.6 rebounds, 5.6 assists and 5.2 steals per game.D: Since weve set up the drama up top, well slide Duke -- and dang! -- into this spot. As in Dang, what a class, Duke! The Blue Devils are expected to get four national letters of intent this week from four VIPs. The first is Jade Williams, a 6-4 forward, the No. 13 prospect in the class and a bronze medalist with Team USA in 2015. Next up is Mikayla Boykin, a 5-9 guard who could be ranked higher than 20th if not for two knee injuries. Then theres Madison Treece, a 6-3 post player who gets things done in the paint. Finally, theres Jayda Adams, a former teammate of UConn sophomore Katie Lou Samuelsons and the current sister of USC senior Jordan Adams. If youre looking for coach Joanne P. McCallie, shell be camped out by the mailbox.E: Evina Westbrook. Whos it going to be? The No. 2 prospect in the nation lists her finalists as Maryland, Notre Dame, Oregon State, USC and Tennessee. Westbrook is keeping us in suspense for the first day of the early signing period. She is scheduled to announce her decision Thursday. Heres what we know: The 6-foot guard from South Salem (Oregon) has a sweet shot and uncanny court awareness. Somebody is going to be celebrating come Thursday. Big time.F: Foreign flavor. And theres a lot. Starting with Chantel Horvat, a 6-1 guard from Australia and the No. 15 prospect in the class, who is headed to sunny UCLA. There are four other international players ranked among the top 50 prospects: Digna Strautmane (Syracuse), Julia Reisigerova (undeclared), Hailey Brown (Michigan) and Louise Forsyth (Gonzaga).G: Gamecocks. Coach Dawn Staleys Gamecocks are residing right near the top of all the preseason polls. Ditto for her 2017 recruiting class. Its all led by Elisia Grissett, a 6-1 wing ranked 24th in the nation. Trust us when we tell you that youre going to get to know the outgoing Grissett, who prefers to go by LeLe. Also headed the Gamecocks way are LaDazhia Williams, a 6-2 forward ranked 47th; Bianca Jackson, a 5-11 wing ranked 54th; and three-star guard Haley Troup.H: Huskies. Connecticut already gets an A for its 2017 class. But an A-plus is still a possibility because the Huskies are on the short list for No. 1 Megan Walker. With a class that already includes Mikayla Coombs, a 5-foot-10 guard ranked 14th; Lexi Gordon, a 5-11 wing ranked 29th; and Andra Espinoza-Hunter, a 5-10 guard ranked 37th; the addition of a No. 1 would be truly epic.I: Irish. Speaking of epic ... Notre Dame is the only team that is still in the running for both No. 1 Megan Walker and No. 2 Evina Westbrook. Coach Muffet McGraw already is expecting letters from No. 30 Danielle Patterson and No. 90 Mikayla Vaughn. If a couple of surprises make their way to her mailbox? Lets just say there would be a whole lot of jigging going on in South Bend.J: Jackrabbits. Were talking the Long Beach Poly Jackrabbits, who have a trio of Top 100 recruits who could seal envelopes this week. Ayanna Clark, ranked 17th, has given a verbal to USC. Danae Miller, ranked 87th, is expected to sign with UC Santa Barbara. Jasmine Jones, ranked 50th, remains undeclared. Long Beach Poly isnt the only high school team with multiple Top 100 players signing this week. St. Francis (Alpharetta, Georgia) has Maya Dodson penning a letter to Stanford and Kasiyahna Kushkituah writing to Tennessee. Also, Miami Country Day stars Channise Lewis (Illinois) and Kelsey Marshall (undeclared) could be doing some higher education communication this week as well.K: Konawaena. Yup, were taking you all the way to beautiful Hawaii. Why? Its where Celena Molina resides. Shes a 5-9 three-star guard who is expected to sign with Washington State this week. Her big sister, Chanelle Molina, did pretty much the exact same thing at the exact same time a year ago. And -- who knows? -- it could be same time, same place with baby sister Cherilyn Molina next year.L: Louisville. Leading. Lindsey. Loretta. And Dana? OK, so the L theme kind of falls apart there at the end. The point is, Jeff Walz has struck again. The Cardinals coach has the No. 1 recruiting class heading into the early signing period. Lindsey Duvall, a 5-9 guard and the No. 22 prospect, is a big part of that. As is Loretta Kakala, a 6-3 post player ranked 25th. And then theres Dana Evans, the 5-6 point guard and one of just four top-10 prospects who has declared.M: Megan Walker. Consider this our drum roll: Last years No. 1 prospect, Lauren Cox, is about to debut at Baylor. The year before that it was Katie Lou Samuelson signing with UConn. In 2014 Aja Wilson waited until the spring to sign with South Carolina. In 2013, it was Mercedes Russell signing with Tennessee. Where will this years top pick land? Her finalists are Connecticut, Notre Dame and Texas. The 6-1 guard and premier prospect in the class is scheduled to explain her decision Thursday at 6 p.m. on ESPNU.N: None. The wait-to-decide epidemic is not just affecting the top 10. Theres a whole of Nones in the College column in the espnW HoopGurlz Top 100. In all, 18 players have yet to declare. For those who arent math majors, thats 18 percent of the class that has yet to announce a decision. Is that a trend we see? Hate to state the obvious (again), but only time will tell.O: Oregon State. Could it be the age of the Beavers? Oregon State made its debut trip to the Final Four a year ago and landed arguably the best recruiting class in school history soon thereafter. And the good news doesnt end there. Coach Scott Rueck has landed two Top 100 recruits -- No. 27 Taya Corosdale and No. 63 Aleah Goodman -- and is in the running for a third, in-state superstar Evina Westbrook.P: If it werent for three pesky letters -- ACC -- we could be talking about the best recruiting season out West. Stanford goes into the early signing period with the second-best class in the country. UCLA is ranked ninth, USC 11th, California 12th and Oregon State 13th. An honorable mention goes to Arizona, which falls just outside the top 20 but features an incredible five-player class.Q: Quentin Hillsman. This Q is on fire. Hillsman, who guided Syracuse to a runner-up finish a year ago, is expecting his mailbox to be full of good news this week. Digna Strautmane, a versatile and agile 6-foot-2 forward who is ranked 23rd, is expected to send a letter postmarked from Latvia. Maeva Djaldi-Tabdi, a three-star 6-2 forward, is sending hers from France. Approximately 3,000 miles closer to home, Amaya Finklea-Guity, a 6-4 post player who is ranked 42nd, also is expected to sign with Syracuse. Keeping the theme of Hillsmans global domination, Nikki Oppenheimer, a 5-9 point guard from Illinois who represented Puerto Rico over the summer at the FIBA Americas U18 championships, also is expected to sign with Orange ink.R: Really, really good Rellah Boothe. Shes the No. 3 prospect, a USA Basketball gold medalist, and shes undeclared. The 6-1 forward with jaw-dropping talent plans to choose Friday night. Its apparently down to Florida, LSU, Texas and Ohio State. Think a few folks are holding their breath? No need to answer that.S: Sidney Cooks. The No. 5 prospect in the country intends to announce her decision a bit later in the signing period. The 6-4 forward from Saint Joseph Academy (Kenosha, Wisconsin) apparently is thinking Big Ten or Pac-12. Her finalists are Michigan, Michigan State, Purdue, Wisconsin and UCLA.T: Tennessee class. Ta-da! A year after getting shut out in the early signing period, Tennessee is back among the best. A lot of that is thanks to in-state superstar Anastasia Hayes of Riverdale (Murfreesboro, Tennessee), who is expected to sign with the Lady Vols this week. Coach Holly Warlick also will be awaiting official word(s) from Kasiyahna Kushkituah, the No. 55 prospect who has verbally committed to the Lady Vols. No. 2 Evina Westbrook, No. 10 Michaela Onyenwere and No. 21 Rennia Davis?have Tennessee listed among their finalists.U: UCLA: Coach Cori Close landed the top class in the country in 2014. Could she pull off an encore? Shes got a chance. Her three-player class, featuring two players in the Top 100, already is ranked in the top 10. But when you consider that No. 5 Sidney Cooks and No. 10 Michaela Onyenwere are both considering the Bruins, well ...V: VanDerveer. How sweet it is for coach Tara VanDerveer and Stanford. The Cardinals four-player class includes three Top 100 recruits. Point guard Kiana Williams is ranked eighth. Wing Maya Dodson is ranked 11th. Wing Estella Moschkau is ranked 44th. Forward Alyssa Jerome is a three-star prospect. Even somebody who isnt a member of Nerd Nation can see that adds up to all kinds of impressive.W: Wheres Waldo? Make that, wheres the Big Ten? A year after Maryland landed the top class in the country, you wont find any Big Ten teams ranked in the top 20 recruiting classes heading into the week. Thats not to say there arent some big-time stars headed that way -- Canadian standout Hailey Brown is expected to sign with Michigan, Jaelynn Penn is headed to Indiana and Taylor Kissinger is staying put in Nebraska -- but no team has the depth required to make the top-20 cut. Of course, the ink is far from dry. Maryland is in the running for Evina Westbrook and Ohio State is a finalist for Rellah Boothe. Sidney Cooks could wind up at Purdue, Wisconsin or either one of the Michigans.X: X factor. And not just because were suffering from a shortage of the 24th letter. Cross our hearts. Dorie Harrison has the power to truly turn the tide at Kentucky, which suffered from a rash of departures a season ago. The 6-3 post player from Nashville, Tennessee, who has battled through injuries, has both the skill and the pedigree to shine in the SEC. Her sister, Isabelle Harrison, was a standout at Tennessee. Her brother, David Harrison, had a four-year career in the NBA.Y: Yellow Jackets. MaChelle Joseph is at it again at Georgia Tech. The winningest coach in Georgia Tech womens basketball history had a winning season on the recruiting trail, landing two Top 100 prospects -- No. 51 Kierra Fletcher, a 5-9 guard; and No. 56 Daijah Jefferson, a 6-2 forward.Z: Zags. Coach Lisa Fortier and Gonzaga are rubbing elbows with some bigwigs on the recruiting trail. 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The Lady Bears have two sophomores, 6-7 Kalani Brown and 6-4 Beatrice Mompremier, who might pose quite a challenge for the Huskies.Especially considering what UConn doesnt have anymore: three of the best, most reliable defenders you could ask for in post players Breanna Stewart and Morgan Tuck and guard Moriah Jefferson. All were exceptional in UConns system and in making big plays individually.But these are the kinds of tests that Auriemma anticipated would be important learning experiences for the Huskies. For that matter, its the same for Baylor, which has a lot of talent at varying experience levels.Senior Nina Davis, at 5-11, has been Baylors rock for her career, but her role was altered last season a bit by the teams increased size. That could be the case even more this season, in particular as Brown and Mompremier continue to evolve as offensive threats. Brown averaged 9.3 points and 4.3 rebounds per game off the bench last season, while Mompremier was at 7.2 PPG and 6.1 RPG.Its early, but Brown has been sensational in her first two games this season, with 24 points and nine rebounds against Houston Baptist, followed by 25 and 19 against No. 9 UCLA. If the first performance was tempered a bit coming against a thoroughly overmatched opponent, that couldnt be said for the second.ddddddddddddThe Huskies have a history, of course, of providing wake-up calls to players riding high and looking unstoppable. No doubt, Baylor coach Kim Mulkey will prepare her team for that. However, its unrealistic to think UConn can be quite the crushing force defensively right now that it has been the past few years.That doesnt mean the Huskies arent going to be very good on that end of the court, improving as the season goes along. Because you know they will. But with their 76-game winning streak on the line against a team that has threats at every spot on the floor -- we need to mention Baylor starting guards Alexis Jones, Alexis Prince and Kristy Wallace, too -- the Huskies will have a lot to contend with defensively.Conversely, can they make it difficult for Baylors defense? Yes, especially considering we might be seeing 6-1 sophomore forward Napheesa Collier blossoming before our eyes as the new go-to scorer and leader. Again, not trying to put too much on one game, but the way she played against Florida State -- 28 points, eight rebounds, three assists and four blocks in 39 minutes -- was quite a statement.UConn has a 3-2 series advantage over Baylor, with all five games having been played from 2010 to 2014. The last time they faced off, Jan. 13, 2014, the Huskies ended the Lady Bears 69-game home winning streak.This is the first time Baylor has played in Storrs, Connecticut, with the Lady Bears previous road games against the Huskies coming in Hartford. Will another streak, this one UConns, end on Thursday? Or will the Huskies show theyre evolving even faster than expected without their superstar trio of Stewart-Tuck-Jefferson?Its a great game to have so early in the season for both teams and for womens basketball fans in general. ' ' '