Yes. St Rose will be a grad transfer. She tore her ACL 4 games into her jr season, which is why she has another year of eligibility. The Ivies don’t allow graduate students to compete on athletic teams, so Princeton’s loss is ND’s game. The Irish are getting a really good player who will pair up well with HH.
ND getting all of these NJ players is really ticking me off..........😒
Definitely closer.
Maybe it was less about chasing a ring, and more about wanting to enjoy playing in an environment. I'm not saying Texas was bad, however, sometimes players get to big time programs and realize it's not a fit.
Could be wrong, but I’d venture a guess that Caitlin Clark was cleaning more than Bluder her final year. Same for Juju making more than Gottlieb.
Those two (plus Boston, Bueckers Flaueje) didn’t/don’t even take rev share with what they made in 3rd party NIL.
Offensive consistency wise…yea. Haven’t seen too many players in the portal that you can build a team around. Vast majority are role players. So, if you’re depleted it’s a nice chess piece.Does anybody really think Audi is the best player in the portal?
Women's NCAA basketball transfer rankings for 2026-27 season
Audi Crooks is headed to Oklahoma State, Jordan Lee is bound for South Carolina and Kymora Johnson is staying at Virginia.www.espn.com
I like the idea of shares being split equally. Reinforces the concept of a team sport. Also might slow down the transfer portal. The current trend isn’t sustainable. And as a fan…I’m seriously contemplating finding something else to do with my time and money.
Crooks is unique. No other player in WBB is as effective scoring consistently in the low post. On the other hand for Crooks to be effective the team she’s on has to structure their entire offense and, to some degree, their defense around her: walk the ball up the court, feed the post and space your shooters while Crooks goes to work, play zone defense so Crooks doesn’t get caught on a switch out on the floor and make sure you have an option when Crooks needs a break, which will occur frequently throughout the game.Does anybody really think Audi is the best player in the portal?
Women's NCAA basketball transfer rankings for 2026-27 season
Audi Crooks is headed to Oklahoma State, Jordan Lee is bound for South Carolina and Kymora Johnson is staying at Virginia.
To some degree, going to OKlahoma State makes sense. The Cowgirls seem to go through large amounts of coming and goings virtually every year. So, this is the Crooks-model season, then they could adjust for the following season, depending on who is left and what portal players come in.
I enjoyed your Freudian slip (flip?) ! Many would contend she needs an accelerator 😊
You beat me to it. OT- will someone please tell me how I can have my emojis restored. I cannot access them anymore.
Not really. Journalists either understand the game to the same degree as an "OHHH! Points!" casual, or they exclusively write for those casuals. Probably a little of both.
I see the emojis under the second set of three dots (options) in the formatting options.🙂
I guess you’ve given up on high school recruits altogether now. I guess this is the popular trend these days.So UConn is deciding to rest on its laurels for the 2026-27 season? They will not add to the same group that wasn’t tough enough to handle a more athletic and more aggressive South Carolina team and who struggled against a limited Notre Dame team in the Elite Eight? This feels like they are capping off their potential to “just make it to the Final Four”, not in position to win it all.
Perhaps Geno couldn't find the kind of players he was looking for in the portal and/or the players he was interested in didn't want to play a part time role at Conn......or maybe it was about the money.......also UConn is bringing in the number two ranked player in the class and a European guard who would likely be a top ten ranked player if she was playing in the US so they will be a different team next season....So UConn is deciding to rest on its laurels for the 2026-27 season? They will not add to the same group that wasn’t tough enough to handle a more athletic and more aggressive South Carolina team and who struggled against a limited Notre Dame team in the Elite Eight? This feels like they are capping off their potential to “just make it to the Final Four”, not in position to win it all.
It could be any of those. Since I saw getting another 4 as a real need, and not seeing any interest such as Morgan following a player (only two guards this year that went elsewhere) I conclude that Geno feels he can cover the backup 4 issue without one on the current roster.
Perhaps. But as of 9 a.m., 1,523 players had entered the portal, and only 393 had committed to new schools. (20 had withdrawn their names from the portal.) It seems plausible to me that Geno and co. are working to add one of the remaining 1,110 players to the roster for next season, and we just don't know about it yet. On April 20 in their respective years, none of Lou Lopez-Senechal, Kaitlyn Chen, Serah Williams, or Kayleigh Heckel had committed to UConn.
Maybe Geno stands "pat".... maybe he draws an "up card"... Skylar Forbes...
So UConn is deciding to rest on its laurels for the 2026-27 season? They will not add to the same group that wasn’t tough enough to handle a more athletic and more aggressive South Carolina team and who struggled against a limited Notre Dame team in the Elite Eight? This feels like they are capping off their potential to “just make it to the Final Four”, not in position to win it all.
So UConn is deciding to rest on its laurels for the 2026-27 season? They will not add to the same group that wasn’t tough enough to handle a more athletic and more aggressive South Carolina team and who struggled against a limited Notre Dame team in the Elite Eight? This feels like they are capping off their potential to “just make it to the Final Four”, not in position to win it all.
"rest on its laurels:"? That's funny. They didn't play well. They were tough enough just had poor shooting performances the last couple of games. Next year they will be hungrier and more experienced. They are adding arguably the best post in the Freshman class and will use her wisely. They don't need to have her be a team leader yet just a BIG extra piece in the middle. She's going to have an impact on our season.So UConn is deciding to rest on its laurels for the 2026-27 season? They will not add to the same group that wasn’t tough enough to handle a more athletic and more aggressive South Carolina team and who struggled against a limited Notre Dame team in the Elite Eight? This feels like they are capping off their potential to “just make it to the Final Four”, not in position to win it all.