ESPN 2025 Class Early Team Rankings

[Sluconn Husky]

Shane Laflin places UConn 4th:



No. 27 PG Kelis Fisher
No. 73 P Gandy Malou-Mamel
W Blanca Quiñonez (Ecuador)

UConn's class thus far is long and athletic; all three are known for their defensive prowess. The perimeter players excel in transition, and the potential return in post play has a high upside.

Geno Auriemma tapped into the international market for UConn's top commitment thus far in Quiñonez, who would safely be a top-25 player in America. She is an athletic slasher who is disruptive defensively, and skilled enough to knock down perimeter shots. She has gained FIBA international experience all over the world and currently resides in Italy.

Fisher excels in the transition game and has terrific defensive impact with ball pressure and getting in passing lanes.

Malou-Mamel is long and mobile with good hands and feel for the game from the post position. She has a dedicated energy for the offensive glass and patrols the paint defensively.

LSU, UNC, Stanford lead the early top-10 recruiting class rankings

The early signing period for the class of 2025 opens on Nov. 13, with Kim Mulkey's LSU leading the way.

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[yhun89]

Fisher should be higher, but ESPN just keeps moving her down for no reason. Dropped 30 in that OTS game against people ranked 10 spots higher than her and she dropped 3 spots the next week.

This class gives us what we need most: Athleticism. With Griffin leaving, we're going to be missing our most athletic rebounder, fast breaker, and defender. Blanca seems to fill that role to a T.

 

[Stagnant]

I have to say. I think UConn is getting a huge benefit of the doubt here.

I follow some of these guys on twitter. And some of them have never even seen Blanca play. So without being able to properly rate her; it seems a bit silly to say that UConn has the #4 overall class.

 

[Sluconn Husky]

I have to say. I think UConn is getting a huge benefit of the doubt here.

I follow some of these guys on twitter. And some of them have never even seen Blanca play. So without being able to properly rate her; it seems a bit silly to say that UConn has the #4 overall class.

Laflin, Key, and Corwin are familiar with her. They attended at least one of her events this summer.

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[oldhusky]

I have to say. I think UConn is getting a huge benefit of the doubt here.

I follow some of these guys on twitter. And some of them have never even seen Blanca play. So without being able to properly rate her; it seems a bit silly to say that UConn has the #4 overall class.

I think in most cases the lack of close experience watching foreign players has resulted in them being severely under-ranked. Maybe that is changing as it should. With so many good foreign players coming to the states I think if these rating services want their ratings to be more valuable they have to find a way to at least ballpark their value based on video's and foreign scouts, even if they don't see that player in person in one of their camps.

Nika was generally un-ranked, but I suspect would have been top 15 or so if she was born here. Aaliyah was what 20 something when an honest appraisal might have put here top 5. Blanca is un-ranked for now. Gandy was un-ranked but is slowly getting more attention now that she is in the states.

It almost seems to me that you have to be here and play AAU ball to get on the top recruit radar. Otherwise you may not be considered near the top. In general I feel the sites that have the foreign players higher to be much more creditable. There is some evidence of progress, at least with Canadian players, as Agot is quite high this year, and if I remember right Prosper was in the teens last year.