New school commitments by Transfers - March 2024

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Per Raoul:

Michigan State WBB grad transfer Gabby Elliott (5-10 SR wing, Detroit, MI) has landed at Penn State, their 3rd portal pickup; she started her college career at Clemson https://wbbblog.com/womens-basketball-transfers-d-i-2023-24/15/

Hoping she's injury free this season. Never had an opportunity to play at Mich State due to her ACL tears.

 

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[nwhoopfan]

Oregon St. got a transfer from Baylor that I've never heard of before. Looked her up, averaged like 1 ppg over 2 years.

 

[packwrap]

Oregon St. got a transfer from Baylor that I've never heard of before. Looked her up, averaged like 1 ppg over 2 years.

Coach needs to fill in a roster, can't be too choosy.

 

[LwrcasefaN]

Coach needs to fill in a roster, can't be too choosy.

In that case... let me lace up my Chuck Taylors and unroll these tube socks. First visit to the portal for me .

 

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[YoDore]

In that case... let me lace up my Chuck Taylors and unroll these tube socks. First visit to the portal for me .

Too bad for you that I'm not a coach. If you showed up wearing Chucks and tube socks, I wouldn't even need to see you play. Fashionistas have their own value.

 

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[Vowelguy]

Any notables left in the portal?

Barker?

 

[nwhoopfan]

Paurova is the lone remaining outgoing transfer from Oregon St. I think she has a lot of upside.

 

[jdote33]

Any notables left in the portal?

Barker?

Did Lety vasconcelos ever sign anywhere. 6'7 with 3 years remaining. Pretty intriguing. But I agree Barker and Paurova r two players who could make a pretty big impact. On3 has an article about Paurova recently basically saying she was considering (Penn State, Michigan, Kentucky, and Arkansas). Michigan would be pretty fun imo. Kentucky as well.

 

[bballnut90]

Any notables left in the portal?

Barker?

Dauda too who is apparently visiting SC this weekend.

 

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[LoTrader]

Paurova is the lone remaining outgoing transfer from Oregon St. I think she has a lot of upside.

Paurova has tremendous upside, but is already a fantastic basketball player at 6'1"

 

[jdote33]

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[DaBball]

Wow. UCLA now has the top-3 players from the 2022 class and four of the top-6.

Betts, Gardiner, Barker, Dugalic, Bessoir, Muse, Sontag. Really deep.

 

[GamecockFam]

I don't know how I feel about Barker at UCLA. It doesn't feel like a good fit to me. I would expect her to come off the bench behind Betts and/or Gardiner.

 

[triaddukefan]

Dauda too who is apparently visiting SC this weekend.

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Greedy money flippers

 

[triaddukefan]

I don't know how I feel about Barker at UCLA. It doesn't feel like a good fit to me. I would expect her to come off the bench behind Betts and/or Gardiner.

Isnt UCLA an adidas school?

 

[jake0414]

Wow. UCLA now has the top-3 players from the 2022 class and four of the top-6.

Betts, Gardiner, Barker, Dugalic, Bessoir, Muse, Sontag. Really deep.

Bessoir and Sontag no longer on the UCLA WBB Team. Bessoir chose not to take her extra year. Back in Germany rehabbing and hoping to be available for the German Women Olympic Bball team.
Sontag retired (sort of) to focus on gaining admission to Medical School also in Germany. She has stated she wants to continue to play basketball.

From the 2022 entering class UCLA will have #1 Betts, #2 Rice, #3 Barker, #6 Gardiner, #19 Jaquez and #22 Jones next season. Plus McD AA’s Dugalic, Muse, Kendall Dudley and Zania Socka-Nguemen. Charlisse Leger-Walker, Avary Cain, and Finnish freshman guard Elina Aarnisalo round out the 13 player roster. UCLA’s most talented wbb roster ever. Hope they mesh and make a deeper tournament run than in years past. The two USC vs UCLA games will make for huge WBB events in LA next season.

 

[jdote33]

I don't know how I feel about Barker at UCLA. It doesn't feel like a good fit to me. I would expect her to come off the bench behind Betts and/or Gardiner.

Yeah I agree. I never understand moves like this. And I typically don't understand it from the coach/schools perspective. Dugalic is a 5th year, Betts was one of the most improved players. Then you sign Gardener which makes sense, she spreads the floor, is only scratching the surface of who she could be as her first year was married by injury. To add Barker though, who at one point was trying to go to the league after three years, idk. So you have 80 minutes for 4 quality bigs. If anything I thought Barker needed to be in a place where she could be more aggressive and have more touches

 

[southie]

Isnt UCLA an adidas school?

No

 

[southie]

Yeah I agree. I never understand moves like this. And I typically don't understand it from the coach/schools perspective. Dugalic is a 5th year, Betts was one of the most improved players. Then you sign Gardener which makes sense, she spreads the floor, is only scratching the surface of who she could be as her first year was married by injury. To add Barker though, who at one point was trying to go to the league after three years, idk. So you have 80 minutes for 4 quality bigs. If anything I thought Barker needed to be in a place where she could be more aggressive and have more touches

It's great for UCLA from a roster talent perspective. The frontcourt players will have to buy into shared minutes and be happy when they aren't on the court playing.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Could Betts ironically find herself in a similar situation as her Fr. year at Stanford--too many talented front court players and not enough minutes to go around?