November non-UConn recruiting thread

[DaBball]

Southern Cal continues to recruit really well, adding 2022 top-10 PG Aaliyah Gayles:

 

[DaBball]

2022 top-50 5-11 SG Carleigh Wenzel announces her top-6:

Another Texan with no Texas schools.

 

[nwhoopfan]

2022 top-50 5-11 SG Carleigh Wenzel announces her top-6:

Another Texan with no Texas schools.

Looks like a lot of Pac 12 schools.

 

[Dillon77]

My thought too but I don’t know if Notre Dame offered. Raoul didn’t make note of an offer. Some of the Notre Dame affiliated posters may know more.

To the best of our collective knowledge at the Bench, contact was made but no offer was made to GVS.
Many of us on The Bench figure that she plays in a manner very similar to Maddy Westbeld, who will only be a junior by then.

More to the point, ND has offered and very much is going after very athletic forwards in that classs such as Ayanna Patterson, Isiah Barker and Timea Gardiner. That seems to be the forward focus for Niele Ivey and Irish recruiting coordinator Michaela "Mike" Mabrey.

 

[Dillon77]

ND posted the Signings of Its Two 2021 Prospects, Olivia Miles & Sonia Citron. They are Coach Ivey's first two signings as Head Coach and she is very excited about both of them, saying they're the epitome of the kind of ball she wants to play in South Bend.

Personally, I agree -- having seen both of them play personally and via web telecasts during the tournament in Chile. Go Irish! Here's the social media package on both, if you're not familiar with Miles or Citron.

@NDWBB 2021 Class

See the story

spark.adobe.com

 

[southie]

2022 top-50 5-11 SG Carleigh Wenzel announces her top-6:

Another Texan with no Texas schools.

That's a strange combination of schools. She seems to be known for her shooting; doesn't seem like the type of guard that Arizona and Florida State typically recruit, so I'm surprised they are on her list.

 

[DaBball]

Londynn Jones announced her top-10: Arizona, UCLA, UNC, Cal, Duke, Harvard, LSU, Louisville, Mississippi State, and Stanford.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Arizona, UCLA

There it is...AGAIN! If I had a quarter for every time these 2 show up, I could buy a cup or two of coffee.

 

[militarydog]

Amauri Williams top 6

 

[CBus13]

Jillian Hollingshead has signed her NLI to play for Georgia.

 

[HuskyFan1125]

BIG pickup for the Georgia Bulldogs!!! Keeping top talent in state is huge for Joni Taylor if she can keep it up. Most assumed this is where Hollingshead was going and I guess they got one right!! Congrats to the Bulldog fans.

 

[j66kicker]

Jillian Hollingshead has signed her NLI to play for Georgia.

Coach Taylor says, "At 6-foot-5 she's....someone her teammates look up to." Good one!!

 

[militarydog]

Jillian Hollingshead has signed her NLI to play for Georgia.

Adding Hollingshead and M Davenport gives Georgia two versatile options in the paint. Great pickup.

 

[DaBball]

espnW #58 Lilly Stoddard, an athletic 6-4 forward from Indiana, committed to Purdue yesterday over offers from Iowa, Northwestern, Pittsburgh, Washington, Arizona State, Minnesota, Colorado, and others:


She became the 10th member of the espnW top-60 to verbally commit.

 

[Sluconn Husky]

North Carolina offers 2024 mega talent Joyce Edwards, also a UConn POI:

 

[visitingcock]

North Carolina offers 2024 mega talent Joyce Edwards, also a UConn POI:

T's bare-knuckle time. Stay out of our state Tarheels.

 

[Plebe]

T's bare-knuckle time. Stay out of our state Tarheels.

Why should they? SC hasn’t exactly stayed out of other people’s states.

 

[visitingcock]

Why should they? SC hasn’t exactly stayed out of other people’s states.

Because it's UNC and there is some historical hatred left amongst us older Gamecocks. Plus, their men's bb has raided the cherries from SC since we left the ACC.

 

[Plebe]

Because it's UNC and there is some historical hatred left amongst us older Gamecocks. Plus, their men's bb has raided the cherries from SC since we left the ACC.

Okay but isn’t Rivers from NC? Looks like it’s good for the gander.

 

[visitingcock]

Okay but isn’t Rivers from NC? Looks like it’s good for the gander.

Never!

 

[SECbbfan24]

Ranked #42 overall for 2022

 

[triaddukefan]

Because it's UNC and there is some historical hatred left amongst us older Gamecocks. Plus, their men's bb has raided the cherries from SC since we left the ACC.

Thats one thing I give Staley credit for.... she build that wall up on the SC/NC Border... the Tarheels used to raid yall like nobody's business.

 

[Plebe]

Thats one thing I give Staley credit for.... she build that wall up on the SC/NC Border... the Tarheels used to raid yall like nobody's business.

It's pretty much a prerequisite for any coach who wants to reach and maintain nationally elite status to draw elite talent from beyond the state boundaries. I can't think of a single program that has been able to do so without it. Not in my memory, anyway. Maybe Jody Conradt and Kim Mulkey came the closest, drawing largely from in-state talent. But at least one of Conradt's starters on her undefeated team (and one of her all-time greats) Andrea Lloyd, hailed from Moscow, Idaho. Mulkey's first superstar at Baylor, Sophia Young, was "raided" from across the Sabine River.