I do think the recruiting rankings do not really cover international players unless they xfr to US high schools their senior year. Those rankings are all involved in for profit clubs serving the US kids and it seems you used the ones from ESPN. During those 5 years, Kelly recruited several international players who are all currenlty on the team: 3 Australians, 2 Germans, and one very good player from England. None of those players played in the US. Kelly, who was active recruiting international kids when with Gonzaga, has parlayed the stronger Oregon Brand name and better location to get the best in the world. His 2015 class had Maite Cazorla from Spain who's done well in the WNBA and in 2017 added another top Spaniard (Aino Ayusa) who is now a pro in Europe.
To explain how screwed up those ESPN class rankings as it relates to international players, in 2017 the top 100 had only 6 international players and Satou was 3rd at 36 behind Maeva Djaldi-Tabdi (#27) who doesn't start at Cuse and #35 Julia Reisingerova who never played in college. Prospects Nation had Sabally the #1 international recruit (in par as #1 Wing with Megan Walker) and neither of the other two were in their international ranking. That Oregon 2017 class had only three players, all international, inlcuding the German Sabally #6 Anelli Maley (Australia), and #10 Spaniard Ayusa. Satou started about game 5 as a Freshman and the other two played 30+ games as Freshmen on an Elite 8 Oregon team. Both Anelli and Aina leveraged their Oregon experience to become pros in their respective countries and certainly are very talented, ven through neither was ranked ESPN top 100. Also no one can contest that Sabally is one of the top college players n the game right now, certainly should have been top 5 on any objective ranking.
These international women are now playing very good bball. Geno and others are now following suit looking at the international players especially given the success of Satou. In the future I am sure ESPN will get batter including them . I do appreciate the effort you did to put together the poll and understand you had to make choices,. Still I think your approach is an aribrtrary distinction which makes no sense when it is really an opinion poll anyways.