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" Socka-Ngueman picked UCLA over Indiana, Tennessee, and Michigan in October 2023. She was ranked No. 26 in the ESPN Top 100 for the Class of 2024, which would’ve made her one of IU’s highest-ranked commits in program history. She ranked higher than both Grace Berger (No. 44, 2018) and Mackenzie Holmes (No. 53, 2019)." NO idea if this is accurate, but I hope it is. And once again we see, when a team recruits somebody, you must KEEP RECRUITING them.

Well, that certainly shines a different light on things, doesn't it?

ESPN says Yardon Garzon is the #5 transfer in the entire women's basketball portal. https://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/44575312/women-ncaa-basketball-transfer-portal-player-rankings-2025-26-season Not sure how that makes me feel.

The "student-athlete' model is totally broken. We now have professional sports with no rules. Winning has simply become a matter of which schools can convince enough rich alumni to kick in NIL dollars. I will continue to support IU Women's basketball, simply because I always have, and the girls appreciate support way more than the men's teams do. I will also support next year's IU basketball team because they will have so many Indiana high school stalwarts ready, willing, and able to wear candy stripes. But talking about final 4s and such nonsense for IU has now become a waste of time unless and until we get some rich dude or dudes willing to kick in millions of dollars to hire mercenaries to win ball games. I HATE what has happened to college sports. Thanks NCAA. Well done! Rant over.....

Great insight. Makes PERFECT sense. This whole transfer thing is making things crazy for coaches and fans.

Thanks ‼️. I'm 77

Maybe that sort of comment is why she's moving on? Can't say I blame her.

I'm glad Phoenix Stotijin committed to IU. She will be a sophomore, and with her international experience she should help us. While her Arkansas stats are not great (31.7% fg, 26% 3s, 52.4% ft). she got better towards the end of the season, and ended up as a starter. She's 5'9" tall. I will never understand this mass exodus. Simply beyond me. Surely somebody knows what happened. I certainly don't. I'm not an Instagram expert, and I'm not sure if you have to be a subscriber or not to view these. Click through these Instagram memories/photos. Do these look like girls who could not wait to get out of here? https://www.instagram.com/p/DHtMgSDudIX/?img_index=9 https://www.instagram.com/p/DH2K2AoxkU3/?img_index=20 Yardon to Maryland. Just when I thought things couldn't get any worse..... I hope we play them there. Can't stand to see her play for Maryland after all IU did for her when she was here.

Pretty sure Keyanna Warthen, who played 4 years at IU, then transferred to SMU, signed the board. She is now an assistant coach, which seems odd to me. I really liked her as a player, and felt bad when she left after her 4 years at IU. I need to learn that it's the new normal.

I'm very happy Spreen is here. I know she's not elite enough for many of you. Right now, for me, it's nice to have a player who clearly WANTS to be a Hoosier and to play basketball for the school 20 miles from her home. She has something to prove to the coaches who gave up on her after offering her a scholarship as a youngster.

Agree with what you have written above. Lilly Meister MIGHT land somewhere with a deal of some sort. How this mass exodus all came down is certainly a very well kept secret, at least to me. I simply don't understand it.

I see. I misread your post. NO MORE than her top five list. I somehow managed to change that into "not on her top five list." My bad. We need some "good but not elite players." I fear we will need warm bodies, unfortunately. Elite would be great , but hate to see us end up with nine players to start the season. Take Spreen. She WANTS to play here, and will bring a boat load of BNL fans. Maybe not "elite,' but so what? :)

Where did you see that? Twitter from 23 hours ago has us at #1.

I think Madison Layden's fourth year was 2023-2024. She took a year off, now coming back to play with her sister. https://purduesports.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/madison-laydenzay/14407

Here's what little I know. Yardon has obviously been offered a substantial sum of money to play somewhere else. If you're a Junior in college with a twin sister fighting against Hamas, a family living under a constant threat, and you're offered a bunch of money, what would YOU DO? Easy for us to judge Yardon from the comfort of our easy chair, because we've never been in a situation remotely resembling hers, I wish her well, whatever she decides.