The transfer portal has closed for female university basketball. While there are still a handful of shocking players, such as Kayleight Heckel of USSC, who have not yet found a new home, the dust has been established mainly in the substitute for sport for free agency.
Losses for some teams were profits for others. Some complete squadrons renewed their lists, while others just add some key pieces. Some teams almost have to start from scratch due to defects.
Winning players through the transfer portal is not always equal to success, and losing them does not always bring fatality. But consider that each team that made the Final Four last season began at least one transfer. National champions, UConn, just add a great transfer in Wisconsin Serah Williams to increase their possibilities to repeat.
And notable transfers of the last season cycle helped to boost their new teams to a large massive height truck, raising TCU to its first elite eight, OA Georgia Amore, leading Kentucky to organize privileges, the duration of the NCAA tour.
With that, we break down the biggest winners and losers of the portal.
Winner: LSU
While Kim Mulkey’s tigers lost a headline in Sa’myah Smith and some rotation players such as POA of last level, Mjracle Sheppard and Jersey Wolfenbarger, won some of the most fulwiley. In addition to the former electric Gamecock, LSU won Kate Koval de Notre Dame and Amiya Joyner of East Carolina. Koval considers that being the titular center for the tigers, while Joyner-Who averaged 15 points and 9.2 rebounds for pirates last season of an incredible luxury outside the bank.
Loser: Notre Dame
Fighting Irish will bring back only one headline of her team who enjoyed a 19 games winning streak and made the Sweet 16. And while Hannah Hidalgo, the current AC player of the year, is an incredible talent, Notre Dame Looks. It is not only that the Irish lost to the US guard Olivia Miles, but also lost a promising post player in Koval and a constant presence in Kylee Watson, who began 64 consecutive games before his injury at the end of the 2023-24 season.
Push: South Carolina
Seeing Fulwiley leaving for a rival at the conference is a great loss for game posts, but they softened that blow by adding the nation scorer in Ta’niya Latson of the state of Florida and a player who lasts the seafood-double-double-double-double-doble-doublee okot. Dawn Staley’s team will be fine next season and has all the talent to compete for another trip to the Final Four.
Winner: Maryland
Brenda Farese has demonstrated her domain of the transfer portal again and again. The Terps will once again bring an impressive transfer class that includes the MVP of the ACC Tournament in Oluchi Okananwa, and a couple of talents of All-Big talents in Yarden Garzon of Indiana and Gracie Merkle of Penn State. With the thesis additions, Maryland collects a dynamic guard, a versatile wing of 3 Ydy a formidable posterior presence. They will enter the season as one of the best teams in Big Ten.
Loser: Georgia Tech
The Yellow Jackets lost seven players on the transfer portal and six of them ended in Power 4. that group includes two three-year-old headlines in Kara Dunn and Tonie Morgan, the sixth player of the year of ACC Dani Carnegie and other talented young players such as Rusne Augustinaite and Chit-Chaat Wright. After the retirement of Nell Fortner, the new chief coach Karen Blair inherits a great reconstruction project in Atlanta.
Push: UCLA
Out of their first trip to the Final Four, the Bruins lost six players on the transfer portal, including a headline in Londynn Jones and key players outside the bank in Janiah Barker and Elina Aarnisalo. However, UCLA perhaps won the best 3-point shooter through the Portal in Gianna Knepkens of Utah, which comes a season of about 50-40-90. Add oxen to an initial alignment that already includes Lauren Betts and Kiki Rice will keep this team compete.
Winner: Ole Miss
Again, Yolett McPhee-McCuin flexed his muscles on the transfer portal when adding seven players. The rebels knew they had holes to fill after a race towards the Sweet 16 with five players exhausting their eligibility and the coach found pieces that will fit. The transfer class is directed by an All-Big Ten player in Cotie McMahon, but also includes one of the best scorers in the nation in Kaitlin Peterson from UCF, a postal solid in Latasha Lattimore and a versatile guard with experience in SEC.
Loser: Boston College
The Eagles lost 11 players on the transfer portal. There is not much more to say it. It will be another low season where Joanna Bernabei-McName has to rebuild with limited resources.
Push: USC
Lindsay Gottlieb team lost four players on the portal, including first -year students at Avery Howell and Kayleigh Hekel. In addition, former American Aaliyah Gayles from McDonald’s left the program, as did Dominique Darius. However, USC compensated those losses by adding two players with an initial experience in the Power 4 programs in Londynn Jones de UCLA and Kara Dunn of Georgia Tech. Next season it could be difficult for the Trojans if Juju Watkins is marginalized with their knee injury, but players like Jones and Dunn should help them stay competitive.
Winner: USF
José Fernández did a strong job on the portal this spring. The Bulls added to Katie Davidson of IU Indy, which was one of the best 3 -point aviaxable points, the 15th best scorer of the nations in the Battle Edyn de Jacksonville, a versatile guard in Stefanie Ingram de Fau and the former Fresham of the year. At the American Athletic Conference, the road to the NCAA tournament will continue to run through Tampa.
Winner: Clemsson
After a promising first season at work that included an increase in assistance, some marquee victories and a strong end, Shawn Poppie went to work on the transfer portal to reinforce the Tigers before the next season. Among his additions was Rose Rose de Wofford, who was third in the nation in annotations in the 2023-24 season. Poppie also collected a pair or agreement in Rusne Augustinaite from Georgia Tech and Demeara Hinds of Wake Forest, while Taylor Johnson-Matthews or Depaul, Hadley Periman and Morgan Lee De Marist, complete a strong class.
Push: lime
Upon leaving their first appearance in the NCAA tournament since 2019, the Golden Bears of Charmin Smith lost five players to the portal, but only a significant taxsence in the opener Marta Suárez. Cal was re -loaded by adding a pair or veterans of the SEC in MJracle Sheppard of LSU and Sakima Walker of South Carolina, while Naya Ojukwu also picked up from Morgan, who averaged 17.1 points per game and four on offensive.
Winner: TCU
Mark Campbell quickly loaded after the best race of the frogs in the NCAA tournament, which saw the Lith Hailey core, Madison Conner and Sedona Prince left after a defeat in the Eight elite. TCU’S Strong Class is Headlined By Notre Dame Guard Olivia Miles, But It Also Includes to Cal’s Marta Suarez and Arizona State’s Kennedy Basham – Two Players Who Started at Power 4 Program – A Center with A High Potential or Taliyh and Texiah and Texiah and Texiah and Texiah and Texiah and Tex Tenuckyah and Tuma Silva, Andxiah and Texiah and Tenuckyah and Taliyah and Tenuckyah and Taliyah and Taliyah and Taliyhy, and Taliya Silva, and Taliyhya Silva and Taliyhy, and Taliya Silva and Taliyhya state. On paper, TCU looks pretty good again.
