Not super surprised by either move. McGwire was already sixth woman coming off the bench and was unlikely to move up given that Oregon has a loaded set of forward/centers for the next few years, between their starting players, Gildon, Sabally's incoming younger sister, and Boley. Yeesh Oregon is going to be really, really good.
The 2016 class is a funny one - three of the top 8 recruits have now transferred (Boley, Slocum, and Chou). It's also funny in retrospect that Oregon's Sierra Campisano was rated no. 14 by ESPN and Hebard was no. 40. Hebard has to have been one of the most criminally under-rated of any women's player in a long time (Lili was also absurd insofar as she wasn't even ranked, but I don't think her ceiling was anything close to Hebard's). I wonder how much her playing in Alaska might have limited her ability to draw attention...
It'll be interesting to see where Chou lands. Weren't we in the running for her for a while? I feel like she ultimately ended up not being admissible, but I recall her having Stanford on her short list.
The 2016 class is a funny one - three of the top 8 recruits have now transferred (Boley, Slocum, and Chou). It's also funny in retrospect that Oregon's Sierra Campisano was rated no. 14 by ESPN and Hebard was no. 40. Hebard has to have been one of the most criminally under-rated of any women's player in a long time (Lili was also absurd insofar as she wasn't even ranked, but I don't think her ceiling was anything close to Hebard's). I wonder how much her playing in Alaska might have limited her ability to draw attention...
It'll be interesting to see where Chou lands. Weren't we in the running for her for a while? I feel like she ultimately ended up not being admissible, but I recall her having Stanford on her short list.