(04-09-2022, 05:25 AM)81alum Wrote: Stanford is far more likely to be able to receive graduate transfers than undergraduate transfers. There are numerous MA programs at Stanford that are far less selective than the undergraduate program, not to mention that Stanford has a strict and very low number of transfer slots open for the undergraduate class as a whole. Brooke Smith was exceptional as I understand it since I believe she had been accepted by Stanford before going to Duke, then transferred after a year at Duke. I'm trying to remember any other WBB player who transferred in as an undergraduate.
Tara also feels a responsibility to use her 15 scholarships and not hold them in reserve. I can't remember a verbatim quote, but at one point she noted that it wasn't right to deprive a kid of a chance for a Stanford education as part of a strategic basketball decision. That is, after all, why we often have a number of players on the team who almost never reach the floor. They contribute in practice and they receive a degree. Not a bad work-study program.
The fact that an extra scholarship just opened up does create some possibilities, though.
+1 to this. As a transfer myself (in Brooke Smith's transfer class no less!), can definitely attest that the odds for admission are even longer than as a frosh applicant. And as far as I know, she's the only prior undergrad transfer to Stanford WBB, and as 81 said, she's sui generis given she had already been admitted once.
Given how much recruiting is now shaped around the portal, I do think grad transfers will be a recurring feature of Stanford women's basketball, probably not so much for starters, but at least for utility/role players who can come off the bench. Hamilton gave us some nice minutes in a few games this season and my sense was that she was generally just a great spark for the team's chemistry as a whole. I kind of wish we had more time with her in a Cardinal uniform because the little I saw of her I liked a lot.
(04-08-2022, 11:48 PM)jonnyss Wrote: abby meyers!
+1 to this too. She could be a great pickup too. She's not quite as fast as the Hulls, but has a similar skillset in terms of both being able to get to the basket and also launch a barrage of treys when left open:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM5iyF2pjpE
I imagine she would fill a similar role to Hannah Jump, with possibly a bit more of an active guard role on the defensive end. She would not, however, be a partial solution to our PG question marks.
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