10-02-2025, 05:14 AM
Picking Iowa to me is very different than a recruit picking Notre Dame, Duke, UCLA, or USC over us. Good luck to her. Hope she can survive those Midwest winters. Iowa will now have two CA kids on their roster.
(10-02-2025, 05:14 AM)Card10Fan Wrote: Picking Iowa to me is very different than a recruit picking Notre Dame, Duke, UCLA, or USC over us. Good luck to her. Hope she can survive those Midwest winters. Iowa will now have two CA kids on their roster.
(10-02-2025, 05:14 AM)Card10Fan Wrote: Picking Iowa to me is very different than a recruit picking Notre Dame, Duke, UCLA, or USC over us. Good luck to her. Hope she can survive those Midwest winters. Iowa will now have two CA kids on their roster.
(10-02-2025, 05:30 AM)JohnR34231 Wrote:(10-02-2025, 05:14 AM)Card10Fan Wrote: Picking Iowa to me is very different than a recruit picking Notre Dame, Duke, UCLA, or USC over us. Good luck to her. Hope she can survive those Midwest winters. Iowa will now have two CA kids on their roster.
Yeah that is now two Mitty stars who have spurned Stanford. I wonder if Hayley Jones's ungraceful exit had anything to do with it. Or if not that what did.
(10-02-2025, 05:30 AM)JohnR34231 Wrote:(10-02-2025, 05:14 AM)Card10Fan Wrote: Picking Iowa to me is very different than a recruit picking Notre Dame, Duke, UCLA, or USC over us. Good luck to her. Hope she can survive those Midwest winters. Iowa will now have two CA kids on their roster.
Yeah that is now two Mitty stars who have spurned Stanford. I wonder if Hayley Jones's ungraceful exit had anything to do with it. Or if not that what did.
(10-02-2025, 12:52 PM)stopandpop Wrote:(10-02-2025, 05:30 AM)JohnR34231 Wrote:(10-02-2025, 05:14 AM)Card10Fan Wrote: Picking Iowa to me is very different than a recruit picking Notre Dame, Duke, UCLA, or USC over us. Good luck to her. Hope she can survive those Midwest winters. Iowa will now have two CA kids on their roster.
Yeah that is now two Mitty stars who have spurned Stanford. I wonder if Hayley Jones's ungraceful exit had anything to do with it. Or if not that what did.
The same reason we've missed out on other big-time recruits. Tara's gone and last season's performance didn't help. Kate and company will have to get the team back to being the powerhouse they once were, or at least close to it.
(10-02-2025, 12:52 PM)stopandpop Wrote:(10-02-2025, 05:30 AM)JohnR34231 Wrote:(10-02-2025, 05:14 AM)Card10Fan Wrote: Picking Iowa to me is very different than a recruit picking Notre Dame, Duke, UCLA, or USC over us. Good luck to her. Hope she can survive those Midwest winters. Iowa will now have two CA kids on their roster.
Yeah that is now two Mitty stars who have spurned Stanford. I wonder if Hayley Jones's ungraceful exit had anything to do with it. Or if not that what did.
The same reason we've missed out on other big-time recruits. Tara's gone and last season's performance didn't help. Kate and company will have to get the team back to being the powerhouse they once were, or at least close to it.
(10-02-2025, 04:42 PM)spike5882 Wrote: I feel like everybody has an inflated view of what recruits we have gotten in the past. We did have Haley Jones and Brink back to back. But beyond that, our top ten recruits have been relatively few for many years prior to that. In the past 25 years or so (just thinking of the time since I was on campus), we have had Nicole Powell, Jayne Appel, the Ogwumike sisters, and Wiggins. Oh, and Yamasaki if stretching all the way back to 2000 (or was she 99?). And then add in Haley Jones and Brink in the 2020s. But for the period between 2000 and 2020, I feel like those were our only top 10 recruits. I could be missing some perhaps, but off the top of my head those were the top 10 recruits we got over a 20 year period between 2000 and 2020-- 6 in 20 years. So, it's not like we used to be getting top 10 recruits every year or even every other year -- Haley Jones and Brink back to back were an anomaly. We have two coming in this year in Swain (#5 in Prospects Nation) and Somfai (#2 in ASGR), which is the best we have had in a single year in the past 25 years -- and yet many people seem to be acting like we are in a drought.
Edit: Forgot Demetre and Kianna Williams in there, but again both a bit. more recent.
(10-02-2025, 04:42 PM)spike5882 Wrote: I feel like everybody has an inflated view of what recruits we have gotten in the past. We did have Haley Jones and Brink back to back. But beyond that, our top ten recruits have been relatively few for many years prior to that. In the past 25 years or so (just thinking of the time since I was on campus), we have had Nicole Powell, Jayne Appel, the Ogwumike sisters, and Wiggins. Oh, and Yamasaki if stretching all the way back to 2000 (or was she 99?). And then add in Haley Jones and Brink in the 2020s. But for the period between 2000 and 2020, I feel like those were our only top 10 recruits. I could be missing some perhaps, but off the top of my head those were the top 10 recruits we got over a 20 year period between 2000 and 2020-- 6 in 20 years. So, it's not like we used to be getting top 10 recruits every year or even every other year -- Haley Jones and Brink back to back were an anomaly. We have two coming in this year in Swain (#5 in Prospects Nation) and Somfai (#2 in ASGR), which is the best we have had in a single year in the past 25 years -- and yet many people seem to be acting like we are in a drought.
Edit: Forgot Demetre and Kianna Williams in there, but again both a bit. more recent.
(10-02-2025, 05:03 PM)martyup Wrote:(10-02-2025, 04:42 PM)spike5882 Wrote: I feel like everybody has an inflated view of what recruits we have gotten in the past. We did have Haley Jones and Brink back to back. But beyond that, our top ten recruits have been relatively few for many years prior to that. In the past 25 years or so (just thinking of the time since I was on campus), we have had Nicole Powell, Jayne Appel, the Ogwumike sisters, and Wiggins. Oh, and Yamasaki if stretching all the way back to 2000 (or was she 99?). And then add in Haley Jones and Brink in the 2020s. But for the period between 2000 and 2020, I feel like those were our only top 10 recruits. I could be missing some perhaps, but off the top of my head those were the top 10 recruits we got over a 20 year period between 2000 and 2020-- 6 in 20 years. So, it's not like we used to be getting top 10 recruits every year or even every other year -- Haley Jones and Brink back to back were an anomaly. We have two coming in this year in Swain (#5 in Prospects Nation) and Somfai (#2 in ASGR), which is the best we have had in a single year in the past 25 years -- and yet many people seem to be acting like we are in a drought.
Edit: Forgot Demetre and Kianna Williams in there, but again both a bit. more recent.
Don't forget Jump and the Hull twins (who were HS National Champions).
(10-02-2025, 05:03 PM)martyup Wrote:(10-02-2025, 04:42 PM)spike5882 Wrote: I feel like everybody has an inflated view of what recruits we have gotten in the past. We did have Haley Jones and Brink back to back. But beyond that, our top ten recruits have been relatively few for many years prior to that. In the past 25 years or so (just thinking of the time since I was on campus), we have had Nicole Powell, Jayne Appel, the Ogwumike sisters, and Wiggins. Oh, and Yamasaki if stretching all the way back to 2000 (or was she 99?). And then add in Haley Jones and Brink in the 2020s. But for the period between 2000 and 2020, I feel like those were our only top 10 recruits. I could be missing some perhaps, but off the top of my head those were the top 10 recruits we got over a 20 year period between 2000 and 2020-- 6 in 20 years. So, it's not like we used to be getting top 10 recruits every year or even every other year -- Haley Jones and Brink back to back were an anomaly. We have two coming in this year in Swain (#5 in Prospects Nation) and Somfai (#2 in ASGR), which is the best we have had in a single year in the past 25 years -- and yet many people seem to be acting like we are in a drought.
Edit: Forgot Demetre and Kianna Williams in there, but again both a bit. more recent.
Don't forget Jump and the Hull twins (who were HS National Champions).
(10-02-2025, 04:42 PM)spike5882 Wrote: I feel like everybody has an inflated view of what recruits we have gotten in the past. We did have Haley Jones and Brink back to back. But beyond that, our top ten recruits have been relatively few for many years prior to that. In the past 25 years or so (just thinking of the time since I was on campus), we have had Nicole Powell, Jayne Appel, the Ogwumike sisters, and Wiggins. Oh, and Yamasaki if stretching all the way back to 2000 (or was she 99?). And then add in Haley Jones and Brink in the 2020s. But for the period between 2000 and 2020, I feel like those were our only top 10 recruits. I could be missing some perhaps, but off the top of my head those were the top 10 recruits we got over a 20 year period between 2000 and 2020-- 6 in 20 years. So, it's not like we used to be getting top 10 recruits every year or even every other year -- Haley Jones and Brink back to back were an anomaly. We have two coming in this year in Swain (#5 in Prospects Nation) and Somfai (#2 in ASGR), which is the best we have had in a single year in the past 25 years -- and yet many people seem to be acting like we are in an abnormal drought.
Edit: Forgot Demetre and Kianna Williams in there, but again both a bit more recent.
(10-02-2025, 04:42 PM)spike5882 Wrote: I feel like everybody has an inflated view of what recruits we have gotten in the past. We did have Haley Jones and Brink back to back. But beyond that, our top ten recruits have been relatively few for many years prior to that. In the past 25 years or so (just thinking of the time since I was on campus), we have had Nicole Powell, Jayne Appel, the Ogwumike sisters, and Wiggins. Oh, and Yamasaki if stretching all the way back to 2000 (or was she 99?). And then add in Haley Jones and Brink in the 2020s. But for the period between 2000 and 2020, I feel like those were our only top 10 recruits. I could be missing some perhaps, but off the top of my head those were the top 10 recruits we got over a 20 year period between 2000 and 2020-- 6 in 20 years. So, it's not like we used to be getting top 10 recruits every year or even every other year -- Haley Jones and Brink back to back were an anomaly. We have two coming in this year in Swain (#5 in Prospects Nation) and Somfai (#2 in ASGR), which is the best we have had in a single year in the past 25 years -- and yet many people seem to be acting like we are in an abnormal drought.
Edit: Forgot Demetre and Kianna Williams in there, but again both a bit more recent.
(10-02-2025, 07:09 PM)TheFarm07 Wrote:(10-02-2025, 04:42 PM)spike5882 Wrote: I feel like everybody has an inflated view of what recruits we have gotten in the past. We did have Haley Jones and Brink back to back. But beyond that, our top ten recruits have been relatively few for many years prior to that. In the past 25 years or so (just thinking of the time since I was on campus), we have had Nicole Powell, Jayne Appel, the Ogwumike sisters, and Wiggins. Oh, and Yamasaki if stretching all the way back to 2000 (or was she 99?). And then add in Haley Jones and Brink in the 2020s. But for the period between 2000 and 2020, I feel like those were our only top 10 recruits. I could be missing some perhaps, but off the top of my head those were the top 10 recruits we got over a 20 year period between 2000 and 2020-- 6 in 20 years. So, it's not like we used to be getting top 10 recruits every year or even every other year -- Haley Jones and Brink back to back were an anomaly. We have two coming in this year in Swain (#5 in Prospects Nation) and Somfai (#2 in ASGR), which is the best we have had in a single year in the past 25 years -- and yet many people seem to be acting like we are in an abnormal drought.
Edit: Forgot Demetre and Kianna Williams in there, but again both a bit more recent.
Believe me, I haven't misremembered our recruiting history. I can still recall the surprised disappointment in the post-Ogwumike years of the mid-2010s when I thought we would have been able to translate our run of 5 straight Final Fours into brobdingnagian recruiting hauls but it took about a decade to bring in our first #1 recruit since Chiney.
But a fan can still hope (maybe foolishly) that we can do even better in the future, hope that Kate would set that as a goal for herself, to not only continue but perhaps exceed what her predecessor and mentor accomplished. Because what I do know is that the periods of our most success over the last 20 years (late 2000s-early 2010s) and a decade later (late 2010s-early 2020s) coincided with multiple elite recruits (Candice, Appel, Pederson, Pohlen and the Ogwumike sisters and then Kiana, Haley, Lexie, Brink) all playing on the same team together.
(10-02-2025, 07:09 PM)TheFarm07 Wrote:(10-02-2025, 04:42 PM)spike5882 Wrote: I feel like everybody has an inflated view of what recruits we have gotten in the past. We did have Haley Jones and Brink back to back. But beyond that, our top ten recruits have been relatively few for many years prior to that. In the past 25 years or so (just thinking of the time since I was on campus), we have had Nicole Powell, Jayne Appel, the Ogwumike sisters, and Wiggins. Oh, and Yamasaki if stretching all the way back to 2000 (or was she 99?). And then add in Haley Jones and Brink in the 2020s. But for the period between 2000 and 2020, I feel like those were our only top 10 recruits. I could be missing some perhaps, but off the top of my head those were the top 10 recruits we got over a 20 year period between 2000 and 2020-- 6 in 20 years. So, it's not like we used to be getting top 10 recruits every year or even every other year -- Haley Jones and Brink back to back were an anomaly. We have two coming in this year in Swain (#5 in Prospects Nation) and Somfai (#2 in ASGR), which is the best we have had in a single year in the past 25 years -- and yet many people seem to be acting like we are in an abnormal drought.
Edit: Forgot Demetre and Kianna Williams in there, but again both a bit more recent.
Believe me, I haven't misremembered our recruiting history. I can still recall the surprised disappointment in the post-Ogwumike years of the mid-2010s when I thought we would have been able to translate our run of 5 straight Final Fours into brobdingnagian recruiting hauls but it took about a decade to bring in our first #1 recruit since Chiney.
But a fan can still hope (maybe foolishly) that we can do even better in the future, hope that Kate would set that as a goal for herself, to not only continue but perhaps exceed what her predecessor and mentor accomplished. Because what I do know is that the periods of our most success over the last 20 years (late 2000s-early 2010s) and a decade later (late 2010s-early 2020s) coincided with multiple elite recruits (Candice, Appel, Pederson, Pohlen and the Ogwumike sisters and then Kiana, Haley, Lexie, Brink) all playing on the same team together.
(10-10-2025, 10:05 AM)Card10Fan Wrote: Per ESPNW they have a section on remaining 5 stars for 2026 that are uncommitted. Kaeli Wynn is down to Stanford and South Carolina. Not sure if she still has an OV coming up with us? She did visit South Carolina in September.
https://www.espn.com/womens-college-bask...ms-updates
(10-10-2025, 10:05 AM)Card10Fan Wrote: Per ESPNW they have a section on remaining 5 stars for 2026 that are uncommitted. Kaeli Wynn is down to Stanford and South Carolina. Not sure if she still has an OV coming up with us? She did visit South Carolina in September.
https://www.espn.com/womens-college-bask...ms-updates
(10-10-2025, 10:27 AM)PalmTree Wrote:(10-10-2025, 10:05 AM)Card10Fan Wrote: Per ESPNW they have a section on remaining 5 stars for 2026 that are uncommitted. Kaeli Wynn is down to Stanford and South Carolina. Not sure if she still has an OV coming up with us? She did visit South Carolina in September.
https://www.espn.com/womens-college-bask...ms-updates
By the same token, the article shows we are not on the list of final schools being considered by No. 8 Brihanna Crittendon, 6'2 wing, who is on our list at the top of this thread
(10-10-2025, 10:27 AM)PalmTree Wrote:(10-10-2025, 10:05 AM)Card10Fan Wrote: Per ESPNW they have a section on remaining 5 stars for 2026 that are uncommitted. Kaeli Wynn is down to Stanford and South Carolina. Not sure if she still has an OV coming up with us? She did visit South Carolina in September.
https://www.espn.com/womens-college-bask...ms-updates
By the same token, the article shows we are not on the list of final schools being considered by No. 8 Brihanna Crittendon, 6'2 wing, who is on our list at the top of this thread
(10-10-2025, 11:08 AM)Card10Fan Wrote: We know Byles is taking an OV to Stanford here in October. I guess she’s not considered a five star so not on the ESPN list.
(10-10-2025, 11:08 AM)Card10Fan Wrote: We know Byles is taking an OV to Stanford here in October. I guess she’s not considered a five star so not on the ESPN list.
(10-10-2025, 11:34 AM)!ZAR! Wrote:(10-10-2025, 11:08 AM)Card10Fan Wrote: We know Byles is taking an OV to Stanford here in October. I guess she’s not considered a five star so not on the ESPN list.
Byles fell to the 30's in the most updated ESPN rankings, but is still #16 on Prospects Nation... Wynn is #39 there.
They seem like the remaining highest priority targets, with perhaps Fope Ayo and Elyse Ngenda waiting in the wings...
(10-10-2025, 11:34 AM)!ZAR! Wrote:(10-10-2025, 11:08 AM)Card10Fan Wrote: We know Byles is taking an OV to Stanford here in October. I guess she’s not considered a five star so not on the ESPN list.
Byles fell to the 30's in the most updated ESPN rankings, but is still #16 on Prospects Nation... Wynn is #39 there.
They seem like the remaining highest priority targets, with perhaps Fope Ayo and Elyse Ngenda waiting in the wings...
(10-14-2025, 09:06 AM)2006alum Wrote:(10-10-2025, 11:34 AM)!ZAR! Wrote:(10-10-2025, 11:08 AM)Card10Fan Wrote: We know Byles is taking an OV to Stanford here in October. I guess she’s not considered a five star so not on the ESPN list.
Byles fell to the 30's in the most updated ESPN rankings, but is still #16 on Prospects Nation... Wynn is #39 there.
They seem like the remaining highest priority targets, with perhaps Fope Ayo and Elyse Ngenda waiting in the wings...
Looks like Byles has already ruled us out: https://www.tiktok.com/@a_buckets24/phot...9728713998
Baylor, Ohio State, Oregon, and Notre Dame are her final four.
(10-14-2025, 09:06 AM)2006alum Wrote:(10-10-2025, 11:34 AM)!ZAR! Wrote:(10-10-2025, 11:08 AM)Card10Fan Wrote: We know Byles is taking an OV to Stanford here in October. I guess she’s not considered a five star so not on the ESPN list.
Byles fell to the 30's in the most updated ESPN rankings, but is still #16 on Prospects Nation... Wynn is #39 there.
They seem like the remaining highest priority targets, with perhaps Fope Ayo and Elyse Ngenda waiting in the wings...
Looks like Byles has already ruled us out: https://www.tiktok.com/@a_buckets24/phot...9728713998
Baylor, Ohio State, Oregon, and Notre Dame are her final four.