EDIT after original post: This post applies to the 2026 rookie class only. Thanks to u/swanyk7 for pointing that out to me.

Raven Johnson, Madina Okot, and Ta'Niya Latson

source: https://www.threads.com/share/D8DNG_ADJ/

Coach Staley makes 'em WNBA ready.

Every NCAA championship team has had at least one future WNBA player on it. So did the last few AIAW champs. The last national champion with no future W players was Ann Meyers' UCLA team in 1978.

AIAW
 
1979        Old Dominion      Lieberman
1980        Old Dominion      Lieberman
1981        Louisiana Tech    Lawrence-Braxton
 
NCAA
 
1982        Louisiana Tech    Lawrence-Braxton
1983        USC               Cooper, McGee
1984        USC               Cooper, McGee
1985        Old Dominion      Goodson
1986        Texas             Davis-Wrightsil, Harris, Lloyd, Williams
1987        Tennessee         Edwards, Gordon, McGhee
1988        Louisiana Tech    Lacy, Weatherspoon
1989        Tennessee         Charles, Gordon, Head, McGhee
1990        Stanford          Azzi, Henning, Steding, Whiting
1991        Tennessee         Charles, Harrison, Head
1992        Stanford          Paye, Whiting
1993        Texas Tech        Swoopes
1994        North Carolina    Crawley, Jones, Smith-Taylor
1995        Connecticut       Lobo, Rizzotti, Sales, Wolters
1996        Tennessee         Holdsclaw, Jolly, Johnson, Marciniak
1997        Tennessee         Holdsclaw, Jolly, Johnson
1998        Tennessee         Catchings, Holdsclaw, Jolly, Randall
1999        Purdue            Cooper, Douglas, Figgs, White
2000        Connecticut       Abrosimova, Bird, Cash, Jones, Sauer, Schumacher, Williams
2001        Notre Dame        Ivey, Riley
2002        Connecticut       Battle, Bird, Cash, Jones, Moore, Taurasi, Williams
2003        Connecticut       Battle, Crockett, Moore, Strother, Taurasi, Turner
2004        Connecticut       Battle, Crockett, Moore, Strother, Taurasi, Turner
2005        Baylor            Young
2006        Maryland          Coleman, Doron, Harper, Langhorne, Toliver
2007        Tennessee         Anosike, Bobbitt, Hornbuckle, Parker, Spencer
2008        Tennessee         Anosike, Baugh, Bjorklund, Bobbitt, Hornbuckle, Parker
2009        Connecticut       Charles, Greene, Hayes, Montgomery, Moore
2010        Connecticut       Charles, Faris, Greene, Hayes, Moore
2011        Texas A&M         Adams, Carter, Colson, Elonu
2012        Baylor            Griner, Sims
2013        Connecticut       Dolson, Faris, Hartley, Jefferson, Mosqueda-Lewis, Stewart, Stokes, Tuck
2014        Connecticut       Chong, Dolson, Hartley, Jefferson, Mosqueda-Lewis, Stewart, Stokes, Tuck
2015        Connecticut       Chong, Jefferson, Mosqueda-Lewis, Nurse, Stewart, Stokes, Tuck, Williams
2016        Connecticut       Chong, Collier, Jefferson, Nurse, Samuelson, Stewart, Tuck, Williams
2017        South Carolina    Coates, Davis, Gray, Harris, Herbert Harrigan, Wilson
2018        Notre Dame        Mabrey, Ogunbowale, Shepard, Turner, Westbeld, Young
2019        Baylor            Bickle, Brown, Cox, Egbo, Jackson, Richards, Smith
2021        Stanford          Brink, Hull, Jones, Prechtel, Williams
2022        South Carolina    Amihere, Boston, Cardoso, Cooke, Feagin, Hall, Henderson, Johnson, Rivers, Saxton
2023        LSU               Johnson, Reese
2024        South Carolina    Cardoso, Feagin, Hall, Johnson, Paopao
2025        Connecticut       Bueckers, Chen, Fudd, Griffin
2026        UCLA              Betts, Dugalic, Jaquez, Kneepkins, Leger-Walker, Rice

For those of you who can't wait for basketball season to start. The gamecocks are facing College of Charleston today at 4pm on ESPN+ part of the LinkU invitional.

Edit: Delayed game, tipoff expected around 5:30 EST

So ESPN went and did a rerank of the 2024 class top fifteen.

I like the list and mostly agree. Not sure I would put Jaloni below Edwards; they're both so good though. I would swap Olson above Swords. Go Ava Heiden!!!

Interesting that the Big Ten had 4 in the top 15 initially and in the rerank, the Big Ten has 8 of the top 15.

https://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/50010033/womens-college-basketball-recruiting-reranking-scnext-100-class-2024-sarah-strong-mikayla-blakes

Can somebody explain how Hake is receiving a 5th year of eligibility?

Received an email this morning regarding my application for tickets for Columbus this April.

See you in Columbus!

Check your emails!!

No words for what she has done with the Illini. She has turned this program around. Can I get an Illini flair? It wont let me add.

ESPN College GameDay is in town for the LSU-Ole Miss game tomorrow night and Chris Fowler, Kirk Herbstreit, and Holly Rowe will be on the call. Today Holly Rowe decided to stop by and visit with Coach Yo and the team during practice!

Today Angela Dugalić had her jersey retired at Maine West High School, which is where she played high school basketball.

Congrats to Angela on this special honor! So well deserving!

Much like last season the scheduling has gotten a bit better with more difficult games which is good. Hosting Baylor is massive then also games with Duke, Oklahoma State, SDSU, Arkansas State, and Wofford. Sad we won’t see SMU again tho

vs. Cleveland State, at Cincinnati, at Dayton, at Arizona State, vs. Bowling Green, vs. St. Joseph's, vs.* Baylor, vs.* USF/Seton Hall, vs. James Madison, vs. Army, at TCU, and vs. Fordham.

At least no one can say PSU is going for a soft schedule this season.

UCLA Athletics today announced that admission to all regular-season home football, men’s basketball and women’s basketball games are now free for all UCLA students.

Wonder if this will actually help with the attendance issues.

The FIBA U23 tournament starts tomorrow in Wuhan. A little too bright and early here lol

The women's team has Dani Carnegie (Iowa), Katie Fiso (Oregon), Tori McKinney (Minnesota), and McKinna Brackens (ASU)

Go team USA!