Women’s basketball transfer portal team rankings: Oklahoma State, UCLA lead rankings

It’s been more than a month since the transfer portal opened for women’s college basketball. The dust has largely settled on a busy portal season and most of the top 100 or so players in the nation have picked new destinations. We don’t know how the players will fit in with new teammates, if they can thrive in different conferences, or how they’ll adjust to different coaching style.

But we know what the rosters look like, how good all these players have been in previous seasons and — judging from social media posts — we know which coaches are excited about their teams for next season. “Grateful for players that believed in a vision and that had the courage to blaze their own path,” Oklahoma State coach Jacie Hoyt wrote on X. “Grateful for a staff that worked tirelessly to make it happen.

” “When the staff gets it right in the portal and in the freshman class… Proud of our program,” Arizona State coach Molly Miller wrote on X. “The work is the reward. ” Here are USA TODAY Sports’ top 15 portal class rankings for women’s college basketball: 1.

Oklahoma State Key additions: Audi Crooks (Iowa State), Liv McGill (Florida), Ellie Brueggemann (Lindenwood), Nènè Ndiaye (Rutgers) It’s difficult to argue any other team had a better portal haul than Jacie Hoyt’s Cowgirls, who landed the nation’s second-leading scorer in Crooks, a dynamic guard in McGill, a sharpshooting deep threat in Brueggemann and a versatile forward in Ndiaye. Oklahoma State also picked up former Baylor guard Yuting Deng, Utah guard LA Sneed and Missouri State guard Zoe Canfield to shore up the Cowgirls’ depth in the backcourt. Pairing all those pieces with returner All-Big 12 selection Stailee Heard makes Oklahoma State a team capable of a deep run in March.