2024-2025 Notre Dame Women's Basketball

[Irish du Nord]

Here's who I target first:

Gianna Kneepkens - Utah Utes Guard - ESPN

View the profile of Utah Utes Guard Gianna Kneepkens on ESPN. Get the latest news, live stats and game highlights.

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Gianna Kneepkens: "I love basketball, but I love the Lord more." — Stella Maris Academy

Gianna Kneepkens

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From Duluth, go 'Toppers!

Third highest rated player on 247's preliminary portal rankings behind Miles and Ta'Niya Latson.

2025 women's college basketball transfer portal: Live updates, entries, commitments

The NCAA transfer portal cycle for the 2025 college basketball season opened March 24 and will close on Tuesday, April 22.

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The GT backcourt is also in the portal, any chance we were recruiting them during the Allstate commercial?

Tonie Morgan, Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, Shooting Guard

Tonie Morgan is a Shooting Guard from Tallahassee, FL.

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Kara Dunn, Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, Shooting Guard

Kara Dunn is a Shooting Guard from Kennesaw, GA.

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[BabyIrish]

Full court press on Latson. She would be perfect in the #2 guard spot.

 

[arrowryan]

Hidalgo will be recruiting some old team USA teammates

 

[NDFAN2008]

The HS recruiting needs to get better bringing in 1 girl in the last two classes is atrocious

 

[BabyIrish]

Hidalgo will be recruiting some old team USA teammates

Is Latson one of those?

 

[DomeFieldAdvantage]

Where's the extra money going to come from for these much higher salaries? While the Cailtlin Clark effect is real, its not "everyone gets triple the salary" real. According to many reports, they still stand to LOSE money in 2024 despite all the new interest.

I mean, it might be triple the salary. They are more than tripling the league wide media revenue, plus seeing an increase in gate revenue and sponsorship.

As for losing money, that's just standard practice for sports teams outside of the NFL. Just the other day there was the quote from Mark Cuban about how he lost millions every year he ran the Mavericks. Good owners realize that you aren't actually losing money, but investing to increase the much more lucrative capital gain on the back end.

 

[Irish du Nord]

Hidalgo will be recruiting some old team USA teammates

Is Latson one of those?

Don't believe Latson is, Cotie McMahon was though and she's in the portal. She seems to have had an unceremonious exit from OSU.

 

[BabyIrish]

Don't believe Latson is, Cotie McMahon was though and she's in the portal. She seems to have had an unceremonious exit from OSU.

Get both.

 

[Old Man Mike]

One doubts she'd come but Kneepkens is REALLY good.

 

[sfk324]

Watson has entered the portal.

 

[ab2cmiller]

There has to be more to this story, right?????

 

[Irish#1]

Can't wait for the behind the scenes stories to come out.

 

[BabyIrish]

Watson has entered the portal.

I haven't seen that reported. Do you have a link anywhere?

 

[BuaConstrictor]

 

[ab2cmiller]

I haven't seen that reported. Do you have a link anywhere?

 

[PigtownIrish]

If we can't field a team is Niele in danger? There's only so much you can blame on NIL. This reeks of players not having confidence in their coaching staff.

 

[NDFAN2008]

What a dumpster fire

 

[ab2cmiller]

This tweet makes some sense. Evidently in the portal with a no contact tag.

 

[Old Man Mike]

I am waiting for some whistling-by-the-graveyard person to adamantly tell us that the coaching staff had nothing to do with this implosion. And since I can't conceive in a universe where Mikayla had either the personality or the power to contribute to such a disaster, that shrinks the focus down to two persons. Yes, I don't know the story, and, yes, I don't ever want bad things for one of my two favorite teams and my university, ... but it's hard to invent some scenario which says: nothing bad has happened here. ....... really am hating this.

 

[Irish#1]

I am waiting for some whistling-by-the-graveyard person to adamantly tell us that the coaching staff had nothing to do with this implosion. And since I can't conceive in a universe where Mikayla had either the personality or the power to contribute to such a disaster, that shrinks the focus down to two persons. Yes, I don't know the story, and, yes, I don't ever want bad things for one of my two favorite teams and my university, ... but it's hard to invent some scenario which says: nothing bad has happened here. ....... really am hating this.

It's really troubling, especially for a storied program.

 

[Irish du Nord]

One doubts she'd come but Kneepkens is REALLY good.

On the other hand, she is high academic (Big 12 Scholar of the year), majoring in Health and Kinesiology (ND College of Science has to entice), and is a committed Catholic who chose Utah in part due to their active Newman Center. If you like the Utah Newman Center, you're going to love ND Campus Ministry.

Obviously other factors matter but if I'm a shooter of her caliber, playing the Citron role with Hidalgo at the wheel would be intriguing.

 

[BabyIrish]

In theory, the staff is going to need to bring in 6-8 players to fill out the roster. Crazy. We’ll see if they can do it.

 

[NDFAN2008]

Well the staff shouldn't have been sitting on their ass and only bringing in two girls the last two years.

 

[stpeteirish]

Well, coach Ivey does like a smaller roster.

Maybe we can start a 3 on 3 league?

 

[tko]

Well, coach Ivey does like a smaller roster.

Maybe we can start a 3 on 3 league?

Gus Macker team

 

[BuaConstrictor]

 

[IrishSpartan]

absolutely nuts

 

[Blazers46]

absolutely nuts

Ed OBannon affect…

 

[Me2SouthBend]

1,100 hundred of them were on ND’s Women’s team this yr.

 

[irishff1014]

This team is cooked. The portal like I have said numerous times is going to ruin college sports.