No they play two different positions, jalyn brown gives you a little bit of everything she is a versatile sg, she can play at the 3, 4 post you up, etc.

Cutie McMahon is a elite post player.

Currently at 9 players on the roster!!!


I say we add about 3-4 more players because every season we always still end up short even when we start the season with depth and we get screwd everytime.


Also with buggs,jana,bella, and kyla leaving after this season its important for us to get really young players added to this roster that can give depth for this team this year and more players for next year after they leave.


I do believe that we can get a few top players from this 2026 high school class but its still important for us to get some great players now while they are available.


What yall thinking???

There are a lot of solid names Baylor has been tied to. Some of those you are seeing Baylor pushing hard for and hoping they have what's needed to win it.

All the adds so far have been multi year if I remember correctly, so it's clear the staff is addressing that aspect.

Collen tends to want to keep spots open for Matharu type adds. It's not a bad thing for sure, but I would love to see us not leave as much open.

Baylorbearsupporter said:

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Currently at 9 players on the roster!!!


I say we add about 3-4 more players because every season we always still end up short even when we start the season with depth and we get screwd everytime.


Also with buggs,jana,bella, and kyla leaving after this season its important for us to get really young players added to this roster that can give depth for this team this year and more players for next year after they leave.


I do believe that we can get a few top players from this 2026 high school class but its still important for us to get some great players now while they are available.


What yall thinking???

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I hope you are right on 2026. CNC said if she can't get the HS commits she wants she would rather go to the portal to fill that need. I took that to mean that she will not settle on a HS commit.

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Baylorbearsupporter said:

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Currently at 9 players on the roster!!!


I say we add about 3-4 more players because every season we always still end up short even when we start the season with depth and we get screwd everytime.


Also with buggs,jana,bella, and kyla leaving after this season its important for us to get really young players added to this roster that can give depth for this team this year and more players for next year after they leave.


I do believe that we can get a few top players from this 2026 high school class but its still important for us to get some great players now while they are available.


What yall thinking???

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I hope you are right on 2026. CNC said if she can't get the HS commits she wants she would rather go to the portal to fill that need. I took that to mean that she will not settle on a HS commit.

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Painful reality……..for most schools including Baylor…….NIL must buy production.
Not the hope of production but actual dependable production.

Is it possible with 15 scholarships to carry a No NIL player simply to develop? Yes.
But with the House settlement coming online, think the days of incurring expenses [even simple scholarship/room/board type expenses for end of the bench players] for most P4 programs is at an end.

Limited buying power combined with increased cost control is going to be a large millstone for every non-revenue sport. Add on the certain Title IX litigation that will follow the first House distribution and Hell is Coming to Dinner.

We will get Kyla back for one more year after this coming season since she red shirted last year.

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It might be transfer portal related down the line, but reportedly Adia Barnes is leaving Arizona to SMU.

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she might have been a candidate for the Arizona job.

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We will get Kyla back for one more year after this coming season since she red shirted last year.

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She played in all 35 games.

She has previously said that she will not settle for a recruit that is not on her A-list. I really hope we go to about 13-14 if we have the NIL that can get us good enough players. Obviously we need a really quality big and I would love for us to get 2. We almost did last year. Watching South Carolina dismantle Texas in the second half from wearing them down if we could get 14 quality players and shuttle them in more frequently might be helpful and would protect us from the rash of injuries we have had in the last few years. I know Nicki likes to manage a smaller roster but maybe her outlook has changed the last few years after what this team has experienced.

Nicki told me this fall she thought the House settlement would benefit our recruiting. If I understand correctly, athletes can get some direct revenue share from the school although I know the lions share will go to FB and MBB, do you have any idea how much WBB might get - 5%, less?

Do we know what the roster limits will be?

Can Baylor directly help set up NIL opportunities for our athletes now?

Do you think the long term is a smaller roster composed of better players who all contribute?

Adriacus Peratuun said:

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Bear3 said:

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We will get Kyla back for one more year after this coming season since she red shirted last year.

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She played in all 35 games.

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He was talking about last year, not this year.

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Bear3 said:

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We will get Kyla back for one more year after this coming season since she red shirted last year.

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She played in all 35 games.

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NO. Kyla played in 4 games 2023 - 2024. That is the max and still qualify for redshirt season. She has 2 seasons left.

Clearly folks have a different interpretation of the word "last" than i do.

But i now get the intended comment.

BREAKING: Penn State transfer Gracie Merkle has committed to Maryland, sources told @On3sports.

The 6-6 sophomore center averaged 15.5 ppg and 8.6 rpg this season.

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Cunningham, Okot, and Weimar would be the bigs i expect us to be going after hard. Maybe even Smith from LSU. I know we are recruiting a lot of girls that used to play with her at Desoto so that could help a lot with the next recruiting class.

I find the lack of transparency around NIL deals to be very frustrating. When we're competing with other schools to recruit a player, how do we know if it's a level playing field? How much NIL money does Baylor have available? TCU? UT and Oklahoma and LSU? Is it reasonable to expect us to compete with the elite national programs for the best players, or are we limited to pursuing mid tier talent? In ancient times, we could evaluate factors such as quality of program, quality of coach, quality of school, existing roster talent, location, etc to make sense of why a player signs with a certain school. With NIL thrown into the mix, and no accurate reporting on the budget of each team, who knows why anybody chooses a program anymore? I don't know if it's legally or practically possible, but it would be so helpful in evaluating offseason moves if we had some idea of the dollars involved.

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Cunningham, Okot, and Weimar would be the bigs i expect us to be going after hard. Maybe even Smith from LSU. I know we are recruiting a lot of girls that used to play with her at Desoto so that could help a lot with the next recruiting class.

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The selling point with Smith is logging minutes at both the 4 and 5. And then getting another larger 5.

A quantitative play. The qualitative play simply doesn't appear to exist this year.

Smith didn't leave LSU to be a bench player with a new team. She will want to be Day 1 starter and has 3 years experience in the SEC. She may be looking to include her "rumored girlfriend" Poa from Australia to come with her, 2 for 1 package deal. Poa went in the portal after Smith did, but she is not good PG. It will be interesting if 2 for 1 package deal is done with Smith.

i feel like she has a lot of growth left in the tank as well. i feels he could have a face up game a lot like Lyss. We like to play fast and she could help us do that especially if we are able to get so w big guards in there as well. She is not like Dree and Aijha in the way they were more like 3-4 players having to play 5. She was the 5 at LSU she just wasn't a focus in their scheme at all.

I just can't see Smith being the focus if at BU. Maybe a good contributor. I don't see her that dominant.

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I find the lack of transparency around NIL deals to be very frustrating. When we're competing with other schools to recruit a player, how do we know if it's a level playing field? How much NIL money does Baylor have available? TCU? UT and Oklahoma and LSU? Is it reasonable to expect us to compete with the elite national programs for the best players, or are we limited to pursuing mid tier talent? In ancient times, we could evaluate factors such as quality of program, quality of coach, quality of school, existing roster talent, location, etc to make sense of why a player signs with a certain school. With NIL thrown into the mix, and no accurate reporting on the budget of each team, who knows why anybody chooses a program anymore? I don't know if it's legally or practically possible, but it would be so helpful in evaluating offseason moves if we had some idea of the dollars involved.

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Yes, it would be nice, but that is not the way it is. To answer your question, I suspect that no, if you look at NIL alone, we probably are not on a level playing field with the top teams in the SEC and B1G. I would hope we are on a close to even keel with others in our league, but I suspect TCU is willing to buy a team if it comes to that and Tech organizations seems to have money that they throw at anything. The rest I would think we could match or exceed.

There is certainly more to recruit on than NIL, but for some that may be all they are interested in. Others may value location, culture, coaching relationships enough to bypass a higher NIL amount. I suspect as it has always been some choose based on one or a few things, others, other things. NIL has just put a dollar amount out there that wasn't out there legally in the past. For some that may be all that matters before they are even willing to look at the factors upon which recruiting was based in the past.

Heck, SMU just got a new coach and the way their boosters have thrown money around, they may just have decided they want to buy an ACC championship. I don't think Barnes is the coach that could lead them there, but they probably won't get there because they don't try if that is what this coaching change is all about.

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Smith didn't leave LSU to be a bench player with a new team. She will want to be Day 1 starter and has 3 years experience in the SEC. She may be looking to include her "rumored girlfriend" Poa from Australia to come with her, 2 for 1 package deal. Poa went in the portal after Smith did, but she is not good PG. It will be interesting if 2 for 1 package deal is done with Smith.

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Can't imagine anyone wanting to pursue that drama or possibility of drama on the team. If that is true, I hope we pass.

Do we know for sure who we are pursuing? Meaning bigs?

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Do we know for sure who we are pursuing? Meaning bigs?

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"We", here, will and should be the last to know......when they are signed or CNC quits following them.

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Polarbear said:

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I find the lack of transparency around NIL deals to be very frustrating. When we're competing with other schools to recruit a player, how do we know if it's a level playing field? How much NIL money does Baylor have available? TCU? UT and Oklahoma and LSU? Is it reasonable to expect us to compete with the elite national programs for the best players, or are we limited to pursuing mid tier talent? In ancient times, we could evaluate factors such as quality of program, quality of coach, quality of school, existing roster talent, location, etc to make sense of why a player signs with a certain school. With NIL thrown into the mix, and no accurate reporting on the budget of each team, who knows why anybody chooses a program anymore? I don't know if it's legally or practically possible, but it would be so helpful in evaluating offseason moves if we had some idea of the dollars involved.

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Yes, it would be nice, but that is not the way it is. To answer your question, I suspect that no, if you look at NIL alone, we probably are not on a level playing field with the top teams in the SEC and B1G. I would hope we are on a close to even keel with others in our league, but I suspect TCU is willing to buy a team if it comes to that and Tech organizations seems to have money that they throw at anything. The rest I would think we could match or exceed.

There is certainly more to recruit on than NIL, but for some that may be all they are interested in. Others may value location, culture, coaching relationships enough to bypass a higher NIL amount. I suspect as it has always been some choose based on one or a few things, others, other things. NIL has just put a dollar amount out there that wasn't out there legally in the past. For some that may be all that matters before they are even willing to look at the factors upon which recruiting was based in the past.

Heck, SMU just got a new coach and the way their boosters have thrown money around, they may just have decided they want to buy an ACC championship. I don't think Barnes is the coach that could lead them there, but they probably won't get there because they don't try if that is what this coaching change is all about.

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Not that Tech benefits from the Mahomes connection. He has used the NIL platform to contribute money through his deal with Adidas, which is how they secured Canady for softball. That is real money, and though his "Team Mohomes" moniker, I think Adidas will bring anyone a deal that is needed to secure them. So, not sure how much other Tech people are throwing money at non-producing sports, but that is how they have lured some bigger names as of late.

I cannot see Nicki dealing with that under any circumstance.

BearTiger said:

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Smith didn't leave LSU to be a bench player with a new team. She will want to be Day 1 starter and has 3 years experience in the SEC. She may be looking to include her "rumored girlfriend" Poa from Australia to come with her, 2 for 1 package deal. Poa went in the portal after Smith did, but she is not good PG. It will be interesting if 2 for 1 package deal is done with Smith.

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Didn't Kamaria McDaniel leave partially b/c CNC had a rule against teammates dating?

Also I think Poa and Smith broke up early in the season. There was some sort of messy incident that nearly got them both kicked off the team apparently. Not sure on details. So don't think they'd be a package deal.

That's fairly accurate statement. Smith is not considered "dominant" in the post. She is good next to another aggressive physical post/rebounder (eg, Angel Reese and Aneesah Morrow). But playing against bigger, stronger rebounders, she is average. LSU coaches worked on her techniques and confidence for 3 years, but she isn't an aggressive physical rebounder by herself. So whoever gets her will need to have another aggressive post/rebounder to compliment. She is skinny, needs to gain muscle weight.

BREAKING: Notre Dame’s Kate Koval has committed to LSU, she announced.

The 6-5 freshman averaged 5.3 ppg and 4.7 rpg this season.

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— Talia Goodman (@TaliaGoodmanWBB) April 7, 2025

Wasn't LSu a finalist out of HS did her? If so not surprising

Iowa, yes correct. Koval had LSU and ND as her 2 finalists. Supposedly, she wanted LSU but her mother wanted ND. She was #4/#5 recruit and #1 post player 1-year ago. Her brother is a student at LSU. Everyone knew that Kim would contact her when she entered the portal. She is from Ukraine and read that her father was in Ukraine fighting in the war.

She is too young to be the Ukrainian center Nicki thought she had signed in her first year. Anyone know who that was?

UCLA's Elina Aarnisalo in portal. Could be a fit at PG

6'6" C Del Rosario entered the transfer portal from LSU. Kinda expected since Koval committed to LSU today. 2 years eligibility. Never took the next level 2 years at LSU nor flourished in the SEC. Came off the bench behind AA's Angel Reese and Aneesah Morrow.