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Truly bizarre to list Uconn as a top school without an offer.
Iowa WBB 2025 Recruiting Thread
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I would think it would be a huge distraction to go through all an official visit entails while you are in the midst of a tournament setting.
Right, I'm meaning they host the official visit on Sunday, but I'm not sure if they can provide tickets and access for the NCAA Tournament game. So the official takes place on "Sunday" and hey she happens to be in town and can attend the Tournament games if she wants also.
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Where did you see UConn hasn’t offered? I did some clicking around the boneyard and Geno reportedly paid her a visit at home in Colfax. Did you read differently?
This from approx 3 weeks ago; around :43 mark states, "and the fact that UConn hasn't offered her yet is crazy..."
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Slightly off-topic: Barring an outbound transfer, UConn only has one scholarship for next year. If Strong pics UConn, they could not take Kaitlyn Chen (which already seems weird tbh since they have 3 PGs).
Iowa WBB set to host 2025 five-star forward on Sunday - Page 2 - On3
2025 five-star 6'3 forward Brynn McGaughy out of Colfax, WA tells me that she will be in Iowa City next Sunday for an official visit. McGaughy is rated as the #15 player in the country by ESPN and recently announced her top 12 that included, Iowa, UConn, USC, Utah, Tennessee, Indiana...
Shows list of UConn targets for 2025 and 2026; McGaughy shown as having been offered.
Page down to post #55.
Not sure if this has been covered but it looks like Aaliyah Crump is moving to AIA, 6-1 guard ranked #6 overall by Hoop Gurlz. No idea if she has any Iowa interest.
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This was announced last September. It has been said previously but she doesn't seem to have much interest in Iowa. I would guess Duke is high on her list.
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Love how they put a picture of Skinner's Iowa visit in her Gatorade player of the year announcement though they did remove the name on the jersey. Still a Hawkeye on the ball though...Coincidence? 😂🤞
If Iowa could get Skinner and McGaughy to go with Deal and Houston, to go along with the 24 class, look out
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Skinner will be there too.
Deal & Skinner invited for the class of 25. Iowa targets Bjorn, Breanna Crittenden, & Trinity Jones along with a few others they've offered for 26.
These top athletes travel alot. I didn't realize how many camps they get invited to. Takes a heck of a commitment of time and money.
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Interesting that after the dust settled Deal said Iowa was her choice all along, and she has been an Iowa fan.
It says something about the Hawkeye's status for a West Coast high schooler with her profile to play for Bluder.
It says something about the Hawkeye's status for a West Coast high schooler with her profile to play for Bluder.
Being a recruit junkie and not a practicing specialist I'm intrigued and have become a future fan of Jordan Speiser, providing she signs with Iowa. I likewise was and have not given up Gyamfi.
Some info regarding McGaughy & Kate Harpring who I mentioned in the 26 thread.
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I’m sure we all read the epic Caitlin Clark tome on ESPN. My favorite tidbit was the writer meeting with Jan in September in LA while she was on a layover between Alaska and CR….
Yes, I definitely clocked that as well. I am guessing she visited Layla and saw an open gym or something for Emilia Krstevski during her time in LA
I have more confidence in Layla Hays signing with Iowa than any other recruit in the '25 class. But if she does; it leaves a huge door open for a great PG, and/or a talented wing. Can you imagine a signing class of Deal, Hayes, Houston, Speiser, and Skinner?
Hope McGaughy makes it in on Sunday. If she is going through Minneapolis, they are forcasting a foot of snow in the twin cities Sunday. She is either going through there or Chicago.
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I also think Hays is the most likely to become a hawk of the 4 top 2025 recruits. I think Skinner will hold the mantle of least likely unless she publicly narrows it down or otherwise does something to demonstrate her continued interest. We should assume she has offers from basically every school in the country. Iowa is the only visit she has posted on social so we should also assume it’s the first of many.
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100% based on vibes. There's just not a lot to work with now with regard to her. Compare her to Addie Deal, whose recruiting journey was always very much on a trajectory to land at Iowa. She came 3 times. She agreed to do a story with Kyle after the first visit. She was always liking Iowa content on social media -- even though she didn't post about every single step of her recruiting journey the way some kids do (she was actually fairly private).
In contrast, Emilee has only visited once. She did not do a Q&A with Kyle (I'm sure he asked, he asks everyone). She is ranked higher than Deal so we can assume demand for her is even higher. She's even less active than Deal on social so we can't see if she's engaging with Iowa content (or other teams' content). I just feel like we should manage expectations. We haven't been given much of a reason to assume she is leaning toward Iowa at all, is all I'm saying. If she comes again, or Bluder heads to Utah, or she releases a Top 5, I may "calculate" differently....
Meanwhile look at Hays. She agreed to a Q&A with Kyle. She has engaged positively with multiple Iowa posts on social (even some saying she should become a Hawk). As I mentioned earlier, her mom is clearly a huge Iowa fan. She likes basically every Iowa WBB post -- the only other program she engages with is EWU, where her other daughter plays. That's much more in line with Deal's trajectory than Skinner's.
This is all vibes of course. Nothing concrete whatsoever. It's just my opinion that of the 4 big 2025 targets, the order of likelihood that we sign them is:
- Hays
- Speiser
- McGaughy
- Skinner
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This article has some of Skinner's offers listed: https://www.maxpreps.com/news/awswN... some media outlets,USC and Utah among others.
The one good thing for Iowa in her recruitment is that unless she picks Utah, basically every other elite program she could go to is very far from her home. I'm not sure distance matters as much where every option is likely a plane ride away.
And if they don't land Speiser and Skinner there's Greenway, Lewis, and Bjorn in 2026.
