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UNC WBB lands three Class of 2025 prospects on National Signing Day

National Signing Day proved to be a massive win for the UNC women’s basketball program.

The UNC women’s basketball program, particularly in recent seasons, is starting to show why it’s a destination for top high school recruits.

North Carolina landed 5-stars Blanca Thomas and Lanie Grant in its 2024 recruiting class, 5-star Cierra Toomey in its 2023 recruiting class, plus 5-star transfers Lexi Donarski and Indya Nivar in that same 2023 class.

On Wednesday, Nov. 13, better known as National Signing Day, the Tar Heels continued adding more top-end talent.

Taliyah Henderson and Nyla Brooks, a pair of 5-star small forwards and Taissa Queiroz, a 4-star small forward, all officially signed to play their college basketball in Chapel Hill.

Henderson is Arizona’s top-ranked player in the 2025 recruiting class. According to her 247Sports recruiting profile, she chose UNC over the likes of Maryland, Ohio State and national power Tennessee.

Brooks is Virginia’s top-ranked 2025 prospect. According to her 247Sports recruiting profile, Brooks chose North Carolina over Maryland, Georgia and Tennessee. Brooks actually de-committed from Tennessee to choose the Tar Heels, a sign that something promising is happening in Chapel Hill.

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Taissa Queiroz plays her high school ball at Cardinal Newman in Santa Rosa, Calif. Queiroz has spent time with the Brazil National Team, exposing herself to top talent from around the world.

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The Tar Heels roster will look significantly different during the 2025-2026 campaign, highlighting why their signing of Henderson, Brooks and Queiroz is ever-more important.

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Grace Townsend, Maria Gakdeng, Alyssa Ustby and Donarski, the latter three of whom are starters, will be out of eligibility. UNC has plenty other projected returners, highlighted by Toomey, Thomas, Trayanna Crisp and Reniya Kelly, but knowing they have more great incoming talent is a huge relief.

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UNC women’s basketball adds five-star commitment

This weekend, the UNC women’s basketball team was bolstered with the commitment of this five-star guard.

The UNC basketball team is officially making waves in the Class of 2025 recruiting. Five-star wing, Taliyah Henderson, has announced her commitment to the program this weekend.

Henderson is the No. 21 ranked player on the espnW 100 and has played her high school ball at Salpointe Catholic. Out of the 20 players ahead of Henderson on the rankings, only seven of them have committed at this point and no college has more than one of those players.

UNC basketball now joins the ranks of the top recruiting classes of the year in 2025. The Tuscon, Arizona, product has a 96 ranking on ESPN which is only two points back from the top players on the rankings.

Henderson told 247sports this about her chosen program.

The best way I can put it is that I love everything about North Carolina. They checked all my boxes. One part was the academics. With that being said North Carolina is one of the top public schools with one of the top journalism programs in the nation. A degree from North Carolina means a lot and you know great people have come from that school. Another thing was the athletics and not just women’s basketball. It’s such a strong successful community and that’s something I’d love to be around.

Henderson chose North Carolina over Arizona, USC, Tennessee, and Michigan, among others.

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2025 elite prospect Taliyah Henderson offered by USC WBB

Lindsay Gottlieb is trying to build for the future at USC.

The USC Trojans women’s basketball program has offered 2025 four-star forward Taliyah Henderson. She is a member of Canada’s U18 Women’s National Team roster for the upcoming FIBA U18 Women’s AmeriCup 2024

Henderson plays her prep ball at Salpointe Catholic High in Tucson. She is ranked No. 21 nationally by ESPN among all Class of 2025 players.

“I want to go play in the WNBA, I want to go play overseas and I want to play for Team Canada, those have been my goals since I’ve started playing basketball at a young age,” Henderson said.

Aside from USC, she also picked up scholarship offers recently from Tennessee, Maryland and North Carolina. She already has numerous offers from Power Four programs, including ones from Arizona, Oregon, Utah, Arizona State, Illinois, Washington, Washington State, Iowa, BYU, San Diego, Florida State, UNLV and Utah. Lindsay Gottlieb would love to add another top-flight recruit to a program whose trajectory is going in the right direction.

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