Tag: USC Women’s Basketball Recruiting

USC women’s basketball in top six for 2025 five-star guard

USC is in the mix for the third-best uncommitted recruit for 2025.

Per 247Sports, top women’s hoops recruit Jazzy Davidson has trimmed her list to Texas, Duke, TCU, USC women’s basketball, UCLA and UConn. She intends to make her final decision in the spring.

The Clackamas High School five-star guard from Portland has already been named a three-time Oregon Gatorade Player of the Year. She helped her team win the Class 6A state championship in 2023.

Jazzy Davidson has only visited USC, but she hopes to visit all six programs before making her final decision on a landing spot this spring.

She plays for the Cal Stars on the Nike EYBL circuit and was also one of 12 players selected to compete on the USA Basketball U18 National Team this summer.

Jazzy Davidson told On3 that NIL opportunities are a factor in her recruitment, but it’s nowhere near the top of her priorities.

According to ESPN, Davidson is the No. 2 guard and the No. 3 overall prospect in the nation for the 2025 cycle.

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No. 1 2025 WBB recruit has USC in top 10 list

LSU leads USC in this recruitment.

Monterey High School five-star women’s basketball recruit Aaliyah Chavez is the nation’s No. 1 recruit for the 2025 class. She has narrowed down her college list to 10 top Division I programs: Texas Tech, Arizona, LSU, Ohio State, Oklahoma, South Carolina, UCLA, Tennessee, Texas and USC.

The Lubbock (Texas) native was selected as High School Girls Basketball Player of Year by Texas MaxPreps and a first team All-American.

For the season, Chavez a 5-foot-8 junior point guard averaged 37.8 points, 10.1 rebounds, 4.4 assists and 3.5 steals per game according to the website Max Preps

She continues to dominate on the Nike EYBL circuit this offseason, leading all players with 23.4 points and averaging 4.2 rebounds and 4.7 assists on 51% shooting from the field and 48% from deep.

Chavez, remains uncommitted. However, the LSU Tigers lead the way according to the On3 recruiting prediction machine at 62.4%, followed by hometown Texas Tech, which sits at just 5%. It will be fascinating to see if USC can elbow its way into this recruitment.

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USC women’s basketball offers No. 1 prospect in 2027 class

USC women’s basketball takes big swings now. This is the new normal.

5-foot-5 point guard Kaleena Smith is the No. 1-ranked recruit in the Class of 2027. She has been officially offered by Lindsay Gottlieb and the USC Trojans women’s basketball program.

Smith, who attends Ontario Christian High School in California, already holds offers from Louisville, UConn, UCLA, LSU and South Carolina.

Smith was selected to play for the USA Basketball U-17 National Team and will join Overtime Select, a new women’s basketball league for top recruits, this August.

Last season Smith has averaged 18.1 points, 4.2 rebounds, 7.8 assists and 2.5 steals per game.

Kaleena Smith was also named 2023-2024 Girls Basketball MaxPreps National Freshman of the Year.

This recruitment is reflective of the waters in which the Trojans swim these days. JuJu Watkins has transformed the identity of the program under Lindsay Gottlieb. The Trojans are now a big hitter in women’s college basketball, with Final Four expectations and a future loaded with high-end potential. USC is likely to be a top-two seed at the Women’s NCAA Tournament on an annual basis, competing for the biggest prizes in the sport. The program has been lifted from irrelevance and mediocrity, carried back to the prominence it had in the early 1990s.

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Top women’s basketball recruit Brynn McGaughy puts USC in top 12 list

USC wants to add to its 2025 recruiting haul, and here’s another possibility for Lindsay Gottlieb.

Class of 2025 6-2 junior forward Brynn McGaughy hails from Colfax, Washington. She listed USC in her top 12 schools.

McGaughy’s list also incldues UConn, Utah, Indiana, Washington, Duke, Iowa, Tennessee, UCLA, Oregon, North Carolina and Florida.

McGaughy is rated as the No. 4 forward and No. 15 overall player in the nation for the class of 2025 by ESPN. Prep Girls Hoops rates her as the No. 1 player in state of Washington for the Class of 2025.

McGaughy averaged 21.5 points and 10.3 rebounds for a Bulldog team that finished 28-0 and won the Washington 2B state championship and was named a first-team all-state player and sophomore of the year in Washington.

USC has the No. 1-ranked recruiting class for 2024, ahead of South Carolina. Lindsay Gottlieb, Beth Burns, and the rest of the staff are giving JuJu Watkins elite players who will complement her on the Trojans’ roster in the coming years. USC is putting the pieces of a top-tier program in place. Adding to the 2025 recruiting haul would be another step in the right direction for a program which is taking off.

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USC women’s basketball commit Rian Forestier scores 62 points in high school game

USC is bringing in the star power next season. The Trojans are building something really special.

The USC Trojans already have JuJu Watkins on their roster. Next season, they are bringing in the No. 1-ranked recruiting class in women’s college basketball. Part of that rock-star class is 2024 combo guard Rian Forestier.

Want to get a sense of how good she is? Try this: Forestier scored 62 points in a high school game earlier this week.

If you have been following USC women’s basketball closely, you know that JuJu Watkins is trying to carry the scoring workload on her shoulders. Sometimes, McKenzie Forbes and Kayla Padilla are able to help her, but there have been several games this season in which Watkins is taking far more shots than any other USC player. Too much of the burden to score is falling on Watkins alone. USC needs to diversify its offense and have elite secondary and third options.

This is where Forestier and the other members of the incoming recruiting class come into play. Lindsay Gottlieb is assembling a team in which Watkins will have high-end help around her on the court. Defenses will have to pick their poison, and they will be a lot more limited in terms of their ability to double-team JuJu or anyone else on the floor. USC stars will get a lot of one-on-one situations with more floor space, ideal for a roster with so much star power.

It’s only going to get better for USC women’s basketball. Rian Forestier is part of that reality.

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