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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