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Why 2025 basketball recruits are waiting longer to commit








Nebraska head coach Amy Williams talks to her team during the Michigan game on Jan. 17 at Pinnacle Bank Arena.




The Nebraska women’s basketball team only has one commitment in the Class of 2025, the group of current high school seniors who will sign in November. 

That’s guard Olivia Hamlin from St. George, Utah. The class needs more, but it’s worth noting that two of Nebraska’s best recruits, Britt Prince and Alexis Markowski, committed late in the process.

And many players in the class are still out there. About half of ESPN’s Top 100 haven’t committed.

Nebraska hosted its Elite Camp last week with about 60 players. Some players who arrived without a Nebraska scholarship offer went home with one.

There are still players in the 2025 class who are expected to make official visits to Nebraska.

“The trend is that it feels like there’s not much of a trend it feels like to me,” Nebraska coach Amy Williams said. “There are some 2025s that are really taking the approach that they’re going to wait and see who you get in the transfer portal. So they’re waiting a little longer because they want to see the real picture of what teams are doing with transfer portal recruiting and how they’re going to fit in with that.”

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What is becoming clearer, Williams said, is that some programs are choosing to have smaller recruiting classes and then adding via the transfer portal in the spring.

Williams feels like Nebraska’s roster is a “healthy blend” of high school and transfer recruiting.

“We haven’t gone super-heavy into the transfer portal,” Williams said. “But we’ve had some really good, fun, big pieces like a Jaz Shelley, a Darian White, and now (Florida transfer Alberte Rimdal). For us, we are very diligent to make sure it’s the right piece coming to us ,and we’ve been very, very fortunate to find some really good fits but still build our program.

“When you have two out of the last three Big Ten freshmen of the year (Natalie Potts and Markowski), it shows that we’re really motivated to recruit the best high school players and that we’re confident enough to play our freshmen and give them opportunities to develop early in their career.”

Nebraska had one other commit for 2025, but McKenzie Mathurin (Broken Arrow, Oklahoma) decommitted and has since chosen Michigan.

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