2025 Recruiting

[MN GBB Fan]

Brenda Frese must have a Minnesota mindset right now...Ode, Oehrlein, and Mack all received offers from Maryland in the last 24 hours (Mack and Ode are Fury teammates).

 

[SHGopher]

Brenda Frese must have a Minnesota mindset right now...Ode, Oehrlein, and Mack all received offers from Maryland in the last 24 hours (Mack and Ode are Fury teammates).

LOL

And Maryland is a badge of quality for the recruits, being able to show that. Everyone knows Maryland gets to select top talent and wins. The downside is good players sometimes find they don't play.


Minnesota is a great place to play and will be a strong program.

Minnesota can now today boast that all five potential starters were ranked in the top 100 by ESPN HoopGurlz.

SF Grace Grocholski, top 100.

PF Mallory Heyer, top 100.

SG Mara Braun, top 100

PG Amaya Battle, top 100

C Sophie Hart, top 100

That is ESPN HoopGurlz only.

Still lots of other minutes to earn, including the 6th in. Grocholski is a freshman too.

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2025 is a good year for elite players to come to Minnesota. As a freshman they would get the Fab Four in their senior year.

 

[60's Guy]

Did the Ode offer from Minnesota come recently? I thought that came from Whalen and not the current coach, so I sorta doubt how valid and/or recent all those are.

When I saw that post I wondered if she posted that to try to raise her stock because she doesn't seem to have any offers from any basketball powerhouses (someone correct me if I am wrong...I am not super familiar with the WBB college landscape beyond the big hitters and a few select schools). I suspect she thinks she's Top 10 program material, but in seeing her play several times, I just don't think she's at that level.

Jordan Ode Highlights
Maybe you saw her on a bad day. I have only seen a couple videos but disagree on that basis.
Brenda and Maryland offered today as well.

 

[SHGopher]

Madison Francis
6-2 wing

Madison Francis has been offered by UCLA.

 

[Ignatius L Hoops]

WBB recruiting: The stars of the 2023 summer circuit

As the prep season slowly approaches, it's time to look at the best recruits of the summer circuit

www.espn.com

Divine Bourrage​

ESPN HoopGurlz No. 9
6-0
Point guard
Davenport North (IA) | All Iowa Attack

To watch Bourrage play is to watch an excellent display of the transition attack in basketball. When the ball is outlet to her, whether make or miss, she smoothly and quickly advances the ball up the floor with minimal dribbles. There were numerous examples of her getting to the paint after an opponent made basket before 4-5 seconds had come off the shot clock.

Bourrage is an extremely skilled big guard who rebounds the ball skillfully. She is shifty with her handle and uses her body well at the rim and even in post-up situations. She can score the ball from all three levels and since she added the major improvement from the 3-point line this year (it hovered around 15% last year on the 16U level only to improve to 50% this year on the 17U level), she is very hard to guard as a single defender, especially in transition. This opens things up for her to create for teammates as defenses have to commit a couple of bodies to her to slow down the ball. She helped take her squad to the EYBL championship game by averaging 10.9 points, 5.1 rebounds, and 4.3 assists. She had a very strong showing in that game going 4-for-4 from the 3 and scoring 21 points.

Defensively, she uses her big frame to disrupt the opposing team's point guard and rebound to ignite the fast break.

Bourrage is good without the ball in her hands as well as she understands the timing and execution of cuts and execution of sets. Her recruitment is all over the map and includes: Michigan, Florida, Illinois, Iowa State, Iowa, Ohio State, Rutgers, Georgia, Indiana, Purdue, Vanderbilt, Alabama, Utah, Nebraska, Michigan State, Tennessee, West Virginia, Kansas State, Baylor, Minnesota, and North Carolina State.

 

[MN GBB Fan]

WBB recruiting: The stars of the 2023 summer circuit

As the prep season slowly approaches, it's time to look at the best recruits of the summer circuit

www.espn.com

Interesting that they have her listed as AIA since it looks like she left the club. Yesterday AIA posted about their 2025 and 2026 nationally ranked players and today they have a video introducing their 17U EYBL team and she wasn't in either, though surprisingly, it looks like North Tartan lost Aaliyah Crump and Della Lamb out of Missouri lost Addison Bjorn to AIA, which seems to be turning itself into the Midwest destination club for super elite players. Just shows the AAU transfer portal is alive and well! Now we'll just see if Coach P can form a relationship with AIA and get some of that talent here in the years to come.

 

[SHGopher]

2025 guard Rainey Welson (#52 ESPN HoopGurlz) from Hortonville H.S., Wisconsin (North Tartan) is following Minnesota, Wisconsin, Green Bay, and Marquette on X (Twitter).

https://twitter.com/RaineyWelson/following

 

[SHGopher]

2025 guard Rainey Welson (#52 ESPN HoopGurlz) from Hortonville H.S., Wisconsin (North Tartan) is following Minnesota, Wisconsin, Green Bay, and Marquette on X (Twitter).

https://twitter.com/RaineyWelson/following

Hudl lists Welson as a SG and a PG. Videos suggests more of a shooting guard able to hit 3's, steal, and block shots.

'We wanted it so bad': Rainey Welson scores 41 points as Hortonville downs Neenah in girls basketball sectional final

Rainey Welson scores 41 points and the Hortonville Polar Bears beat Neenah in a WIAA Division 1 girls basketball sectional final to advance to state.

www.postcrescent.com

Rainey Welson scores 41 points in sectional final.

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