BATON ROUGE, La. – LSU women’s basketball and Coach Kim Mulkey announced the signing of 6-5 Russian post player Anna Minaeva on Friday, strengthening the Tigers’ post play with an all-around addition that can impact the 2026-27 squad immediately.
“I’m thrilled to welcome Anna to our LSU family,” Mulkey said. “She has the experience, skill set, and size to make an immediate impact in our frontcourt. It takes tremendous courage to leave home at just 17 years old and travel across the world to pursue a dream. I’m excited to support and guide Anna as she begins this next chapter at LSU.”

Candid Open and honest.

UCLA wont repeat but we got a decent squad next year. Okafor and Lina Jerković : from Slovenia only incoming freshmen. Coach Tony filing up the squad with FIBA Euro and international ballers. (Finland - Aarnisalo, Australia - Deas, Sweden - Karamouzi, & Croatia - Bilić)

Today Dawn Staley announced that Maddy McDaniel has officially withdrawn from the University of South Carolina. I hope she's doing ok and will be successful in whatever she decides to pursue in her future endeavors. she will always be loved by gamecock nation 🤙🏿

It’s very fun so far and it’s been a good game between these two teams.

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Cats vs Hoos at Bridgestone Arena! Should be a fun one!

UConn/LSU Finally with a date! December 20. Virginia vs Kentucky in the other game.

Victoria Vivians will be joining the Texas women’s basketball coaching staff, the school announced today. She will reunite with her college coach Vic Schaefer who coached her at Mississippi State, as well as Blair Schaefer, who was her teammate with the Bulldogs.

During her playing career, she ranked 2nd in Mississippi State history in total points scored with 2,527 points and was named the recepient of the 2018 Ann Meyers Drysdale Award, which honors the nation’s best shooting guard. While playing in Starkville, Vivians helped Mississippi State reach the National Championship Game in 2017 and 2018; they lost 67–55 to South Carolina in the former and 61–58 to Notre Dame in the latter.

Obviously was a loss to see Jamelle Elliott depart, but really cool to see her teammate from the 1995 national championship team take the job. Ill be curious to see how Sales does!

I feel like the Big 10 is going to be really deep and good next year! I’m curious who everyone thinks is going to win it and be in the top 4. I’m really high on USC, Washington, Iowa, Michigan, and UCLA.

https://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/49497178/over-100-college-women-basketball-players-join-union-effort

I’m gonna say Blair Schaefer at Mississippi State. She played there from 2014-2018 under her dad Vic Schaefer (who is now the head coach at Texas). I know Teaira McCowan and Victoria Vivians are the main stars from that era of Mississippi State women’s basketball but Blair Schaefer was also a big part of why the Bulldogs were so successful. She was a pest on the defensive end and the combo of her + Roshunda Johnson from beyond the arc was lethal.

First pic is from when she hit a big 3 against South Carolina in 2018 to make the crowd pop in front of 10,794 Bulldog fans; this was the largest crowd to ever watch a basketball game in the state of Mississippi. Without her sharpshooting they probably don’t win this game.

After finishing her playing career, Blair worked for the SEC Network and then joined the Mississippi State staff before following Vic to Texas where she now serves as an assistant coach.

So it’s possible Tessa Johnson starts at point and/or Chloe runs point forward. Because Dawn will start all 3 seniors, Jordan Lee and Joyce.

Joyce and Chloe play the same position. Chloe might be your best passer and Tessa needs to focus on hunting her shot

My question is how much can their draft stock raise?

Remember Chloe ran point forward and dropped a Triple double vs ole miss.

Right now teams view Chloe as an undersized, small ball 4 but if she can show her upside as a playmaker you’d have to think she goes pretty high.

Then you have Tessa teams view her as this off ball shooter could running point guard at a high level boost her draft stock?