I saw Maya at the fotball game and she said her legs are in good shape and all healed and ready to go.

Not much recruiting news recently, it seems. But an update on Aniah Alexis, one of the 2024 signees. She's averaging a pretty ridiculous 31.0 points, 12.9 rebounds, 3.6 assists, and 3.9 steals on shooting splits of 62/57/80. Her team isn't great but she plays in 6A so the competition should at least be decent (although that doesn't seem to be the case looking at some of her highlights).

(01-04-2024 02:47 PM)elw4796 Wrote:  Not much recruiting news recently, it seems. But an update on Aniah Alexis, one of the 2024 signees. She's averaging a pretty ridiculous 31.0 points, 12.9 rebounds, 3.6 assists, and 3.9 steals on shooting splits of 62/57/80. Her team isn't great but she plays in 6A so the competition should at least be decent (although that doesn't seem to be the case looking at some of her highlights).

My observation for the past several years is that girls basketball in Houston has suffered a ton in recent years, mostly at the hands of volleyball. A ton of the best girls athletes in the Houston area have chosen to concentrate on volleyball over basketball.

Outside of Cy Creek, there really haven’t been any good prep teams in Houston in some time. For whatever the reason, it doesn’t seem to be as big of an issue in the rest of the state - just Houston.

That said, it does sound like Alexis is going to be a big impact player next year. She might have been at the game last night with her mom. At first, I thought it might have been one of Trinity Gooden’s younger sisters. But I think it was Alexis instead. The recruit we signed from Oklahoma is also doing well - she is that state’s number two recruit according to one service I read.

That’s good news because after really solid recruiting classes for our current juniors and sophomores, we haven’t seen anything at all from our current freshmen. But we have a very good class so far with the 2024 signees.

See link, top 26 high school players in Texas. Rice has one of them, Aniah Alexis, so for.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/t...r-BB1h2Oco

(01-23-2024 04:29 PM)Texasowl Wrote:  See link, top 26 high school players in Texas. Rice has one of them, Aniah Alexis, so for.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/t...r-BB1h2Oco

One of sixteen seniors on the list.

Offer out to ‘25 Sophie Zadel, a 6'4" F/C from Alamo Heights (San Antonio). So far has offers from UTSA, Wichita State, UIW, LA Tech, and Central Arkansas.

(07-27-2023 01:45 PM)dragon2owl Wrote:  Offer to '25 Erianna Gooden, Trinity's sister. Has other offers from UNLV, Missouri State, North Texas, Columbia, Wichita State, South Alabama, St. Louis, ACU, Louisiana, Illinois State, and UTSA.

https://twitter.com/EriannaGooden

Since this post, Erianna has received offers from Marquette, George Washington, Omaha, Eastern Michigan, Central Arkansas, Little Rock, LMU, Colorado State, Harvard, Tulsa, Penn, and Jacksonville State.

We offered Sania Richardson, a top 60:national recruit (class of 2025) also out of Oklahoma. Plays for the top summer club team (Cy Fair Elite). 5-6 guard. Will have to beat out a lot of tough programs for her but it’s nice we are shooting for the elite players.

Offer to '25 Camille Williams. She's a 5'11" guard from Boswell HS (Fort Worth). According to her Twitter: Dist 2x MVP, 3X 1st Team, 3X Academic All Dist, TABC ALL STATE, 2X TABC ALL REGION.

Previous offers from Houston, TCU, USF, Oklahoma State, Baylor, West Virginia, Kansas State, BYU, SMU, Colorado State, UAB, Penn State, SFA, and Sacramento State.

Seems like the women's team has a new commitment, though not sure who yet.

(04-29-2024 06:33 PM)elw4796 Wrote:  Seems like the women's team has a new commitment, though not sure who yet.

Victoria Flores, transfer from TCU.

Appeared in 23 games while earning six starts ... Averaged 3.6 points over 14.7 minutes per game .

Tabbed the No. 81 overall prospect in the class of 2023 in the ESPN HoopGurlz Recruiting Rankings

https://gofrogs.com/sports/womens-basket...ores/15364

Interesting. Tonight is the portal deadline so if we are losing a player, we should know soon who it is.

Good pick-up. I’m really excited about this team’s chances for 2024-25. If the freshmen are as good as advertised, we may have our best team ever.

We recruited Flores heavily when she was in high school. Very solid addition.

Maybe she is pissed TCU is bringing in Hailey Van Lith’s from LSU.

(04-30-2024 07:07 PM)dragon2owl Wrote:  

(04-29-2024 06:33 PM)elw4796 Wrote:  Seems like the women's team has a new commitment, though not sure who yet.

Victoria Flores, transfer from TCU.

Appeared in 23 games while earning six starts ... Averaged 3.6 points over 14.7 minutes per game .

Tabbed the No. 81 overall prospect in the class of 2023 in the ESPN HoopGurlz Recruiting Rankings

https://gofrogs.com/sports/womens-basket...ores/15364

(05-01-2024 02:14 PM)Texasowl Wrote:  Maybe she is pissed TCU is bringing in Hailey Van Lith’s from LSU.

(04-30-2024 07:07 PM)dragon2owl Wrote:  

(04-29-2024 06:33 PM)elw4796 Wrote:  Seems like the women's team has a new commitment, though not sure who yet.

Victoria Flores, transfer from TCU.

Appeared in 23 games while earning six starts ... Averaged 3.6 points over 14.7 minutes per game .

Tabbed the No. 81 overall prospect in the class of 2023 in the ESPN HoopGurlz Recruiting Rankings

https://gofrogs.com/sports/womens-basket...ores/15364

Maybe so. If that is indeed the reason, then we truly benefitted from the transfer portal.

The TCU coach had some odd coaching decisions in terms of minutes played during the season (even before the team had a rash of injuries). Playing starters 40 and 38 minutes for instance in a 37-point blowout over Army.

Flores had three minutes in her first two Big 12 games, but then averaged about 25 minutes a game over the next nine games when they needed her because they had like only six healthy scholarship players? But then she didn’t get to play in the last seven games when they got some players back from injury. Things like that drive a player crazy.

They brought in three guards from the portal (Van Lith and two others). It doesn’t surprise me one bit Flores would want to transfer.

(05-01-2024 04:48 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  The TCU coach had some odd coaching decisions in terms of minutes played during the season (even before the team had a rash of injuries). Playing starters 40 and 38 minutes for instance in a 37-point blowout over Army for instance.

Flores had three minutes in her first two Big 12 games, but then averaged about 25 minutes a game over the next nine games when they needed her because they had like only six healthy scholarship players? But then she didn’t get to play in the last seven games when they got some players back from injury. Things like that drive a player crazy.

They brought in three guards from the portal (Van Lith and two others). It doesn’t surprise me one bit Flores would want to transfer.

Thanks for the information. No, not surprising at all that she wanted to transfer. Glad she chose us!

This supports my theory that mid-majors should be building relationship with high school recruits who might be out of their league but might at some point want to transfer down a level. Realistically, Rice isn't going to land many top-100 ranked players. But we went after Flores super aggressively. She picked the high-major, but the relationship from recruiting her in high school was still there. No reason to stop recruiting the high school level. Might bear fruit down the road.

She was a four star recruit out of high school. She has something to prove and we definately needed a guard.

Fatou Samb graduated yesterday. I assume she won’t be back next year.