DWBB: Summer of 2025

Welcome, Sanai! This is how you build a team. She comes from a very high-end program (Long Island Lutheran, she has senior teammates ranked 13, 16, 41, and 51) so is used to tough practices and competition. Great get.

#4 Oliviyah Edwards out of Washington was one of the 1st to congratulate her. I hope they're close and she can bring her along. Recruits are starting to notice that Kara is the best coach out there.
 
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"Sanai Green had a good spring and summer, from her time at USA Basketball to her performance at Overtime Select. She's a solid option capable of playing either forward position. That said, Green was at her best as the third ball handler paired with a more natural power forward. She does a little bit of everything in that regard, making her a quality utility option. Green suffered a lower leg injury in mid-September that is expected to sideline her for the next six to nine months. This could change her trajectory in terms of college usage." (this was 2024 September)
 
Hell yeah!

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In an email sent out by DWBB today.

The 2025 FIBA Women’s AmeriCup is set to take place June 28-July 6 in Santiago, Chile. Coach Lawson will be joined on the bench by assistants DeLisha Milton-Jones (Old Dominion University) and Jennie Baranczyk (University of Oklahoma). The coaches were selected by the USA Basketball Women’s Junior National Team Committee.
Coach Lawson’s USA Basketball coaching resume speaks for itself having compiled a 75-5 (.938) overall record while leading the team to nine gold medals. In addition to her Olympic coaching success, she has won gold medals at the 2022 FIBA Women’s World Cup, 2019 and 2017 FIBA 3x3 U18 World Cups, 2019 Pan American Games (3x3) and 2018 Youth Olympic Games (3x3).
 
Welcome to the world of AI-generated content. I clicked on this article of Sanai Green being the "female Cooper Flagg" despite the obvious hyperbole. No disrespect to Sanai, but c'mon. Still, hoping for some insight into our latest recruit. But they lost me with "Another incredibly gifted prospect coming to Durham, Flagg...". Click at your own risk.

 
Hell yeah!

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In an email sent out by DWBB today.

The 2025 FIBA Women’s AmeriCup is set to take place June 28-July 6 in Santiago, Chile. Coach Lawson will be joined on the bench by assistants DeLisha Milton-Jones (Old Dominion University) and Jennie Baranczyk (University of Oklahoma). The coaches were selected by the USA Basketball Women’s Junior National Team Committee.
Coach Lawson’s USA Basketball coaching resume speaks for itself having compiled a 75-5 (.938) overall record while leading the team to nine gold medals. In addition to her Olympic coaching success, she has won gold medals at the 2022 FIBA Women’s World Cup, 2019 and 2017 FIBA 3x3 U18 World Cups, 2019 Pan American Games (3x3) and 2018 Youth Olympic Games (3x3).
Unfair recruiting advantage…
 
Welcome to the world of AI-generated content. I clicked on this article of Sanai Green being the "female Cooper Flagg" despite the obvious hyperbole. No disrespect to Sanai, but c'mon. Still, hoping for some insight into our latest recruit. But they lost me with "Another incredibly gifted prospect coming to Durham, Flagg...". Click at your own risk.

"The next female Cooper Flagg"? Who was the previous female Cooper Flagg, pray tell? 😄
 
"The next female Cooper Flagg"? Who was the previous female Cooper Flagg, pray tell? 😄
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-jk
 
It's weird how a team with 4 openings on the 2025-2026 roster *seems* to be devoting all of its recruiting attention on the 2026-2027 season. Dushawn London of 247 reports that 5-star Jacy Abii will visit Durham in the fall. (His link is to a paywall article.)


Jacy Abii is a 6-3 forward from the state of Texas. Her 2026 class ranking, according to various services...

247: #18
247 Composite: #11
ESPN: #9
On3: #7
On3 Industry: #7



"The next female Cooper Flagg"? Who was the previous female Cooper Flagg, pray tell? 😄

I mean, we did just have a Duke WBB freshman who, like Cooper Flagg, led Duke in scoring, won ACC Rookie of the Year, and made the All-ACC First Team.
 
I mean, we did just have a Duke WBB freshman who, like Cooper Flagg, led Duke in scoring, won ACC Rookie of the Year, and made the All-ACC First Team.

Although if you’re looking for a player that

- is a versatile forward that was one of the top players in the country as a freshman
- would be a top draft pick as soon as their league’s collective bargaining agreement allowed it
- had a mother that played college basketball for a New England school in the 1990s
- committed to their childhood dream school and led that team on an NCAA Tournament run, then

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Dushawn London says 2026 recruit Ashlyn Koupal, a 6-2 power forward from South Dakota, is down to 5 finalists: Duke, Kansas, Michigan State, Nebraska, and TCU.


Class rankings...

247: #9
247 Composite: #12
ESPN: #37
On3: #12
On3 Industry: #16

I don't know who Lefty is, but Lefty's World joins Ashlyn on recent visits to Alabama and Georgia Tech, neither of which made her list of finalists. Slightly NSFW (because of Lefty):


I found a couple of her individual plays from the past few months, but the most recent set of Ashlyn's highlights is from 2023-24.

 
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