LSU reigns in latest ranking of recruiting classes

After the aboriginal signing play successful November, we debuted our ranking of the apical 25 NCAA women's hoops recruiting classes for 2025.

Commitments of top-10 recruits Aaliyah Chavez and Agot Makeer were catalysts down midseason updates, arsenic the Oklahoma and South Carolina signing classes improved each program's standing, respectively. And much developments -- specified arsenic coaching changes and transportation portal movement, on with prime players changing their commitments -- person besides impacted the outlook of the wide class. The latest domino fell arsenic precocious arsenic Monday night, with Brynleigh Martin decommitting from Washington and reopening her recruitment. She is the lone subordinate successful the apical 100 who remains undecided.

With the final subordinate rankings successful the books, though, we've again updated the people rankings.

Fifty-two full programs person astatine slightest 1 apical 100 recruit: Tennessee leads the mode with 5 portion LSU, Stanford, Illinois and Miami each person four. Ten much programs person 3 portion different 12 signed astatine slightest two.

Here is an overview of however the top 100 players interruption down by conference:

• ACC: 14 programs, 27 players

• Big East: 3 programs, 6 players

• Big Ten: 13 programs; 22 players

• Big 12: 9 programs; 15 players

• SEC: 12 programs; 28 players

• Ivy: 1 program, 1 subordinate

LSU has maintained the No. 1 spot since securing the committedness of Grace Knox, giving the Tigers 4 players wrong the apical 32.

Here are our rankings of the apical 25 recruiting classes for 2025.

1. LSU Tigers

No. 6 F Grace Knox
No. 10 G ZaKiyah Johnson
No. 24 PG Divine Bourrage
No. 32 G Isabella Hines

Kim Mulkey has signed 3 of the champion perimeter players positive 1 of the astir productive forwards successful the country. They volition complement each different and supply a punch from each angles, with immoderate versatility wrong sprinkled in.

Knox competes intensely connected the antiaircraft extremity and attacks the solid with a precocious energy. She has precocious rim-attacking skills with the shot and tin shoot, with a scope that goes retired beyond the 3.

Johnson is simply a 6-foot guard-wing who is beardown and besides assertive to the rim. She tin slash for the pull-up but besides station up and score. Defensively, she brings a carnal beingness to the perimeter, causing chaos successful passing lanes.

Bourrage is dynamic disconnected the bounce and tin make her ain changeable good arsenic good arsenic get to the rim. She has proved to beryllium an effectual facilitator successful the modulation game.

Hines hunts shots good successful the aboriginal discourtesy oregon successful the fractional tribunal coming disconnected of screens. She is simply a menace from 3 and has a bully pull-up jumper.

2. Tennessee Lady Volunteers

No. 9 PG Mia Pauldo
No. 17 G Deniya Prawl
No. 20 G Jaida Civil
No. 45 W Lauren Hurst
No. 57 PG Mya Pauldo

First-year manager Kim Caldwell made a large content connected the 2025 people with this haul of endowment that volition acceptable her unsocial benignant of play.

Mia Pauldo is simply a dynamic playmaker with energy. She shoots good from deep, distributes and creates discourtesy for others, and defensively is simply a shot unit expert. Her duplicate sister, Mya, is besides a accordant vigor subordinate -- and a connector connected the floor. She has precocious hoops IQ and instinct, and knows however to play to the strengths of others connected the floor.

Prawl, a large diversion defender who is explosive to the rim, rebounds arsenic a perimeter subordinate arsenic good arsenic anyone successful the country.

Civil is astir effectual successful transition, arsenic she is highly speedy with the ball. Coupled with her instinct to make and facilitate, that is simply a unsafe combination.

Hurst is simply a fundamentally dependable large defender with flashes of versatility. She tin some hunt shots from heavy and beryllium that glue that helps the travel of the offense.

3. Stanford Cardinal

No. 8 G Hailee Swain
No. 12 F Lara Somfai
No. 21 F Alexandra Eschmeyer
No. 85 F Nora Ezike
Four-star W Carly Amborn (unranked)

Kate Paye's archetypal recruiting people is balanced, with 2 perimeter players and 2 for the inside.

The summation of Somfai truly puts this people implicit the top. She is simply a versatile guardant with years of FIBA experience. She has post-up game, tin look up retired to the perimeter and has a precocious IQ and interaction beyond the 3-point line.

Swain has 2 years of USA Basketball acquisition already. She's 1 of the premier defenders successful the state and has a fantastic crippled disconnected the bounce.

Eschmeyer is 1 of the premier centers successful a people that lacks bigs. She is agelong and mobile with the quality to agelong the level from the 3. She continues to adhd spot and has committedness of imaginable to inactive discover.

Ezike is progressive defensively and connected the glass. She has immoderate superior upside.

The unranked Amborn is simply a helping with magnitude who shoots good -- a contented astatine Stanford.

4. South Carolina Gamecocks

No. 6 W Agot Makeer
No. 15 F Ayla McDowell

Dawn Staley and the three-time champion Gamecocks are adding immoderate superior magnitude and versatility to their wing/forward positions with the additions of Makeer and McDowell. Both tin play aggregate positions and volition assistance agelong the level for South Carolina, which is known for its ascendant interior play and size.

The 6-1 Makeer has proved she tin log minutes arsenic pb defender arsenic good arsenic a slashing and scoring wing. She made a large leap successful the rankings during her inferior twelvemonth of precocious schoolhouse erstwhile she went connected a scoring spree. She had an impactful summertime arsenic portion of the Canadian U17 Women's World Cup team, past transferred to Montverde for her elder season.

McDowell is simply a "three-and-D" prototype astatine 6-foot-2. She's low-maintenance and plays hard, consistently rebounding with the quality to support aggregate positions. She balances being a knock-down shooter from the extracurricular by adding playmaking disconnected the bounce. She besides gained planetary acquisition this summertime with Brazile, arsenic portion of its U18 FIBA Women's AmeriCup team, wherever she was named to the "All Star 5" aft averaging 14.8 points and 7.7 rebounds.

5. North Carolina Tar Heels

No. 13 W Nyla Brooks
No. 27 W Taliyah Henderson
No. 77 G Taisa Queiroz

Coach Courtney Banghart has superior athleticism, which volition let UNC to summation the shot unit connected the antiaircraft end, play a multitude of schemes and onslaught the overgarment aggressively. They should brace nicely with the Tar Heels' interior players and constituent defender (Ciera Toomey, Blanca Thomas and Lanie Grant, respectively) adjacent fall.

Brooks is simply a slashing helping with a superior pull-up jumper. She is lengthy and impactful connected the antiaircraft end.

Henderson, from Tucson, Arizona, is simply a versatile guardant who saw her perimeter crippled blossom this summertime earlier sustaining a genu injury.

Queiroz excels successful modulation and bullies her mode to the rim.

6. UConn Huskies

No. 25 PG Kelis Fisher
No. 75 P Gandy Malou-Mamel
W Blanca Quinonez (Ecuador)

UConn's people is agelong and diversion and known for its antiaircraft prowess. The perimeter players excel successful modulation and the imaginable instrumentality successful station play has a precocious upside.

Geno Auriemma tapped into the planetary marketplace for what mightiness beryllium the apical committedness successful this people successful Quinonez, who would safely beryllium a apical 25 subordinate successful America. She is an diversion slasher who is disruptive defensively, and skilled capable to sound down perimeter shots. She has gained FIBA planetary acquisition each implicit the satellite and presently resides successful Italy.

Fisher excels successful the modulation crippled and has terrific antiaircraft interaction with shot unit and getting successful passing lanes. She has improved her 3-point shooting and wide efficiency.

Malou-Mamel is agelong and mobile with bully hands and consciousness for the crippled from the station position. She has a dedicated vigor for the violative solid and patrols the overgarment defensively.

7. Kansas Jayhawks

No. 19 F Jaliya Davis
No. 31 G Keeley Parks
No. 43 G Libby Fandel
Four-star F Tatyonna Brown (unranked)

Coach Brandon Schneider has a stacked, well-rounded radical of complementary players.

Davis is 1 of the champion forwards successful the 2025 class. She is an elite relation successful the overgarment and highly hard to support disconnected of the glass, with an precocious look up crippled and brushed interaction astir the rim.

Parks is an accomplished large defender with a beardown frame. She has agelong scope connected her changeable and finishes good astir the rim with contact.

Fandel is simply a multisport jock with an each astir game. She tin drawback occurrence from the perimeter and moves good without the ball. She has that glue-like prime astir her that impacts winning.

Brown is simply a 6-foot-2 lefty guardant who is progressive successful the overgarment and connected the glass. She brings a carnal beingness to the level and has upside imaginable with flashes of the perimeter shot.

8. Kansas State Wildcats

No. 16 G Jordan Speiser
No. 47 G Aniya Foy
No. 58 G Brandie Harrod
Unranked PG Gina Garcia Safot (Spain)

K-State's commits each bring thing antithetic to the table. They complement each other, and the programme benignant of play, precise good -- the outpouring summation of Brandie Harrod helped them leap from No. 10 to No. 8 successful these rankings.

Jeff Mittie landed the champion shooter successful the state successful Speiser, who was connected an implicit heater each summer. She added the quality to instrumentality interaction connected drives to her violative onslaught and it balanced retired her game.

Foy should complement Speiser precise well, a slashing elite jock who shows committedness successful her shooting. She is explosive to the rim and disruptive defensively and connected the glass.

Harrod committed to Kansas State aft decommitting from Auburn pursuing a coaching change. She is simply a beardown defender who excels successful the midrange and has added the 3-point changeable to her violative toolkit. She is beardown to the rim and tin beryllium a lockdown defender.

Garcia Safot, a 5-9 Spanish constituent guard, is simply a traditionally cardinal crippled manager and distributor, averaging precocious assistance numbers successful her FIBA acquisition passim the years.

9. Illinois Fighting Illini

No. 29 PG Destiny Jackson
No. 40 F Cearah Parchment
No. 48 F Manuella Alves-Fernandez
No. 96 F Naomi Benson
Unranked G Erica Finney (Australia)

Coach Shauna Green likes to play a abstraction and gait style; 3 of these commits acceptable the mold connected the perimeter portion the different two, a formidable F/P pair, volition assistance successful the paint. This people besides fills an important request astatine constituent defender and adds extent inside.

Jackson truly pushes the shot well. She brings dense shot unit defensively and is originative disconnected the bounce to the rim.

Parchment is simply a finesse stretch-4 guardant who brings a bully glue quality. She made a beardown committedness to the solid this summertime and raised her stock. She has decided to spell to field aboriginal to get up connected the assemblage routine.

Alves-Fernandez is wide and beardown with a brushed touch. She has a bully old-school crippled and is effectual with her backmost to the handbasket due to the fact that of her footwork and quality to decorativeness successful the paint. She is carnal defensively and progressive connected the glass. She is showing large committedness with outpouring accumulation games against WNBA teams arsenic portion of the Brazilian National Team.

Benson is simply a rugged bluish collar guardant who cleans up the solid and does the soiled enactment successful the paint. She is simply a beardown jock who understands her relation -- playing carnal defence and getting timely interior buckets.

A 6-foot Australian guard, Finney is an elite shooter some disconnected the dribble and successful catch-and-shoot situations. She has bully footwork and alteration of gait to the rim and is simply a gritty competitor.

10. Miami Hurricanes

No. 36 G Camille Williams
No. 54 G Danielle Osho
No. 80 F Natalie Wetzel
No. 91 G Meredith Tippner
Four-star W Emanuella "Somo" Okolo (unranked)

What a splash first-year manager Tricia Cullop has made connected the recruiting trail. Miami has a foundational people that should service the programme good into the future.

Williams tin people from 3 levels. She has shown dependable mature betterment passim precocious school, which led to a breakthrough summertime and a authorities title successful her elder year.

Osho is simply a carnal tiny guardant who brings vigor defensively and is simply a prime passer and 3-point shooter.

Wetzel was 1 of the large stock-risers of the country. A 6-3 guardant with versatile game, she is consistent, from the station to beyond the 3-point line.

Tippner tin aggressively play connected oregon disconnected the ball. She excels successful modulation facilitation and the pull-up jumper.

The four-star Okolo, retired of Texas, is 1 of the much diversion forwards successful the class. Still earthy skill-wise, she brings an constituent of physicality and upside that volition beryllium developed into thing acold much beneficial than her existent standing arsenic a player.

11. Mississippi State Bulldogs

No. 37 G Jaylah Lampley
No. 38 F Madison Francis
No. 93 F Nataliyah Gray

Coach Sam Purcell has immoderate superior length, athleticism and vigor coming to Starkville successful 2025, cleanable for the SEC. This radical volition let Purcell to play bigger lineups and summation the gait of play with antiaircraft strength adjacent season.

Lampley is simply a "Three and D" specializer arsenic a 6-1 forward/wing. She is precise versatile defensively and spaces the level for the spot-up 3, complimented by a slashing ability.

Francis has arsenic overmuch upside astatine the guardant presumption arsenic immoderate subordinate successful the country. She brings a carnal constituent to the crippled with her quality to tally the level and her enactment level connected the glass. She tin beryllium 1 of the champion antiaircraft players successful the state successful the future. She got a mates dunks successful the unfastened tribunal during the precocious schoolhouse season.

Gray's banal roseate during the summertime arsenic she expanded her crippled from the overgarment to beyond the three-point line. A accordant competitory centrifugal sets her apart.

12. UCLA Bruins

No. 2 P Sienna Betts
Four-star Lena Bilic (Croatia)

Coach Cori Close has landed the champion station subordinate successful the state successful Betts, and gone planetary with Bilic -- mirroring parts of UCLA's existent roster with planetary players and different Betts (Sienna's older sister, Lauren).

For her part, the younger Betts is ascendant connected the block, but besides truthful overmuch more. She sees the level well, facilitating and passing retired of double-teams. She tin look up and play disconnected the bounce arsenic good arsenic sound down shots retired to the perimeter.

Bilic is 6-3 and long, cardinal and versatile. At the FIBA U17 World Cup, she averaged 15.7 points, 4.9 rebounds and 3.9 assists.

13. Oklahoma Sooners

No. 3 G Aaliyah Chavez
No. 50 G Keziah Lofton
No. 66 F Brooklyn Stewart

The 5-foot-11 Chavez is the eventual assured shotmaker and a balanced scorer, capable to tally points from heavy range, the pull-up and the escaped propulsion line. She is simply a prime passing playmaker and knows however to make casual opportunities for others. She should acceptable wrong the programme perfectly since manager Jennie Baranczyk's strategy encourages gait and long-range shooting successful each forms.

Also joining the programme is Lofton, a lefty shooter with scope who has a combo-guard crippled -- she tin play connected oregon disconnected the ball.

Stewart is an diversion guardant who saw her banal emergence implicit the summertime arsenic she showed much prime decision-making and perimeter skill.

14. Washington Huskies

No. 21 F Brynn McGaughy
No. 71 W Nina Cain
G Sienna Harvey (unranked)

Each of these players brings thing antithetic to Tina Langley's programme but volition mesh good together. They articulation a programme with seasoned defender play.

McGaughy tin play the carnal and finesse game. At 6-foot-2, she tin play disconnected the bounce oregon bang successful the post. She makes plays galore players cannot, arsenic evidenced by her businesslike scoring successful the McDonald's All-American Game.

Cain attacks the solid and brings a existent blue-collar attack to the floor. She excels connected the violative solid and is starting to sprout the 3better.

Harvey is simply a 5-foot-9 defender retired of Australia -- she is simply a cardinal level wide with flair acknowledgment to her passing quality and handle.

15. Cincinnati Bearcats

No. 11 G Darianna Alexander
No. 62 PG Caliyah DeVillasee
F Kali Barrett (unranked)
G Joya Crawford (unranked)
G Paige Whitted (unranked)

Cincinnati manager Katrina Merriweather has made a nationalist splash for her programme by landing aggregate ESPNW Top 100 players successful the 2025 class, including adding an assertive punch to the Bearcat perimeter play.

Alexander is simply a large defender who tin play connected oregon disconnected the ball. She pushes tempo arsenic a pb defender and rebounds exceptionally good astatine some ends. She is simply a fantastic finisher with interaction astatine the rim.

DeVillasee is speedy disconnected the bounce and a crisp passer. She has a bully pull-up jumper successful the prime and rotation crippled and modulation and continues to amended from the 3.

The 6-2 Barrett has a bully face-up crippled and scope retired to the 3-point line. She is simply a antiaircraft menace and an elite rebounder.

Crawford is 5-8 and tin people successful bunches. She is simply a highly decorated 3A authorities champion retired of Tennessee.

Whitted plays astatine well-known Briarcrest Christian Academy (TN). She is an progressive defender and rebounder from the perimeter.

16. Utah Utes

No. 28 PG Leonna Sneed
No. 44 G Avery Hjelmstad
Four-star Ella Todd

With Lynn Roberts moving connected to manager the Los Angeles Sparks successful November, these players renewed their commitments to Utah with Gavin Petersen present astatine the helm.

Sneed is simply a axenic constituent defender who looks to acceptable the array for her teammates, but tin besides onslaught disconnected the bounce. Defensively, she is 1 of the champion lock-down on-ball defenders successful the country.

Hjelmstad knows however to find unfastened catch-and-shoot opportunities and has the speedy changeable mentation and merchandise to beryllium lethal connected the floor. She has an precocious consciousness for the crippled which allows her to enactment poised and marque plays.

Todd tin capable it up some from beyond the 3 and with a creaseless propulsion up jumper disconnected the bounce.

17. Alabama Crimson Tide

No. 51 F Lourdes Da Silva Costa
No. 55 PG Ace Austin
No. 92 G Tianna Chambers
Four-star F Joy Egbuna

Coach Kristy Curry has a precise impactful people that adds endowment to the Tide's roster, wrong and out.

Da Silva Costa has a bully interaction retired to the apical of the key. She is simply a bully passer and screener and understands the crippled precise well. Physical connected the solid with scoring quality successful and astir the overgarment and station areas, Lourdes has the benignant of IQ and glue effect to marque others amended astir her.

Austin is an in-state proven winner. She is simply a level wide who is an exceptional passer and plays with a contagious precocious motor.

Chambers is simply a multisport jock who missed the summertime with an wounded but should beryllium backmost to the tribunal soon. She has a beardown physique arsenic a guard, and her crippled includes prime level imaginativeness and facilitation, with an quality to get to her spots to sound down jumpers.

Egbuna, who comes from Texas, had a stock-rising summertime arsenic her centrifugal truly improved to spell on with a immense upside.

18. Georgia Lady Bulldogs

No. 46 F Zhen Craft
No. 49 PG Aubrey Beckham
No. 98 G Jocelyn Faison

This is simply a large people for Georgia, some successful numbers and successful size. This radical is versatile and diversion and strong, with players from the Bulldogs' ain backyard arsenic good arsenic the DMV.

Beckham is simply a smooth, cardinal defender with a pedigree of winning astatine the precocious schoolhouse and nine level. She tin negociate a squad connected the level oregon adhd her ain violative punch.

Craft is agelong and progressive with a large upside. She tin play astatine a precocious gait and makes a large interaction connected the antiaircraft extremity and the glass. She had an fantabulous elder play astatine Bishop McNamara.

Faison has shown imaginable successful her versatility and quality to people the ball. With her size astatine the defender spot, she should outplay her ranking successful the agelong run.

19. Michigan Wolverines

No. 39 W McKenzie Mathurin
No. 67 F Ciara Byars
No. 97 F Jessica Fields

Kim Barnes-Arico is bringing successful a carnal and diversion people that volition acceptable the Big Ten benignant of play. This people besides complements her No. 8 ranked 2024 class, which had premier perimeter play and interior diversion quality and potential.

Mathurin is simply a shooter with a scorer's mentality who moves good without the shot and has the quality to station up and play astatine the defender oregon guardant spot with her beardown build.

Byars is simply a agelong and beardown guardant who, anterior to an wounded which saw her miss the summer, displayed all-around crippled and IQ. She tin sprout from the perimeter and makes beardown drives to the rim. She has a blue-collar glue-like beingness connected her teams.

Fields operates successful and astir the paint. She truly emerged this summertime arsenic she attacked the violative solid and embraced the enactment level needed defensively to beryllium effective.

20. California Golden Bears

No. 22 PG Aliyahna Morris
No. 73 G Taylor Barnes
Four-star G Grace McCallup
Four-star G Isis Johnson

Charmin Smith has brought successful the highest-ranking people successful caller years to Cal.

Morris is quiescent but relentless. She plays good retired of the prime and roll, tin sprout the shot efficaciously and brings antiaircraft pressure. She has a agelong resumé of winning astatine a precocious level.

Barnes has a precise bully cardinal basal of skills. She has a knock-down mid-range pull-up and continues to make from the three. She showed this summertime that she tin beryllium assertive and nutrient connected the floor.

McCallup is simply a 5-10 scorer who tin sprout the 3-ball arsenic good arsenic make for herself disconnected the bounce with the pull-up jumper. She is simply a versatile perimeter defender astatine her size.

Johnson tin capable it up successful bunches. She uses her magnitude to get to the rim and volition besides sound down the spot-up 3. Johnson has prime antiaircraft instincts to spell on with her length.

21. Indiana Hoosiers

No. 35 G/W Maya Makalusky
No. 42 PG Nevaeh Caffey

Teri Moren brings successful 2 cardinal backcourt players from the Midwest successful this class. They volition bring precocious IQ and versatility to Bloomington.

Makalusky improved her skills disconnected the dribble successful the past calendar year. She brings a consciousness for the crippled that volition let her to play aggregate positions -- and arsenic she adds strength, tin beryllium utilized successful a fig of ways.

Caffey tin tally a team. She is consistent, with the skills to facilitate oregon score, and made a tally up the ranks during her elder season.

22. Iowa Hawkeyes

No. 23 G Addison Deal
No. 71 P Layla Hays
Four-star F Journey Houston

Having been an integral portion of the program's occurrence implicit the years, Jan Jensen has not missed a bushed recruiting-wise successful her archetypal twelvemonth astatine the helm of the Hawkeyes. All 3 2025 commits acceptable the Iowa system.

Deal is simply a hard-nosed rival astatine the wing. She attacks the rim hard and has agelong scope connected her perimeter game. She hunts shots and is not acrophobic of the large moment.

Hays is simply a existent halfway who follows successful the Iowa contented of bigs. She has bully hands and works the overgarment and understands her relation successful that regard.

Houston is an Iowa autochthonal who missed important clip implicit the past twelvemonth with an injury. However, she is expected backmost for her elder precocious schoolhouse season. An all-around forward, Houston has a beardown carnal crippled and cardinal basal of skills, peculiarly successful her changeable preparation.

23. Creighton Bluejays

No. 70 PG Ava Zediker
No. 84 W Neleigh Gessert
No. 89 W Norah Gessert
Three-star PG Kendall McGee (unranked)

Creighton adds an highly skilled class, locking successful players close successful their region. Coach Jim Flannery has led Creighton to the NCAA tourney 3 years successful a row.

Zediker is simply a cardinal pb defender who ever has her eyes up and makes the close reads and elemental plays that marque others better. She is simply a knock-down shooter from 3.

The Gessert twins are agelong and gangly and lethal from deep. They determination good without the shot and cognize however to hunt, drawback and sprout 3-point opportunities.

McGee is simply a 5-10 combo defender benignant who attacks the overgarment hard and facilitates with immoderate flair successful her game.

24. Michigan State Spartans

No. 33 G Jordan Ode
No. 87 PG Amy Terrian
Three-star G Anna Terrian (unranked)

Robyn Fralick tapped into the Midwest portion for immoderate elite perimeter play for adjacent season, adding large scoring, facilitation and grit with this trio.

Ode has shown consistency successful accomplishment acquisition implicit the people of her precocious schoolhouse career. Once a dense driver, she has turned herself into a subordinate who tin sprout the 3 and make her changeable disconnected the bounce. She is simply a savvy and carnal defender arsenic well.

The Terrian twins are the eventual glue players. They determination the shot and facilitate for others -- with assists, other passes and timely changeable making. They are gritty defenders and volition bash immoderate it takes to lend to the triumph column.

25. NC State Wolfpack

No. 65 G Destiny Lunan
No. 68 G Adelaide Jernigan

Wes Moore brings successful 2 prime perimeter players successful this people -- 1 local, and different who plays precise likewise to the scoring guards NC State has present -- who some hap to beryllium left-handed.

Lunan excels successful the unfastened tribunal and has a flair to her playmaking skills. She is speedy and agelong and knows however to get to the paint.

Jernigan is 1 of the premier shooters successful the country. She has a beardown cardinal basal to her crippled and knows however to play wrong herself.