Cori Close, down to 8 or 9 players a number of times last season, is hoping to avoid that situation next year. She's just added another transfer - a very flexible player with good size who Close says - article at UCLAbruins.com - can defend every position on the floor and creates impressive matchup advantages on offense. The women are allowed up to 15 players - under the current rules. But obviously judging from the men's game, the old scholarship limits don't have much meaning if there's enough money available via NIL - or from the schools going forward - to make all the costs up without a formal scholarship.
Anyway, with Bessoir and Sontag no longer playing basketball after multiple significant injuries and Iwuala transferring out, the recruiting for the coming season has been impressive to go along with the nation's top rising junior class