After the early signing interval in November, we debuted our rating of the highest 25 NCAA ladies’s basketball recruiting lessons for 2025.
Commitments of top-10 recruits Aaliyah Chavez and Agot Makeer had been catalysts behind midseason updates, because the Oklahoma and South Carolina signing lessons improved every program’s standing, respectively. And extra developments — corresponding to teaching modifications and switch portal motion, together with choose gamers altering their commitments — have additionally impacted the outlook of the general class. The newest domino fell as lately as Monday evening, with Brynleigh Martin decommitting from Washington and reopening her recruitment. She is the one participant within the prime 100 who stays undecided.
With the ultimate participant rankings within the books, although, we have once more up to date the category rankings.
Fifty-two complete packages have a minimum of one prime 100 recruit: Tennessee leads the best way with 5 whereas LSU, Stanford, Illinois and Miami every have 4. Ten extra packages have three whereas one other 12 signed a minimum of two.
Right here is an outline of how the highest 100 gamers break down by convention:
ACC: 14 packages, 27 gamers
Large East: 3 packages, 6 gamers
Large Ten: 13 packages; 22 gamers
Large 12: 9 packages; 15 gamers
SEC: 12 packages; 28 gamers
Ivy: 1 program, 1 participant
LSU has maintained the No. 1 spot since securing the dedication of Grace Knox, giving the Tigers 4 gamers inside the prime 32.
Listed below are our rankings of the highest 25 recruiting lessons for 2025.
No. 6 F Grace Knox
No. 10 G ZaKiyah Johnson
No. 24 PG Divine Bourrage
No. 32 G Isabella Hines
Kim Mulkey has signed three of one of the best perimeter gamers plus one of the productive forwards within the nation. They may complement one another and supply a punch from all angles, with some versatility inside sprinkled in.
Knox competes intensely on the defensive finish and assaults the glass with a excessive power. She has superior rim-attacking abilities with the ball and might shoot, with a variety that goes out past the three.
Johnson is a 6-foot guard-wing who is robust and likewise aggressive to the rim. She will slash for the pull-up but additionally submit up and rating. Defensively, she brings a bodily presence to the perimeter, inflicting chaos in passing lanes.
Bourrage is dynamic off the bounce and might create her personal shot effectively in addition to get to the rim. She has proved to be an efficient facilitator within the transition recreation.
Hines hunts pictures effectively within the early offense or within the half court docket coming off of screens. She is a risk from 3 and has a pleasant pull-up jumper.
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 coach Kim Caldwell made a significant impression on the 2025 class with this haul of expertise that can match her distinctive type of play.
Mia Pauldo is a dynamic playmaker with power. She shoots effectively from deep, distributes and creates offense for others, and defensively is a ball stress skilled. Her twin sister, Mya, can also be a constant power participant — and a connector on the ground. She has excessive basketball IQ and intuition, and is aware of how one can play to the strengths of others on the ground.
Prawl, a giant athletic guard who’s explosive to the rim, rebounds as a fringe participant in addition to anybody within the nation.
Civil is handiest in transition, as she is extraordinarily speedy with the ball. Coupled along with her intuition to create and facilitate, that may be a harmful mixture.
Hurst is a essentially sound massive guard with flashes of versatility. She will each hunt pictures from deep and be that glue that helps the circulate of the offense.
No. 8 G Hailee Swain
No. 12 F Lara Somfai
No. 21 F Alexandra Eschmeyer
No. 85 F Nora Ezike
4-star W Carly Amborn (unranked)
Kate Paye’s first recruiting class is balanced, with two perimeter gamers and two for the within.
The addition of Somfai actually places this class excessive. She is a flexible ahead with years of FIBA expertise. She has post-up recreation, can face up out to the perimeter and has a excessive IQ and contact past the 3-point line.
Swain has two years of USA Basketball expertise already. She’s one of many premier defenders within the nation and has a unbelievable recreation off the bounce.
Eschmeyer is among the premier facilities in a category that lacks bigs. She is lengthy and cellular with the flexibility to stretch the ground from the three. She continues so as to add power and has promise of potential to nonetheless uncover.
Ezike is lively defensively and on the glass. She has some severe upside.
The unranked Amborn is a wing with size who shoots effectively — a practice at Stanford.
No. 6 W Agot Makeer
No. 15 F Ayla McDowell
Daybreak Staley and the three-time champion Gamecocks are including some severe size and flexibility to their wing/ahead positions with the additions of Makeer and McDowell. Each can play a number of positions and can assist stretch the ground for South Carolina, which is thought for its dominant inside play and dimension.
The 6-1 Makeer has proved she will be able to log minutes as lead guard in addition to a slashing and scoring wing. She made a significant soar within the rankings throughout her junior yr of highschool when she went on a scoring spree. She had an impactful summer time as a part of the Canadian U17 Ladies’s World Cup staff, then transferred to Montverde for her senior season.
McDowell is a “three-and-D” prototype at 6-foot-2. She’s low-maintenance and performs onerous, constantly rebounding with the flexibility to defend a number of positions. She balances being a knock-down shooter from the skin by including playmaking off the bounce. She additionally gained worldwide expertise this summer time with Brazile, as a part of its U18 FIBA Ladies’s AmeriCup staff, the place she was named to the “All Star 5” after averaging 14.8 factors and seven.7 rebounds.
No. 13 W Nyla Brooks
No. 27 W Taliyah Henderson
No. 77 G Taisa Queiroz
Coach Courtney Banghart has severe athleticism, which is able to permit UNC to extend the ball stress on the defensive finish, play a mess of schemes and assault the paint aggressively. They need to pair properly with the Tar Heels’ inside gamers and level guard (Ciera Toomey, Blanca Thomas and Lanie Grant, respectively) subsequent fall.
Brooks is a slashing wing with a severe pull-up jumper. She is prolonged and impactful on the defensive finish.
Henderson, from Tucson, Arizona, is a flexible ahead who noticed her perimeter recreation blossom this summer time earlier than sustaining a knee harm.
Queiroz excels in transition and bullies her strategy to the rim.
No. 25 PG Kelis Fisher
No. 75 P Gandy Malou-Mamel
W Blanca Quinonez (Ecuador)
UConn’s class is lengthy and athletic and identified for its defensive prowess. The perimeter gamers excel in transition and the potential return in submit play has a excessive upside.
Geno Auriemma tapped into the worldwide marketplace for what may be the highest dedication on this class in Quinonez, who would safely be a prime 25 participant in America. She is an athletic slasher who’s disruptive defensively, and expert sufficient to knock down perimeter pictures. She has gained FIBA worldwide expertise everywhere in the world and at present resides in Italy.
Fisher excels within the transition recreation and has terrific defensive affect with ball stress and getting in passing lanes. She has improved her 3-point taking pictures and general effectivity.
Malou-Mamel is lengthy and cellular with good palms and really feel for the sport from the submit place. She has a devoted power for the offensive glass and patrols the paint defensively.
No. 19 F Jaliya Davis
No. 31 G Keeley Parks
No. 43 G Libby Fandel
4-star F Tatyonna Brown (unranked)
Coach Brandon Schneider has a stacked, well-rounded group of complementary gamers.
Davis is among the finest forwards within the 2025 class. She is an elite operator within the paint and very onerous to maintain off of the glass, with a complicated face up recreation and mushy contact across the rim.
Parks is an completed massive guard with a robust body. She has lengthy vary on her shot and finishes effectively across the rim with contact.
Fandel is a multisport athlete with an throughout recreation. She will catch hearth from the perimeter and strikes effectively with out the ball. She has that glue-like high quality about her that impacts profitable.
Brown is a 6-foot-2 lefty ahead who’s lively within the paint and on the glass. She brings a bodily presence to the ground and has upside potential with flashes of the perimeter shot.
No. 16 G Jordan Speiser
No. 47 G Aniya Foy
No. 58 G Brandie Harrod
Unranked PG Gina Garcia Safot (Spain)
Okay-State’s commits all deliver one thing completely different to the desk. They complement one another, and this system type of play, very effectively — the spring addition of Brandie Harrod helped them soar from No. 10 to No. 8 in these rankings.
Jeff Mittie landed one of the best shooter within the nation in Speiser, who was on an absolute heater all summer time. She added the flexibility to take contact on drives to her offensive assault and it balanced out her recreation.
Foy ought to complement Speiser very effectively, a slashing elite athlete who exhibits promise in her taking pictures. She is explosive to the rim and disruptive defensively and on the glass.
Harrod dedicated to Kansas State after decommitting from Auburn following a training change. She is a robust guard who excels within the midrange and has added the 3-point shot to her offensive toolkit. She is robust to the rim and could be a lockdown defender.
Garcia Safot, a 5-9 Spanish level guard, is a historically basic recreation supervisor and distributor, averaging excessive help numbers in her FIBA expertise all through the years.
No. 29 PG Future Jackson
No. 40 F Cearah Parchment
No. 48 F Manuella Alves-Fernandez
No. 96 F Naomi Benson
Unranked G Erica Finney (Australia)
Coach Shauna Inexperienced likes to play an area and tempo type; three of those commits match the mildew on the perimeter whereas the opposite two, a formidable F/P pair, will assist in the paint. This class additionally fills an vital want at level guard and provides depth inside.
Jackson actually pushes the ball effectively. She brings heavy ball stress defensively and is artistic off the bounce to the rim.
Parchment is a finesse stretch-4 ahead who brings a pleasant glue high quality. She made a robust dedication to the glass this summer time and raised her inventory. She has determined to go to campus early to get forward on the faculty routine.
Alves-Fernandez is broad and powerful with a mushy contact. She has a pleasant old-school recreation and is efficient along with her again to the basket due to her footwork and talent to complete within the paint. She is bodily defensively and lively on the glass. She is exhibiting main promise with spring exhibition video games in opposition to WNBA groups as a part of the Brazilian Nationwide Staff.
Benson is a rugged blue collar ahead who cleans up the glass and does the soiled work within the paint. She is a robust athlete who understands her function — enjoying bodily protection and getting well timed inside buckets.
A 6-foot Australian guard, Finney is an elite shooter each off the dribble and in catch-and-shoot conditions. She has good footwork and alter of tempo to the rim and is a gritty competitor.
No. 36 G Camille Williams
No. 54 G Danielle Osho
No. 80 F Natalie Wetzel
No. 91 G Meredith Tippner
4-star W Emanuella “Somo” Okolo (unranked)
What a splash first-year coach Tricia Cullop has made on the recruiting path. Miami has a foundational class that ought to serve this system effectively into the long run.
Williams can rating from three ranges. She has proven regular mature enchancment all through highschool, which led to a breakthrough summer time and a state championship in her senior yr.
Osho is a bodily small ahead who brings power defensively and is a top quality passer and 3-point shooter.
Wetzel was one of many main stock-risers of the nation. A 6-3 ahead with versatile recreation, she is constant, from the submit to past the 3-point line.
Tippner can aggressively play on or off the ball. She excels in transition facilitation and the pull-up jumper.
The four-star Okolo, out of Texas, is among the extra athletic forwards within the class. Nonetheless uncooked skill-wise, she brings a component of physicality and upside that can be developed into one thing much more useful than her present score as a participant.
No. 37 G Jaylah Lampley
No. 38 F Madison Francis
No. 93 F Nataliyah Grey
Coach Sam Purcell has some severe size, athleticism and power coming to Starkville in 2025, good for the SEC. This group will permit Purcell to play larger lineups and improve the tempo of play with defensive depth subsequent season.
Lampley is a “Three and D” specialist as a 6-1 ahead/wing. She could be very versatile defensively and areas the ground for the spot-up 3, complimented by a slashing skill.
Francis has as a lot upside on the ahead place as any participant within the nation. She brings a bodily aspect to the sport along with her skill to run the ground and her exercise degree on the glass. She will be the most effective defensive gamers within the nation sooner or later. She obtained a pair dunks within the open court docket throughout the highschool season.
Grey’s inventory rose throughout the summer time as she expanded her recreation from the paint to past the three-point line. A constant aggressive motor units her aside.
No. 2 P Sienna Betts
4-star Lena Bilic (Croatia)
Coach Cori Shut has landed one of the best submit participant within the nation in Betts, and gone worldwide with Bilic — mirroring elements of UCLA’s present roster with worldwide gamers and one other Betts (Sienna’s older sister, Lauren).
For her half, the youthful Betts is dominant on the block, but additionally a lot extra. She sees the ground effectively, facilitating and passing out of double-teams. She will face up and play off the bounce in addition to knock down pictures out to the perimeter.
Bilic is 6-3 and lengthy, basic and versatile. On the FIBA U17 World Cup, she averaged 15.7 factors, 4.9 rebounds and three.9 assists.
No. 3 G Aaliyah Chavez
No. 50 G Keziah Lofton
No. 66 F Brooklyn Stewart
The 5-foot-11 Chavez is the last word assured shotmaker and a balanced scorer, capable of tally factors from deep vary, the pull-up and the free throw line. She is a top quality passing playmaker and is aware of how one can create simple alternatives for others. She ought to match inside the program completely since coach Jennie Baranczyk’s system encourages tempo and long-range taking pictures in all types.
Additionally becoming a member of this system is Lofton, a lefty shooter with vary who has a combo-guard recreation — she will be able to play on or off the ball.
Stewart is an athletic ahead who noticed her inventory rise over the summer time as she confirmed extra high quality decision-making and perimeter ability.
No. 21 F Brynn McGaughy
No. 71 W Nina Cain
G Sienna Harvey (unranked)
Every of those gamers brings one thing completely different to Tina Langley’s program however will mesh effectively collectively. They be part of a program with seasoned guard play.
McGaughy can play the bodily and finesse recreation. At 6-foot-2, she will be able to play off the bounce or bang within the submit. She makes performs many gamers can’t, as evidenced by her environment friendly scoring within the McDonald’s All-American Sport.
Cain assaults the glass and brings an actual blue-collar method to the ground. She excels on the offensive glass and is beginning to shoot the 3better.
Harvey is a 5-foot-9 guard out of Australia — she is a basic flooring common with aptitude because of her passing skill and deal with.
No. 11 G Darianna Alexander
No. 62 PG Caliyah DeVillasee
F Kali Barrett (unranked)
G Joya Crawford (unranked)
G Paige Whitted (unranked)
Cincinnati coach Katrina Merriweather has made a nationwide splash for her program by touchdown a number of ESPNW High 100 gamers within the 2025 class, together with including an aggressive punch to the Bearcat perimeter play.
Alexander is a giant guard who can play on or off the ball. She pushes tempo as a lead guard and rebounds exceptionally effectively at each ends. She is a unbelievable finisher with contact on the rim.
DeVillasee is fast off the bounce and a crisp passer. She has a pleasant pull-up jumper within the choose and roll recreation and transition and continues to enhance from the three.
The 6-2 Barrett has a pleasant face-up recreation and vary out to the 3-point line. She is a defensive menace and an elite rebounder.
Crawford is 5-8 and might rating in bunches. She is a extremely adorned 3A state champion out of Tennessee.
Whitted performs at well-known Briarcrest Christian Academy (TN). She is an lively defender and rebounder from the perimeter.
No. 28 PG Leonna Sneed
No. 44 G Avery Hjelmstad
4-star Ella Todd
With Lynn Roberts shifting on to teach the Los Angeles Sparks in November, these gamers renewed their commitments to Utah with Gavin Petersen now on the helm.
Sneed is a pure level guard who seems to set the desk for her teammates, however also can assault off the bounce. Defensively, she is among the finest lock-down on-ball defenders within the nation.
Hjelmstad is aware of how one can discover open catch-and-shoot alternatives and has the fast shot preparation and launch to be deadly on the ground. She has a complicated really feel for the sport which permits her to remain poised and make performs.
Todd can fill it up each from past the three and with a easy pull up jumper off the bounce.
No. 51 F Lourdes Da Silva Costa
No. 55 PG Ace Austin
No. 92 G Tianna Chambers
4-star F Pleasure Egbuna
Coach Kristy Curry has a really impactful class that provides expertise to the Tide’s roster, inside and outside.
Da Silva Costa has a pleasant contact out to the highest of the important thing. She is an efficient passer and screener and understands the sport very effectively. Bodily on the glass with scoring skill in and across the paint and submit areas, Lourdes has the form of IQ and glue impact to make others higher round her.
Austin is an in-state confirmed winner. She is a flooring common who’s an distinctive passer and performs with a contagious excessive motor.
Chambers is a multisport athlete who missed the summer time with an harm however must be again to the court docket quickly. She has a robust construct as a guard, and her recreation contains high quality flooring imaginative and prescient and facilitation, with a capability to get to her spots to knock down jumpers.
Egbuna, who comes from Texas, had a stock-rising summer time as her motor actually improved to associate with an enormous upside.
No. 46 F Zhen Craft
No. 49 PG Aubrey Beckham
No. 98 G Jocelyn Faison
This can be a massive class for Georgia, each in numbers and in dimension. This group is flexible and athletic and powerful, with gamers from the Bulldogs’ personal yard in addition to the DMV.
Beckham is a easy, basic guard with a pedigree of profitable at the highschool and membership degree. She will handle a staff on the ground or add her personal offensive punch.
Craft is lengthy and lively with a giant upside. She will play at a excessive tempo and makes a significant affect on the defensive finish and the glass. She had a superb senior season at Bishop McNamara.
Faison has proven potential in her versatility and talent to attain the ball. Together with her dimension on the guard spot, she ought to outplay her rating in the long term.
No. 39 W McKenzie Mathurin
No. 67 F Ciara Byars
No. 97 F Jessica Fields
Kim Barnes-Arico is bringing in a bodily and athletic class that can match the Large Ten type of play. This class additionally enhances her No. 8 ranked 2024 class, which had premier perimeter play and inside athletic skill and potential.
Mathurin is a shooter with a scorer’s mentality who strikes effectively with out the ball and has the flexibility to submit up and play on the guard or ahead spot along with her sturdy construct.
Byars is an extended and powerful ahead who, previous to an harm which noticed her miss the summer time, displayed all-around recreation and IQ. She will shoot from the perimeter and makes sturdy drives to the rim. She has a blue-collar glue-like presence on her groups.
Fields operates in and across the paint. She actually emerged this summer time as she attacked the offensive glass and embraced the exercise degree wanted defensively to be efficient.
No. 22 PG Aliyahna Morris
No. 73 G Taylor Barnes
4-star G Grace McCallup
4-star G Isis Johnson
Charmin Smith has introduced within the highest-ranking class lately to Cal.
Morris is quiet however relentless. She performs effectively out of the choose and roll, can shoot the ball successfully and brings defensive stress. She has an extended resumé of profitable at a excessive degree.
Barnes has a really good basic base of abilities. She has a knock-down mid-range pull-up and continues to develop from the three. She confirmed this summer time that she will be assertive and produce on the ground.
McCallup is a 5-10 scorer who can shoot the 3-ball in addition to create for herself off the bounce with the pull-up jumper. She is a flexible perimeter defender at her dimension.
Johnson can fill it up in bunches. She makes use of her size to get to the rim and also will knock down the spot-up 3. Johnson has high quality defensive instincts to associate with her size.
No. 35 G/W Maya Makalusky
No. 42 PG Nevaeh Caffey
Teri Moren brings in two basic backcourt gamers from the Midwest on this class. They may deliver excessive IQ and flexibility to Bloomington.
Makalusky improved her abilities off the dribble previously calendar yr. She brings a really feel for the sport that can permit her to play a number of positions — and as she provides power, will be utilized in a variety of methods.
Caffey can run a staff. She is constant, with the abilities to facilitate or rating, and made a run up the ranks throughout her senior season.
No. 23 G Addison Deal
No. 71 P Layla Hays
4-star F Journey Houston
Having been an integral a part of this system’s success through the years, Jan Jensen has not missed a beat recruiting-wise in her first yr on the helm of the Hawkeyes. All three 2025 commits match the Iowa system.
Deal is a hard-nosed competitor on the wing. She assaults the rim onerous and has lengthy vary on her perimeter recreation. She hunts pictures and isn’t afraid of the massive second.
Hays is a real middle who follows within the Iowa custom of bigs. She has good palms and works the paint and understands her function in that regard.
Houston is an Iowa native who missed vital time over the previous yr with an harm. Nevertheless, she is predicted again for her senior highschool season. An all-around ahead, Houston has a robust bodily recreation and basic base of abilities, notably in her shot preparation.
No. 70 PG Ava Zediker
No. 84 W Neleigh Gessert
No. 89 W Norah Gessert
Three-star PG Kendall McGee (unranked)
Creighton provides an especially expert class, locking in gamers proper of their area. Coach Jim Flannery has led Creighton to the NCAA event three years in a row.
Zediker is a basic lead guard who all the time has her eyes up and makes the suitable reads and easy performs that make others higher. She is a knock-down shooter from 3.
The Gessert twins are lengthy and tall and deadly from deep. They transfer effectively with out the ball and know how one can hunt, catch and shoot 3-point alternatives.
McGee is a 5-10 combo guard kind who assaults the paint onerous and facilitates with some aptitude in her recreation.
No. 33 G Jordan Ode
No. 87 PG Amy Terrian
Three-star G Anna Terrian (unranked)
Robyn Fralick tapped into the Midwest area for some elite perimeter play for subsequent season, including main scoring, facilitation and grit with this trio.
Ode has proven consistency in ability acquisition over the course of her highschool profession. As soon as a heavy driver, she has turned herself right into a participant who can shoot the three and create her shot off the bounce. She is a savvy and bodily defender as effectively.
The Terrian twins are the last word glue gamers. They transfer the ball and facilitate for others — with assists, additional passes and well timed shot making. They’re gritty defenders and can do no matter it takes to contribute to the win column.
No. 65 G Future Lunan
No. 68 G Adelaide Jernigan
Wes Moore brings in two high quality perimeter gamers on this class — one native, and one other who performs very equally to the scoring guards NC State has now — who each occur to be left-handed.
Lunan excels within the open court docket and has a aptitude to her playmaking abilities. She is fast and lengthy and is aware of how one can get to the paint.
Jernigan is among the premier shooters within the nation. She has a robust basic base to her recreation and is aware of how one can play inside herself.
