**2026 Iowa Women’s Basketball Off-Season and Transfer Portal Thread**

[Hawk24]

Portal opens Monday. Lots of talent available so will be interesting to see how Iowa fills needs at guard, bench, etc.

 

[douglasbader]

 

[YugoslavianMountainHound]

Needs: bench

 

[Hawk&Balls]

That's uninspiring.

 

[BBK]

Getting the Hare on Easter

 

[AZmessDAWG]

She’s decent. Gives them some shooting.

 

[The Dad]

Getting the Hare on Easter

CC!!

 

[Lil Scamp]

Shed be a Callie upgrade. Better shooter and plus defender

Plus she's just a rebtal

 

[L. Wade Childress]

Getting the Hare on Easter

she keep it furry?

 

[Herbie2]

 

[L. Wade Childress]

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I pieced together that her boyfriend was killed in a car accident a few weeks ago in Wisconsin

 

[Hawk&Balls]

Wow you're quite the detective

 

[L. Wade Childress]

This would be a good one, played for AIA

 

[Hawk24]

This would be a good one, played for AIA

Iowa recruited her out of high school and was one of her finalists.

 

[Lil Scamp]

Speiser would be huge

 

[Hawk_Kegmasters]

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I pieced together that her boyfriend was killed in a car accident a few weeks ago in Wisconsin

She was dating a 25 year old? Quite the age gap for a college kid.

 

[BBK]

Speiser would be huge

a full 12?

 

[rodg12]

 

[Hawk&Balls]

Gasp

 

[Lil Scamp]

Aaliyah crump just entered the portal definitely one to watch

 

[Hawk&Balls]

Isn't that who bjorn went to texas to play with

 

[Lil Scamp]

Yep

 

[Lil Scamp]

Iowa was a finalist

 

[YugoslavianMountainHound]

Has to be LsU throwing $$$$ . Does anyone else actually spend big money on womens bb?

 

[UnKnOwN_SeRb]

Has to be LsU throwing $$$$ . Does anyone else actually spend big money on womens bb?

Not sure.

 

[L. Wade Childress]

Has to be LsU throwing $$$$ . Does anyone else actually spend big money on womens bb?

iowa.

 

[L. Wade Childress]

It’s actually pretty depressing when even women’s college basketball becomes an annual money grab

 

[L. Wade Childress]

Depressing for the dozens of people that care anyways

 

[Lil Scamp]

Has to be LsU throwing $$$$ . Does anyone else actually spend big money on womens bb?

UCONN, s carolina, LSu, Texas and iowa lead the pack. Yearly budgets between 3-5 mil

 

[Lil Scamp]

UCLA will also be throwing around big money this off season

 

[Fletch]

Depressing for the dozens of people that care anyways

Funny. They must all post in this thread.

 

[Hawk24]

Carnegie played with Chit Chat at Tech and Brueggemann is the top 3-pt shooter in the portal. All would be solid additions. Now need to get some size...a couple of PFs who can shoot a little would be nice.

 

[YugoslavianMountainHound]

 

[Hawk&Balls]

You almost have to treat non conference scheduling as potential recruiting chances in the future

 

[Hawk24]

Good article here from Chad.

 

[AZmessDAWG]

You can tell she’s clearly frustrated.

 

[Hawk24]

You can tell she’s clearly frustrated.

And it's totally understandable.

 

[Hawk&Balls]

95 percent of coaches are frustrated

 

[AZmessDAWG]

95 percent of coaches are frustrated

Ya don’t say!!!

 

[Hawk&Balls]

I just did!

 

[Hawk24]

I've been seeing some speculation linking Deal to Tennessee...a program in total chaos right now with player defections, conflict with coaches, staff turnover etc. If that's true, it's a little more evidence that she's getting terrible advice.

 

[Hawk&Balls]

And a completely bonkers substitution pattern. For someone that people complained never got consistent playing time, that wouldnt be a solution.

 

[douglasbader]

If you wanted to coach college basketball and really care about the game and love doing it because you can develop and get to know players over a 4+ year period, all of this is awful.

It caused multiple recent NCAA National Championship coaches making $5m+ per year to just walk away and retire instead of dealing with this bullshit.

The only reason it is remotely tolerable is because Iowa lucked into the timing to get McCollum and he appears to be the real deal that can not only coach, but he can potentially navigate the portal.

But even to that point, he's going to lose a player that just hit a couple game winning shots and played out of his mind for a few games to get Iowa to the Elite 8 because of other $$ commitments, needs and the players desire and ability to get $3m in the portal.

It sucks.

 

[Shawneemicks]

Personally idgaf who the players are, if they stay, transfer, whatever. I just want them to win a lot of games

 

[Wanderer]

If you wanted to coach college basketball and really care about the game and love doing it because you can develop and get to know players over a 4+ year period, all of this is awful.

It caused multiple recent NCAA National Championship coaches making $5m+ per year to just walk away and retire instead of dealing with this bullshit.

The only reason it is remotely tolerable is because Iowa lucked into the timing to get McCollum and he appears to be the real deal that can not only coach, but he can potentially navigate the portal.

But even to that point, he's going to lose a player that just hit a couple game winning shots and played out of his mind for a few games to get Iowa to the Elite 8 because of other $$ commitments, needs and the players desire and ability to get $3m in the portal.

It sucks.

Who only ended up at Iowa because of that same bullshit.

 

[Stu Beagle]

We’re probably close to every program having it’s own GM soon

 

[KitKatApples]

They sorta do already don't they?

 

[douglasbader]

We’re probably close to every program having it’s own GM soon

We're already there at the high major level.

 

[Hawk&Balls]

You're already behind if you don't

 

[AZmessDAWG]

It’s all dumb. If you change the transfer rule back to what it was, but leave NIL, everything normalizes.