Now, if you know very little about college, basketball, and life, ESPN HoopGurlz has done a masterful job with its ranking. Baylor has arguably the greatest haul of talented recruits in the history of women’s basketball. Five, count them, five Five-Star recruits per HoopGurlz. At one time Aquira DeCosta was ranked number one, now, number three. Four of Baylor’s recruits are MacDonald’s All-Americans. The average ratings for Aquira DeCosta, NaLyssa Smith, Honesty Scott-Grayson, Queen Egbo, and Caitlin Bickle are 3.8, 7.0,18.3, 19.3, and 43.5, respectively. That’s insane. Plus they also have Chloe Jackson coming from LSU, where she led the team in scoring with 18.1 points per game.
However, if you know something about college, basketball, and life, you would never, never, rank Baylor as the number one recruiting class. The last time Baylor welcomed five recruits was the heralded class of 2015. Of those five, only Kalani Brown remains. The other four all left as sophomores. So, commiserations to Baylor. We wish them luck, but know they are headed down a rocky road, and that, in a year or two, it will no longer be the number one ranked recruiting class by any measure other than statistically of what once was—before any real basketball was played.