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Nat -- Possible; KK - Nada by dillon77

- Think KK looked at the roster and thought "I'll back up Soni and/or the #2 this year....maybe." And that leaves her a senior year.

- I brought Nat up in a post just below on Nat getting a taste of starting and wanting to pursue it, because it wasn't going to happen this year behind Maddy, Kate and/or an incoming transfer also being there. In fact, her time might diminish.

However, as you also noted, we haven't seen any white smoke for incoming transfers yet. If best plans don't work out for ND and the Irish still need a front-court person to rotate in, well, Nat can play both positions.
Plus, as a liberal arts major (American Studies and Poly Sci, I believe), she'd be able to find a good grad course of study, I'm sure.

One never knows the talks she had with Niele, but I'm sure they were civil, respectful and straight-forward. Stay tuned.