{"id":32476,"date":"2025-05-14T14:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T14:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/32476\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T14:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T14:11:09","slug":"ex-michigan-basketball-standout-transfers-to-third-school-for-final-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/32476\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Michigan basketball standout transfers to third school for final season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Laila Phelia is trading burnt orange for the Orange. The former Michigan women\u2019s basketball standout has transferred from Texas to Syracuse for her final season of college.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are thrilled that Laila has committed to Syracuse University,\u201d head coach Felisha Legette-Jack said in a statement announcing the signing on Monday. \u201cWhat she brings is a winning pedigree; 72-0 in high school, two Elite Eights and a Final Four. Laila has seen what we are trying to achieve.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost importantly she\u2019s a great young lady that has the aspiration to rule the world. What better place (to) come than the \u2018Block S\u2019 which has a global signature.\u201d<\/p>\n

Phelia had eye surgery last summer to repair a detached retina and, despite an initial recovery, reportedly needed another surgery. As a result, she appeared in just eight games this past season, her first at Texas. Her final appearance came on Dec. 11.<\/p>\n

Texas still earned a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament and reached the Final Four before losing to South Carolina to finish 35-4.<\/p>\n

Granted a medical redshirt, Phelia will use it in central New York. Syracuse went 12-18 overall and 6-12 in the ACC last season, Legette-Jack\u2019s third as coach. The Orange will face Michigan on Nov. 21<\/a> in Connecticut as part of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame Women\u2019s Showcase.<\/p>\n

Phelia\u2019s first transfer came as a surprise after three successful seasons at Michigan during which she appeared in 88 games with 71 starts. The 6-foot guard from Cincinnati averaged a team-high 16.8 points per game as a junior, earning All-Big Ten first-team honors. Michigan made the NCAA Tournament all three years, including an Elite Eight appearance in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Laila Phelia is trading burnt orange for the Orange. The former Michigan women\u2019s basketball standout has transferred from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,217,2562,5978,231,772,1544,635,2098,4543,6112],"class_list":{"0":"post-32476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-fighting-irish","11":"tag-longhorns","12":"tag-ncaa","13":"tag-ncaa-basketball","14":"tag-ncaab","15":"tag-notre-dame","16":"tag-texas","17":"tag-women","18":"tag-womens-basketball"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114506596381720186","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}