{"id":709302,"date":"2026-04-12T23:50:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T23:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/709302\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T23:50:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T23:50:03","slug":"lsu-gets-commitment-from-one-of-transfer-portals-top-pgs-womens-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/709302\/","title":{"rendered":"LSU gets commitment from one of transfer portal\u2019s top PGs | Womens Basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"

The LSU women\u2019s basketball team<\/a> secured a commitment Sunday from former Iowa State guard Jada Williams<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Williams, a 5-foot-6 rising senior, is one of the top players in the transfer portal<\/a>. She scored 15.3 points and assisted 7.7 shots per game this past season, finishing the year as one of only nine Division I players who both scored at least 15 points and set up at least five shots, on average, each night.<\/p>\n

Only two guards assisted more shots per game than Williams did in 2025-26, so she\u2019s a natural fit for the role at LSU left behind by Jada Richard<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 the point guard from Opelousas who decided to enter the transfer portal last Thursday after a breakout sophomore year.<\/p>\n

Like Richard, Williams finished this past season with a 2:1 assist-to-turnover ratio. But Williams converted both her field-goal attempts (42%) and her 3-pointers (30%) at lower percentages than Richard did.<\/p>\n

Williams, though, has more experience. She was a top-25 recruit in the Class of 2023, according to ESPN, and she\u2019s started 90 career games \u2014 58 at Arizona and 32 at Iowa State.<\/p>\n

With Williams on board, LSU now has as many as six perimeter players on its 2026-27 roster.<\/p>\n

MiLaysia Fulwiley and Mikaylah Williams can return next season. So, too, can ZaKiyah Johnson, and the Tigers are exploring the possibility that they can move her from the post to the perimeter. Their lone 2026 freshman signee is Lola Lampley \u2014 a 6-foot-2 wing from Indiana.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, LSU signed Florida guard Laila Reynolds, a 6-foot-1 senior.<\/p>\n

Mulkey and her staff still have a few moves to make this offseason, particularly in the frontcourt. The transfer portal is open until April 20, and LSU can recruit players who entered it both before and after it closes.<\/p>\n

So far, they\u2019ve lost four players to the transfer market: Richard, freshman Divine Bourrage, freshman Bella Hines and senior Kailyn Gilbert. Bourrage is signed with Illinois, and Hines is committed to TCU.<\/p>\n

Williams arrived in Baton Rouge for a visit on Saturday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The LSU women\u2019s basketball team secured a commitment Sunday from former Iowa State guard Jada Williams. Williams, a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,217,231,772,1544],"class_list":{"0":"post-709302","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-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-basketball","12":"tag-ncaab"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116394424144972607","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709302","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=709302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}