It\u2019s been a busy \u2014 and fruitful \u2014 Thursday for Utah women\u2019s basketball on the transfer portal recruiting trail.<\/p>\n
Late Thursday night, former UC Santa Barbara forward Olivia Bradley became the third Utes commitment of the day, joining Cal Baptist\u2019s Filipa Barros<\/a> and Oklahoma State\u2019s Lena Girardi<\/a>.<\/p>\n Who is Olivia Bradley?<\/p>\n Bradley is a 6-foot-1 forward who hails from Adelaide, South Australia. She has played the past three seasons at UC Santa Barbara, but will have two years of eligibility remaining after utilizing a medical redshirt during the 2023-24 season.<\/p>\n Bradley earned All-Big West freshman team honors two years ago, when she averaged 5.9 points and 4.1 rebounds coming off the bench as a redshirt freshman.<\/p>\n She\u2019s coming off a career-best season while earning Big West honorable mention honors during the 2025-26 campaign, when she averaged 13.2 points, 5.7 rebounds, 1.8 assists, 1.3 blocks and 0.7 steals per game.<\/p>\n Bradley shot 48% from the floor, 28.2% from 3 and 67% from the free-throw line.<\/p>\n How does Olivia Bradley fit into Utah\u2019s 2026-27 plans?<\/p>\n After the Utes saw forward Reese Ross enter the transfer portal ahead of her senior season and transfer to Baylor, Utah was in need of some help in the front court.<\/p>\n Bradley helps fill that role, and with two years of eligibility remaining, she doesn\u2019t have to do so as a one-year fill-in.<\/p>\n Bradley can pair nicely with another Australian talent, Chyra Evans, who is returning for Utah and is coming off a year wherein she averaged 8.2 points and 5.1 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n Utah is also bringing in a pair of freshmen front court players in center Rylee Little, a four-year standout and state champion at Kanab High, and forward Emma Petrie, another Australia native.<\/p>\n At forward, the Utes also bring back Evelina Otto, who had her opportunities to contribute as a freshman, and Kamryn Mafua, who missed much of the year due to injury after transferring from Cal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been a busy \u2014 and fruitful \u2014 Thursday for Utah women\u2019s basketball on the transfer portal recruiting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,217,231,772,1544,1111],"class_list":{"0":"post-712195","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","13":"tag-news-feed-local"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116418163452119217","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712195","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=712195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}