Indianapolis – The Lady Terps fresh off their 2015 NCAA Final Four appearance capitalized on that showing to grab six players and claim the nation’s top recruiting class topping the 2016 Blue Star Report Recruiting list. This is the best class since their No. 4 ranking in 2013.
Leading the parade of talent for Big 10 Maryland Coach Brenda Frese is 5-7 Destiny Slocum ID (USA Basketball 17u team), 6-0 Kaila Charles MD, 6-0 Blair Watson NJ, 6-1 Stephanie Jones MD, 5-11 Sarah Myers GA and 6-5 Jenna Staiti, GA.
Louisville Coach Jeff Walz followed up last year’s Blue Star Report Recruit class of 2015 comes in second with the next best for 2016. The ACC powerhouse will sign 6-3 Bianca Durham PA, 6-3 Ciera Johnson TX, 6-0 Jazmine Jones FL, 5-11 Sydney Zambrotta NY, 6-5 Kylee Shook CO.
Texas nabbed the nation’s top 2016 recruit, 6-3 power swing player, Joyner Holmes (Cedar Hill HS, TX/CyFairElite) to go with Jada Underwood TX, Alecia Sutton MO and Audrey-Ann Caron-Goudreau. This gives Aston her 9th, 7th, 5th and now 3rd top 10 recruit class since her arrival.
Oregon from the PAC-12 is fourth on the power of signing six players to give Head Coach Kelly Graves his best class recruit going into his second year. Baylor comes in 5th with landing two big recruits in Blue Star Report No. 2 senior 6-4 Lauren Cox TX (USA Basketball 17u) and Natalie Chou TX (USA Basketball u18 3X3) to go with 6-0 Calverion Landrum, TX.
Two familiar names come back to the top 10 in Vanderbilt (7th), Southern California (8th) and Texas Christian (10th) in a list with powers North Carolina (6th), Connecticut (9th) and Notre Dame (11th).
The Blue Star Report 2016 Top Conference Rankings show the Big 10 leading the list with the impact of Maryland’s top recruiting class topping the ACC and Big 12. The other two BCS power conferences PAC-12, SEC follow up in the top 5 ranking. The American Athletic Conference (AAC) topped the Non-Power 5 list with defending NCAA champion Connecticut, South Florida and Houston leading the pack. The Big East has Villanova, Georgetown and Seton Hall taking the top of the conference while Dayton, George Washington and Duquesne round out the top of Atlantic 10.
These will be updated after the first NLI signing period & other conferences will be added
Class Rankings are done mathematically with each player being signed in the Top 300 given a ‘value’ and added to the overall college class. Non-Top 300 signed players are given point allotments based off their evaluation in the Blue Star system. Foreign Players are not included in our USA – Top 300 – BUT they are given a ranking as to where they would fall if they were included in the Top 300.
The Blue Star Report 2016 Class/Conference Ranking List can be found at www.bluestarbb.com/blog/index.php/category/chris/
You can look at individual college recruiting classes for 2016 by going to www.bluestarbb.com/commitment_school.php
