Sabrina Ionescu, Last top 25 uncommitted recruit, class '16

Sabrina Ionescu hasn’t flinched.

Ionescu is the nation’s fourth-ranked girls’ basketball prospect in the Class of 2016 according to ESPNw and the only one in the top 25 who has yet to announce her college decision.


But she’s not bothered by that latter fact, and she hasn’t felt even a twinge of regret as she has watched the rest of the top 25 – and indeed 97 of the top 100 – choose their universities.



“I’m taking my own path and not letting anyone alter it,” said Ionescu, an 18-year-old senior point guard at Miramonte (Orinda, Calif). “I tried to get it done (in November’s early signing period) to not have to deal with all the questions and everyone asking me every day.

Decision time looms, and Ionescu said she knows which university is in the lead for her services. She’s just not saying.

Not yet, anyway, and not even on the first day of the next signing period, which begins in a month on April 13.


Ionescu, who is 6-foot and 140 pounds and was a member of the American Family Insurance ALL-USA Preseason Team, announced four finalists in the fall: Cal, OREGON STATE, Oregon and Texas. Since then, she has eliminated Texas.

Her twin brother, Eddy, is set to attend Oregon this fall as a walk-on basketball player, which may give the Ducks an edge with Sabrina. Cal, which would keep her closest to home, also has an advantage to play.



But for Ducks, Bears and Beavers fans who badly want to know her decision, she has kept that sealed for now.