Gulich rises to #12 overall pick in latest WNBA Mock Draft

bhf - - interesting development with Jill Barta leaving Gonzaga with one year of immediate eligibility remaining...
As of now there seems to be no connection between Barta & OSU - but this is the kind of situation where college basketball is quite fascinating.

Barta may end up teaching Special Ed. in Montana, as she says she wants to do. But she will also learn, one way or another, that several schools will welcome her with open arms if she chooses to play a final year.
Especially schools with Grad Programs in Special Ed. !!

The silent receptivity to players who graduate early and have one remaining year of eligibility is fairly common in NCAA basketball.
Add to this the unspoken, unofficial encouragement of players who want to transfer away from their current school, and you have what I call Level 2 recruiting.

"Level 2" is not recruiting as most of us understand the term, but it definitely is a form of it. Direct overtures and direct "enticement" of these players is verboten.
But Elite level WBB is a fairly small community - everybody doesn't know everybody, but everyone knows someone who does. If you get my drift.

So, six months from now when September rolls around Ms. Barta may be teaching in a classroom. Or, she may be enrolled in Grad School, playing ball for a school she never before attended.
Barta is just one player in a much larger picture. But there are many, many other players in the same picture.

It's all part of Level 2 recruiting....