Congrats to Coach Smith and Staff on retaining their best returning players! In contrast to the MBB team that lost their best returners to the Portal- what do you think is the major reason? Is it because MBB has bigger NIL to lure players away?

My short form answer to why WBB and not MBB?>

Top-level ACC talent in MBB can still generate generational wealth. Both in the NIL world and certainly AFTER college.

For WBB, that level of wealth is only available for the top 20-30 players in the country. So getting a Cal degree is, comparatively, more valuable because a mid-level WNBA contract isn't generational wealth (yet.)

From a long distance it looks to me like our women transferred out for playing time while our men transferred out for money.