Notre Dame quashed Miles transfer rumors near end of 2023-24 season
Notre Dame quashed Miles transfer rumors near end of 2023-24 season
Notre Dame coach Niele Ivey confirms Olivia Miles is locked in with the Irish amid speculation of a potential transfer.
'She's crushing it. She looks fantastic. Her comeback is going to be a movie. It's going to be incredible... Everybody needs to get their tickets right now.' pic.twitter.com/25LMkVpMMQ — Tyler Horka (@tbhorka) March 6, 2024
The news that Notre Dame star Olivia Miles will enter the transfer portal instead of jumping to the WNBA is sending shock waves throughout women's basketball. In general, it raises a lot of discussion about how much players can make playing college ball in the NIL era instead of turning professional as soon as thy can.
For Irish fans, it's a cruel knock into reality that no player is safe from the portal no matter how much they have meant to a program. And yet, this isn't the first story about the possibility of Miles going elsewhere.
Miles missed all of the 2023-24 season with an injury, and that coincided with Hannah Hidalgo having a historic freshman campaign. This fueled speculation that Miles didn't feel she could co-exist with Hidalgo in the backcourt, which meant she would look to play elsewhere after that season.
Ivey couldn't answer to these rumors when asked about them during a news conference after the regular-season finale, but she came back a few days later ahead of the ACC Tournament and confirmed that Miles was returning to the Irish for 2024-25:
Now, one year after the speculation was put to rest, Miles indeed has entered the portal. It's a rough ending to an Irish tenure that should have provided more than it ultimately did.
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