Only entering her second season as the Arizona Wildcats’ head coach, Adia Barnes is already out-recruiting women’s basketball powerhouses like Connecticut, Stanford, and Notre Dame.
According to ProspectsNation.com, Arizona currently has the No. 2 2018 recruiting class in the country, only behind Tennessee.
Not bad for program that hasn’t had a winning season since 2011.
“I thought it (our recruiting) would take a few years to get to that,” Barnes recently admitted on the Wildcat Country podcast. “I just looked at the rest of the Pac-12, how they build programs — whether it’s Oregon, Oregon State, UCLA — and kind of their progression over the years, and I didn’t think it would happen so fast.