Arizona women’s basketball lost eight roster (five transfers, three graduated) players from last season and only has five returners on the roster. After another busy offseason with the transfer portal, Kailyn Gilbert, Helena Pueyo, Esmery Martinez, Maya Nnaji, and Montaya Dew all returned.
UA retained Gilbert after she tested her feet in the transfer portal and when she was going through her decision making, Barnes helped talk her through it. Gilbert said she was always at Barnes’s house and Barnes helped her look at the different programs she was looking at.