LSU adds transfer, former Top 10 prospect Jersey Wolfenbarger
LSU picked up a commitment from 6-foot-5 transfer wing/forward Jersey Wolfenbarger on Monday afternoon, just a day after she visited Baton Rouge and watched the Tigers’ NCAA Tournament game against Middle Tennessee.
Wolfenbarger was named to the SEC All-Freshman Team in 2022 before leaving the Arkansas program in November of 2023.
“I know when there’s no information out, everybody thinks negative things,” Neighbors said in November. “Jersey is good. It was very amicable. She’s going to be a great player for somebody someplace. It just didn’t work out here.”
As a freshman, Wolfenbarger started 23 games, played 22.2 minutes, and averaged 7.5 points with 4.3 rebounds. As a sophomore, her minutes shrank, coming off the bench to play 16.2 minutes per game and scoring just 3.9 points.
Wolfenbarger is from Northside high school in Arkansas and was the No. 7 player in the 2021 class. She was the Arkansas Gatorade Player of the Year and a USA Today First-Team All-American in 2020
Just a day after her visit, Wolfenbarger becomes LSU’s first transfer portal addition, a period that overlaps with the NCAA Tournament, putting the Tigers in position to recruit as they prepare for the postseason.
LSU is headed to Albany to take on the winner of UCLA and Creighton on Saturday in an attempt to make it to the Elite Eight for a second straight season. With seniors Hailey Van Lith and Angel Reese still sitting on decisions of whether or not to return, LSU is already being aggressive in the portal with scholarships to spare.
Now, we wait to see if the Tigers’ season continues this weekend as all eyes are on LSU as it heads to New York.
“I just have also thought if we’re going to go very far in the playoffs, we have to get better through the course of the year defensively,” Mulkey said. “And I think that’s where our most improvement has been, is that nobody likes defense. When you have that many scorers on a team, I doubt any of them had to be the defensive stopper growing up. If we can do it collectively, if we can help each other, take pride in it and get excited about it as much as we do the offensive end, I think you can have a good season and a good run in the playoffs.”
