M.A. VoepelESPN.com
Preserve Diamond Johnson is within the switch portal, making her the 3rd NC State ladies’s basketball participant to reduce this system this spring.
Ahead Jakia Brown-Turner is moving to Maryland and heart Camille Hobby goes to Illinois. The Wolfpack went 20-12 this pace season, shedding 64-63 within the first spherical of the NCAA event to Princeton.
Johnson was once the important scorer for NC Circumstance (12.3 issues consistent with recreation) however was once restricted to 22 video games as a result of an ankle trauma. She closing performed Feb. 16, lacking the ACC and NCAA tournaments.
Johnson was once the sixth-ranked retain within the ESPN HoopGurlz govern 100 for 2020, at the back of Paige Bueckers (UConn), Angel Reese (LSU), Cameron Brink (Stanford), Caitlin Clark (Iowa) and Kamilla Cardoso (South Carolina).
The 5-foot-5 Johnson, a preserve from Philadelphia, performed her first season with Rutgers and made the Obese Ten’s all-freshmen crew. She spent the pace two seasons at NC Circumstance and was once the ACC’s 6th Participant of the Past in 2022, when the Wolfpack made the Elite 8.
Johnson has two years of eligibility gone with the COVID-19 waiver from 2020-21. She isn’t recently indexed within the portal as a graduate switch, which might put together her right away eligible for after season. Thus, she would possibly want a waiver from the NCAA to play games in 2023-24 as a result of she has already transferred as soon as.
