The Big Ten has four schools in our top 10 and three more earned honorable-mention status, including defending champion Wisconsin checking in at No. (Editor’s note: This story was written before Nebraska All-American middle Kayla Caffey announced that she will transfer to Texas). This time around, it’s the Texas Longhorns taking the top spot, followed by USC and Nebraska. Where before we accounted for grad transfers, incoming junior-college transfers, new international players (note on the list below are just two international players) and true freshmen, now we must add the experienced transfers. The transfer portal, which allows college athletes to transfer without sitting out for a specified period of time (now they can play immediately), also changes the look of ’s annual women’s NCAA recruiting class rankings. It’s a new frontier in collegiate athletics - women’s volleyball most certainly included - where the explosion of the NCAA transfer portal has completed altered the playing field.
