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Manasquan HS 2018 Dara Mabrey Enters Portal (Leaving the Hokies)

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Does RU have a reasonable shot, or is Notre Dame a lock?
https://highposthoops.com/2020/03/1...abrey-enters-transfer-portal-2020-acc-brooks/
Basketball is obviously in Mabrey’s blood. Her two sisters were standouts at Notre Dame, but Dara opted for a different path and chose to go to Blacksburg instead of South Bend. She broke out as a freshman and set a Virginia Tech record with 80 three-pointers made in a single season. Her 46.2 shooting percentage from behind the arc led the ACC and was third-best in the nation in the 2018-19 season. She made the All-ACC Freshman team and led the Hokies to the third round of the WNIT.

Barring an unlikely waiver, Mabrey will have to sit out a season and will then have two years of eligibility remaining to play for wherever she chooses to go.
While one of her older sisters, Marina, is in the WNBA with the LA Sparks, Michaela is an assistant coach now at Notre Dame. Dara might certainly feel comfortable transferring there (she liked this tweet reply from Notre Dame freshman Katlyn Gilbert), or someplace closer to her New Jersey home, like Rutgers, or to a team that figures to be a contender for the next few years, like South Carolina or Maryland.


 
I'd guess with the ND connection and Notre Dame's disappointing 2019-2020 (13-18) season, Dara's sisters will be recruiting her to play for "the Muffet" and be successful.
 
None of these Oirish lasses from Squan will ever go to Rutgers as long as ND and Michigan are still accredited universities.
 
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