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Wisconsin Women’s Basketball May 2024 Recruiting Update: Part Two

The Badgers have dished out some new offers this month.

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Marisa Moseley Wisconsin Women’s Basketball Head Coach
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During the recent live period the Wisconsin Badgers women’s basketball coaching staff was on the road scouting the top high school players in the country and I wanted to compile some information on the players that they ended up offering. This is part two of this little series because more players keep announcing offers from Marisa Moseley and I didn’t want to keep adding to one post tbqh.

You can find part one right here.

In this edition we have three players, all of whom might play their way out of Wisconsin’s range if I’m being honest, from different positions. There is a burgeoning floor general, a multi-talented big, and an uber-athletic wing listed. Let’s get to it!

Kennedy (KK) Holman, 5-foot-8, PG

    • Offers from: Purdue, Ball State, Harvard, Belmont, Loyola Chicago, Toledo, Marquette, Bowling Green, Boston College, Indiana State, UAB, Butler
    • Year: 2026
    • High school: Hamilton Southeastern (Ind.) HS
    • AAU team: Indiana Girls Basketball

Holman checks all of the boxes you want in a floor general. She is smart, fast, makes good reads with the ball, and can get downhill to the basket when it’s time to “get hers.” You may notice that Holman’s offer list looks suspiciously similar to the player below (Brooklynn Renn) and that’s because they play for the same AAU team and smart coaches are just offering them both when they go see Indiana Girls Basketball play.

As a sophomore, Holman averaged a box score-stuffing 11.7 points, 5.3 rebounds, 7.3 assists, 2.3 steals, and 0.8 blocks per game. She also only averaged 2.6 turnovers per game which, for a young point guard who constantly has the ball in her hands, is quite impressive. One major area of concern: shooting. In her two-year varsity career (49 games; 1,096 minutes) she is 8-of-42 (19.0%) from beyond the arc and 77-of-148 (52.0%) from the free throw line. Her overall shooting numbers are decent, because she’s such a good finisher at the rim, but teams will start sagging off of her if she doesn’t improve her jumper.

 
Brooklynn Renn, 6-foot-3, F

  • Offers from: Harvard, LaSalle, Louisville, Purdue, Butler, Evansville, Indiana State, Murray State, Bowling Green, Toledo, Ball State, Dayton, UAB
  • Year: 2026
  • High school: Silver Creek (Ind.) HS
  • AAU team: Indiana Girls Basketball

Renn has all of the telltale signs of a kid who grew up in a basketball state like, well, Indiana. She has an advanced series of post moves, is a good ball handler despite being so tall, has a smooth outside shot, and can finish with either hand. She was selected to play in the IndyStar Futures Game, which takes the best freshmen and sophomores in the state and divides them into two teams, and was also named first-team All-State by the Indiana Coaches of Girls Sports Association. She averaged 15.3 points, 10.1 rebounds, 4.3 blocked shots and two steals per game as a sophomore and has begun racking up offers left and right this summer. She is rated as the 24th best player in the 2026 class by ESPNW and should start accumulating more high-major offers any day now.

The Wisconsin women’s basketball program got in on her kinda early so they might have a chance to make an impression, but I’d wager that the competition will be too stiff for the Badgers to realistically compete.

Soma Okolo, 6-foot-1, W

  • Offers from: Coastal Carolina, UL-Monroe, UL-Lafayette, St. John’s, SMU, Wichita State, BYU, Houston, Iowa State, Kansas State, La. Tech, UNLV, Miami (Fla.), Cal, Indiana, Ole Miss, Rutgers, Georgia Tech, Providence, Arkansas, Clemson, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, and others
  • Year: 2025
  • High school: Glenn (Leander, Texas) HS
  • AAU team: Phoenix Select (Austin, Texas)

You know I always try to Keep It Real with you, dear reader…and in that vein allow me to say this about the Wisconsin women’s basketball program’s offer to Soma Okolo: lol, lmao. The rising senior out of Texas has dozens of offers from around the country and I’m assuming that the Badgers are operating under the “she can’t say ‘no’ unless we offer her a scholarship first” theory. Okolo is an athletic wonder who can, and has, dunk in games. She’s a solid rim protector too, although she’ll have to work on that craft in college once the players are bigger/stronger/better.

Watching her highlights is fun tbqh. In the most recent one on her Hudl page she scored 39 points and grabbed 18 rebounds while skying over and around the opposition for the ball. She won Miss Austin Basketball 2023 and was the 2023 District 25-5A MVP while averaging 21 ppg and 10 rpg. 5A is the second biggest class in Texas high school sports, so she isn’t doing this against scrubs. It will be interesting to see where she ends up and how she does but…it just won’t be with Wisconsin.

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Drew Hamm is a seasoned sports journalist with an extensive background in covering the Wisconsin Badgers. He has previously held positions as the site manager at Bucky's 5th Quarter and founder of Badgers Ball Knower. Currently, he contributes as a staff writer for BadgerNotes.com.

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