Oklahoma State’s women’s basketball team announced on April 20 the addition of All-American Audi Crooks, the nation’s top-ranked transfer, according to head coach Jacie Hoyt.
The move is significant as Crooks has been recognized as the No. 1 ranked transfer by several national outlets, including CBSSports.com, ESPN.com, NBCSports.com, USA Today and Yahoo Sports. Her arrival is expected to strengthen Oklahoma State’s roster for the upcoming season.
“We are thrilled with the addition of Audi. She has been one of the country’s most dominant scorers the last few years and to think she will be in a Cowgirl uniform feels surreal. She has elite size and strength paired with elite hands and touch that allow her to be an automatic bucket around the rim. The last three years I’ve watched team after team strategize and game plan around stopping her and almost all have failed miserably,” Hoyt said.
Crooks comes from Iowa State where she earned second-team All-America honors as a junior from organizations such as the Associated Press, U.S. Basketball Writers Association and The Sporting News. In her collegiate career at Iowa State, she received unanimous first-team All-Big 12 honors three times and ranks second in Cyclone history with 2,256 points scored.
During her junior year, Crooks started all 31 games she played in, finishing as the nation’s second-leading scorer with an average of 25.8 points per game while shooting nearly 65 percent from the field. She also averaged 7.7 rebounds and recorded twelve double-doubles for that season alone.
Looking ahead to her senior year at Oklahoma State, Hoyt said: “She is incredibly motivated in her senior year to evolve and expand her game. She came here to grow…she has courage to blaze her own path and pursue what can be a historical season for us.”
