Jada Williams

And they have a dynamic guard leading the charge.

Jada Williams, who's a 5'6 guard and last season averaged 15.3 points, 3.5 rebounds, and 7.7 assists.

And Malaysia Fuwali, a 5'9 guard, averaging 4.6 points, 3.6 rebounds, 3.5 assists.

And Mikayla Williams, why is she a scorer? a 6-foot guard averaging 4.2 points, 5.3 rebounds, and 3.6 assists.

Yeah.

What is Jada's role? I mean, to me, Jada Williams.

To me, I don't feel like she's a person on this team.

I don't feel like she's gonna have to do a lot.

Florida, she was a high level playmaker.

What I liked seeing last season between Audie Crooks and Jada Williams at Iowa State was the fact that they just kept feeding Audie Crooks.

I think Liv McGill is probably just like foaming at the mouth in excitement to be able to feed a body like Audie Crooks on the interior.

However, I don't want them to solely rely on that.

Uh, you have a lot of bodies to, to fill and now they're going to be in their rebuilding process and what they can look like.

given the fact that they lost all their seniors, obviously for good and great things, but how you start to rebuild that.

I think Addie Brown, at her size and her versatility, did miss some games last season due to injury, but I think if she can... continue to rebound facilitate for other posts I think she did really good in that high to kind of like low post category and be an aggressive defender she is going to fit well into a UCLA system and then one more because apparently I yap for a really long time I want to throw in a Jada Williams Because this is now Jada Williams' third school in her career.

She's a senior.

LSU, we're talking about LSU, right? Excuse me.

Kim Mulkey had some interesting things to say about Jada Williams.

She described Jada as a vocal leader who plays with tremendous energy, but what really stood out to me was, and to Kim Mulkey, is that she said that her point guard mentality really comes out when she's on the floor.

She talked about how her goal is to get 10 assists a game, which that's hard to do, but When you have someone out there with a point guard mentality, a selfless mentality, you know, dishing the ball, getting her teammates the passes that they need to be successful, you know, is really going to be important.

We're going to move on to the last part of this episode, which is the eight questions that I have.

One for each team that sort of arose out of SEC Media Day.

So for LSU, can Jada Williams be the facilitator who helps all of LSU's offense? Offensive talent come together.

That's a hard job.

No surprise there.

Yes, they lose a Flau'jae Johnson, Jada Rashard, and a Bella Hines, but you do bring in a Jada Williams to help really with some of that guard depth.

And Jada Williams, she was really able to kind of reinvent her career at Iowa State last season.

I think when you look at her high school journey, she was – Everyone knew her from her highlights and her playmaking and her scoring.

But last season at Iowa State, she averaged 7.7 assists per game.

[screen scratches] Let's start on Capitol Hill, where on Monday the Senate passed the quote-unquote Protect College Sports Act.

You'll recall we discussed this bill on an episode a couple weeks ago with NWSLPA Executive Director Meghan Burke, WNBPA Senior Advisor Aaron Drake, and college hoops players Jada Williams and Oluchi Okonkwo.

They argued against the bill and instead advocated for athletes to unionize in order to collectively bargain the rules governing college sports.

Now, if the bill passes Congress and is signed into law, it will provide the NCAA with an antitrust exemption, allowing the organization to enforce a cap on how much teams can pay athletes and also allowing them to crack down on transfers and dictate eligibility.