Notre Dame women land No. 9 recruit Abii

Jacy Abii, the No. 9 enlistee successful the 2026 girls' SC Next 100 class, has committed to Notre Dame, she announced Saturday.

The 6-foot-2 guardant chose Niele Ivey and the Fighting Irish implicit UCLA, Tennessee, Texas and LSU.

"It's much than hoops -- it's faith, household and a spot wherever I'm seen arsenic much than conscionable a hoops player," Abii told ESPN. "From the infinitesimal I stepped connected campus, I felt the love, the accidental and the calling to beryllium portion of thing bigger than myself. I'm blessed to telephone Notre Dame home. Go Irish!"

Abii missed her inferior precocious schoolhouse play aft an ACL wounded past summertime connected the Overtime Select circuit. She played sparingly this summer, but showed signs of her aged self. After helping Frisco Liberty (Texas) triumph 2 authorities championships, she transferred to Legion Prep, besides successful the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

Abii is simply a versatile perimeter-oriented guardant who excels shooting the shot and facilitating. She is simply a peculiarly talented passer and has go a morganatic menace from beyond the arc. She is besides an exceptional rebounder.

"Jacy is simply a versatile playmaker who tin predominate connected some sides of the ball," San Antonio Spurs defender De'Aaron Fox, whose Under Armour squad Abii plays for, told ESPN. "She creates mismatches wherever she is connected the floor, and that volition beryllium invaluable successful Notre Dame's system."

Abii is Notre Dame's 3rd committedness successful the 2026 class. The Fighting Irish besides person No. 30 Isabella Ragone, a tiny guardant retired of Georgia, and No. 81 Isabella Sangha, a powerfulness guardant retired of Florida. Abii bolsters an already beardown frontcourt class.

Notre Dame re-tooled its roster for 2025-26 via the transportation portal, but is focused connected revamping its extent and endowment successful this 2026 precocious schoolhouse people for the play after.