Rutgers Women's Basketball forward Yacine Ndiaye to enter the Transfer Portal

Rutgers Women’s Basketball has lost another piece from last season’s roster.

Forward Yacine “Yaya” Ndiaye will enter the transfer portal, a source confirmed to The Knight Report.

Ndiaye spent one year as a Scarlet Knight and was limited to 11 games due to injury. In those games, she averaged 1.1 points and 1.8 rebounds in 9.2 minutes per game. She missed the remainder of the season following the December 10th loss to Princeton.

The transfer portal window will officially open on April 6th. Ndiaye becomes the fourth player on the team to either enter the portal or express their intent to enter once the window opens. She will enter as a redshirt junior.

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Ndiaye’s background

The 6-foot-4 forward committed to Rutgers out of the transfer portal last year, after two years at UNC Greensboro.

Originally a native of Pout, Senegal, N’Diaye averaged 2.4 points, 2.7 rebounds, and 0.7 blocks per game, with a jump in playing time and statistics as a sophomore.

Ndiaye joined the Spartans after playing her high school basketball for Life Christian Academy in Florida. As a freshman, she averaged four minutes per game in ten games, scoring six points and grabbing nine rebounds.

She played in 27 of the Spartans’ 32 games as a sophomore, on a team that won the Southern Conference at 25-7 and made the NCAA Tournament. Ndiaye averaged three points, 3.4 rebounds, and 0.8 blocks per game in 10.4 minutes per game.

As a 16 seed, UNC Greensboro fell to top-seeded and fellow Big Ten team USC 71-25 in the first round. Ndiaye played 19 minutes off the bench, and recorded four points, seven rebounds, and three blocks. Against then-No. 14 North Carolina in December, she scored seven points with six rebounds and a steal in 21 minutes. N’Diaye scored a career-high nine points in a win over Wofford in February, and grabbed a career-high eight rebounds against Chattanooga in a January win.

Rutgers now loses one of its four main post players.

Rutgers’ Transfer Portal Tracker

TRANSFERS OUT	DESTINATION	TRANSFERS IN	FORMER SCHOOL
Antonia Bates (Graduate transfer)	N/A
Nene Ndiaye (Intends to enter)	N/A
Makylah Moore (Intends to enter)	N/A
Yacine Ndiaye (Intends to enter)	N/A