Mountaineers add guard Danni Nichols from Western Illinois

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Lower than two months into her tenure as West Virginia’s ladies’s basketball coach, Daybreak Plitzuweit has labored diligently to fill the Mountaineers’ roster.

That pattern continued Monday when Plituzweit introduced the signing of 5-foot-10 guard Danni Nichols, a Western Illinois switch who can be counted on to offer scoring punch for the Mountaineers in what can be her ultimate season of school basketball.

Over 4 seasons at Western Illinois, Nichols averaged 11.9 factors and no fewer than 8.4 in a single season.

“Danni is a really pushed particular person and that encompasses each facet of her life,” Plitzuweit mentioned in a college launch. “We have now coached towards Danni for the previous 4 seasons, so we’re absolutely conscious of her versatility on the courtroom and her relentlessness. Her expertise, her aggressive drive and her means to attain in many alternative methods can be a fantastic match for us transferring ahead. We sit up for having Danni on our campus quickly, and we are able to’t wait to welcome Danni’s whole household to our Mountaineer program.”

Through the 2021-2022 marketing campaign, Nichols was a second-team All-Summit League choice with a scoring common of 15.8 factors on almost 53 % subject aim taking pictures. She additionally averaged 4.6 factors in her ultimate season with the Leathernecks.

Nichols, a local of Columbia, Missouri, additionally averaged double figures every of her earlier two seasons at WIU. She scored 12 factors per recreation within the 2019-2020 season and averaged 11.4 the next yr.

After redshirting within the 2017-2018 season, Nichols earned summit League Freshman of the Yr honors with a mean of 8.4 factors on 51.4 % taking pictures to go along with 3.3 rebounds.

Nichols has a profession subject aim share of fifty.1, whereas she brings a 32.8 % mark from three-point vary to Morgantown.

Throughout her profession at Western Illinois, Nichols performed towards Plitzuweit twice a season whereas she coached South Dakota State. In two matchups with the Jackrabbits final season, Nichols completed with a complete of 17 factors and 6 rebounds.

The addition of Nichols leaves West Virginia with two scholarships remaining for subsequent season and marks the Mountaineers’ sixth addition — 5 of which have come from the NCAA Switch Portal — since Plitzuweit’s hiring.