ASU leading scorer Jade Loville transfers to Arizona Wildcats

Arizona Wildcats guard Bendu Yeaney #23 with the ball is defended by Arizona State Solar Devils guard Jade Loville #30, throughout a Pac-12 basketball sport between the ASU Solar Devils and the Arizona Wildcats on February 13, 2022 at McKale Middle in Tucson, Arizona. (Picture by Christopher Hook/Icon Sportswire through Getty Pictures)

(Picture by Christopher Hook/Icon Sportswire through Getty Pictures)

The Arizona Wildcats girls’s basketball crew picked up a giant switch on Tuesday in Arizona State’s main scorer Jade Loville.

The guard averaged 16.6 factors, 2.7 rebounds and 1.0 help per sport on 41.7% capturing in 2021-22 for the Solar Devils.

In a house sport towards the Wildcats final season, Loville scored 27 factors and eight rebounds in an 81-77 win.

Loville set the varsity’s single-game scoring document with 40 factors towards UNLV in February 2021.

She initially began her profession with Boise State earlier than discovering her approach to the Solar Devils in 2021. She scored 10 or extra factors 19 instances this final season.

In the course of the offseason, ASU misplaced long-time head coach Charlie Turner Thorne when she retired after 25 seasons in Tempe. Loville was the third switch of the offseason.

Loville was named to the All-USA Immediately Washington women crew in highschool in 2017-18 after scoring 37.1 factors and eight.8 rebounds per sport.

She was additionally named preseason Mountain West Freshman of the 12 months whereas at Boise State.

After a season-ending defeat within the Spherical of 32 within the 2022 NCAA event, head coach Adia Barnes and the new-look Wildcats will look so as to add to final season’s 67.2 factors per sport.