Last month, I mentioned the men's basketball teams increase in transfer portal usage,

and the same can be said on the women's basketball side here at Michigan.

It's just a fact of life in college basketball these days that the transfer portal has to be part of the process,

part of the strategy, part of the roster complexion.

We recently caught up with one of those women's hoops grad transfers and Lauren Hansen.

That was back on episode 183.

Today, we meet two more.

And what's so unique about these two, former Western Michigan Bronco Taylor Williams

and former Bowling Green Falcon, Alyssa Brett, is that they both have some things very much in common, a la, as I mentioned

just now, they're both coming from Mac programs. And some things very much not in common.

Williams is a lifer in the state of Michigan. She grew up in New Baltimore, had a mom who played

at Detroit Mercy, and is coming from Kalamazoo to Ann Arbor. Brett, on the other hand, is not from the state.

She's not from the country. She's not from the hemisphere. The Australian has traveled all the

way to this part of the world, and she's loved it, spending time at Bowling Green and wanting

to be around this area and in the Big Ten. Yet for those similarities and differences, as you listen to these two conversations,

you'll notice that their portal journey to Ann Arbor featured a pretty similar process.

Immediate interest from Michigan, a great visit, and a desire to be in this program.

And when you think about all of that, the consistency

and the vision of Michigan women's basketball is a pretty easy one to sell at this point,

especially to people who have lived in the state forever or who want to play the type of basketball

that is featured in this league. Now, up transfers, those who go from a mid-major league to a power league in the transfer

portal, are not always successful.

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