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Cal women’s basketball lands 5-star big Fatou Samb

Charmin Smith and Cal women’s basketball landed some huge news Friday night, landing a 5-star prospect in Fatou Samb for the 2020 recruiting class. Samb becomes Cal’s first Cal women’s basketball commit for this recruiting cycle.

The Houston (Tx.) Westside post was considering Cal along with Harvard, Rice, Michigan and Wake Forest in her final five. ESPN ranks her the 6th best post player on the floor, and 53rd overall.

Skilled low-post prospect with efficient interior game; post up game yields results; defends in the paint, rebounds and initiates the fast break; mobile in transition game; emerges and elite front court prospect in the class of 2020.