Entering the season, first-year head coach Missy Bilderback set out to make an impact as soon as possible.
The cast of characters that joined the ULM women’s basketball program via the transfer portal turned heads with their resumes. They weren’t all up-and-comers. Players such as Daisha Bradford, Lauren Gross and Jakayla Johnson earned multiple starts at their previous universities. In the case of Bradford and Johnson, their experience came in Power Five conferences.
Bilderback’s impact through the transfer portal showed she was a respectable, influential coach well before the first team practice. But with her success in the portal, which created results in year one, the expectations are up too.