Ladies’s school basketball star Khamil Pierre shouldn’t be going to go away Vanderbilt and enter the switch portal. Regardless of what was reported on Tuesday morning, the rising junior will proceed her profession on West Finish.
The sequence of occasions surrounding her preliminary intent to go away creates plenty of confusion about what precisely went down in Nashville.
Pierre, a four-star prospect within the girls’s school basketball recruiting Class of 2023, was thought-about one of many top-100 recruits general. She selected to play at Vanderbilt over 29 different presents. It was an enormous get for Shea Ralph in her second 12 months as head coach and it paid off in an enormous means.
The Commodores reached the NCAA Match as a No. 7 seed this season. They received 22 video games through the common season behind 23.3 factors per sport from freshman level guard Mikayla Blakes and 20.4 factors per sport from Pierre on 49.8% capturing. The latter additionally averaged a team-high 9.6 boards. She additionally recorded 17 double-doubles as a sophomore, which ranked thirteenth in all of Division I.
Evidently, Vanderbilt doesn’t have as a lot success because it did with out Khamil Pierre.
What extra can we are saying? ????♀️@KhamilPierre has abilities.#AnchorDown pic.twitter.com/IxfMrKPbSj
— Vanderbilt WBB (@VandyWBB) January 14, 2025
Thus, it was extraordinarily disappointing to listen to that she deliberate to enter the switch portal. The information was first reported by Edwin Arocho round 9:00 a.m. CST on Tuesday morning.
Roughly 10 hours later, it was reported by Alaina Morris of Vandy247 that Khamil Pierre plans to return to this system for the 2025-26 season. She shouldn’t be going wherever.
Arocho instantly retracted his preliminary report.
Earlier in the present day, I posted that Khamil Pierre was intending on coming into the switch portal, attributable to data from a set of (credible) sources. I pleasure myself on accuracy & was pleased that both a) she modified her thoughts or b) my sources weren’t spot-on this time, as a result of I feel what she’s doing at Vandy is unimaginable & would like to see her proceed constructing a legacy there. Credibility and accuracy imply the whole lot to me. Shifting ahead, I might be double, triple & quadruple checking earlier than I publish, figuring out how a lot of a attain my platform has. I’ve by no means gotten one unsuitable earlier than, so if this I my first, I’ll take that on the chin. I recognize each single one in all you! My account has ALWAYS been a spot to seek out credible & correct data and it’ll proceed being that means, endlessly and all the time. Thanks all ????
That publish has since been deleted as this isn’t a spot to unfold misinformation or create chaos & confusion (there’s already sufficient of that ????). It’s by no means about “being the primary to report.” It’s not abo it engagement & “doing numbers” or “getting clicks.” All issues WBB is what I do & I do it very properly. There’s no place for misinformation on right here, particularly when it pertains to a student-athlete who already has sufficient occurring. My sources had been incorrect, however I take accountability as a result of whereas they are going to stay anon, I posted it on MY platform. So I take possession. Thanks once more guys & let’s preserve rockin’!
I’ve reached out to Khamil personally.
— Edwin Arocho
Ole Miss head coach Yolett McPhee-McCuin was not proud of the whole scenario.
Unhappy this was even information. Disgrace on whomever posted it! Don’t care if you happen to’re proper, simply wanna be first ????
— @YolettMcCuin / X
So what occurred? Good query.
Possibly Pierre advised somebody in her camp that she was contemplating the switch portal as a result of she had a extra profitable supply to play elsewhere from a workforce that attempted to poach her. Possibly that particular person leaked the data to Arocho. It doesn’t appear as if that was the case.
Pierre had not but met with the employees at Vanderbilt on the time Arocho posted his preliminary, since-deleted report. The 6-foot-2 ahead had not decided. The method was nonetheless within the very early phases.
I’m not going to say that Arocho was flat-out unsuitable as a result of I have no idea who advised him what. There’s a probability, although slim, {that a} credible supply advised him Khamil Pierre was going to switch. He supposedly reported what he heard from a reputable supply. I’ll give him the good thing about the doubt.
Nonetheless, if this credible supply does in truth exist, the credible supply jumped the gun. Arocho blew it and made issues very awkward on this planet of ladies’s school hoops.
