It’ll be a homecoming for Wings protect Arike Ogunbowale, Notre Dame’s all-time leading marker.
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The Dallas Wings will certainly open their 2025 preseason project Friday evening versus the Las Las Vega Aces at Notre Dame’s Purcell Structure. Secret information is established for 6 p.m. CST, and the video game will certainly broadcast country wide on ION and stream on WNBA Organization Pass.
Past the preseason launching, the video game functions as a homecoming for numerous previous Notre Dame standouts. Wings protect Arike Ogunbowale, the Irish’s all-time leading marker, go back to South Bend in addition to Aces guards Jewell Loyd and Jackie Youthful, both of whom additionally starred at Notre Dame.
The video game additionally notes the informal begin of a brand-new period for the Wings. Dallas undertook substantial adjustments throughout the offseason, employing WNBA professional Curt Miller as executive vice head of state and basic supervisor and Chris Koclanes as head instructor.
Only 3 gamers return from last period’s lineup– Ogunbowale, Teaira McCowan and Maddy Siegrist– adhering to an active offseason that generated DiJonai Carrington, NaLyssa Smith, Myisha Hines-Allen and Ty Harris.
Friday’s match will certainly additionally display the franchise business’s extremely promoted 2025 draft course, consisting of No. 1 general choice Paige Bueckers of UConn. Various other novices readied to make their launchings consist of Aziaha James (NC State), Madison Scott (Ole Miss), JJ Quinerly (West Virginia), and Aaronette Vonleh (Baylor).
Koclanes, that brings a years of mentoring experience at both the WNBA and NCAA degrees, will certainly instructor his initial ready Dallas. He shares the exact same mentoring tree with Aces head instructor Becky Hammon, as both map their very early jobs back to Wings GM Miller, that trained Hammon as a gamer and later on functioned along with her at Colorado State.
The Wings and Aces encountered each various other 4 times in 2024, with Las Las vega taking 3 of those matches.
