Allie Ziebell has never made a decision lightly, and her commitment to the UConn women’s basketball team was no exception. As the No. 7 prospect in the 2024 class, Ziebell went into the recruiting process with a clear plan: She would take her visits, narrow down a list of finalists, announce her official choice the spring after her junior year at Neenah High School in Wisconsin. She had a pen in hand any time a college coach called, filling countless notebooks with details from every conversation. But then, the summer before her junior season, Geno Auriemma made her an offer and upended her timeline. “When the offer came through, she was ecstatic, but you could almost sense the internal...
