Jada Williams has flipped her commitment to Arizona, with the five-star point guard announcing the news Monday.

Williams previously had been committed to play at UCLA.

🐻⬇️ tucson what’s good?! pic.twitter.com/DmwNW0bapq

— Jada Williams💫 (@mrsmac0606) August 2, 2022

A senior at La Jolla Country Day outside San Diego, she went on a visit to the Wildcats in July. Her teammate Breya Cunningham, another top prospect for 2023, committed to the school in June.

“Ever since I stepped on campus, I’ve been smiling,” Williams said. “It sounds corny or whatever…I do feel like I’m at home, and I’m ready to be a Wildcat.”

The 20th-ranked prospect with an overall player rating of 96 by ESPN, Williams is fresh off of winning gold in the FIBA U17 World Cup with Team USA. At the World Cup, which took place in Hungary, she averaged 4.4 points and 2.1 assists per game.

Williams is one of the first high school basketball players to have pursued NIL opportunities, signing partnerships with Spalding and Dick’s Sporting Goods. She’s also partnered with media platform Overtime to produce her own reality YouTube series titled “Basketball is my Life.”

In July, UCLA was one of two teams alongside USC to announce that they would be making the move from the Pac-12 to the Big Ten for the 2024 season.

The final 2025 WNBA regular-season slate tips off on Thursday night, with crucial playoff seeding still on the line for the league's top postseason contenders.

While the No. 1 Minnesota Lynx have the first overall seed on lock, Thursday could see the No. 3 Las Vegas Aces leap the No. 2 Atlanta Dream to claim the second seed with a win over the now-eliminated No. 9 LA Sparks.

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The No. 4 Phoenix Mercury and No. 5 New York Liberty have also settled their seedings, but the No. 7 Golden State Valkyries' Thursday matchup against the Lynx could see them either steal sixth from the No. 6 Indiana Fever with a win, or fall to eighth behind the No. 8 Seattle Storm with a loss.

The Aces' potential rise to No. 2 comes on the wings of a 15-game winning streak dating back to Las Vegas's August 2nd blowout loss to Minnesota — with the hottest team in the league recently receiving a significant boost off the bench.

Veteran forward and recent Aces signee Cheyenne Parker-Tyus returned from maternity leave in style on Tuesday, putting up eight points in eight minutes against the No. 12 Chicago Sky just two months after giving birth.

"It is not easy to get out there," head coach Becky Hammon said of Parker-Tyus's feat. "She was pumping [breast milk] at halftime. It's remarkable for her to be out there right now, almost miraculous."

"Just putting my jersey on, being with my teammates, being able to be in those huddles, it meant the world today," Parker-Tyus said after the 92-61 win.

How to watch the final 2025 WNBA regular-season games

Three of the four final 2025 games will tip off at 8 PM ET on Thursday, with defending champion No. 5 New York taking on No. 12 Chicago on WNBA League Pass while No. 7 Golden State visits No. 1 Minnesota on NBA TV and No. 13 Dallas hosts No. 4 Phoenix — also streaming live on WNBA League Pass.

Capping the season — and settling the seeding for the 2025 WNBA Playoffs — will be No. 3 Las Vegas vs. No. 9 LA at 10 PM ET, airing live on NBA TV.

The 2025 NCAA volleyball season is heating up, with a pair of Top 10 matchups headlining the first annual ACC-SEC "Showdown at the Net" event on Wednesday.

Recent conference realignment has seen the SEC and ACC emerge as volleyball strongholds alongside the Big Ten, with the two Power Four rivals laying claim to seven of the current Top 10 teams.

Putting their reputations to the test, the conferences launched the two-day "Showdown at the Net" series this season, with 14 SEC vs. ACC games taking place at campuses nationwide while the four top contenders face off in the event's two-game spotlight showcase in Fort Worth, Texas.

The Wednesday doubleheader will first pair the SEC's No. 3 Kentucky Wildcats against the ACC's No. 7 Pitt Panthers before their respective conference standouts take the court as the No. 2 Texas Longhorns face the No. 4 Louisville Cardinals.

The battle between the Longhorns and Cardinals — a rematch of the 2022 national championship game — will be particularly tense, as both squads enter the match without a single loss on the young 2025 season.

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No. 3 Kentucky and No. 7 Pitt will kick off Wednesday's top-tier college volleyball clashes at 6:30 PM ET before No. 2 Texas and No. 4 Louisville square off at 9 PM ET.

Both games will air live on ESPN.

Atlanta head coach Karl Smesko made WNBA history on Monday, becoming the winningest first-year manager on record after the No. 3 Dream earned their 29th victory of the season by defeating the No. 11 Connecticut Sun 87-62.

With Monday's result, Smesko surpassed the previous 28-win record set by former LA Sparks head coach Michael Cooper in 2000 — and boosted his position in the 2025 WNBA Coach of the Year race in the process.

Notably, while coaches like Cooper spent years as an assistant in the pros before leading a team, Smesko entered the 2025 WNBA season without any experience on the professional sidelines, with the Atlanta Dream hiring the 54-year-old following Smesko's 22 years helming the college team at Florida Gulf Coast University.

Smesko is now one of several new coaches seeing quick success at the sport's top level — with even more WNBA milestones looming on the horizon.

"It's nice that we're winning and that we're in a good position for the playoffs," Smesko said following Monday's victory. "Those types of [records] don't have a lot of meaning for me. The meaningful part is coming up: Are we going to be the best prepared for the playoffs?"

How to watch the Atlanta Dream on Wednesday

While it might not matter too much to Smesko, with one game left in the Atlanta Dream's 2025 regular season, he has the opportunity to pad his new record even more and finish the year with an even 30 wins on Wednesday.

The Dream will close out their 2025 regular season with a rematch against the Sun at 7 PM ET, with live coverage of the game airing on WNBA League Pass.

Sky star Angel Reese watched from the sidelines as No. 12 Chicago fell 92-61 to the No. 2 Las Vegas Aces on Tuesday night, ruled out with a back injury after serving a half-game suspension on Sunday for making "statements detrimental to the team" last week.

Back pain that has troubled the forward throughout the second half of the 2025 WNBA season, with Reese opting to sit out Tuesday's clash despite earlier expectations that she would take the court.

"After warm-ups, she communicated that she just wasn't feeling it physically," Chicago Sky head coach Tyler Marsh said, after previously telling reporters he expected Reese to play. "She reported that pain, and so we wanted to hold her back."

Reese's relationship with the organization has been under a microscope since the 23-year-old criticized team leadership in last week's Chicago Tribune interview, prompting high-profile reactions from both within the league and beyond.

"Chicago is probably the worst-run organization in the league. You're gonna suspend your best player just because she's putting pressure on you to get better? That was embarrassing to see," an anonymous WNBA exec told the Dallas Hoops Journal in response.

"She got in trouble for telling the truth. And I feel like women, especially Black women, are over-policed in this league," Sports Are Fun guest co-host Greydy Diaz said on this week's episode. "If you really look at Chicago and its history, ownership, front office — it's been a disaster for years. You've had star players leave over and over…. I think they need to clean house in Chicago."

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How to watch the final 2025 game for the Chicago Sky

Should her pain subside, Reese will suit up for the Chicago Sky's season finale on Thursday — though the league sophomore has already hit the requisite minimum number of game appearances to officially qualify as the WNBA's rebounds-per-game leader this year.

The No. 12 Sky will close out their 2025 campaign against the No. 5 New York Liberty at 8 PM ET on Thursday, with live coverage airing on WNBA League Pass.