Two days after Notre Dame women’s basketball head coach Niele Ivey and her staff landed their first transfer of the offseason in rising junior forward Anaya Hardy from Louisville, the Irish have landed another from the portal. Madison St. Rose, a rising grad student formerly of Princeton, has committed to Notre Dame, as first reported by Talia Goodman of On3 Sports Sunday, April 19.
The 5’10” guard is a career 1,215-point scorer with a 42.3% career field goal percentage. St. Rose is coming off of a 2025-26 season in which she averaged 15.8 points, 4.5 rebounds, 2.2 assists and 1.1 steals per game for a Princeton squad that was a No. 9 seed in the NCAA Tournament with a 26-4 record.
St. Rose dropped 20-plus points five times, including a 30-point game vs. Brown Feb. 21. She also put up a 21-point, 13-rebound double-double vs. Rhode Island Nov. 26. She was named one of the Ivy League’s five best players, and was even on the Wooden Award Watch List.
Coming from Princeton, her academic standard certainly will translate to Notre Dame. On the court, she should fit into a role similar to that of KK Bransford but with a higher scoring upside. St. Rose’s one concern on the offensive end is 3-point efficiency — or lack therof — shooting just 27.8% from beyond the arc on 3.5 attempts per game last season.
After senior Bransford entered the transfer portal, senior Cassandre Prosper was drafted by the WNBA’s Washington Mystics, senior Bella Tehrani announced she would not return and five graduate students ran out of eligibility, Notre Dame had just as many roster spots to fill this offseason as it did a year prior. Head coach Niele Ivey and her staff are bringing in five of the SportsCenter NEXT 100 Class of 2026 recruits, and now that same staff has landed two key transfers as well.
The Irish brought in six transfers last offseason, and with only 11 roster spots filled after the addition of St. Rose, expect Notre Dame to land at least one more from the portal in the coming weeks.
Kyle Smedley is a sports reporter at the South Bend Tribune. Contact him via email at ksmedley@usatodayco.com or follow him on X @KyleMSmedley.
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