Achol Magot becomes 4th Arizona women’s basketball player to announce transfer plans
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Arizona women’s basketball will be on the hunt for frontcourt help when the transfer portal opens on April 6. Center Achol Magot became the fourth Wildcat to announce that she intends to transfer.
Magot is the third inside player on her way out. She will join freshmen Daniah Trammell and Blessing ‘Adde’ Adebanjo when the portal opens. In addition to the three intended transfers, the Wildcats will lose starter Nora Francois, who exhausted her eligibility after the season.
Magot is a Tucson native who spent her first two seasons at Texas Tech. When she joined Becky Burke’s first transfer class at Arizona, she was the only member of the class who had actually seen the court on another Power 4 team. She didn’t play her first year in Lubbock, but she got on the court for 3.8 minutes per game in nine games during her second season. She scored 0.7 points per game with a 37.5 percent shooting percentage and pulled down 1.4 rebounds per game.
On a per-40-minute basis, Magot was good for 7.0 ppg and 15.2 rpg. Her other stats came to 1.2 assists, 2.2 steals, and 1.2 blocks per game. On the negative side, she was responsible for 9.4 turnovers and 16.4 personal fouls per 40 minutes during her time at TTU.
Her time on the court and stat production improved or maintained previous levels during her season at Arizona. She appeared in 19 games for 6.0 mpg. She produced 3.5 ppg on 60.9 percent shooting. She had 1.3 rpg, 0.1 spg, and 0.2 bpg.
On a per-40 basis, Magot projected to 23.5 points, 8.4 rebounds, 0.7 assists, 0.4 steals, and 1.1 blocks. The defensive stats dropped from her season on the court at Texas Tech, but the scoring and rebounding took a big leap forward. She stayed about the same in turnovers per 40 minutes with 9.5, but improved quite a bit on fouls per 40 minutes with 13.4. While still far too high, that was a drop of three fouls per 40 minutes.
With the four departing inside players, Arizona is left with no returners who actually played in 2025-26.
Freshman Callie Hinder has never been listed on the online roster, but she has been in Tucson since January. Her ability to practice and take part in strength and conditioning programs gives her a leg up on most incoming freshmen.
The health status of redshirt junior Montaya Dew is unclear. She suffered her second knee injury late in the 2024-25 season. Burke mentioned that Dew had setbacks in her recovery during the 2025-26 season. That kept her off the court all year.
Arizona is known to have one more freshman big in the incoming class, Priyanka ‘Pri’ Ponnam. She is a much different kind of player than Magot, though.
“She’s a 6-2 stretch four,” Burke told Derrick Palmer at her final radio show of the season. “She shoots it super, super well. She played on one of the best AAU programs in the country. She can play inside out, she could post you up, she could stretch it to the 3-point line. She’d be our best 3-point shooter this year, and she’s at 6-foot-2.”
Burke also told Palmer that the Wildcats have a committed international in the class, but she cannot name that player yet. That makes it impossible to know whether the player will fill a need in the frontcourt.
