Bella Hines plans to enter the transfer portal, her agent, Daveed Cohen of Young Money APAA Sports, told On3. The LSU freshman guard is the latest player to chart a new path after one season in Baton Rouge.
Hines, a 5-10 combo guard from Albuquerque, New Mexico, averaged 4.2 points per game this season with the Tigers. She arrived as one of the country’s most decorated high school players, ranked No. 24 nationally in her class and named New Mexico Player of the Year in each of her final two prep seasons.
The move gives Hines the chance to look for a program where her role could expand, and it comes after LSU got a modest season-long return from a prospect once viewed as among the nation’s top recruits. For the Tigers, it is another roster change to absorb; for Hines, it opens the door to a reset at a stage in her career when development matters as much as reputation.
The next step is straightforward: once she enters the portal, other programs can begin contacting her and weighing whether to make her a priority. How quickly that happens will depend on how schools view her production at LSU against the resume she brought out of high school.
