Kansas State women’s basketball on Sunday picked up an enormous asset in the transfer portal.
Temira Poindexter, a transfer from Tulsa and the reigning American Athletic Conference Player of the Year, will be a Wildcat in 2024-25 after averaging 21 points and 5.3 rebounds per game as a junior last season.
The 6-foot-1 forward scored 30 points or more in six games last year and set the Golden Hurricane school record for points in a single season with 734, which ranked seventh in Division 1.
Poindexter started all 35 games for Tulsa in 2023-24 and reached double figures in each of them. She shot 43.2% overall and 32.3% from 3-point distance, and her 265 made field goals were the 11th-most in the country.
She scored a career-high 33 points against Rice on Feb. 10.
The Women’s Basketball Coaches Association of America named her an honorable mention All-American, making her one of just four players in Golden Hurricane history to garner All-America recognition.
She started all 30 games as a sophomore and averaged 16.1 points per game. As a freshman, she started 21 points and averaged 12.3 points per game.
Poindexter will have one year of eligibility remaining.
Tulsa went 25-10 overall and 13-5 in the AAC in 2023-24. The Golden Hurricane ended its season with a quarterfinal loss to Illinois in the WBIT.
Poindexter is the second player to commit to K-State out of the transfer portal this offseason. Head coach Jeff Mittie added 6-foot-3 forward Kennedy Taylor from Missouri State earlier this month.
Taylor, who was the 2024 Missouri Valley Conference Sixth Player of the Year, saw action in 65 games with 41 starts for the Lady Bears. She averaged 11.5 points per game and had 43 games in double-figures. She registered a field-goal percentage of 51% from the field and went 62% at the foul line. She averaged 7.8 rebounds per game and 1.2 assists per game.
Taylor had 19 double-doubles, 36 blocks and 50 steals.
The two transfers will bolster an already loaded Wildcat roster that returns 85% of its scoring from last season, in which it finished third in the Big 12 and hosted the first and second rounds of the NCAA Tournament.
All-America center Ayoka Lee announced two weeks before Poindexter’s commitment that she will return to Kansas State for a seventh and final season after averaging 19.7 points, 8.6 rebounds and 2.78 blocks per game in 2023-24.
Mittie also will add incoming freshman Finley Ohnstad, a 6-foot guard who averaged 18 points per game as a junior in 2022-23 at Lakeville South High School in Minnesota.
The only Wildcat players to enter the transfer portal are guard Jamia Harris and forward Heavenly Greer, who combined for a season total of 41 points in 184 minutes in 2023-24.
