Purdue WBB Lands Transfer Pledge From Former Arkansas Starting Guard
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The Purdue women's basketball team received some big news on Saturday, landing a transfer commitment from former Arkansas guard Kiki Smith. She becomes the third transfer player to pledge to coach Katie Gearlds and the Boilermakers this offseason.
Smith is a 5-foot-7 guard out of Topeka, Kan. and spent one season with the Razorbacks. In her lone year in Fayetteville, she averaged 10.2 points and 2.0 assists per game. She was also a prolific three-point shooter, knocking down shots from behind the arc at a 40.2% clip.
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The rising junior guard possesses a strong ability to score the basketball, which she demonstrated frequently while at Arkansas. Smith reached a double-figure scoring total 13 times last season, which included three games of 20 points or more.
Before transferring to Arkansas, Smith played one year at the junior college level, suiting up for Hutchinson Community College in the 2023-24 season. That year, she helped guide the Blue Dragons to a perfect 37-0 record and won the NJCAA national championship.
Smith averaged 17.6 points and shot 44.4% from three-point range while at Hutchinson Community College. She also averaged 3.2 rebounds, 2.6 steals and 2.2 assists per contest.
Smith joins former Boilermaker Madison Layden-Zay and ex-Northern Arizona guard Taylor Feldman to commit to Purdue via transfers during the offseason.
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Dustin Schutte is the publisher of Purdue Boilermakers on SI and has spent more than a decade working in sports journalism. His career began in 2013, when he covered Big Ten football. He remained in that role for eight years before working at On SI to cover the Boilermakers. Dustin graduated from Manchester University in Indiana in 2010, where he played for the men's tennis team.
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