Speiser is now up to No. 6 in On3's national rankings (No. 1 shooting guard). No idea about the rankings 20 years ago, but Wecker/Koehn are probably the only recruits in school history in the same ballpark.
https://www.on3.com/her/news/on3-updated-2025-womens-basketball-recruiting-rankings/
Didn't have women's rankings then, but Wecker/Ohlde/Koehn wouldn't have sniffed the top 50, well maybe Kendra. They played AAU locally. They were regional recruits at the time, not national.
Sorry man, but that's just not true. Koehn played USA b-ball and had loads of offers. Wecker did too. Both had offers from UConn.
Ohlde was certainly more regional and unknown because she didn't play the national circuit like the other two did.
Certainly to a lesser degree than Koehn/Wecker, but probably more so than Ohlde, Mahoney and Hanson were fairly highly regarded players as well.
Patterson's recruiting over that 3-4 year stretch was probably better than any kstate program in the last quarter century. Mittie is perhaps getting close now and Huggins/Martin's 1st classes were better, but not sustained beyond those single years.
It's just too bad Patterson couldn't get more than one Sweet 16 out of those classes.
