Team and player breakdown: P32 Session 3, Chicago

Six games in four days will tell you what a team actually is, and what Florida Nation E17 showed me in Chicago was a group that wins on the end of the floor most travel teams treat as an afterthought. Florida Nation E17 came out of Session 3 at 4-2, and the record undersells the story. This roster held six opponents to 0.560 points per possession across 366 defensive possessions. That number sits in the 88th percentile nationally, and it is the reason I left Chicago with a full page of notes on a group that only plays eight deep.

Let me start with what the defense actually did to people. Opponents shot 29.6 percent from the floor against Florida Nation E17 and 22.6 percent from three, converting just 21 of 93 attempts from behind the arc across the weekend. The half court numbers are where it gets loud: 0.493 points per possession allowed on 268 half court possessions, a 93rd percentile mark, with opponents managing 47 field goals on 177 tries. When Florida Nation got its man defense set, teams shot 26.6 percent and turned the ball over on 24.7 percent of possessions. The press deserves its own sentence. Florida Nation pressed on only 13 possessions all weekend and surrendered two total points on them, a 0.154 points per possession figure that ranks in the 97th percentile. Opponents went 0 for 7 when the press turned them into transition looks.

The offense held up its end more than the shooting percentages suggest. Florida Nation E17 scored 295 points on 375 possessions for 0.787 per possession, a 91st percentile number, and the engine was the break. Twenty-eight percent of the team's possessions came in transition, and those possessions produced 95 points at 0.905 per trip with a 50.6 effective field goal percentage. That is a team that knows what it wants after a stop.

The most useful thing I can tell a college coach reading this is what Florida Nation E17 does to a zone. Against man, this group generated 0.659 points per possession. Against zone, that number jumped to 0.894, good for the 91st percentile, on 39.5 percent shooting and 37.8 percent from three on 37 attempts. The Chicago Hoops Express game is the tape to pull: 43 of Florida Nation's 58 logged points in a 60-31 win came against zone. Teams that sat back to protect the paint gave this group exactly the shot it wanted.

Chicago Results

The Players

#1 L. Dawkins was the best player on the floor for this team in Chicago and it was not particularly close. She finished the event with 68 points, 20 rebounds and 18 assists across six games, and she did it at a level of efficiency that stands out at any age group: 26 of 55 from the field for 47.3 percent, 11 of 21 from three for 52.4 percent, and 5 of 6 at the line. Her 1.046 points per possession led every rotation player on the roster by a wide margin. What I like most is the balance in the profile. Eighteen assists against eight turnovers tells me she is making reads, not just hunting her own shot, and the 20 rebounds from a guard who is carrying that much scoring load speak to her motor. A guard who shoots better than 52 percent from three on real volume while running a team is a Division I prospect, and the shot selection in Chicago suggests she already knows it.

#3 S. Sabb was the other half of the backcourt and the roster's connective tissue. She matched Dawkins for team-high possessions used at 65 and finished with 43 points, 15 assists and eight steals. The counting numbers I keep coming back to are the 15 assists and the 10 of 16 mark at the free throw line, which tells me she is the guard this staff trusts with the ball when the game tightens and when contact is coming. She took 21 threes and made seven at 33.3 percent, and she is comfortable enough in that shot to keep taking it. Her defensive activity showed up on the ledger too, with eight steals feeding a team that wants to play in transition. As the shooting numbers stabilize, and she has the mechanics and the volume history to expect that, she profiles as a college lead guard who can play on or off the ball.

#10 T. Wilkinson owned the glass. Forty-two rebounds in six games, including 19 on the offensive end, is the kind of production that changes possession math, and she paired it with 40 points on 48.6 percent shooting from the floor. She was the most efficient volume finisher on the roster at 0.909 points per possession, and she recorded the team's only double-double of the event. Add nine assists, seven steals and three blocks and you have a forward who is doing something useful on nearly every trip. The 19 offensive rebounds are the number I would lead with if I were sending her tape out, because offensive rebounding translates immediately at the next level and does not depend on anyone calling a play for you. She is a college four who will earn minutes early by rebounding.

#0 L. Barnett gave this group a genuine third option and a versatile piece around the rim. She put up 39 points and 22 rebounds, splitting them nearly evenly between the offensive glass with 12 and the defensive glass with 10, and she chipped in 10 assists and seven steals. Barnett attempted 13 threes and knocked down four at 30.8 percent, which matters because it keeps the floor honest when she is playing alongside the bigger bodies. Her 58 possessions used ranked third on the team, so this was not a passenger. I want to see the two-point efficiency climb as she gets more comfortable finishing through contact, and the 12 offensive rebounds tell me she is already willing to go get it. There is a stretch four projection here for a college staff that wants length and rebounding without giving up spacing.

#34 J. Alexis protected the rim and did the dirty work. Nine blocks led the team by a comfortable margin, and she added 32 rebounds, 13 of them offensive, while scoring 38 points on 40.5 percent shooting. She got to the free throw line 16 times, tied for the most on the roster, which is exactly what you want to see from an interior player who is initiating contact rather than absorbing it. Alexis did not attempt a three all weekend, and I mean that as a compliment: she understands her role and she played inside of it for six straight games. Her rim presence is a real part of why Florida Nation's half court defense finished in the 93rd percentile. She is a traditional post prospect whose defensive value is already at a college level.

#23 F. Acevedo was steady in a supporting scoring role, finishing with 33 points on 39.4 percent shooting to go with 17 rebounds, six assists and five steals across 41 possessions. She was efficient with her touches at 0.805 points per possession, third-best among rotation players, and she got to the line only four times but converted three of them at 75 percent. Acevedo attempted 16 threes and made four, and the volume tells me the staff wants her taking that shot. With 13 defensive rebounds she was also reliable at ending possessions after Florida Nation forced a miss, which for a team this efficient defensively is a job that has to get done. She is a wing whose combination of shooting willingness and rebounding gives her a clear college role.

#22 K. Francis was the most efficient scorer on the roster and the biggest surprise on my sheet. Francis needed only 21 possessions to produce 20 points, a 0.952 points per possession clip that led all Florida Nation players who saw meaningful time, and she got there by shooting 53.8 percent from the field and 50 percent from three on six attempts. Then there is the rebounding: 27 boards, including 21 on the defensive end, from a player who used the fewest possessions of any rotation piece. Add seven steals and three blocks and this is a stat line that begs for more minutes. Everything in this profile says a player whose production would scale if the usage went up, and college staffs looking for high-efficiency depth should be watching where her role goes this fall.

#13 C. Jerabek stretched the floor and took on a specialist's job. Twenty of her 28 field goal attempts came from behind the arc, and she connected on four of them while scoring 16 points across the weekend. That kind of shot distribution is a coaching decision as much as a player one, and it worked in Florida Nation's favor by dragging defenders out of the paint on a team that generated 19 offensive rebounds from Wilkinson alone. She added 10 rebounds and committed just one turnover in 29 possessions, which is remarkable ball security for a perimeter player. Jerabek is a shooter, she knows it, and her willingness to keep firing is exactly what a college staff wants from that archetype. The percentage will follow the reps.

What It Adds Up To

Florida Nation E17 finished Chicago with 185 rebounds, 65 assists, 43 steals and 19 blocks in six games, and it forced opponents into a 20.8 percent turnover rate while committing turnovers on only 15.2 percent of its own possessions. That is a possession-margin team. Eight players logged real minutes across four days and all eight produced something measurable, which is why this group could hold a 60-31 opponent one afternoon and a 49-34 opponent two days later.

The defensive foundation is already at a level that travels. Sixty-plus percentile offense with 91st percentile efficiency, a transition attack that produced nearly a point per possession, and a roster where the leading scorer shoots 52 percent from three gives this staff plenty to build on. College coaches looking at the New Balance Lady P32 circuit should have Florida Nation E17 on the list.

All statistics from Synergy Sports, P32 Session 3 (Chicago), 2026 season. Six games logged.