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The Huskies landed 5-foot-8 guard Brooke Carlson from the Colorado State Rams on Tuesday

The NCAA women's basketball transfer portal window closed Monday. However, players who have already entered the portal are still able to sign and commit to other teams.

The Washington Huskies women's basketball team made a post-window deadline addition Tuesday morning.

According to a post on "X" from On3 Sports reporter Talia Goodman, the Huskies earned a commitment from soon-to-be-junior guard Brooke Carlson from the Colorado State Rams.

Carlson, who's listed at 5-foot-8, is joining Washington after two seasons with Colorado State. She was named to the Mountain West All-Freshman team after her first year in 2024-25.

This past season, Carlson averaged 11.7 points on 42.4% shooting across 35 games (all starts). She also averaged 3.1 assists, 2.7 rebounds and 1.4 steals per game. She played in 67 total games in her two years with the Rams

Carlson and Colorado State made it to the NCAA tournament this past season and nearly pulled off an upset in its first and only game of the tournament against the No. 5-seed Michigan State Spartans.

In the matchups between the Rams and Spartans on March 20, Carlson scored 26 points on an 8-for-17 mark from the floor (3-for-5 from 3-point range) in addition to six rebounds, three assists and three steals. She closed out her final season with Colorado State with at least 13 points in eight consecutive games.

Carlson marks the third addition for the Huskies this season via the transfer portal. The other two additions were 6-foot-2 Oklahoma State guard Macey Huard and 6-foot-6 North Carolina State forward Tylda Trygger.

Between the transfer portal and outgoing graduates, Washington had eight players depart the program this offseason: senior guards Elle Ladine, Hannah Stines and Teagan Brown, senior forward Shayla Gillmer and senior center Yulia Grabovskaia.

Three rotational players, guards Sienna Harvey and Chloe Briggs and forward Olivia Anderson, all entered the portal this offseason.

Stines and Ladine were consistent starters for the Huskies last season, who opted to go with a four-guard starting five consistently. Grabovskaia was the team's starting center for 23 of the team's 33 games before soon-to-be sophomore forward Brynn McGaughy took over as the team's starting big.

With the three portal additions of Trygger, Carlson and Huard, and the impending arrival of four-star Class of 2026 guard Amayah Garcia, Washington head coach Tina Langley will have options for how to put together the starting lineup next season, whether it's a return to the four-guard lineup or option to go with two forward with Trygger and McGaughy.

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