[2006alum]

First shoe to drop. Harper Petersen enters the portal.

If you are bit of a Pollyanna you could interpret this as a good sign. Harper didn't play that much this year. She has been talking to her teammates who did play and they say they aren't planning on leaving, so she decided she didn't want to spend another year on the bench.

Definitely didn't have that on my bingo card for "first portal entrant." And I agree, that could be read positively (she is worried there's too much depth returning ahead of her), or merely the first domino to fall of many...

[2006alum]

First shoe to drop. Harper Petersen enters the portal.

If you are bit of a Pollyanna you could interpret this as a good sign. Harper didn't play that much this year. She has been talking to her teammates who did play and they say they aren't planning on leaving, so she decided she didn't want to spend another year on the bench.

Definitely didn't have that on my bingo card for "first portal entrant." And I agree, that could be read positively (she is worried there's too much depth returning ahead of her), or merely the first domino to fall of many...