Sitaya Fagan choses her playing number at USC

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Sitaya Fagan, one of the most recruited Australians in NCAA history, has revealed the number she will wear for the USC Trojans in the 2026-27 women's college basketball season.

The FIBA Under-19 Women's World Cup silver medallist and Basketball Australia Centre of Excellence forward has chosen #1.

She is already on campus in Los Angeles working out, the Trojans showed on Instagram with the caption: "First day of work for Tay"

Fagan received 27 NCAA Division 1 scholarship offers — a record for an Australian women's basketball player. She cut her list down to three schools before settling on USC, telling basketball.com.au: "USC just felt right".

"Getting it down to that final three [schools] was hard, but I sort of just had a feeling that USC was the one” Fagan said.

“I really enjoyed it there, but they were my first official visit, so it’s like ‘what if I enjoy all three’, which I did, but USC just felt right."

basketball.com.au's women's college basketball expert Hayley Wildes wrote of Fagan: "Fagan is a game-changing prospect and will help take the Trojans to the next level with her otherworldly defensive instincts and athleticism. She can guard any position on the court as her agility allows her to stay with guards, while her size at 6'4" or 193cm allows her to battle against the bigs.

"Opponents may think they’ve broken through the defence for an uncontested lay-up but Fagan has an innate ability of blocking shots that very few others are capable of even contesting.

"On the offensive end, she glides to the bucket with ease, slicing through defenders, and she possesses all the tools to continue to grow and flourish into a deadly offensive threat."

After taking official visits to USC, Texas and South Carolina, Fagan said she was relieved to have made her final decision and is looking forward to living in California.

"I'm really excited,” she said.

“When I went over there for the official visit, I felt like I bonded really well with the girls.

“Also, living in California, I can’t really complain about that."

Fagan revealed: “I'm really excited for the upcoming season, especially because I'm going over early.

“I’ll be redshirting, so I get to get a better connection with [coach Gottlieb] and the team."