The Kansas women’s basketball team earned its second transfer commitment of the offseason, this time from within the Big 12.
Former Colorado guard Erianna Gooden signed with KU, the team announced on social media on Thursday afternoon.
Gooden is a 6-foot point guard from Fort Smith, Arkansas, who played in all 34 games as a freshman with the Buffaloes and has three years of eligibility remaining. She averaged 1.9 points and 1.9 rebounds in 13.3 minutes per game.
Her most extensive playing time came in a game against KU, as it turns out, when CU emerged from Allen Fieldhouse with a 69-66 overtime victory on Feb. 1. Gooden played 30 minutes in that game with three points and seven rebounds. Her season-best scoring total was 10 points in her collegiate debut against New Mexico.
Like multiple other current Jayhawks, Gooden played for the Missouri Phenom club team. Meanwhile, at the high school level, playing for Northside in Fort Smith, she was a four-time all-state selection and as a senior played through a torn labrum and earned state MVP honors for a team that won a championship. She had to have her cartilage repaired and practice in a non-contact jersey when she arrived at Colorado, according to Sko Buffs Sports.
She will now join KU for her sophomore season, and follows Xavier transfer and Kansas City native Mariyah Noel in transferring to join the Jayhawks.
KU lost Laia Conesa (who transferred to Utah) and Keeley Parks (Oklahoma). The projected roster for 2026-27 now includes Gooden, Noel, freshmen Cydnee Bryant, Mollie Ernstes and Brooklynn Renn, and returners Tatyonna Brown, Jaliya Davis, Libby Fandel, Brittany Harshaw, S’Mya Nichols and Regan Williams. That means KU can still add as many as four more players if it so chooses, although it played the 2025-26 season with a 12-woman roster.
