Lily Hansford arrived in Ames as a 3-point shooter that the Iowa State women’s basketball team was hoping to utilize this past season.
After a long season of shooting struggles, Hansford will try to rediscover her stroke somewhere else.
Hanford, a junior guard, is entering the transfer portal, a source with direct knowledge of the situation confirmed to the Register on Tuesday.
The 6-foot-2 native of Wisconsin appeared in 32 games for Iowa State during the 2024-25 campaign and averaged 1.1 points and 1.4 rebounds per game. She shot 20.4% from 3-point range.
Hansford’s numbers were less than she had produced in the past. She was a 3-point shooting specialist at Oregon State the previous last two seasons.
Hansford shot 35.2% from beyond the arc as a freshman and averaged 2.6 points per game.
She averaged 5.1 points per game while shooting better than 45% from 3-point range as a sophomore before coming to Iowa State.
Tommy Birch, the Register's sports enterprise and features reporter, has been working at the newspaper since 2008. He's the 2018, 2020 and 2023 Iowa Sportswriter of the Year. Reach him at tbirch@dmreg.com or 515-284-8468
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