Mollie Ernstes is a 6-foot senior guard for Jennings County.

Ernstes was a Junior Indiana All-Star last season.

She narrowed her list of offers to four finalists: Kansas, Arkansas, Dayton and New Mexico.

Mollie Ernstes dreamt of playing Division I college basketball for as long as she can remember, but it wasn't until the 2024-25 high school preseason that she began looking at it as an attainable goal. The 2026 Jennings County standout could envision herself playing at that level, she said during a phone interview Saturday, and following a strong junior campaign and prolific start to her AAU season, those high-major offers began rolling in.

The offers began rolling in during the spring with Arkansas and Rutgers among the initial wave, then Kansas entered the fray following her penultim

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