DePaul junior Kelsey Smith has played in exactly one of the three previous basketball seasons – and none of those were for the Blue Demons.

The 6-foot-4 forward was a highly ranked college prospect after a successful prep career at St. Charles North that ended in 2009. She enrolled at Michigan State and spent the 2009-10 season as a redshirt freshman.

“I did really like the school and I made a lot of friends there,” Smith says, but after playing for the Spartans in 2010-11, she decided she wanted to be closer to her family.