Cleveland State’s 2026-27 roster continued to take shape on Wednesday with the transfer commitment of Chloe Oliver, a 5-8 guard who spent the last two seasons at Stony Brook. On3’s Talia Goodman reported the Vikings’ latest addition on Thursday morning.
Between Oliver, Alexa Hocevar, and Brianna Barr-Buday, Bob Dunn has now secured three new CSU players within the last week. That trio, of course, will join the returning quartet of Queen Ruffin, Paula Pique, Hanna Medina Kajevic, and Sarah Hurley, players who withdrew their names from the transfer portal shortly after Dunn was hired early this month. Sur Lozano, the lone eligible Viking from this past season who never entered the portal, is also expected back.
Oliver, who hails from Montreal, is the sort of dynamic do-everything perimeter player that could prove indispensable in a reshuffled program. Past coaches have consistently praised her leadership, motor, and intelligence.
That includes Joy McCorvey, who brought Oliver to SBU just five days after she started at the school in 2024, and called her “a scoring guard with a very high basketball IQ,” and “a great passer who [makes] others around her better, and [brings] a toughness on both ends of the floor.”
In her pair of years as a Seawolf, she did a pretty good job of living up to those compliments while playing on a defensively-sound team, and showing an ability to run the floor that undoubtedly appealed to Cleveland State.
While a junior in 2025-26, Oliver started 17 of the team’s 33 games, averaging 22 minutes in those contests. Though never a primary offensive option – her usage rate was just 15.8 percent – she still managed to score 5.2 points per game through a combination of dribble penetration, and the occasional three-pointer (she connected on 17 of her 50 long-range tries, exactly 34 percent). Oliver has also posted strong free throw rates throughout her career, and hits about 75 percent of her attempts from the line.
One of her five double-digit outings involved ten points in an impressive early-season win at Big Ten foe Rutgers and, despite her size, she even managed to haul in ten rebounds against Towson in January.
In November of her sophomore season, Oliver scored a career-best 15 points in a romp over Marist.
She spent her freshman year at Davidson, and played a supporting part on a Wildcats team that started off 12-1, but was eventually forced to cancel the end of the season after the squad was reduced to seven healthy players. Oliver appeared in 20 games, scoring 47 total points.
In Montreal, Oliver starred at her CEGEP school (in Quebec, CEGEPs are a two-year stop between high school and university), Champlain College Saint-Lambert. She was second in the league in scoring, putting up 15.4 points per game during her final season, and led the Cavaliers to their first provincial championship in 2022.
Cleveland State’s projected roster now includes nine players, counting Pique’s sister Emma, a junior college commit. Teams are allowed a roster of 15, though few have hit that number in recent years, as it’s considered impractical in the portal era. Oliver, Ruffin, and Kajevic are the most likely of the group to receive early looks in the ballhandling guard roles.
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