A familiar face became Cleveland State’s latest transfer addition on Sunday, when Macie Taylor announced her commitment to the Vikings for the 2026-27 season.
Taylor, a Troy, OH native, has never strayed too far from home during her four-year college career. She spent the first three at Wright State, as a member of Kari Hoffman’s first full recruiting class with the Raiders, though she sat out as a true freshman, and played very sparingly the following season.
Finally, as a redshirt sophomore, Taylor enjoyed something of a breakout effort in 2024-25. The 5-7 guard started roughly half of WSU’s contests, and put up 7.8 points and 1.8 assists per game, good for fourth and second on the squad.
Really, though, that scoring average might not do justice to a player who, at least in isolated moments, has shown to be the sort of natural bucket-getter that CSU largely lacks right now. Taylor produced 11 double-digit outings in her final season at Wright State, including a career-best 24 tallies against Findlay on November 26, 2024.
In Horizon League play that year, and despite being on a 10-22 Raiders team that was overmatched on most nights, she put up 13 points at Detroit Mercy and 13 more against Northern Kentucky. She followed those games with ten points at Youngstown State, and ten again in the road rematch at NKU, followed by 14 at Robert Morris and ten at Purdue Fort Wayne. What’s more, each of those outings involved Taylor shooting 40 percent or better from the floor, as she didn’t hit those totals through volume.
Taylor has connected on roughly one-third of her three-point attempts during her career, and has proven adept at getting to the free throw line.
Consistent with the Vikings’ other additions so far, she is also strong defensively, including 1.1 steals per game in 2024-25 (2.1 per 40 minutes).
Taylor moved on to Miami this past season, where she helped Glenn Box’s program finish its ascent with the RedHawks’ first-ever Mid-American Conference regular season championship, followed by the school’s first title in the league tournament – which, coincidentally, is played just down the street from the Wolstein Center, in Rocket Arena – since 2008.
She was much more of a supporting player with MU than at Wright State, though Taylor still managed an efficient 13 points against Akron late in the season. Her adjusted-for-playing-time steals numbers, including a 3.1 percent steal rate and 2.6 thefts per 40 minutes, held up very well in Box’s aggressive system. At the end of the RedHawks’ 28-7 campaign, she managed a cameo late in an NCAA Tournament loss at West Virginia.
On Tuesday, Texas State (the new home of former CSU head coach Chris Kielsmeier, of course) announced its full nine-player signing class, including a pair of former Vikings signees, Addie Carr and Emma Pique.
Those departures leave Cleveland State’s projected 2026-27 roster at ten players: rising sophomore Sur Lozano, now-withdrawn portal entrants Queen Ruffin, Hanna Medina Kajevic, Paula Pique, and Sarah Hurley, as well as transfer additions Taylor, Brianna Barr-Buday, Alexa Hocevar, Chloe Oliver, and Fatou Sane. Certainly, a couple more commitments are still on the way, though Bob Dunn’s first team has decidedly taken a clear form at this stage.
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