Much of the attention on Minnesota’s 2026 class of girls basketball recruits has been on Providence Academy’s Maddyn Greenway and Crosby-Ironton’s Tori Oehrlein. It’s been fully reported that Greenway is headed to Kentucky and Oehrlein to the Gophers.

East Ridge’s Vienna Murray is the hottest uncommitted prospect in the class entering her senior year.

A 6-1 guard and ranked as the No. 3 prospect in Minnesota’s 2026 class by Prep Hoops Girls, Murray saw her recruiting surge this summer to include more than two dozen Division I offers. She recently settled on six colleges to visit this fall.

Signing day is in November, and Murray will get closer to making her college decision with trips to Missouri (Sept. 12), Wisconsin (Sept. 17), Iowa (Sept. 20), Arizona State (Sept. 26) and Oklahoma (Oct. 4).

She visited Florida last weekend. The Gators are led by former Hopkins star Liv McGill.

“It was a great visit,” Murray said. “I think it definitely helps to have that connection, and it was good to be able to talk with Liv about her experience so far. All of the girls were very nice and welcoming, and I love the staff.”

East Ridge finished 18-9 last season, including 17-1 as champion of the Suburban East, behind Murray’s averages of 17.1 points, 5.7 rebounds, 3.1 steals and 2.7 assists.

The first AAU recruiting period this year, at the Under Armour spring circuit, didn’t go the best for Murray with Minnesota Fury’s 17U team, she said.

But that was the wakeup call she needed to finish with her best summer yet.

“I’m very happy with how it ended,” Murray said. “Yes, I was working hard, but just not in the small details of things. After that [spring circuit] I really started to dial in and change up my routine.”

During the recruiting process, Murray appreciated honest conversations with college coaches about what she needed to add to her game to get better.

“My shot consistency and for starters my three-pointers,” Murray said. “That percentage went up by a lot to end the AAU season. I ended up shooting about 40% from three in the last few tournaments. I also needed to get into the paint and be more patient on my shots. That was one of my key things was being balanced with my shots, including shooting in the midrange.”

Murray led Minnesota Fury to the 17U Summer Jam title, which included a win over the Minnesota Suns and Oehrlein in the semifinals.

“That was a tough battle,” she said. “That was my first time playing her, and it was fun. She’s very strong and physical. Didn’t realize that until playing her.”

Carrying over from that, Murray was selected as one of the top players in the Under Armour 17U events during the July recruiting period.

“All that confidence and freedom that I played with carried into [the end of the summer] when I played my best two tournaments of the season,” Murray said. “I think for me that’s when the coaches really saw, ‘She has improved a ton since we last saw her.’ ”

Murray, who will schedule home visits soon, respects Greenway and Oehrlein, but she also knows it took a lot of work for her to be ranked right behind them.

“I’ve been ranked in the top 10 since eighth grade, but I kind of worked my way up,” Murray said. “I feel like some of these girls have been good for a long time and still are really good. I wasn’t always necessarily there, but over time my hard work has slowly started to work to get me where I needed to be.”