Just heard back from Jessica McCormack who confirmed that she is not planning to return to Connecticut.

McCormack transferred to UConn after playing at Washington as a freshman. She would have been eligible to play for UConn in the upcoming season but since she returned home to New Zealand to have surgery on the area around her Achilles' tendon, she would not have been eligible to play until the end of the fall semester.

Now she won't be returning at all.

"I made the decision after really evaluating and reflecting what is making me happy at the moment and basketball is just not doing it for me right now," McCormack said in an e-mail. "This decision has nothing whatsoever to do with the school, coaches or team. They were all fantastic and I appreciated everything."

McCormack will enroll at the Auckland University of Technology and play netball with the hope of making the New Zealand national team once she is given a clean bill of health.

"Rehab is going well," McCormack said. "I have just started pool work so its all going along smoothly. I will be talking time away from basketball and concentrating on netball for the moment."