\u201cFor the last three-and-a-half years coaching her, we\u2019ve had the opportunity to watch a generational player step into a space and do things no one else has done,\u201d Riverdale Ridge head coach Tim Jones said. \u201cIn a state with great girls\u2019 basketball talent, she\u2019s changed the landscape of what Colorado basketball has looked like.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Riverdale Ridge star led the Ravens to the Class 4A title as a sophomore in 2024, then after the program jumped up two classes, she was the headliner on a Class 6A Final Four team in 2025. She is a versatile 6-foot-3 combo guard\/forward who can play any position on the floor for Riverdale Ridge, though she likely profiles as a shooting guard or small forward at the next level.\n<\/p>\n
Crittendon chose Texas amid 47 total Division I offers. Over the last couple of months, Crittendon took official visits to Tennessee, TCU, CU, Oregon, and Texas. The Buffs\u2019 miss on Crittendon means CU head coach JR Payne is still seeking a five-star recruit, which she\u2019s never had in her decade-long tenure in Boulder.\n<\/p>\n
The 18-year-old Crittendon said the opportunity to chase an NCAA national championship played a role in her decision to head to Austin. As for NIL opportunities, Crittendon expects she will be able to capitalize on them at well-funded Texas, but stressed, \u201cThe money was never a determining factor for me.\u201d<\/p>\n
In 44 years of the Texas women\u2019s basketball program, the Longhorns have made 37 NCAA tournament appearances. That includes four Final Fours, most recently last season, as well as one national championship in 1986.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cTexas has All-Americans, five-stars \u2014 everyone there is great and they all want the same thing,\u201d Crittendon said. \u201cI wanted to surround myself with people who have the same goals as me so I can grow as a person and a player.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Bri Crittendon celebrates with teammates after announcing that she will attend the University of Texas during a ceremony at Riverdale Ridge High School in Thornton on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025. (Photo by AAron Ontiveroz\/The Denver Post)<\/p>\n
Selected as the 2024 Ms. Colorado Basketball<\/a> by The Denver Post, Crittendon is on pace to break the state\u2019s scoring record for all-time girls and boys players. That mark of\u00a02,934 points was set by Ridgway\u2019s Tracy Hill from 1980-83. Crittendon enters her senior season with\u00a02,333 points, 602 points shy of breaking the record. She has scored at least 713 points<\/a> in each of her three seasons so far.\n<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not even thinking about the points record,\u201d Crittendon said. \u201cI just want to get back (to the Denver Coliseum) and win a championship at the 6A level. That\u2019s our goal this year.\u201d<\/p>\n Riverdale Ridge opens its season against Fossil Ridge on Dec. 4. Crittendon & Co. will face some of the top teams in Colorado this season in Grandview, Mullen, Legend and Cherry Creek, while the Ravens also have out-of-state games scheduled against a pair of California teams in Ontario Christian and Sierra Canyon as part of the Hoopfest in Paradise<\/a> in Nassau, Bahamas, on Dec. 19 and 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THORNTON \u2014 Colorado\u2019s best is headed to Texas. Riverdale Ridge senior Brihanna Crittendon committed to the Texas Longhorns…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[31011,2692,943,31012,31013,16309,3607,30170,31014,31015,154,27,29,537,28],"class_list":["post-57323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-brihanna-crittendon","tag-college-basketball","tag-colorado","tag-cu-buffs","tag-cu-buffs-basketball","tag-front-range","tag-latest-headlines","tag-prep-basketball","tag-prep-girls-basketball","tag-preps","tag-sports","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-longhorns","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}