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Women’s NCAA basketball’s Way-Too-Early Top 25 for 2024-25

The landscape of women’s college basketball is going to look very different when November arrives and the 2024-25 season begins. Caitlin Clark will be gone. So will Angel Reese. The Pac-12 will be no more. USC, UCLA, Oregon and Washington will be in the Big Ten. Oklahoma and Texas will be calling the SEC home. […]

Women’s March Madness 2024: Predicting every Sweet 16 game

Sixteen teams have advanced to the regional semifinals in Albany and Portland. And the Sweet 16 is packed with potential. All four No. 1 seeds reached the round of 16. Defending champion LSU is back, as is No. 1 overall seed South Carolina, which is 34-0 and chasing a perfect season. Individual star power abounds […]

Women’s NCAA basketball Power Rankings: Pac-12 surging

More Teams. More Games. Cameron Brink scores a career-high 29 points along with 11 rebounds and six blocks to lift Stanford to an 82-79 win in overtime. (1:18) Pac-12 women’s basketball players and coaches want to focus on the present this season. It’s something they can try to control, since the impending breakup of the […]

Women’s NCAA basketball Power Rankings: South Carolina, Iowa open 1-2

More Teams. More Games. Following a win over No. 14 Maryland, Te-Hina Paopao notes her focus on defense and praises No. 6 South Carolina’s commitment to playing as a unit. (1:14) The best way to follow up a season that got the highest viewing for the women’s college basketball national championship game? How about an […]

Women’s NCAA basketball Top 25: Which teams can win a title?

Yet the Tigers aren’t considered the sure thing the Gamecocks were 12 months ago. The race to the NCAA trophy appears more wide open this season, with as many as eight contenders. The list includes UConn, which saw its streak of 14 consecutive Finals Fours come to an end in March but seems poised for […]

LSU, UConn, UCLA headline preseason 2023-24 Top 25 rankings

The Tigers open in the top spot in ESPN’s 2023-24 preseason women’s college basketball rankings. LSU is expected to be even better this season and seeks to become the sport’s first repeat champion since UConn capped a four-peat in 2016. Coach Kim Mulkey added the top two transfers in Hailey Van Lith and Aneesah Morrow […]

LSU, UConn, UCLA headline Way-Too-Early Top 25 for 2023-24

More Teams. More Games. On “The Paul Finebaum Show,” Carolyn Peck explains why the talented Gamecocks and a gritty Tennessee will be stiff competition for the reigning national champs. (2:17) When LSU cut down the nets last April in Dallas, the Tigers became the lowest seed since Tennessee in 1997 to win as a No. […]

Derek Carr: Mark Davis’ backing of Josh McDaniels allowed Raiders to exhale

HENDERSON, Nev. — Both Las Vegas Raiders quarterback Derek Carr and receiver Davante Adams expressed relief Wednesday at team owner Mark Davis giving his support to first-year coach Josh McDaniels in the wake of the Raiders’ disappointing 2-7 start to the season. Davis on Monday told ESPN that people want “instant gratification” and that “Rome […]