The best girls high school basketball players aren’t just earning thousands of likes on social for impressive crossovers and flashy dimes, they’re also signing NIL deals with major sponsors and playing in tournaments that draw sold out crowds and boast courtside superstars like UConn’s Paige Bueckers and LSU’s Angel Reese. The game has changed, and […]
Continue readingStill, a No. 4 seed is an accomplishment, and Tennessee got to host two NCAA tournament games. But had they had a better seed, the Lady Vols would have avoided top-seeded Virginia Tech in the regionals, the game that ended their season. Key nonconference games won’t make or break a season, but they can shape […]
Continue readingPicking a national champion in the preseason is among the most difficult futures wagers to make, because so much will happen in the nearly six months before one is crowned and you don’t have the benefit of knowing what the bracket will look like on Selection Sunday. But that doesn’t mean it’s not fun to […]
Continue readingMore Teams. More Games. As Hailey Van Lith transfers to LSU, check out some of the best plays from her college basketball career so far. (2:13) The defending champion LSU Tigers are ranked No. 1 in the women’s preseason AP Top 25 college basketball poll for the first time in school history. LSU, which won […]
Continue readingMore Teams. More Games. NBA champion Milt Wagner discusses what it’s been like watching his grandson, D.J. Wagner, play in the McDonald’s All American Game. (1:15) Juju Watkins and D.J. Wagner conquered the basketball court in their high school careers, so the prom’s royal court seems like a logical next step. Watkins, the National Gatorade […]
Continue readingMore Teams. More Games. Ramona Shelburne and Malika Andrews react to the Bay Area receiving a WNBA expansion team. (1:05) WNBA fans have long clamored for expansion, and that day is finally here: The league will add a 13th team in the Bay Area, awarded to the NBA’s Golden State Warriors, that will begin play […]
Continue readingBut despite being the preseason front-runner, Clark has plenty of competition. Paige Bueckers is back from a season lost to a knee injury, and the UConn guard won most of the national player of the year honors when she and Clark were freshmen in 2020-21. LSU’s Angel Reese also returns after outdueling Clark for a […]
Continue readingWhat has happened since then? Glad you asked. We head into 2023-24 with LSU ranked No. 1 in ESPN’s Way-Too-Early Top 25. For the second straight offseason, coach Kim Mulkey cleaned up in the transfer portal to make the Tigers — who have Final Four Most Outstanding Player Angel Reese back — the favorites on […]
Continue readingMore 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. […]
Continue readingMore 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) The 2023-24 women’s college basketball season is six weeks away, and everyone from the transfer portal is officially enrolled in their new schools. So it’s […]
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