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LSU’s Reese, Iowa’s Clark top AP preseason women’s All-America team
More Teams. More Games. Caitlin Clark gets the Kinnick Stadium crowd excited with a trey from distance for Iowa. (0:34) Caitlin Clark of Iowa is a unanimous pick for the Associated Press preseason women’s basketball All-America team for the second consecutive season. The guard was on all 36 ballots from the national media panel that […]
Continue readingWomen’s NCAA basketball’s 12 best 2023-24 nonconference games
Still, 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 readingWomen’s college basketball betting odds, picks: Championship futures
Picking 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 readingDefending champ LSU, UConn are 1-2 in women’s preseason poll
More 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 readingIowa draws 55,646 to set record for women’s basketball game
IOWA CITY, Iowa — Lisa Bluder’s idea turned into history. The Iowa coach came up with the plan for her team to play an outdoor game at Kinnick Stadium, with the hope of setting a women’s basketball single-game attendance record. Iowa did that, and more. The Hawkeyes’ 94-72 exhibition win over DePaul in the “Crossover […]
Continue readingBills RB Damien Harris taken to hospital with neck injury
More Teams. More Games. Bills RB Damien Harris exits the stadium after being stretchered off in an ambulance following a big hit in the second quarter. (0:20) ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Buffalo Bills running back Damien Harris was taken off the field in an ambulance and transported to a local hospital after suffering a neck […]
Continue readingWomen’s college basketball 2023-24 preview: picks, rankings, complete coverage
Have the LSU Tigers done enough in the offseason to win a second consecutive national championship? Will reigning national player of the year Caitlin Clark be able to lead a very different-looking Iowa Hawkeyes back to the Final Four? Where does Paige Bueckers‘ return from injury put the UConn Huskies in the national championship conversation? […]
Continue readingNumbers behind Iowa’s anemic, struggling offense
Iowa is averaging 21.8 points this season, roughly the same average as Golden State Warriors star Klay Thompson. According to Spotrac, Thompson will make over $43 million in 2023. The Hawkeyes are getting offensive coordinator Brian Ferentz for $850,000. However, that average is well below the average stipulated in Ferentz’s much-talked-about contract. To have his […]
Continue readingThe best and worst schedules in women’s college basketball
So how can teams maximize their seed? By playing a good schedule and succeeding against it. Nonconference schedules are the part coaches and athletic directors can control. All the debates in February and decisions in March about seeds often revert to what teams did with that control. Bottom line: If teams schedule well, they generally […]
Continue readingRanking the top 25 players in the women’s NCAA tournament
More Teams. More Games. SEC Now analyst Steffi Sorensen says the committee got it right by including six other conference teams with No. 1 South Carolina in the NCAA tournament field. (1:36) The bracket is out, and we know everyone’s potential path to Dallas. But who will be the leaders on that journey for the […]
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