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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 […]
Continue readingLSU’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 readingWhat to know about the Warriors’ WNBA expansion franchise
More 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 readingPredicting the women’s player of the year in all 32 conferences
But 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 reading2023-24 women’s basketball offseason recap: News, transfers
What 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 readingLSU, 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. […]
Continue readingWNBA mock draft 2024: Is Caitlin Clark the No. 1 pick?
The draft order will be determined later this year when the WNBA conducts its lottery. But we likely won’t know exactly which prospects will be available until after the college season ends with the women’s Final Four on April 5 and 7 in Cleveland. This year’s senior class — those who entered college for the […]
Continue readingDerek 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 […]
Continue readingGolden State Warriors star Steph Curry shouts out UConn’s Azzi Fudd on Friday
Shortly after dropping 40 points to lead the Golden State Warriors to a 106-101 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Friday, four-time NBA champion Stephen Curry paid tribute to a fellow sharpshooter and friend in the college ranks: UConn Huskies women’s basketball star Azzi Fudd. Curry — an ardent support of women’s sports — wore […]
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