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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. […]
Continue readingStanford needs overtime to eliminate Iowa State in Round 2
STANFORD, Calif. — Kiki Iriafen hit midrange jumpers from every possible spot. She took the ball hard at the hoop and right at star Iowa State freshman Audi Crooks, then blocked Crooks’ path on the defensive end. Iriafen crashed the boards and converted all nine of her free throws — and Stanford needed every bit […]
Continue readingWomen’s March Madness 2024: First-round tournament updates
LSU won “ugly” (Kim Mulkey’s words). Middle Tennessee rocked the chalk. And Audi Crooks made sure the country knows this season’s highly lauded freshman class includes a representative from Iowa State. Crooks scored 40 points to help the No. 7 seed Cyclones rally from a 20-point deficit — the second-biggest comeback in women’s NCAA tournament […]
Continue readingFreshman Audi Crooks scores 40 to lead Iowa State comeback
Audi Crooks grabbed the Iowa State nameplate and emphatically placed it on the big NCAA tournament bracket board, into the space for the second round. She absolutely earned the chance to do so. “That was so fun, my teammates soaked me in water,” she said, still grinning from ear to ear some 30 minutes later. […]
Continue readingMarch Madness 2024 bracket: NCAA tournament women’s teams
The 2024 women’s NCAA tournament bracket is here. The games are right around the corner. The anticipation and excitement around women’s college basketball has never been higher. Let the dancing begin. ESPN is here to get you situated and prepared on all things March Madness as competition gets underway this week, starting with the First […]
Continue readingTexas routs Iowa State for one last Big 12 tournament title
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Texas decided to take one last women’s Big 12 tournament title with it to the SEC next season. It exacted a bit of revenge in the process. After losing to Iowa State in last year’s finale, the sixth-ranked Longhorns rode a hot start and 26 points from Madison Booker to a […]
Continue readingJuJu Watkins, No. 9 USC send No. 2 UCLA to first loss in rematch
More Teams. More Games. JuJu Watkins puts up 32 points in USC’s win over UCLA at home Sunday afternoon. (1:08) LOS ANGELES — JuJu Watkins lay on the court, surrounded by her teammates, the final buzzer having faded. The freshman sensation was cramping after scoring 32 points in No. 9 USC’s 73-65 victory over second-ranked […]
Continue readingWomen’s college basketball Power Rankings: Can Caitlin Clark power Iowa back into top 16?
When Anne Nizzi-Clark makes the two-hour drive from home in West Des Moines, Iowa, to Iowa City, she typically takes along baked goodies. Not just for her daughter, Iowa sophomore guard Caitlin Clark, but for the whole women’s basketball program. “We’re a big dessert family,” Clark said. “She’s usually got homemade brownies, homemade cookies. I […]
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