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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 readingWomen’s March Madness 2024: Reseeding the round of 32
The 2024 women’s NCAA tournament should have perhaps been played on a blackboard. There’s that much chalk all over it after the first round wrapped up. Higher-seeded teams went 31-1 in the first round. No bracket has played so true to form since the NCAA tournament expanded in 1994. For those who like to pick […]
Continue readingLauren Betts rejoins No. 9 UCLA for win over Arizona
Lauren Betts returned to the UCLA lineup after missing four games and Gabriela Jaquez had 21 points and a career-high 15 rebounds as the No. 9 Bruins beat Arizona 66-58 Friday night. Betts, who had been out for an undisclosed medical reason, didn’t start but entered the game in the first quarter. She scored her […]
Continue readingThe trends and key stats that will define women’s college basketball
More Teams. More Games. Caitlin Clark discusses the progress of women’s basketball in recent years and says she hasn’t made a decision yet on whether to declare for April’s WNBA draft. (1:54) Two months into the 2023-24 women’s college basketball season, we’re starting to see an emergence of trends and identities for individual teams and […]
Continue readingWomen’s NCAA basketball Power Rankings: No team’s hotter than NC State
The Wolfpack were picked to finish eighth in the ACC preseason poll, which now seems preposterous. But they finished 20-12 overall and 9-9 in the ACC last season, losing in the first round of the NCAA tournament. Then because of graduation and transfers, NC State lost four players who started at least 20 games. One […]
Continue readingWomen’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 […]
Continue readingLSU, 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, 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 readingWhich women’s college basketball recruits took their games to new levels?
Being able to scout college prospects in person again made it possible to witness firsthand the players who raised their skill level, performance and recruiting stock over the past several months. Recruiting never stops, and players are constantly working and competing for coveted opportunities at the next level. Here are the prospects in the Classes […]
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