More Teams. More Games. Cameron Brink scores a career-high 29 points along with 11 rebounds and six blocks to lift Stanford to an 82-79 win in overtime. (1:18) Pac-12 women’s basketball players and coaches want to focus on the present this season. It’s something they can try to control, since the impending breakup of the […]
Continue readingMore Teams. More Games. Mikaylah Williams tallies 42 points and five 3-pointers in LSU’s win over Kent State. (2:00) The reigning national champion LSU Tigers were the talk of the offseason after a summer that spurred predictions they’d become women’s basketball’s next superteam. Coach Kim Mulkey brought in two star players from the transfer portal […]
Continue readingMore Teams. More Games. Despite having four Tigers score in double figures, the defending national champion Tigers fall to the Buffaloes in a Hall of Fame Series opener in Las Vegas, 92-78. (1:49) Women’s college basketball is back, and Day 1 of the 2023-24 season was full of exciting freshmen, 18 ranked teams on the […]
Continue reading“I’m disappointed and surprised in some individual players that I thought would just be tougher and have a little fight and leadership about them,” Mulkey said. “But I knew what we faced. When you have that many kids that played that many minutes together [as Colorado], we had our hands full. Colorado did exactly what […]
Continue readingThe adjustment from high school star to college freshman is major. It is a brand-new world and the variables that affect their impact on the game are plentiful. The rankings and accolades they have on their basketball résumé cannot help them at this level and the physical demands of competing with other high-level athletes as […]
Continue readingBATON ROUGE, La. — Angel Reese was still enjoying the buzz around LSU’s national championship last spring when the rumors started. Hailey Van Lith, an All-ACC first-team honoree who averaged nearly 20 points and led Louisville to the Elite Eight, and Aneesah Morrow, a former national freshman of the year from DePaul, had entered the […]
Continue readingYet the Tigers aren’t considered the sure thing the Gamecocks were 12 months ago. The race to the NCAA trophy appears more wide open this season, with as many as eight contenders. The list includes UConn, which saw its streak of 14 consecutive Finals Fours come to an end in March but seems poised for […]
Continue readingThe 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 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 readingDefending women’s basketball champion LSU will open the 2023-24 season against Colorado in the Hall of Fame series, scheduled for Nov. 6 in Las Vegas. The game will be part of a college basketball quadruple-header at T-Mobile Arena that also features Ohio State-USC on the women’s side. In the other games, USC’s men’s team will […]
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