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WNBA draft 2024: Grading the Fever and every team’s night

A big part of getting a good grade on WNBA draft night is often in place months before, when the lottery order is decided. In the case of the 2024 draft, the Indiana Fever really couldn’t mess it up after they got the first pick: Iowa Hawkeyes guard Caitlin Clark would give them an A-plus. […]

Indiana Fever select Iowa’s Caitlin Clark No. 1 in 2024 WNBA draft

NEW YORK — Caitlin Clark is officially a pro. Clark, the record-breaking face of women’s college basketball, was selected No. 1 overall by the Indiana Fever in the 2024 WNBA draft Monday night at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The draft was held with fans for the first time since the 2014-16 iterations of the […]

Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese among those invited to WNBA draft

Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese, Cameron Brink and Kamilla Cardoso headline a list of 15 prospects who have been invited to Monday’s 2024 WNBA draft, the league announced Thursday. Clark, the new top scorer across Division I men’s and women’s basketball after her historic career at Iowa, is widely expected to be selected by the Indiana […]

UConn on late foul call: Not the reason we lost to Iowa

CLEVELAND — UConn coach Geno Auriemma said illegal screens could be called “on every single possession” but stopped short of directly criticizing officials for a controversial offensive foul call that helped decide Iowa’s 71-69 victory in Friday’s women’s Final Four. “I just know there were three or four of them called on us, and I […]

UConn’s Paige Bueckers has to ‘be more selfish,’ Auriemma says

“She definitely didn’t get the ball enough and definitely didn’t play the way she had played in the tournament leading up to today,” Auriemma told reporters after the game. “There was something bothering her. I think it was physical. But she wasn’t her aggressive self.” Asked what might have been ailing Bueckers, Auriemma said, “I […]

Caitlin Clark, Iowa outduel UConn, return to NCAA title game

CLEVELAND — Caitlin Clark‘s remarkable college basketball career will continue to the women’s NCAA championship game for a second consecutive year, after the Iowa Hawkeyes defeated the UConn Huskies 71-69 in the Final Four on Friday night at Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse. Clark scored 21 points to go along with nine rebounds and seven assists. Iowa […]

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. […]

Women’s Final Four predictions: Can Gamecocks win title?

CLEVELAND — This women’s Final Four has it all: an undefeated team (South Carolina), the national player of the year (Iowa’s Caitlin Clark), the player with the greatest comeback story this season (UConn’s Paige Bueckers) and the gritty underdogs who assume no one picked them to get here (NC State). During the regionals, the No. […]

Chipotle Nationals girls’ preview: Meet the six teams vying for the tournament crown

The Chipotle High School Basketball Nationals will be played at Brownsburg High School (outside Indianapolis), April 4-6, 2024. The format is a single elimination tournament, with the top two seeds getting byes, to crown a champion in a six-team bracket with all games broadcasted live on ESPN platforms. Some of these teams have crossed paths […]

Women’s March Madness 2024: Elite Eight tournament takeaways

We have our Final Four. A blockbuster Monday gave us a rematch of the 2023 women’s NCAA national title game between LSU and Iowa — except this time Caitlin Clark & Co. came out ahead in Albany, New York. Meanwhile in Portland, Oregon, Paige Bueckers and the limited roster of UConn outlasted freshman JuJu Watkins […]

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