Gardiner, the Pac-12 Sixth Woman of the Year and one of Oregon State’s three 2024 all-conference selections, is the second major Beavers contributor to enter the portal following their run to the Elite Eight last month, where they lost a tight game to eventual national champion South Carolina. “After careful consideration, I have decided to […]
Continue readingThe 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 readingWe 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 […]
Continue readingThe Iowa Hawkeyes and Texas Longhorns cruised. The South Carolina Gamecocks and USC Trojans had to sweat. The Elite Eight in the 2024 women’s NCAA tournament is set, and all the No. 1 seeds made it through. The same can’t be said for the No. 2 seeds, which have all been eliminated. Four No. 3 […]
Continue readingALBANY, N.Y. — Oregon State plays for a chance to make the women’s Final Four against No. 1 South Carolina on Sunday. But when the season comes to an end, coach Scott Rueck says he knows he will have to confront questions about the future and the very real possibility that teams might begin poaching […]
Continue readingUpsets were few and far between in the early rounds of the women’s NCAA tournament. The Sweet 16 delivered right away. No. 3 seed Oregon State upended second-seeded Notre Dame in Friday’s opening game of the regional semifinals. But while the Beavers advanced to the Elite Eight for the first time since 2018 and for […]
Continue readingSixteen teams have advanced to the regional semifinals in Albany and Portland. And the Sweet 16 is packed with potential. All four No. 1 seeds reached the round of 16. Defending champion LSU is back, as is No. 1 overall seed South Carolina, which is 34-0 and chasing a perfect season. Individual star power abounds […]
Continue readingSome of the chalk from the first two days of the women’s NCAA tournament has been erased. But not much. Two No. 5 seeds and a No. 7 broke through to the Sweet 16. And the top four seeds advanced to the regional semifinals in two regions — Albany 1 and Portland 4. The real […]
Continue readingThe 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 readingLSU 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 […]
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