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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. […]

LSU’s repeat bid ends with Elite Eight loss to Iowa

ALBANY, N.Y. — Flau’jae Johnson bends over and stretches her legs as the crowd roars its approval of more Iowa free throws. She stands up with a deep breath as reality sets in that the LSU Tigers’ hopes for a repeat national championship are over. The clock indicates 14.2 seconds remain in Monday’s regional final, […]

How Angel Reese’s fire ignites LSU’s March Madness mission

ANGEL REESE CATCHES a pass just beyond the free throw line, steps into the shot and lets it fly over South Carolina center Kamilla Cardoso’s outstretched hand. The LSU superstar drains the jumper — not the type of bucket she’s known for — to tie the SEC championship game earlier this month. She holds her […]

Can LSU repeat as NCAA champions? South Carolina up first

“We pretty much were special on both ends of the floor,” Mulkey said. The Tigers were riding high after the big win — their most complete effort in SEC play to date — but a significantly tougher challenge awaits. LSU hosts top-ranked South Carolina on Thursday (8 p.m. ET, ESPN/ESPN App) at the Pete Maravich […]

Women’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 […]

LSU survives Virginia to stay unbeaten without Angel Reese

Coach Kim Mulkey declined to provide an updated timetable for Reese’s return during a postgame news conference. “You ask it every game, you’re gonna get the same answer,” she said. Reese was benched in the second half of LSU’s fourth game of the season on Nov. 14 and hasn’t suited up for the Tigers (7-1) […]

Angel Reese, Kateri Poole not with LSU at Cayman Islands Classic

More Teams. More Games. Hailey Van Lith‘s and-1 bucket increases LSU’s lead over Texas Southern. (0:25) GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands — LSU was without Angel Reese and Kateri Poole for Friday’s 99-65 win over Niagara at the Cayman Islands Classic and lost Sa’Myah Smith to a right knee injury in the first quarter. Neither Reese […]

Colorado, freshmen star as 2023-24 women’s NCAA season opens

More 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 […]

Kim Mulkey says No. 1 LSU lacked toughness in opening loss

“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 […]

LSU, 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 […]

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