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Hoopfeed Weekly Twitter Digest for 10-07-2019

Hoopfeed Weekly Twitter Digest for 10-07-2019

Pac-12 coaches vote Oregon as preseason favorite to win the 2019-20 regular-season conference title https://t.co/ZcnhSZNA6p #ncaaw -> RT @GMA: One win away! The @WashMystics are on the verge of their first @wnba title and our…

Big 12 coaches select Baylor as preseason fave to win conference title, Lauren Cox is Big 12 Preseason Player of the Year

Big 12 coaches select Baylor as preseason fave to win conference title, Lauren Cox is Big 12 Preseason Player of the Year

Big 12 coaches tabbed Baylor as the preseason favorite to win the conference’s regular-season title. The Lady Bears top the preseason poll for the ninth time in conference history. Overall, Baylor has won or tied…

USA Basketball Women’s National Team unveils November NCAA tour games

Release from USA Basketball: The USA Basketball Women’s National Team, which announced in July an expanded training program to aid in its pursuit of a seventh consecutive Olympic gold medal, will tip-off its quest for…

Pac-12 coaches vote Oregon as preseason favorite to win the 2019-20 regular-season title

For the third-straight year, Pac-12 head coaches picked Oregon as the preseason favorite to win the  conference’s regular-season title. The two-time defending regular-season champion earned maximum number of first-place votes (11) and collected 121 points.…

Gonzaga tops the West Coast Conference Preseason Poll for the seventh straight season

Gonzaga tops the West Coast Conference Preseason Poll for the seventh straight season

Gonzaga tops the Preseason West Coast Conference Poll for the seventh straight season. The conference’s 10 head coaches voted in the annual preseason rankings tapping the Zags to repeat as WCC Champions in 2020. Gonzaga…

Memphis Grizzlies hire Notre Dame’s Niele Ivey as an assistant coach

Memphis Grizzlies hire Notre Dame’s Niele Ivey as an assistant coach

The NBA’s Memphis Grizzlies hired Notre Dame associate head coach Niele Ivey as the newest member of its coaching staff. Ivey, who earned a national championship in 2001 as a player with the Fighting Irish,…

Ohio State associate head coach Patrick Klein resigns after being put on administrative leave during investigation of NCAA violations

Ohio State women’s basketball associate head coach Patrick Klein resigned August 2. The school released the following statement: “Ohio State is investigating allegations of violations of NCAA rules and university policy within the women’s basketball…

Charmin Smith returns to Cal as head coach

Charmin Smith returns to Cal as head coach

Charmin Smith leaves New York Liberty to become Cal’s head coach Coach Charmin Smith returns to the University of California, Berkeley for head coaching position. Details on https://t.co/0wk4D1OluJ. pic.twitter.com/532kuGfHCL — New York Liberty (@nyliberty) June…

It’s official: Lindsay Gottlieb leaves Cal to take assistant coach job with Cleveland Cavaliers

It’s official: Lindsay Gottlieb leaves Cal to take assistant coach job with Cleveland Cavaliers

After eight seasons in Berkeley, Cal head coach Lindsay Gottlieb resigned to take a job as an assistant coach with the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers. Assistant coach Kai Felton will serve as the program’s interim head…

NCAA announces playing rules changes for women’s and men’s basketball effective for 2019-2020

NCAA announces playing rules changes for women’s and men’s basketball effective for 2019-2020

2019-20 and 2020-21 Women’s Basketball Rules Changes The following rules changes were approved by the NCAA Women’s Basketball Rules Committee and the Playing Rules Oversight Panel. They will be incorporated into the rules book for…

Temeka Johnson announces her retirement from playing professional basketball

Temeka Johnson announces her retirement from playing professional basketball

Temeka Johnson announced her retirement from playing professional basketball after 13 years via social media Monday. The former LSU star and 2005 WNBA Rookie of the Year wrote “my heart is filled with gratitude” in…

2019 U.S. Pan American Games team named

2019 U.S. Pan American Games team named

After three days of trials that started with 35 athletes, USA Basketball announced the 12-member roster for the 2019 U.S. Pan American Games Women’s Basketball Team. The squad includes five athletes who have won medals…

Inaugural class inducted into A STEP UP Assistant Coaches Hall of Fame

Inaugural class inducted into A STEP UP Assistant Coaches Hall of Fame

Twelve coaches entered the A STEP UP Assistant Coaches Hall of Fame on Tuesday in Atlanta. This year marks the tenth anniversary of the organization’s Assistant Coaches Professional Development Symposium founded by Johnny and Felicia…

Undeniably impressive: Vic Schaefer’s impact on Starkville

Undeniably impressive: Vic Schaefer’s impact on Starkville

STARKVILLE, Miss. – It’s January 27, 2019, minutes away from 2 p.m. tip in the Humphrey Coliseum. It’s Rivalry Day for Mississippi State and Ole Miss women’s basketball and it’s a Mississippi sports affair at…

NCAA releases an “aspirational” five-year strategic framework for women’s basketball

NCAA releases an “aspirational” five-year strategic framework for women’s basketball

https://youtu.be/5m5XD8B26C0 For the first time, the NCAA released a cross-divisional strategic plan for a single sport. Featuring women’s basketball, the report is touted as a five-year strategic framework to advance the sport and provide guidelines…

Drake women’s basketball gets $5 million gift, “the largest non-capital gift to a women’s basketball program in NCAA history”

Drake announced that the women’s basketball program received a $5 million gift from longtime supporter and philanthropist Suzie Glazer Burt. According to the school, the historic donation is “the largest non-capital gift to a women’s…

Baylor accepts invitation to the White House

Baylor accepts invitation to the White House

From Baylor: In the aftermath of Baylor University’s third NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball championship, the Baylor Lady Bears accepted an invitation to visit the White House Monday, which will include a visit from President…

Championships for Divisions I, II and III to be combined events in Dallas for the 2023 NCAA Women’s Final Four

Championships for Divisions I, II and III to be combined events in Dallas for the 2023 NCAA Women’s Final Four

The NCAA announced that the national championships for Divisions I, II and III women’s basketball will be celebrated as combined events in Dallas as part of the 2023 NCAA Women’s Final Four. It will be…

UNC head coach Sylvia Hatchell resigns after 33 years

UNC head coach Sylvia Hatchell resigns after 33 years

Sylvia Hatchell’s coaching accomplishments In the wake of an internal investigation into the North Carolina women’s basketball program, head coach Sylvia Hatchell who led the team for 33 years resigned. UNC Director of Athletics Bubba…

Minnesota Lynx to retire Lindsay Whalen’s jersey

Minnesota Lynx to retire Lindsay Whalen’s jersey

The Minnesota Lynx announced that the franchise will retire the jersey of former star guard Lindsay Whalen this summer. Her No. 13 jersey will be the first retired by the franchise. The ceremony to hang…

Led by Chloe Jackson Baylor earns third national title, holds off Notre Dame 82-81

Led by Chloe Jackson Baylor earns third national title, holds off Notre Dame 82-81

TAMPA, Fla. – Just like in 2012, Baylor defeated Notre Dame to win the national title. However, this season, the game was a closer contested matchup with Notre Dame sharpshooter Arike Ogunbowale missing a potential…

Notre Dame adds a triumphant chapter to series vs. UConn, looks forward to Baylor challenge in title game

Notre Dame adds a triumphant chapter to series vs. UConn, looks forward to Baylor challenge in title game

Tampa, Fla. – Notre Dame’s return to the Final Four, this season as the reigning champion, also marked another chapter in the rivalry between the Fighting Irish and the UConn Huskies. While No. 2 seed…

Close game no problem for Baylor as they beat Oregon to advance to national championship game

Close game no problem for Baylor as they beat Oregon to advance to national championship game

TAMPA, Fla. — Baylor’s fourth-ever trip to the Final Four ended in victory as the overall top-seeded Lady Bears took down No. 2 seeded Oregon, 72-67, to earn a chance to play for the national…

2019 Final Four: What the teams are saying about each other ahead of the games

2019 Final Four: What the teams are saying about each other ahead of the games

TV/Streaming Schedule TAMPA, Fla. – In the week of the Final Four, coaches participate in an NCAA media teleconference the morning after the last Elite Eight game. A few days later, teams meet with members…

Louisville’s Asia Durr wins 2019 Dawn Staley Award

Louisville’s Asia Durr wins 2019 Dawn Staley Award

Louisville senior guard Asia Durr is the recipient of the 2019 Dawn Staley Award. “The Dawn Staley Award is given to the most outstanding collegiate guard in the country, a player who exemplifies the skills…

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