No. 1 Baylor hosts Lamar in season opener
Lamar at No. 1 Baylor Nov. 9, 2012, 1 p.m. ET Waco, Texas, Ferrell Center (10,284) TV: FSSW Radio: ESPN Central Texas Series: 7-2 Baylor WACO, Texas — Defending national champion and top-ranked Baylor opens…
Lamar at No. 1 Baylor Nov. 9, 2012, 1 p.m. ET Waco, Texas, Ferrell Center (10,284) TV: FSSW Radio: ESPN Central Texas Series: 7-2 Baylor WACO, Texas — Defending national champion and top-ranked Baylor opens…
Basketball legend and former Lady Raider Sheryl Swoopes will join the Texas Tech women’s basketball broadcast team this season. The team will make 18 appearances on television this season including eight games on Texas Tech…
[display_podcast] Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes The roundtable discussions on Dishin & Swishin have been some of the most fun to do, and definitely are the most listened to among the podcasts. With the…
Three NCAA DI teams went down yesterday in preseason action vs. DII teams. Gannon continued its winning ways against DI teams by beating Buffalo, 63-53. Last Sunday they knocked off Kent State. Kentucky State beat…
STORRS, Conn. —Â The question was not if the Connecticut Huskies would win their preseason opener versus Indiana University (Pa.), or even what the margin of victory would be. For the record the final score was…
Connecticut, Michigan and other DI schools cruised to preseason victories Friday night. Mississippi State had trouble with a new DII team. DII Wayne State defeated Western Michigan. And, in an eye-opener, DII Anderson University shocked…
Due to injuries and a depleted roster, Shaw University president Dorothy Cowser Yancy cancelled an exhibition contest at Baylor scheduled for Monday evening. The Shaw Lady Bears are the defending NCAA Division II champions. They…
There were plenty of routs of DII teams at the hands of top 25 DI teams in exhibition play last night. Stanford, Notre Dame, North Carolina, Tennessee and Texas A&M performed as expected. On the…
[display_podcast] Four years as a player, 27 years as an assistant coach, and now, after 31 years playing for and coaching with Pat Summitt, the Holly Warlick era begins for Tennessee women’s basketball tonight when…
West Virginia beats Alderson-Broaddus 102-28 in exhibition Alabama A&M defeats Montevallo 64-62 Ball State beats Oakland City 88-26 No. 9 Louisville defeated Eckerd College 83-29, in exhibition play Tulsa dominated Rogers State, 88-50, in exhibition…
Premier Sports Management announced 30 women’s basketball student-athlete candidates for the 2012-13 Senior CLASS Award. To be eligible for the honor, a student-athlete must be classified as an NCAA Division I senior and have notable…
In a much anticipated decision, the nation’s No. 1-ranked player prep player, 6-5 post Mercedes Russell (Springfield, Ore.) verbally committed to Tennessee Tuesday afternoon. She narrowed down her choices to the Lady Vols and Louisville…
The Associated Press announced its 2012-13 preseason women’s All-America team Tuesday. A panel of 40 media members who work or freelance for publications that subscribe to the news service voted on the team. Seniors Brittney…
Baylor tops the Associated Press preseason poll for the second straight year. Baylor received all of the first place votes. Connecticut, Duke, Stanford and Maryland follow. Tennessee debuts at No. 20, their lowest since 1976-77.…
While so many are writing about Geno Auriemma’s rule change suggestions, the members of the 2012-13 Connecticut women’s basketball team are readying themselves for what should be an outstanding season. One thing the UConn Huskies…
DALLAS – With two new members in the conference and the departure of two others, longtime Big 12 coaches talked a lot about change in the league during Thursday’s Big 12 women’s basketball media day…
DALLAS – Various suggestions to lower the rim in women’s basketball are not new ideas. In the spring of 2010 during the world championship, FIBA’s top officials announced that they would consider it in the…
Both the coaches and the writers chose Penn State in their respective polls as the preseason favorite to win the Big 10 conference for the 2012-13 season. Both also chose Nebraska, in their second season…
Smith College’s athletics department inducted its first-ever class into the Smith College Pioneers Hall of Fame at a ceremony Saturday. Inductees included the founder of women’s basketball, Senda Berenson, who adapted basketball for students at…
Experience the exhilaration of students as they play the new game of basketball and participate in the first women’s collegiate basketball championship — between Smith sophomores and freshman — more than a century ago. In…
From Mississippi: The University of Mississippi announced today that women’s basketball head coach Adrian Wiggins will no longer serve as head coach and has been placed on administrative leave while an investigation continues over impermissible…
From Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma women’s basketball sophomore forward Kaylon Williams will miss the upcoming season after rupturing her left Achilles tendon in practice this week, OU head coach Sherri Coale announced today. Williams suffered…
It has been a few years now that I have had the privilege of covering Connecticut women’s basketball online and hosting the Dishin & Swishin podcast. It is a labor of love for me, and…
The Big East conference kicked off the first of several years of transition with their preseason polls and awards announcements. Gone is West Virginia this season, to be followed by Pitt, Syracuse and eventually Notre…
STORRS, Conn. – Connecticut women’s basketball head coach Geno Auriemma has been known to tell a story or two over his coaching career. Shocking revelation, right? Yesterday at Gampel Pavilion someone mentioned to Auriemma that…
