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Lynx preview: Sylvia Fowles and Minnesota are revved up; key questions this season

Lynx preview: Sylvia Fowles and Minnesota are revved up; key questions this season

Sylvia Fowles can’t wait for the 2021 season to begin. The three-time Defensive Player of the Year and the league’s all-time rebounding leader only played seven games last season due to a calf injury, the…

Pac-12 hires MGM executive George Kliavkoff as its next commissioner, focused on “revenue sports”

Pac-12 hires MGM executive George Kliavkoff as its next commissioner, focused on “revenue sports”

Twitter thread The Pac-12 announced a new commissioner for the conference to replace outgoing leader Larry Scott. MGM executive George Kliavkoff will start his new position on July 1. The conference held a press conference…

Video: USC introduces Lindsay Gottlieb as new head coach

Video: USC introduces Lindsay Gottlieb as new head coach

USC welcomed its new women’s basketball coach Tuesday afternoon in a Zoom press conference. Lindsay Gottlieb returns to the Pac-12 after serving as an assistant coach in the NBA with the Cleveland Cavaliers. She was…

Nia Coffey leads Los Angeles in scrimmage win at Las Vegas, 80-71

Nia Coffey leads Los Angeles in scrimmage win at Las Vegas, 80-71

Los Angeles starters: Erica Wheeler, Brittney Sykes, Amanda Zahui B, Jasmine Walker, Chiney Ogwumike Las Vegas starters: Kelsey Plum, Jackie Young, Liz Cambage, A’ja Wilson, Angel McCoughtry In the second scrimmage of the WNBA preseason,…

Atlanta tops Minnesota in preseason scrimmage; coaches manage minutes of vets and give newcomers ample playing time

Atlanta tops Minnesota in preseason scrimmage; coaches manage minutes of vets and give newcomers ample playing time

Got the job done ? pic.twitter.com/K6qV83e0dk — Atlanta Dream (@AtlantaDream) May 1, 2021 Regular-season schedule In a preseason scrimmage Saturday afternoon, the Atlanta Dream topped the visiting Minnesota Lynx 69-61 at Gateway Center Arena in…

Kim Mulkey leaves Baylor after 21 years and three national championships, heads to LSU

Kim Mulkey leaves Baylor after 21 years and three national championships, heads to LSU

After 21 years and three national championships, Kim Mulkey leaves Baylor to take over the Louisiana State program. The Hall of Fame coach, who led the Lady Bears to unprecedented heights and solidified the program…

Three members added to NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Committee

Three members added to NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Committee

The NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Committee adds three members for 2021-22. Next season, the committee expands to 12 members from 10. The committee extended the terms of two existing members by a year through…

WNBA Releases 2021 Schedule; Regular Season Begins Friday, May 14

WNBA Releases 2021 Schedule; Regular Season Begins Friday, May 14

The WNBA’s commemorative 25th season tips off on Friday, May 14 beginning a weekend slate where all 12 teams will see action. The league marks the season with a campaign called Count It, special Nike-designed…

Stanford survives Arizona 54-53, wins third national championship

Stanford survives Arizona 54-53, wins third national championship

In the first-ever national championship matchup between Pac-12 teams, the overall top seed, Stanford prevailed 54-53 over an upset-minded third-seeded Arizona. The win marked the third championship for the Cardinal and head coach Tara VanDerveer…

Updated WNBA list of players that opted-in for the 2021 Draft

Updated WNBA list of players that opted-in for the 2021 Draft

Full list of prospects including international players Initially, 52 college players filed for inclusion as candidates in the 2021 WNBA Draft by April 1. Since then five student-athletes have removed their names from consideration and…

Stanford edges South Carolina 66-65 in the Final Four, heads to title game for the first time since 2010

Stanford edges South Carolina 66-65 in the Final Four, heads to title game for the first time since 2010

Team Comparison Statistics The team led by the winningest coach in women’s college basketball heads to the national championship game after defeating South Carolina 66-65 Friday night in San Antonio at the Alamodome. Stanford (30-2,…

Arizona continues to make history, heads into the national championship game after taking down UConn

Arizona continues to make history, heads into the national championship game after taking down UConn

Team Comparison Statistics Arizona continues to make history this season as the Wildcats beat UConn in the Final Four to head to the national championship game for the first time in program history. With an…

Iowa’s Caitlin Clark wins the 2021 Dawn Staley Award

Iowa’s Caitlin Clark wins the 2021 Dawn Staley Award

The Phoenix Club of Philadelphia announced Caitlin Clark as the winner of the 2021 Dawn Staley Award. The Iowa freshman and All-American guard led the nation in scoring, averaging 26.7 points per game, and was…

The NCAA approves 11 officials to work the Final Four and National Championship

The NCAA approves 11 officials to work the Final Four and National Championship

The NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Committee approved 11 game officials to officiate the three games being played during the Final Four and national championship, April 2 and 4 at the Alamodome in San Antonio.…

NCAA president Mark Emmert addresses media ahead of the Final Four

With the Final Fours of the women’s and men’s NCAA tournaments on deck later this week, Mark Emmert, the president of the NCAA, addressed media Wednesday morning to address a number of issues that have…

Kentucky head coach Kyra Elzy is the 2021 Spalding Maggie Dixon NCAA Division I Rookie Coach of the Year

From the WBCA: First-year University of Kentucky head coach Kyra Elzy is the 2021 Spalding Maggie Dixon NCAA Division I Rookie Coach of the Year, the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association announced today. The award honors…

Final Four Field Set: UConn, Arizona, South Carolina, Stanford

Final Four Field Set: UConn, Arizona, South Carolina, Stanford

Interactive Bracket || Regional All-Tournament Teams || Final Four Schedule After a missed season due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Final Four is back, the finale to a tournament held entirely in the San Antonio…

Sweet 16 Matchups and Schedule Set

Sweet 16 Matchups and Schedule Set

Times ET Saturday, March 27 1:00 PM, #5 Iowa vs. #1 UConn – River Walk Region, ABC 3:00 PM, #6 Michigan vs. #2 Baylor – River Walk Region, ABC 6:00 PM, #4 Indiana vs. #1…

2021 NCAA Tournament: First Round Results

2021 NCAA Tournament: First Round Results

NCAA Tournament First Round, Day One Results #5 Iowa 87, #12 Central Mich. 72 [River Walk Region] #8 Oklahoma St. 84, #9 Wake Forest 61 [Alamo Region] #4 Kentucky 71, #13 Idaho St. 63 [River…

Oregon takes media attention from viral video in stride, now it’s time for basketball: “That’s why we’re here.”

Oregon takes media attention from viral video in stride, now it’s time for basketball: “That’s why we’re here.”

After media frenzy, Ducks are focused on South Dakota Ramping up to gameday. #GoDucks pic.twitter.com/UrvOFxYjms — Oregon Women’s Basketball (@OregonWBB) March 20, 2021 Usually, the days leading up to the first day of the NCAA…

USA Basketball Women’s National Team to Conduct Minicamp in San Antonio Ahead of NCAA Final Four

USA Basketball Women’s National Team to Conduct Minicamp in San Antonio Ahead of NCAA Final Four

Release from USA Basketball: Sixteen members of the 2021 USA Basketball Women’s National Team are expected to attend the USA’s second minicamp of the year from March 30-April 2 in San Antonio, Texas. The 16…

NCAA Notebook: Administrators Talk to Media, the Numbers, Practices Underway, $27 Million for San Antonio and Unequal Conditions Cause a Storm

NCAA Notebook: Administrators Talk to Media, the Numbers, Practices Underway, $27 Million for San Antonio and Unequal Conditions Cause a Storm

The teams are in San Antonio. Pre-game practices are underway. Team press conferences are in progress. And at this point, not one program has been dropped out of the field of 64 due to Covid-19.…

Oklahoma head coach Sherri Coale retires after 25 seasons

Oklahoma head coach Sherri Coale retires after 25 seasons

Legendary coach Sherri Coale retires "Being the head coach at the University of Oklahoma has been the ????????? ?? ?? ????????."https://t.co/On9P3YvXQn pic.twitter.com/UjI245TkNY — Oklahoma Basketball (@OU_WBBall) March 17, 2021 After a career as a high…

“Extremely tough” to decide seeding for the 2021 NCAA Tournament

“Extremely tough” to decide seeding for the 2021 NCAA Tournament

Auto-qualifiers || At-large Selections || Downloadable Bracket || Interactive Bracket || NCAA Tournament Contingency and Team Replacement Plan In a challenging season that came on the heels of the cancelation of last year’s NCAA Tournament,…

WBCA announces 2021 ‘So You Want To Be A Coach’ Class

WBCA announces 2021 ‘So You Want To Be A Coach’ Class

The Women’s Basketball Coaches Association, in partnership with WeCOACH, announced the class for the 18th “So You Want To Be A Coach” program. The objectives of the “So” program are to increase the understanding and…

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